People really change due to so many and different things. Talking about one of the factors of changes in people, especially the adolescents, the social media plays a huge role in the lives of everyone who participates in anything relating to the media.
I feel like, at first, the social media was created with a different aim. It was aimed at helping people learn and connect with their friends or loved ones but we really took it too far that some people base their whole life on the media. It’s not bad but becomes bad when it is overtaking our whole life.
About the effects of social media on adolescence, I believe everyone will definitely have different experiences of the media.
When some people share their experience, the social media must have helped them a lot, maybe business wise, education or any other way.
To some people, it ruined them completely that they eventually deleted their entire accounts.
Just like one time, I almost deleted all my posts on social media. The oppression was just too much. That wasn’t only it but I digged into other parts of the media like the crimes, killings and all which eventually got me depressed. As at then, the media had a very negative effect on me and almost led me into depression but I got out of it.
Looking at some people, their way of life, reasoning and doing things have changed totally. When we meet some people after a few years of distance and we got to realize that they changed, the media must have been one of the major influences.
The youths and adolescents have now brought up a new way of thinking and doing things based on what their favorite celebrities or what people who have more followers do.
Smoking wasn’t common until the likes of Wizkid and Burna Boy began to post it online and many adolescents took it up as well. That’s why we find so many drug addicts these days who have given up on their dreams and gave it all to drugs.
I can’t say the media doesn’t have any positive effect but we are in the world that people quickly assimilate the wrong things and render the right things useless. That’s why I can say that social media has more of negative effects on adolescents than the positive effects.
