Effects of social networking to teenagers

It is indisputable that teenager’s sense and life of welfare revolves around the latest technology. It is not a wonder these teenagers have incorporated social networking as a way of connecting and bonding with each other. A mutual, mature, account associated with technological use by the teenagers like Facebook, texting and twitter has meant that these communication types have replaced the face to face communication. This paper will discuss the social networking effects to teenagers.

In spite the fact that social networking has replaced the relationships that are based on the real world, it is conceivably more appropriate to advocate these social networking supplement relationships like these. Undeniably, the most these young adults online interaction involve fellow students from the other schools whom they share the same school level, sports activities, clubs, and religious organizations.

Observed through this “lens”, social networking has given affirmative effects. First of all, social networking possesses venues of interacting that surpass limitations of factors like logistics of transportation, location, and time. Spaces of social networking provide teenagers with sustainability to interacting with their fellow age mates from almost any time and location, thus growing more interaction opportunities and a prospective –inspiring to the social lives of the teenager’s lives.

Secondly, social networking enlarges the opportunities of socializing by describing again the traditional limitations in existence in most people conversant with the settings of socialization like schools. Though teenagers retain their friends of inner circles, social networking has stretched web of teenagers in the social connections encompassing a wider network of friends. This is in spite of the fact that increased connection and friendship notions have in most cases provided a certain eye-rolling measure on most adults. For instance, the idea of Facebook “Friends are not really friends” has set such a scenario.

Thirdly, through increasing the peer engagement opportunities, social networking might, in certain situations, improve reluctant anxieties of teenagers associated with social interactions and relationships. In accordance to a survey done in the year 2012 done by “Common Sense Media”, other than 1 in 4 teenagers claim that social media change them to being more outgoing and less shy; 1 in 5 claims it gives them a bit of more sympathy, more popularity, and confidence to the other people. Additionally, 1 in 7 claims they give them a better feeling of themselves. On the other hand, 5% or less teenagers showed that social media changes them to being worse and less outgoing.

The undesirable views are of great concern, though, for existing aim it must be noted that teenagers seem to outlook the effects of social networking on their welfare in terms of confirmation. This way this paper has discussed in depth the effects of social networking to teenagers.