Social media has become an integral part of modern life, especially for teenagers. Platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat have transformed the way teens interact, share, and there behaviour in the community
Social media has have a lot of impact among the teenagers of the 21st century, in a positive and negative perspective. The teens nowadays have transformed into the use of social media and Internet which people count as pre-maturity for people under the age of 18 especially Nigeria.
A teenager learning from the social media
Furthermore, the social media as been of a help to the teen through Connectivity; Social media enables teens to stay connected with friends and family. For instance a student of secondary school attending boarding school that is far from his/her town or even in another state can use the social media as a point of contact to his/her parent. There are many advantages that social media is adding to this the 21st century as we knew that we are in artificial intelligence century, every things as grow far beyond how we think. And also, social media help the teenager to connect with people around the world that enable them build good communication skills and help them in term of making positive impact in their lifestyle.
As there is positive Impacts govern the use of the social media, there is also negative impact, one of the negative impact is spending more time on the social media, this will keep the teens watching unnecessary video on the Internet like TikTok and also influencing their lifestyle and causing harm to their mental health, social media also influence the teen by them looking at some unnecessary content that Is not for their age making then do as the content do, they are alot of disadvantaged that social media as have upon the teens of the 21st century
There are roles that the community and parent must perform to prevent their teens from negative impact of social media
One of the roles is proper orientation on the use of social media, the community should orientate the teens on how to use social media stating the advantages and the disadvantages, also the parent also gave work to do like providing guidance for their teens and Educating them on the impact of social media in their life.
Finally, the parent and government must put hand together for Educating the teenagers of he 21st century on the use of the social media.
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