Social media has taken its position into the real world and has interfered with the

lives of many and has

been ingrained into our society today to such extent that it is virtually impossible for people to take you

seriously, if you are not on any social media platform. Everyone is on social media, young, old, rich, poor

etc. Everyone is always in a frenzy when it comes to social media especially young kids, if they see their

peers in social media they also want it too. But as time goes by social media starts to be really toxic to

youth, its already a great danger to them. Picking up toxic and bad traits where it also can affect them such

as staying up late to use social media, teenagers getting mad when parents' try to lessen their time and

wanting to get spoiled by their parents just so they could show it off on their social media platform.

Youths are spending more time with their social media friends than with their families, friends and loved

ones. When they wake up, the first thing they check is their social media accounts. Before they go to sleep,

the last thing they check are the updates. They would do anything to get what they want or what others

have, they would feel left out if they didn't have a social media or phone because everyone has one. Even

if it against their parents they would make an account without their permission and put a fake birthday or

age to have an account. These social media platforms are also risky and dangerous and may be frontiers to

crime like cyberbullying, extremely dangerous and harmful challenges. Young people are exposed to gore

images and topic like violence, suicide, verbal outburst and more. They see social media as part of their life

already, a thing that cannot be easily stop but whatever they see is registered in their minds and they might

believe life outside social media which is reality is boring and not fun. This things can really affect them

mentally, physically and emotionally, most of young people starts to do the things they see online because

of curiosity even if it can harm them. They start to catch/get influenced by others attitude because its what

they see and thinks its okay to be like that because others are acting that way.
In conclusion, social media is, and will continue to be, harmful, unless something is done about it. People

should care because if not addressed, or taken care, of social media could cause a lot of impact to youth

that can really affect them. Nobody is immune to the harmful side effects social media including identity

theft, stalkers, or hackers, that's why parents or guardians should keep an eye to their children o someone

younger that is close to them. as much as possible try to talk to them so they can slowly try to open up and

feel comfortable talking about what's bothering them. A lot of younger people have problems because of

social media, people need to change the destructive patterns of social media use before it destroys society.

Although using social media has many benefits in our lives, addiction to social media is not good. It will

have awful influences on studying, make us live way from reality and have bad effects on health. In order

to avoid being addicted to social media, young people should spend more time playing sports, studying and

taking part in activities in schools.