Name : Muhammad Abror

NPM : 1906377561
Topic : Negative Effects of Social Media on Life Society

Bad Impacts of Social Media

Today, social media is growing rapidly. By definition, social media is websites and
applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
It seems so good that social media help people sharing their content to another. As we know
that everything in this world has pro and con. This is the same as social media. Surely, its also
effects to the user of social media like teenagers. Social media have several bad impacts to the
society, like making people nowadays become anti-social, inability to be an independent
person, and worse again is bullying on social media.

Sometimes, we can see a group of people or family gather together but barely talking
with each other or everyone is busy looking at their smartphone rather than speaking to their
friends or family’s members which are in front of them. These are common scenario that we
can find everywhere we go and also known as plugged-in life. This is clearly proved that social
media is gradually taking control over us. Nowadays, there are less face to face interaction
between us rather than communicate through social media, such as Instagram, Facebook,
Twitter, and so on. People used to get rid of their mess with social media. And because of that,
we are giving up on the essential using of verbal and non-verbal communications that leads to
an anti-social individuals.

Social media robs people’s ability to find trust and comfort and replacing our need for
warm. Most of people will just depends on the virtual friends on social media instead of sharing
with the friends who are always beside them. Hence, social media robs us from self-control
and ability to think independently and instead makes us gullible to join any group that posts
perverse messages that tickle our ear and amuse our senses without evaluating the
consequences. Because of that, there are many problems followed, such as imitating behavior.
No doubtly, it will concern us if the behavior is bad or harming other people.

Through social media, we can express our recent feelings or share recent conditions by
post pictures or words. Everyone has their freedom to comment on anyone posts and some of
them misused social media by attacking other people with harsh comments. Definitely, it will
lead to cyberbullying and cyber harassment. Cyberbullying is a form of bullying that is only
done through the web and other technologies. Especially, children and teenagers are vulnerable
to cyberbullying since the different social media platforms are easily to be accessed by anyone.
With so many children and teenagers are using social media nowadays, they are easily become
target of cyberbullying. Then, it seems that children need more attention to this issue so they
wouldn’t get any bullying comment from their friends. When they get hurt by those comments,
they might avoid facing or interacting with other people because they will care about how other
people see them. This will indirectly reduce their confidence while communicate with other
people.

Social media have several bad impacts to the society. That makes us to be more careful
in using social media so we can use it in a good way, considering there are many negative sides
on social media. We need to get out from our safe zone together with people among us. So we
can make a better condition in our society without any harm to other people.

Source :

https://childmind.org/
https://www.techprevue.com/
https://familyinsights.net/