Impact of Social Media on Young Generation

At the present time, life without social media seems quite impossible. People are getting more and more dependent on it. It is fastly spreading all over the world. Especially Facebook, Whatsapp, Viber, Twitter offer youth a portal for entertainment and connectivity. Young people are the most users of these social media. It has become an essential part of their life. The widespread use of social media helps people from different parts of the world to get connected with each other. Social media has a mixed impact on people's life. The good part is communication has become very easy. People can easily communicate with others who live abroad. Social media has become a great blessing for businesses especially small business owners who do hardly have any capital to build or hire an infrastructure. They can display, offer and sell their product and services via social media. Exchange of Information has also become very easy. However, there are no unmixed blessings in the world. Social media also have some demerits. In fact, it has proven to be more bad than good. Firstly, many young people become easily addicted to social media. They spend the most important period of their life-student life wasting time on social media instead of studying. They cannot focus on their study properly even some of them can not attend classes on time due to excessive use of social media at night. Secondly, the environment of social media is not appropriate for minors. Many of them get themselves into trouble even some also risk their own life. Thirdly, the antisocials and criminals also use social media as a medium to commit different crimes like blackmailing, child-abusing, leaking of question paper, etc. Young people who are addicted to social media are far away from reality. Recently some researches show that excessive use of social media causes depression, fatigue, low self-esteem, etc.  The Millenials who have born between 1985-2005 are the ones who are getting affected by the negative sides of social media. To them, social media is as harmful as drugs or alcohol. There is no good without bad. But if we talk about social media, till now it has done more bad than good. So the young generation should be more careful regarding the uses of social media. They must not get addicted to them. it's also the responsibility of the elders to protect them from the trap. Every educational organization should provide counseling that will help their young people to get rid of the addiction to the extensive uses of social media. We should value our real life more than our virtual life. Parents should encourage social interaction and family bonding so that young people focus more on their real life. Press and media can also play a crucial role by spreading how the excess use of social media can be deleterious. So before it's become too late we all should be concerned about how to prevent the damage of social media over the future of our nation.