Impacts of Social Media in Student Life

 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, especially students 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 is not an unmixed blessing. They can do good to people. Besides communication, social media has positive effects on the study. Like it helps to get timely information about class and tutorials, has enhanced better communication so students can communicate with their classmates and teachers after class and discuss any topics. Social media has proved as a great platform for learning and sharing knowledge. During the pandemic, students were able to continue their classes and studies with the help of social media. Online classes now have become a very popular concept worldwide which wouldn't have been possible without the widespread uses of social media. Using social media creates plenty of opportunities for students like researching, attending webinars(web-based-seminar), learning, and most importantly connecting with their peers. However, social media can also create a lot of harm to the students. Social media platforms are highly time-consuming and addictive. The causes distraction. The addition of social media is equally harmful as drug addiction. They spend the most important period of their life-student life wasting time on social media instead of studying. Students cannot focus on their studies properly even some of them can not attend classes on time due to excessive use of social media at night. Most of the content publishes on social media is not appropriate for minor people. The news published on social media doesn't pass through necessary regulations. So spreading rumors and false news via social media is very common. Thus students can be deceived by dishonest people.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.