IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON YOUTHS

Social media means some websites and applications by which people connect with each other worldwide in less time and cost. Mobile phones has been released in market in late 80's but it was not affordable for everyone to connect with people worldwide by using voice calling facility because of its high cost and there were no mobile phone applications for accessing social media even there was no internet connections in mobiles. But nowadays after introduction of smartphones, everyone getting access to social media very easily as most of the phones are running on android operating system and every social media site has its own android application.

                                     Youths in our country are now technologically very advanced. Introduction of low cost smartphones and free internet service by Reliance Jio made them one step more advanced as it is now affordable for everyone to get accessed to internet. Social media like facebook, twitter, google+, whatsapp, hike etc has good as well bad impact on our youths.

                                     Nowadays our youths are getting inspired to go for constructive research work by using social media as they are connected with developed world. Thinking power, working capability, efficient learning, self confidence and knowledge of science and technology are increasing in our youths. Social media has a great role in social reformation and abolition of superstition from our society as our youths are now growing scientifically. It is saving our time, energy and money as earlier people have to buy newspaper for getting job advertisement or have to go to employment exchange office but nowadays everyone get it in just one click. Social media became a platform for connecting with friends, family, job seeker, employer, police, media house, government, judiciary etc.

                                     Social media has some very bad and dangerous impact on our youths as well as society too. Most of the youths who are using social media are getting diverted from their primary goal. They are using it for simply time pass and remain attached to it most of the time which has a very bad and dangerous impact on their career. Youths loosing interest in practical knowledge and started believing in only theoritical ethics. Some short films are now created on dangerous crimes and uploaded in social media which is easily accessible to youths and teenagers and by watching them, they are getting idea of committing crimes. There are so many other real life videos with sexually explicit contents are captured and uploaded in social media which adversely affect the lifestyle and mentality of the youths and teenagers. Even sometime it badly affect their reproductive health which leads to frustration. Many youths and teenagers get involved in relationship through social media and waste their valuable time in chatting. Most of these relationships eventually lead them involve in physical intercourse with their partner which expose them to some lethal diseases like AIDS and Hepatitis-B. Some of them get involved in relationship with frauds and get cheated. These cases ultimately ended up with a horrible incident like suicide. According to a survey, most of the youths and teenagers in our country remain active in social media for an average 10-12 hours a day. Late night sleep or sleepless night became a common habit for youths and teenagers which is very dangerous for brain development. Our youths becoming arrogant, short tempered and facing the problem called short term memory because of high fluctuations in their biological body clock. On an average, everyday they get involved in some unnecessary debates in social media which has a very bad impact on their temper and transforming them into violent and unsocial creatures. Communalism and racism are spreading very fast among youths through social media which ultimately influence them to commit crime against some particular community. Youths and teenagers loosing interest in reading books which has no alternative solutions.

                                       Considering the above statements, we can conclude that social media has much more impacts on youths than its introductory aims. Its high time for parents to become alert and save their children from these dangerous impacts of social media. Everything has its good as well as bad impacts on our life and it is our choice to acquire good or bad but some youths and teenagers stepping into the dark corner of social media unknowingly. So, its the duty of parents and teachers to make them understand the use and misuse of social media. Friends are also a very important factors in a youth's life so parents must remain alert about their children's friendship with other people.

"PROPER EDUCATION ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA AND ITS IMPACTS IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE WAY TO SAVE OUR YOUTHS AND TEENAGERS."