Effects of Social Media on the Youth

Effects of Social Media on the Youth

With the onset of modern technology getting incorporated in almost every aspect of our day to day life, there are various new ways of living that the society has come to adopt to that were absent before the onset of modern technology.  Social media is one such lifestyle that the youth of today has been primarily identified to be associated with. Social media may be referred to as a series of online social tools through which the users can exchange thoughts, ideas, pictures, lifestyles as well as other aspects of their day to day living.

The background of this topic could get traced back to the inception days of social media whereby in the early beginning of the millennium. During this period, more and more users were getting accustomed to sharing personal lifestyles on the online platform, which significantly changed the social interaction principles (Valenzuela, Arriagada & Scherman, 2012).

One factor that makes this topic to be of keen interest in the fact that, social media has become more like a way of life which encompasses the youth into one sizeable demographic group. As a result, researchers, as well as business entrepreneurs, are going to the online platform in an attempt to understand the youth and what they stand for concerning their social deposition.

I believe the above topic will receive a positive response from the youth, given that the topic understudy deals with an issue that directly affects them. Therefore they would like to get to learn more about their lifestyle and get a different point of view of the social media sites, which are a large part of their lives.

References

Valenzuela, S., Arriagada, A., & Scherman, A. (2012). The social media basis of youth protest behaviour: The case of Chile. Journal of Communication, 62(2), 299-314.