Teenagers are very expressive today, they tend to express themselves either in their family and friends or in social media. They feel like it’s their comfort zone and so they are very vocal in their emotions. But it’s good in a way like they can use it or they can apply it to themselves the good benefits of social media and it is bad because they take advantage of media to use in a bad way. The thing is that the mindset of today’s generation is like “I have freedom so I do this and that, without fear, doubt and hesitations”. And if they want to share something with their friends and loved ones they tend to feel being judged easily wherein social media they feel like they are free and welcomed but it’s only my feelings and perceptions, we have our own individual opinions.

Nowadays, social media really influence teenagers, especially in these generations, well here are some of the good and bad effects of social media:

Good effects

1. Keeping you updated
   Through social media, we can easily get updates on what’s happening around the world. It is the reason why we’re being prepared for what’s coming next. Actually, there are many updates from social media that we can get from the news up to the new trends that we are fond of.
2. Learning a new culture
   Social media is a very diverse platform. We don’t need to go to the other places to discover and learn new cultures it is already in it [social media]. Most of the teenagers nowadays they want to imitate the culture of the other country because they want to copy their idols from the language that they used to the gestures on how they communicate to the other people.
3. For research and studies.
   In social media, we can get many credible research samples and resources that can help in our studies. It’s very convenient because you just have to search and then they give you a lot of information that you needed, no need to skim in a book or go to the library, social media have it all.
   Actually, there are a lot of good effects on social media, I just stated the most common.

Bad effects

1. It can affect the relationship. One of the traditions that our ancestors inherited to us is to eat together with our families, casually talking and laughing at each other but now because of the influence of social media there’s a division created between the relationship of the family members. It’s very common to us, right? We’re very busy surfing on social media we tend to forget the most precious time of our family, we should not let that happen, we should remember every moment with our family is special.
2. Misspelled Words. Instead of learning the proper spelling of words, they make a shortcut message because most of us choose to type words like “wer r u” instead of typing “where are you” as long it may sound similar, we tend to forget the real spelling.

Therefore, social media really helpful to us, it’s not just for leisure time but also we can get a lot of information that can help us in our everyday life. But then we should use social media in the right way and we should remember our limitations when using it.