Social media impact on student’s : Pros & Cons by Natasha Francis D’souza (SY BMS)

 

 

Library Week 2023-24 

                               Creative Blog Writing Competition    

                                            Winner  : -  Rank- 3rd

                                                            Date :17^th January 2024

Time : 10:00 to 11:30 AM

 

Name  of Participant   : Natasha Francis D’souza  (SYBMS)                                           

 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

TOPIC :  Social media impact on student’s  : Pros & Cons

                 Social media, a topic that has been going around for a good while millions of debates & more emerging have been going on whether social media is an advantage or a disadvantage to students or even society as all.

                  Social media began to be more & more well known in from early 2010’s era. More of teenagers & young adults started engaging & using social media as a way to pass time. In all these years there have  been positive & negative impacts of it.Social  media was surely invented with the purpose of benefiting  the human kind as every other invention. But we as human beings have taken it from granted  & have been misusing it in several ways.

               Here are few examples of how its been impacting us negatively. People using apps like Instagram have their whole life online. This gives access to criminals to their personal information to the point where these criminals can find exact  location of this person. Students are exposed to various things that are inappropriate from a very young age.  Things where they are exposed to nudity, bullying, abuse, which impact them negatively. They try to keep up with various trends, trends like bullying someone and finding it  funny,disrespecting or disturbing strangers on the road, etc. They get addicted to social media, An average child in India now has a screen time  of more than 10 hours  which means that half of their day goes in waste instead of investing that time in doing  something that would actually benefit them & make them a better person. By spending tremendous amount of time on social media these students have been drifting away  from their  family & have been having fights &  argument  with them. Parents also are at fault for not monitoring their children. In some cases parents when they want to get  rid of their kids or don’t  want to deal with them in a particular situation they give them mobiles so they could be busy and get their work, done. These are some of the  cons of using social media.

                  Every coin has two sides & so does the impact of social media . Social media as said was invented to benefit humans. And  it  has been doing that . Here are some positive impact of social media. Knowledge can be gained anywhere. Social media  has made things or communication flexible. People can talk  & engage with each other through various parts of the world. It has brought everyone closer. Students can get a wide range of knowledge that too from different perspectives.  Apps like YouTube has made learning easy.  Even  people who can’t afford education or go to various classes can still gain that knowledge with the use of YouTube.  Students can learn  more than what gets taught in the academics.

                     The conclusion  is that social media is not the problem of the people who use or misuse  it. Its us as students who can control the use of it.