The basic and the most common disadvantage of Social media is that it creates addiction very fast. It can even weaken their eyesight as well as can damage their mental health. Social media platforms create a type of obsession among youngsters to be updated all the time, post pictures, stories, etc. which is definitely a negative effect. Once they get addicted, they start getting disconnected from their family members, relatives and friends. They build a wall of social media near themselves.
As the technologies have been evolving and growing day by day, it has become a serious threat to the younger generation. Nowadays, children are more prone towards the usage of social media upto the ocean levels. But these social media can be dangerous for them in several ways like:
It is very distracting and could lead to total distraction from the career path.
Nowadays as the technology has been rising at a greater speed, children are seen more threatened by cyber bullying.
Children are having more negative effect of this invasion as they are getting addicted to these sites and spoiling their physical and mental health.They are seeing offensive videos and images,interacting with strangers,loosing out on social life ,falling prey to cyber crimes.
Social media can be bad for the growing up children as they take away time from a students life.In the adolescent period there is a lot of curiosity in children to know about many things and the social media give access to offensive images and videos which can be detrimental to their growth.The children can be lured into bad friendships in the virtual world who can turn out to be abusers or cheats.In the social media platform there is no personal connection with the people we meet online and the children can meet frauds and end up in criminal or cyber crimes.
