This is a very well known fact that every new inventions comes with its own drawback on society. This scenario is same in case of the impact that social media creates on the mind of an individual. Social media was created with a good purpose in mind. To serve the people so that making a good social life could made easier. But over the years, it can be seen that while achieving that purpose, somewhere it has lost its meaning. We all know that children are raw and can be molded in any form, and we need to give them best of everything possible. The initial impact of social media on teenagers is that it comes with a lot of distractions, due to which the sleep cycle gets disrupted. Other impacts are like teens can experience peer pressure due to which they might face psychological issues. Most teenagers use the social Media to keep up with their peers, so they feel pressured to put on an image to represent them online.
The teenagers will start to develop obsessions over their appearance or achievements to brag online to please or compete with peers, they will do anything like go on extreme diet to take photos for different apps like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat,Twitter etc etc, going out and doing stuff with peers things they deeply don't wanna do but doing it anyways to appear like a social and likable person instead on focusing on things that do matter like education and real friendships, they may also take the route of lying about everything in their life to create a different persona online because they dislike themself in reality, to be honest who really liked themselves when they were teenagers with all the hormones and the transformation that's was going on, the answer is, no one. But when you actually go to lie about alot of things online you create an illusion of false self image of your true self based on illusion on what friendship and achievements actually means. So the social media can only give a short satisfaction based on just filters and illusion and manipulation, so if the teenager is mentally unstable and not able to differentiate between reality and false reality created by others the social media can and will impact their mental health and self esteem alot. social media has become an addiction as bad as drugs for the teenagers nowadays. Teens are so badly addicted to it, that they forget about other important things in life, which will surely affect their future.They neglect their studies, parents, family, and in some severe cases, even their health. They just keep on scrolling all night, even though their eyes will be begging for sleep. Due to excess use of social media some people do their time pass on it by making some bad memes ( I'm not saying that to make it a bad thing but in bad manner it ofcourse. Even that some corrupt people they do misuse of other pic. All these reason many people scared to post something on social media. There are so many health problems happenes by excess use of it like eye strain, weakness etc. Even some children always use phone due to this they have not any best friend. This might also take the extreme level where bullying and rumor spreading becomes game for the teenagers because of lack of knowledge on how to handle such situations. My advice is to break free and build a future outside social media. Why? It creates the illusion of connectedness while making people less connected to those around them.

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