The Truth Behind Social Media #Blog Entry 09

Hello everyone! Alexisse Beldia at your screen. Today, I'm going to discuss to all of you out there about how social media help us. Using social media web sites is among the most common activity of today's children and adolescents. Any web site that allows social interaction is considered a social media site, including social networking sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter and video sites such as YouTube and blogs. 

Such sites offer today's youth a portal for entertainment and communication and have grown exponentially in recent years. For this reason, it is important that parents become aware of the nature of social media sites, given that not all of them are healthy environments for children and adolescents. Pediatricians are in a unique position to help families understand these sites and to encourage healthy use and urge parents to monitor for potential problems with cyberbullying, “Facebook depression, sexting, and exposure to inappropriate content. The benefits of individual using social media is to socialite and Communicate, the social media sites allow each individual to accomplish online many of the tasks that are important to them. To enhanced learning opportunities of each individual and stay connected with one another by collaborating and exchanging ideas about homeworks or projects. And also to access health information in each particular person.

Using social media becomes a risk in in every people. Most risks fall into the peer-to-peer, inappropriate content and lack of understanding of online privacy issues. The first problem in using the media negatively is a cyberbullying and online harassment, cyberbullying is deliberately using digital media to communicate false, embarrassing or hostile information about another person. It is the most common online risk for all teens is a peer-to-peer risk. 

On the other hand, cyberbullying is quite common, can occur to any young person online, and can cause profound psychosocial outcomes including depression, anxiety, severe isolation, and, tragically, suicide. Second, is the sexting it can be defined as sending, receiving, or forwarding sexually explicit messages, photographs, or images via cell phone, computer, or other digital devices. Many of these images become distributed rapidly via cell phones or the Internet. And lastly, is the facebook depression, it is defined as depression that develops when preteens and teens spend a great deal of time on social media sites, such as Facebook, and then begin to exhibit classic symptoms of depression. Acceptance by and contact with peers is an important element of adolescent life. As with offline depression, individuals who’s suffer from Facebook depression are at risk for social isolation and sometimes turn to risky Internet sites and blogs for “help” that may promote substance abuse, unsafe sexual practices, or aggressive or self-destructive behaviors.


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