Have you ever thought that social media could be source of concern for teenagers? In the
article entitled “Social media and Teen anxiety” the author Leah Shafer is addressing the idea of
the new generation that raised on the social media and the drawbacks of that will affect these
teenagers. As the technology developed it became the main source for teenagers to chat and see
other people’s life on the Social media platform like Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp.
Although myriads of parents say that teenagers should enjoy surfing social media, I strongly
believe that social media will be the main reason for anxiety for teenagers.
Teenagers are raising in time that social media is the hit of their decade. So the question here
is how you should advise teens not to be addicted as long as they see others’ phones became part
of them. Social media avoid teens from living their real life they are just scrolling down the apps
the whole day as they think that this is a source of happiness for them, but they are totally wrong
as this leads us to the loneliness point, which makes many teens feel while they see pictures of
their influencers and how they are spending their time with others teens are just watching this
without doing any effort to have their own friends which means social media have a negative
impact as it shows an unreal lives’ of others. Therefore, social media avoid teens from face to face
communication and this leads to social distancing between teenagers and their friends, their
creativity will decrease, and mental health will occur. On the other side, I disagree with parents
that say their teenagers should live their time even if they know that these teens are addicted to
social media and have their own experience from it. Parents should be the right guide as they are
more experienced than them to as they know the consequences of raising up a child on decade of
social media. While I was young I was having a problem in my school as I was suffering from
being lonely with no friends just sitting in a corner on my phone in the garden at the break time as
I don’t know any skills to make me have friends, then I talked to my parents, they advised in this
situation how to make a good friend, their advice worked and I have many friends that are hanging
out with me. I am feeling blessed for not being addicted to social media and enjoying my real life
time with limited useful time on social media.
The author Leah Shafer expresses the idea of how teenagers and social media and he stresses
on the challenges that these teens will face in the decade of social media like being in pressure all
time, loneliness no friends to talk and communicate with, mental your skills will reduce by time
and your creativity level also will decrease. Other Research “Effect of social media on Adolescent
Anxiety” proved that raising up your kid on social media without putting any limits this leads to
many problems like feel anxious to his school and social status. These worries will put him under
pressure from social life and the school, so parents are the key to help their teens by guiding them
in the right way from their old experiences. I see the solution for this that parents should study
well the factors and the problem that would face them while raising up their teenagers and the
amount of time spend on social media should be 1-2 hours to avoid any problems.
To conclude, raising up children in the time of social media might be quite challenging for
parents before their kids. The drawbacks that occurs from social media are harmful for this kids
and the parents are playing big role in this they should never let their teens on their phones whole
the day. I recommend that teenagers should join activities or have their own hobby that will fill
their time by this the time of spending on phone will less and more time will be spend with family
and friends. I advise parents to read more while their kids are growing.