The Effects of Social Networking on Teenage Lives
The Effects of Social Networking on Teenage Lives
The life of an average teenager is filled with excitement, curiosity, love, and the constant addiction into the world of social networking. Teenagers seem to have this double life when interacting with different social networking sites. From Facebook to Twitter to online games and game systems, teens are overloaded with several options to stay connected with their friends. Average teenagers are constantly updating their status, playing against other users on online games, tweeting their favorite quote, or using up all their allowance money on a game system that they will use to challenge a friend. The use of social networking sites are growing intensely across the United States and the world. Teenagers would not be wrong when they say “I have friends all over the world.” It just proves how fast a teen can make connections with a click of a button. According to Pew Research Center, “73 percent of teenagers in the United States are members of some type social networking community” (Lenhart, et al., 2010). Teenagers between the ages of 12-17, are where social networking hits the hardest. In this digital world teens are bombarded with vast amount of technology that will one day reach a point where it will be too much to handle. The negative effects of social networking on an average teenage life appear through their education, health, and private life.
All this online friend-forming has an effect on teenage learning. When teens spend most of their time on the computer chatting, on the phone texting, or versing a friend on a virtual game, they do not realize how much time is being wasted daily. According to National Board Association, teens spend an average of nine hours per week on social networking sites.
They begin to procrastinate more, turning in their assignments late, not focusing in class, and some of them end up failing tests or quizzes. For example, (ex) Social networking plays a major role in every
The life of an average teenager is filled with excitement, curiosity, love, and the constant addiction into the world of social networking. Teenagers seem to have this double life when interacting with different social networking sites. From Facebook to Twitter to online games and game systems, teens are overloaded with several options to stay connected with their friends. Average teenagers are constantly updating their status, playing against other users on online games, tweeting their favorite quote, or using up all their allowance money on a game system that they will use to challenge a friend. The use of social networking sites are growing intensely across the United States and the world. Teenagers would not be wrong when they say “I have friends all over the world.” It just proves how fast a teen can make connections with a click of a button. According to Pew Research Center, “73 percent of teenagers in the United States are members of some type social networking community” (Lenhart, et al., 2010). Teenagers between the ages of 12-17, are where social networking hits the hardest. In this digital world teens are bombarded with vast amount of technology that will one day reach a point where it will be too much to handle. The negative effects of social networking on an average teenage life appear through their education, health, and private life.
All this online friend-forming has an effect on teenage learning. When teens spend most of their time on the computer chatting, on the phone texting, or versing a friend on a virtual game, they do not realize how much time is being wasted daily. According to National Board Association, teens spend an average of nine hours per week on social networking sites.
They begin to procrastinate more, turning in their assignments late, not focusing in class, and some of them end up failing tests or quizzes. For example, (ex) Social networking plays a major role in every