Effect of Social Media on Youth Self-Awareness

EFFECT OF SOCIAL
MEDIA ON YOUTH
SELF AWARENESS
PROGRAMME
BY
YAMAN SINGHANIA(Owner)
COMPUTERCAREERS
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EFFECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA
ON YOUTH

What is Social
Media?
Social media refers to the means of interactions
among people in which they create, share,
and/or exchange information and ideas in
virtual communities and networks. For example :
Facebook,Twitter,Foursquare,Pinterest,Myspace,
ask.fm,reverhbnation,orkut,google plus etc
many more.

Positive Effects/AdvantagePositive Effects/Advantages
of Social Mediaof Social Media
The main advantage of social networking
site is that it helps in establishing
connection with people,friends and
relatives. It helps in sharing one’s view,
share pictures and lots of other stuffs.
It helps students in interacting with one
another and share ideas. This helps in
improving student’s creativity.
The social networking websites can be
accessed from any part of the globe. This
helps the students to
establish communication with their
teachers and friends through which they
can improve their knowledge.

Positive Effects/AdvantagePositive Effects/Advantages
of Social Mediaof Social Media
Through these sites the students can
establish contact with entrepreneurs,
corporate people and can gain valuable
information from them.
Facilitates open communication, leading
to enhanced information discovery and
delivery.
Targets a wide audience, making it a
useful and effective recruitment tool.
Increase General Knowledge and
Awareness of Students.
Saves Time and Cost by facilitating faster
communication.

NegativeNegative
effects/Disadvantageseffects/Disadvantages
ofof SocialSocial MediaMedia One of the major disadvantages of using social
networking websites are the students get
addicted to it. They used to spend hours in
those social networking sites which can
obviously degrade the student’s academic
performance.
 Opens up the possibility for hackers to
commit Fraud and launch Spam and
virus attacks.
 Some students may tend to use to these
social networking sites till mid night or
even more which can obviously lead to
Health related problems.

 Some students may spend time in Facebook
through which they lack to spend time with
their family members. This can also be a
disadvantage also.
 Some students may provide detailed
information like phone numbers, address which
is very dangerous because they can
easily tracked down by strangers.
 High exposure on behavior and mental health
– Middle schoolers use more media than any
other age group (8 hrs approx per day) which
results on to Lower Achedemic
Acheievements,Lower attachment to school
and health related problems.
NegativeNegative
ofof SocialSocial MediaMedia

 Cyber-bullying - The immediacy provided by
social media is available to predators as well as
friends. Kids especially are vulnerable to the
practice of cyber-bullying in which the
perpetrators, anonymously or even posing as
people their victims trust, terrorize individuals in
front of their peers. The devastation of these
online attacks can leave deep mental scars. In
several well-publicized cases, victims have
even been driven to suicide. The anonymity
afforded online can bring out dark impulses
that might otherwise be suppressed. Cyber-
bullying has spread widely among youth, with
42% reporting that they have been victims,
according to a 2010 CBS News report.
NegativeNegative
ofof SocialSocial MediaMedia

 Time spent on social media sites is increasing –
Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter
are becoming more popular with youth. In 2009,
15.8 percent of time spent on the Internet was
on social networking sites. By 2010, the
percentage had risen to 22.7 percent (Nielson,
2011).The ability to access to social media sites
through cell phones, iPads and other mobile
Internet devices has increased the amount of
time youth spend on these sites. For example,
nearly 40 percent of social media users access
their accounts from a mobile phone, and social
networking apps are the third most-used among
U.S. smartphone owners (Nielson).
Details on Research toDetails on Research to
Practise PointsPractise Points

 Causes of Cyberbullying — bullying through
social media sites are escalating : -
Cyberbullying is the “electronic posting of mean-
spirited messages about a person”
(Cyberbullying, Merriam-Webster Dictionary).
The anonymity of social media sites offers
cyberbullies a vehicle. Even cyberbullies who
choose not to be anonymous do not have to
confront their victim face-to-face, and instead
hide behind their computer screens, which is
believed to make these attacks easier. A survey
conducted by The Pew Internet and American
Life Project found that
39 percent of social media users had experienced
some form of cyberbullying, as compared to 23
percent of non-social media users (Lenhart,
2007). Visit : http://www.computercareer.in/

 Age limitations on social media sites are
inadequate : -
Currently, Facebook requires users to be at least 13
years old. However, a study by Boyd found that
31 percent of 10-year-olds, 44 percent of 11-
year-olds, and 55 percent of 12-year-olds
reported using a social network site (Boyd,
2011). Social media sites cannot verify a user’s
age. If the user has a valid email address and
indicates that he or she is at least 13 years old,
access is available. Other sites, such as Twitter,
have no age limit.

 Parental controls on access to social media
are lacking; monitoring youth online is
becoming more difficult for parents : -
Parental controls, especially for younger
adolescents, are a necessary evil. Youth may
feel that parental controls are an invasion of
privacy, while parents feel that they are
protecting their children from dangers in an on-
line world. Sites such as Facebook and
Myspace currently do not have any direct
parental controls. Parents can “friend” their
children to watch what they are posting;
however, new privacy settings allow a young
user to block people, including parents, from
seeing what is posted.

Threats from Social MediaThreats from Social Media
 Social networking worms - Social networking
worms include Koobface, which has become,
according to researchers, "the largest Web 2.0
botnet." While a multi-faceted threat like
Koobface challenges the definition of "worm,"
it is specifically designed to propagate across
social networks (e.g., Facebook, mySpace,
Twitter, hi5, Friendster and Bebo), enlist more
machines into its botnet, and hijack more
accounts to send more spam to enlist more
machines. All the while making money with the
usual botnet business, including scareware and
Russian dating services.
 Phishing - It is an act of Creating fake
webpages to steal user’s information for illegal
purpose.Always look Url before submitting your
information.for example :
http://www.facebook.com

Threats from Social MediaThreats from Social Media
 Trojans : - Social networks have become a great
vector for trojans -- "click here" and you get:
Zeus -- a potent and popular banking Trojan that
has been given new life by social networks.
* URL Zone -- is a similar banking Trojan, but even
smarter, it can calculate the value of the
victim's accounts to help decide the priority
for the thief.
 Data leaks : - Social networks are all about
sharing. Unfortunately, many users share a bit too
much about the organization -- projects,
products, financials, organizational changes,
scandals, or other sensitive information.
 Shortened links : - People use URL shortening
services (e.g., bit.ly and tinyurl) to fit long URLs into
tight spaces. They also do a nice job of
obfuscating the link so it isn't immediately
apparent to victims that they're clicking on a
malware install, not a CNN video.

How to Prevent fromHow to Prevent from
Social Media ThreatsSocial Media Threats
 Install theft protection software on all of the
computers you use to access social media
accounts.
 Make sure never to click the box to save your
password when you are on a public, work or
laptop computer.
 Use your real name whenever you sign up for
social media accounts.
 Avoid giving out personal information on social
media sites, such as address, phone number or
your birth date.
 Change your privacy settings on all your social
media accounts, so that you have control of all
the information that is posted.

How to Prevent fromHow to Prevent from
Social Media ThreatsSocial Media Threats
 Type in the name of the social media site, or use
a bookmark, instead of clicking on email
linksType in the name of the social media site, or
use a bookmark, instead of clicking on email
links.
 Create complicated passwords when you sign
up for social media accounts.
 Never give out your travel plans over social
media sites.
 Avoid using online applications on social media
sites, or the Internet in general, that require
access to your personal or profile information.
 Use extreme caution when opening links on
social media sites.

Conclusion andConclusion and
ImplicationImplication
 Parents need to work with their children on
using safety precautions when on social media
sites. Thirty-one percent of youth surveyed by
the National School Board Association (2007)
reported posting inappropriate pictures and
sharing personal information with strangers.
 Youth need to be taught of the dangers of
putting their personal information online.
 Information that is posted online can never be
permanently erased.
 Parents and their children should establish
privacy settings, and the children should learn
to check to be sure that their privacy settings
have not changed.

Conclusion andConclusion and
ImplicationImplication
 Parents should also discuss with their children
the impact of cyberbullying and the
importance of not engaging in this behavior.
 We need to motivate this youth in positive
manner by giving them a positive futuristic
approach.
 This can be done by portraying and visualizing
such documentaries, talk shows, dramas and
T.V. programs which shows them the right and
positive view of things and motivate them
towards the development of their country.
 These shows should spread awareness among
youth enabling them to recognize their
enemies as well as defend themselves against
their traps.

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