Aqeel R Alnemer Mr. copley ENGLISH 101 Feb\22\2016 Social Media Impact to Young Generation In this decade social media use has gained high level of usage. Organizations and institutions have shifted from the formal way of communication and connected social media as way of communication because its simplicity. However, with all the applicability of social media in the current generation it has emerged as a tool to destruction for many young people. MySpace Facebook and Twitter are among many social sites that people choose to keep their communication through. Children and young people are using low language, engage in sex, immoral behaviors. Therefore, although social media has its benefits of cross border and regional connectivity of individuals, its impact on young generation morality cannot be overlooked. Social media has caused deaths and social mistrusts among many individuals and businesses. First, social media has been used in spread of movies, audios and pictures that have negative impact to the viewers and especially generation. Lack of censure of the information through the social medial channels allows for any kind of information to pass to different recipients. Young people are the majority of the modern technology participants. Such information may have unaccepted behaviors such as sexually oriented materials, hate speech especially in situation where racial profiling is common, and cyber harass due to the possibility of hiding the identity of the social media participants. Information is known for its ability to change mind set and especially for young people who have not yet developed principles and therefore the information available to such people will be the information they will use to establish their life principles. Therefore sexual, improper communication and violence will be the most common principles that young people affected by these vices will be in their future life. Therefore, the future generation will fancy such vices which have a negative impact to the society in large. For most young people differentiating fantasy from reality has been a great issue. They are exposed to violence in the media which in most cases is a fantasy instead of the reality. Therefore young people believe in the violence spread by the media and they practice such violent acts amongst themselves. They also try the sexual behaviors they witness in the media which in most cases is very risk for young generation. Abortions due to unwanted pregnancies due to uncontrolled sexual behaviors as depicted by the media are become normal with the current generation (Clark 43). Secondly, people and especially young people may not be aware of the privacy and confidentiality their personal data might be. Implication of sharing such information on social media of daring since most of social media sites do not have security policies. Therefore most young people might disclose confidential on the social sites causing distress after their identity and is .

1. Aqeel R Alnemer
Mr. copley
ENGLISH 101
Feb222016
Social Media Impact to Young Generation
In this decade social media use has gained high level of usage.
Organizations and institutions have shifted from the formal way
of communication and connected social media as way of
communication because its simplicity. However, with all the
applicability of social media in the current generation it has
emerged as a tool to destruction for many young people.
MySpace Facebook and Twitter are among many social sites
that people choose to keep their communication through.
Children and young people are using low language, engage in
sex, immoral behaviors. Therefore, although social media has
its benefits of cross border and regional connectivity of
individuals, its impact on young generation morality cannot be
overlooked. Social media has caused deaths and social mistrusts
among many individuals and businesses.
First, social media has been used in spread of movies, audios
and pictures that have negative impact to the viewers and
especially generation. Lack of censure of the information
through the social medial channels allows for any kind of
information to pass to different recipients. Young people are the
majority of the modern technology participants. Such
information may have unaccepted behaviors such as sexually
oriented materials, hate speech especially in situation where
racial profiling is common, and cyber harass due to the
possibility of hiding the identity of the social media
participants. Information is known for its ability to change mind
set and especially for young people who have not yet developed

2. principles and therefore the information available to such
people will be the information they will use to establish their
life principles. Therefore sexual, improper communication and
violence will be the most common principles that young people
affected by these vices will be in their future life. Therefore,
the future generation will fancy such vices which have a
negative impact to the society in large. For most young people
differentiating fantasy from reality has been a great issue. They
are exposed to violence in the media which in most cases is a
fantasy instead of the reality. Therefore young people believe in
the violence spread by the media and they practice such violent
acts amongst themselves. They also try the sexual behaviors
they witness in the media which in most cases is very risk for
young generation. Abortions due to unwanted pregnancies due
to uncontrolled sexual behaviors as depicted by the media are
become normal with the current generation (Clark 43).
Secondly, people and especially young people may not be aware
of the privacy and confidentiality their personal data might be.
Implication of sharing such information on social media of
daring since most of social media sites do not have security
policies. Therefore most young people might disclose
confidential on the social sites causing distress after their
identity and is exposed on the wrong way. One way that has
been on the rise is sharing of personal pictures for people in
compromising situations. Leaking of such information may
greatly affect the social life of people due to traumatization as
information on some situations in their lives they would not
love exposed gets exposed. Sharing of information and
especially intimate information has resulted to a lot of family
breakups. Organizations using social media to promote
businesses may be greatly affected in case confidential
information relating to their organizations leak to the social
media as it takes a very short time to spread such information to
large populations. For instance, health information is
confidential and exposure of health information regarding a
person in social may result to stigmatization. Young people are

3. the majority of the prey of privacy issues in social media as
they do not understand such issues in depth. Therefore social
media rise in the current generation has compromised the
privacy and confidentiality of personal data contained in most
human rights issues in most countries (Clemmit 4).
Thirdly, social media has affected interpersonal communication.
Young people have opted to specialize in communication social
media while face to face communication is being phased out at
an alarming rate. Simplicity of communication and the ability to
connect with people and friends at far distances using the social
media channels has eased the need to travel and visit friends
and relatives as they are in constant communication through
social media. Face to face communication has its etiquette and
courtesy necessary for good relations and therefore lack of
interpersonal interaction due emergence of social media has
impacted the etiquette and resulted to poor personal relations
(Lyons 5). In the current generation, even young people find
their partners through the internet. The beauty of dating is
fading with the current preferring to exchange all their love
affairs through the media rather than meeting for such sensitive
communication.
Most relationships have not worked because communication
through the media cannot expose the exact character of
individuals and therefore they realize that their characters are
not compatible upon marriage after meeting through the media.
Social media communication limits people from learning to
tolerate others as it is common with interpersonal
communication where people can learn how to solve problems
among them. Problem solving is an art that can only be attained
through interpersonal interaction and the modern generation
will missed it to social media obsession.
Personality of most people has been affected by social media.
Most young people and students spend most of their time in
social media sites and therefore affecting their study time as
well as the way they relate with their fellow students. Movies
and internet is part of the students and therefore the old way of

4. study is gone. Simplicity in their studies through the media has
affected their reading ability and therefore and books in schools
and reading culture the former generation has change. Their
lives are surrounded by the people they interact with through
the media and especially celebrities most of whom their
personalities are questionable. They adore such people and
follow up their activities and behaviors in their social media
settings. They built their personality surrounding such celebrity
individuals and therefore their potentials are limited to the
achievement of their role models. In most cases, young people
personality collide with the expectation the community has on
them as most of their personality is borrowed and may not suit
their cultural values expected to shape their personalities.
Research shows that student who spend most of their time in
media perform poorly as compared to those that do not fancy
media. Poor performance in school affects self-esteem level of
the students and therefore it may results to depression and other
social disorders such as withdrawal (Moore 10). In addition, the
number of people following an individual may be used by most
young people to mean how influential or accepted they are
among their peers. Less following therefore may affect the
confidence of such individuals which in turn affect how they
value themselves.
Fourth, social media has resulted to death of innocent young
people in many parts of the world. Due no naivety of most
young people, they have indulged in relationships with unknown
people. The relationships grow and they even plan to meet with
online friends at specified places. One mechanism the people
use is impersonation. They have different profiles in the social
sites different from their own personal life. They use attractive
profiles which lure people to them. Upon meeting with
personally, research shows that most people place demands on
their friend which if not met results to commission and
sometimes deaths. Most young girls have found themselves in
the hands of rapists and murders in disguise of lovers, hence
terminating their lives in uncertain conditions (SPENCER, 1).

5. Exposure of sexual relations with unknown people has been on
the rise as people are supposed to give money as ransom to
avoid being exposed. These cases have resulted as people can
communicate and interact with unknown people through the
social media channels where they get promises for property if
they comply with their requests.
In conclusion, although social media is an important tool that
people can use to connect as well as convey messages to their
peers in distant places, it can be a dangerous tool for
destruction to the young generation. Violence, sexual behaviors,
improper languages, lack of interpersonal communication
ability, lack of problem solving capacity, deaths, lack of
privacy and lack of personal development are some of the major
impacts media can have to the youths in the current generation.
They are vices that affects humanity and therefore impact on the
life-long behavior of the affected individuals.
Work Cited
Clark, C. S. (1995). Sex, Violence and the Media. CQ
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Clemmit, M. (2013). Social Media Explosion. Do social
networking sites threaten privacy rights?, Volume 23, Issue 4.
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6. Moore, J. (2010, December 21). Has social media affected your
personality? Retrieved from USA Today.
SPENCER, H. (2016, Feb 1). Concerns Over Social Media Link
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