- The document discusses the impact of social media on youth and education. It outlines both the benefits and drawbacks of social media use. - Some benefits of social media for youth include improving social skills through communication, broadening perspectives through exposure to new ideas, and potential opportunities to earn income through platforms like YouTube. However, risks include exposure to disturbing content, cyberbullying, and obesity from excessive use. - For education, benefits are distance learning opportunities, more flexible work, and improved support for students. Risks include distraction from schoolwork, wasting time that could be spent studying, and potential health issues from overuse of devices.

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Impact of Social Media on Youth and Education|
Author’s Details:
(1)
Ali Raza(2)
Rukhsar Ahmed
Received: March 15, 2019Revised: May 10, 2019 Accepted: June 03, 2019 Online Published: June 30, 2019
Abstract
Nowadays platforms such as twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram are extensively used by professor’s
teachers, and students and they also have turn out to be fairly widespread amongst them. For a pupil social
media acts as a very significant part as it makes it informal for them to obtain and share info, acquire answers
and link with their teachers. It is over the platforms of social media that pupils and educators can link with each
other and also share the content thus making a decent usage of these platforms.
Keywords
Social Media, Education, Social Networks, Youth
Introduction
This era is for both micro blogging and smart phones. All that we necessitate to know about is simply click
away. In this era social media is tool which every age group use it extensively. Social media has been embedded
into our society that is if you are not in any of the social media platforms then it is nearly difficult for the people
to take you seriously. The constantly increasing pressure of exist on one of the social networking websites and
have a striking profile is causing youth in immense way. Statistics says that a teenager occupies 72 hrs./per
week online. A very high number of hours they spent on social media platforms in view of that they also have to
give some time to schoolwork, other activities and valuable activities such as reading. However, it leaves less
amount of time for other important things and therefore there are serious problems that upsurge such as
minimum focus, anxiety, lack of attention and complex issues. Vast majority of educational academics that feel
social media is a weakening means for students nonetheless if utilized cleverly it can be very operative. As an
alternative of getting in quarrel of social media being beneficial or ill effect, we need to catch methods to utilize
it for our advantage.
It is a major component in our lives these days, one can get information of any kind, talk to people in
any place of world because young, old, rich and poor almost everyone is in one of the social media platforms.
Even corporate domain has entered into bandwagon and lots of companies are active, posting updates and
answering questions online. Social media is rapidly becoming the leading resources of communication around
the globe. It empowers us to share ideas, information, content and news at a more rapid speed. There are so
many social networks; some are famous ones comprise Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram. The fame
of social media is spreading quite rapidly around the globe, a mixed feeling about these networks and how they
influence youth and also how it can be utilized to be beneficial for education? Let’s attempt and answer these
queries.

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Social Media Impact on Youth
To answer both these queries we have to consider their pros and cons of social media on youth and also on
education. Continuing with former first, social media has lessened the world into a global village. Youths can
intermingle with different people from different areas of the world by a click of button. It’s a trend nowadays to
be on social networking websites (Redecker et al., 2010). Engaging on social media websites can be a novel
venture for young folks. It is similar to discovering a fresh place where diverse expertise is required. Young
folks acquire to mold their appeal to be further self-assured and free to be perceived or have a optimistic virtual
existence. This ultimately transfers to their everyday lives.
 Help Improve Social Expertise: Through these communications, youths can obtain information, share
ideas and there is also a great chance to be wide-open to many other opportunities. Moreover, social
media gives them opportunity to make new friends as well as let them to keep up their old ones. With
the help of social media, one can trace their old friends or colleagues by just a simply type names or just
indicating the school, collage, university or company they attended or worked together (Boyd, 2007).
After that, let the network do all work and link them. Social media can be the way for people to express
their thoughts ideas especially naturally shy people can say whatever they want to in public without
revealing their identities (Miller, 2008).
 Help to Broaden Vision: Besides socializing, corporate world has also utilized social networks for
advertise products by celebrities or do it directly. As a result, social media offers vast variety of chances
for youths (Shea, 2006).
 Help to Earn Assets: Famous youths are also doing the advertisement for the products of companies
and become online ambassadors.
Furthermore, they also can earn substantial amount of money by running vlogs, tech sites, informative
forums, educational sites and many more and they can also show their talents to the world.
On the contrary, social media is an unregulated realm with no customs of ethics to abide to.
 Harsh Content: Youths are probably exposed to disturbed images of accidents, rape cases, murder
victims or videos of gun shootings, verbal outbreak, violence, explicit sexual content and nudism. That
kind of content when it used up for long duration of time can lead to severe outcomes. For example,
anxiety attacks fear of actual world around them (Christofides et al., 2012) .
 Obesity: It also can lead to obsession, spending more time with friends on social media rather than with
their families and relatives around them. Before going to bed last thing is to check accounts for any
updates or waking up from bed youths first thing to do is to check their social media accounts.
 Cyber bullying: Another crime that comes in thoughts is cyber bullying. But many people think that it
is a kind of fun stuff not that serious to fake the identity on social media. Moreover, it is easier to trace
someone through their information available on social media platforms and make it easy for criminal to
trace and get important information.
Social Media on Education
There are numerous advantages of social media in the educational point of view. Few of them are elaborated
below.

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 Distance Learning: Numerous lecturers nowadays are having live video chats on skype and other
similar kind of platforms for online lectures (Tariq et al., 2012). This is easy for pupils along with
instructor to study and share just sitting in their institutions or homes. How relaxed and opportune
learning can be through the support of social media.
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 Relaxed work: Various teachers sense that usage of social media makes work relaxed for teachers and
pupils (Hung et al., 2010). Moreover, it aids teacher to enlarge and search their own potentials, expertise
and knowledge.
 Coaching aids: Social media can assist students to cultivate their awareness with a lot of training
assistances presented online (Alwagait et al., 2015). Learners can see images, watch videos, and rapidly
vibrant their hesitation while watching live practices. Not only learners, even instructor can create their
lectures thought-provoking by means of these gears and the teaching supports.
 Improved care: Meanwhile we have utilized social media at our disposal, instructors can deliver off
hours support plus explain questions of learners even after classes. This exercise also aids instructor to
know growth of their learners more narrowly (Kuppuswamy et al, 2010)
For all above mentioned advents of social media related to education there are also some negative impacts of
social media in education that may offer some serious problems. Few of them are elaborated underneath.
 Causes Distraction: Numerous pupils stick to their device deprived of focused on their study. It is a
wicked notion to waste judicious and important time on social media without achieving something from
it (Patton et al., 2014). Lot of students are glued to their mobile phones all the day surfing internet for
information that is irrelevant to education purpose and wasting timing on chatting.
 Waste Time: Several students consider it problematic to tackle their usual life without making habit of
social media. Pupil does not pay attention in class, busy chatting and reading stories (Holmes, 2011) .
They waste time talking or chatting with friends, instead of working what they have gained in
educational places.
 Mess up writing skills: nowadays students are not good in writing skills. They are unable to write
essays. The main reason behind lacking this skill because no interest in reading novels and other books
that may be helpful for writing. Furthermore, the way we use to chat and the nature of these kinds of
messages students have trained themselves to write shorthand, incomplete sentences, fewer lines. That
effects their punctuation, grammar, writing and communication skills.
 Causes Health Problems: The usage of PCs, mobiles and numerous devices to access virtual platforms
by pupils might damage consumer if they practice it extensively (O'Keeffe et al., 2011) . Students might
be exposed to immoral attitude, mental and physical stress and also eye straining. Entire educational
investors need to guarantee they organize the usage of social media by introducing a procedure that can
support to normalize the adverse characteristic of social media.
 Lack of Interest: Numerous students use mobile phones during classes libraries and also in seminars.
Some even plug in earphones or put headphones and listen songs while studying. This kind of habits can
lessen their rates of adaptation.
Conclusion
It’s been thought that info is power. Deprived of means of issuing info, people can’t harness power. One
helpful effect of social media is in spreading of information in today’s era. Platforms such as LinkedIn,
Facebook, Twitter and others similar to these have made it feasible to access info at click of a button. Social

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media is a place that’s driven by the people, so it echoes public’s very finest intents, along with their most
horrible; folks who pursue to hurt others folks are encouraged by internet, thus far same can be thought for
those folks who pursue only to support others. As a result, while there are jeopardizes related with it, there are
also several helpful effects of social media, and with vigilant hazard management, continuing support and
education we can assume social media can be entertaining, informative and also safe.
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