social networking and its impact on the present day youth(statistics,rules,advantages,disadvantages,etc..)

1. Social Networks And Its
Bad Impacts …
A Drawback For The
Teenagers
Success

6. The five impacts:
• News
• Interaction
• Political landscapes
• Learning
• Marketing
A research concludes:
“1.2 billion Facebook users and 450 million people suffering from
mental disorders”.

8. A FALSE THOUGHT IN TEENAGERS MIND :
• They post pictures of themselves and their friends. Their friends
comment on these photos. This concept seems simple enough, but its
use is very different depending on the age of the user.
• On these web sites we allow strangers onto our page for petty reasons,
such as having the same taste in music or movies. We spend more
time with these people online, when we should be spending time with
our real life friends that we’ve known for years.

9.  NEGATIVE A SPECTS OF S OCIAL NETWORKING
• Privacy Issues
• Addiction
• Diminishing Social Skills
 How to tell If you are addicted to Social Network websites !
• Checked Facebook first thing in the morning, before you shower or have
your morning coffee?
• Woke up in the middle of the night and checked Facebook to see if you’ve
been mentioned?
• Felt like something is missing when you go on vacation and can’t check
social media accounts?
• Spent more time interacting with people on social sites than in person !
• Filled up your friends’ Facebook walls with your own posts? ;)

11. Effects of addiction to social networking
 Induced fear and phobias
 Media multi‐tasking affects attention Reality vs. fantasy
 Time use
 Behavioral changes Aggression and violence Tendency to be alone Anxiety problems
 Privacy issues Stress/hyper tension Over exposure to unwanted content.
 Impact of high exposure on behavior and mental health
 Middle schoolers use more media than any other age group (8 hrs., 40 min per day)
 Lower academic achievement, grades
 Lower attachment to school .Shorter attention spans .
 Media Effects and Youth Violence Sexually Explicit Content Drug & Alcohol Use Body
Image Stereotyping.

13. middle-Aged Woman Seduces Teenage Boys With Fantasy
Facebook Profiles, Then Kills Them Off.
Wife Killed For Changing FB Status to Single
MySpace "Horror Core" Rapper Brings His Lyrics to Life
Sample lyrics:
"You’re not the first, just to let you know
I’ve killed many people and I kill them real slow
It’s the best feeling, watching their last breath
Stabbing and stabbing till there’s nothing left"
Being Grounded from MySpace Drives Teen to Shoot His Dad.
Facebook Love Triangle Results in High-Speed Car Chase,
Death.

14. Ways to Combat Negative Media Effects
Without Over Regulation
•  Educating Youth in Media Literacy
•  Parent-Child Interaction
•  Moderation of media consumption
•  Spending offline time more than online time
•  Spending more time with family
•  Choosing to meet people in person rather than online
•  Yoga/exercises
•  Keeping a check on internet activity and avoiding excessive
usage

15. Some tips to be on safer side:
• Always use maximum privacy settings
• Be cautious about what you share on social networking sites
• Minimize the time you and your children spend social networking
• Monitor your children's social networking use and friend lists
• Make household rules about social networking and enforce them
• Educate your children about the potential hazards of social
networking
• Do not allow strangers into your social networks
• Build online networks of people you also interact with face-to-face,
and encourage your children to do the same

17. 10 commandments of social media
• Thou shalt not envy the things you see on
Facebook and other social media.
• Thou shalt not post any malicious images
or statement that has a high chance of
being misinterpreted by your virtual
friends.
• Thou shalt observe the mechanics of
your post.
• Thou shalt review your album on a
regular basis to see something that might
ruin your online reputation.
• Thou shalt observe prudence in liking a
status , image or a video
• Thou shalt not create pseudo accounts
aimed at tarnishing another person or
organization.
• Thou shalt practice skepticism in
accepting friend requests from people
whom you don’t know.
• Thou shalt think thrice before hitting the
unfriend button.
• Thou shalt use the social media to inform
the public of latest news that will make
occur life safe and useful.
• Thou shalt keep in mind personal
branding and how social media accounts
can achieve your career goals.

18. • You can never be too safe when it comes to the Internet.
It's impossible to know everyone you talk to or who reads
your public profiles on sites such as MySpace or
Facebook. Be smart.

20. THANK
YOU…..