The Impact of Social Media on Adolescent Emotional Wellbeing

 

In today’s era it is really important to be present on social networking sites, these sites help to get open to a world of immense possibilities. Social media is one of the most effective ways to connect people to learn new things and even a way to share the knowledge which one has acquired with time. An individual’s capabilities to expand has exceeded to limitless possibilities.

It’s usage for adolescent have created an area where they interact with people and know about the opportunities for their future career prospects. Social media is used by adolescents to not only to connect with their peers but also engage into learnings which can help them to achieve their desired goals.

But everything has its pros and cons. Along with the benefits, there are some of the drawbacks of social media usage for the adolescents, few of them are listed below:

• Lack of sleep
• Distance from family
• Loss of capacity to concentrate
• Loss of physical activities
• Spreading rumors
• Sharing of too much of personal information

The above list for the negative effect of the social media is not exhaustive one. There could be many issues related to the teenagers which can be unique from situation of situation. Every teenager would have their own set of different negative experience of the social media. It depends on severity of the situation, how it has tackled and what all people are involved in it.

It is not necessary that every child go through any kind of negative experience, if done and briefed in the right direction social media can help in not only in intellectual development of the child but also have an emotional development. With the correct guidance and appropriate amount of supervision social media can prove to be beneficial for them.

At Bright Side of Life, we understand that it is necessary to strike a balance at the social media platforms, so that these young minds don’t feel that they are being deliberately forced back, neither the parents feel that these might harm their kid’s life. With the continuous counselling and assessments, we try to guide the children and their parents' ways to not let the negative effects of social media come into their lives. Specially designed programs are implemented not only at the classroom level, but we try to cater and understand the need of every child.

We have a team of experienced psychologists who are working day and night for helping children to make them understand and guide towards the successful future. Our founder’s Garry Singh and Jagjeet Kaur have started this organization keeping in mind the tender age and their challenges. They know that this age is wet earthen pot a slightest dent or a crack could affect the young lives to a great extent.

Social media is a tool that when given in right hands with right knowledge can do wonders, but when there is a lack of guidance and knowledge it can be catastrophic as well. We try to help and guide these young minds for achieve their goals by keeping these negative effects at a distance.