SOCIAL MEDIA AS SOCIAL DISASTER FOR YOUTH:

This piece of writing revolves around the impact of an excessive use of social media on youth without proper training. It will elaborate how social media without proper training is a disaster for youth particularly. The term social disaster actually describes the negative impact of social media on youth’s life.

Key terms used are, youth, social media, technology, (internet, face book, twitter, Instagram , Skype, changing’s in attitude.

 INTRODUCTION:

Pakistan is a resourceful country but unfortunately we are badly managed nation. Introduction of technology in  country Pakistan like without training is a social disaster. Technology is the use of science to invent useful things to solve problems to make communication easier technology introduced social media fortunately but this social media played a role of social disaster unfortunately in every individual’s life specifically the young generation named as youth. Access to internet is an opportunity but excessive use of internet is the cause for social disaster. Today’s youth is highly addicted to social media spending whole days on Facebook, twitter, Instagram etc. Searching on internet is useful when purpose is to study E Books, journals, articles but spending hours on useless chat, video calls is social disaster.

Social Disaster:

Social media as social disaster means the force that creates disturbance in society and disturb the norms and values of society. Youth who are highly addicted to social media are forgetting their family value system. Youth feel more comfortable in spending time on social media instead of sitting with family members. Family gatherings, sharing happiness’s and taking parts in sorrows are becoming less interesting and less attentive for the youth. Youth has found social media as a family and giving less attention to the real relations and family. A time will come where youth could feel frustration to enter into home under same roof because youth has started developing perception that everything is social media. They feel like social media is even a good friend of theirs.

Youth:

Here youth mean the youngsters who are school, college and university going students. Who are in a stage where training and counselling is important rather than giving free access to social media? This young youth is immaturely using a very mature technology. In real terms this social media is using our youth.

Changing attitude:

Relationship with a living and none living thing both influence the interacted person either in a positively or in a negative manner. Talking about youth’s interaction with social media; it is changing the attitude of our youth in a negative way. Youth don’t have time to eat study and spare time with family members properly. This will develop a gap between parents and youth there will be less understanding. Occurrences of such Changing’ in youth’s behavior is a social disaster  

LITERATURE REVIEW:

Dynamic new time-diary data identify when and where Internet use impacts face-to-face interactions. Internet use at home has a strong negative impact on time spent with friends and family as well as time spent on social activities, but Internet use at work has no such effect. Similarly, Internet use during weekend days is more strongly related to decreased time spent with friends and family and on social activities than Internet use during weekdays (NORMAN H. NIE D. SUNSHINE HILLYGUS).

The hypothesis is quite simple: the Internet has created a shift in people’s time allocation. The more time they sit in front of a computer screen, the less time they have for interacting directly with family and friends. This “displacement” model holds that time on one activity simply cannot be spent on another activity, since time is a zero-sum phenomenon. Because there are only 24 hours in a day, time spent on one activity must often be traded off against time spent on other activities. Like any activity, time online fundamentally competes with, rather than complements, face-to-face social time (NORMAN H. NIE D. SUNSHINE.

CONCLUSION:

The styles differ when controlling for parent gender, educational background and age. Parenting styles are also linked to level of parent Internet usage, Internet attitude and Internet experience. Parenting styles also significantly affect child Internet usage. The highest child usage level is perceived when parents adopt a permissive parenting style; the lowest level is observed when parents adopt an authoritarian Internet parenting style. The variables Internet parenting style, parent Internet behavior, and parent educational background significantly predict Internet usage of children at home.

 Social media is using our youth and our youth is unable to use social media properly. Until and unless a proper training is not given to youth they will not be career oriented will just move randomly in fantasy. Question is How to train youth although purchase of social media is their own choice?