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Why Do Teenagers Find Social Media So Attractive?

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Why Do Teenagers Find Social Media So Attractive?

Teenagers socialize; engage in status-related competition, talk, flirt, and people-watch. Teen life is focused on these dynamics. They, therefore, enjoy every opportunity to sign in and interact with other users online.

 

Based on current, reliable sociological and psychological studies, we believe that social media's appeal to teen’s stems from three fundamental demands that they enjoy:

 

  • The key is to be curious
  • The excitement of discovery 
  • Equivalent interaction

We are frequently questioned about why young people are drawn to social media or teenager corner. Although there is no simple answer to this, we have been able to pinpoint five distinct causes:

 

Entertainment

 

For our children, YouTube is similar to a cable TV station that we adults watch. Teenagers will use social media for news, entertainment, memory-making, acquiring new skills, and sharing happy and sad moments.

 

Information 

 

Teenagers today use Google, Wikipedia, or even just ask Siri to conduct research and find information, as opposed to us adults who would go to the library.

 

It's a private area they may call their own 

 

Teenagers adore the reality that many social media platforms are quickly shielded from adult surveillance. You know how when we were teenagers, we wanted to get as far away from our parents as possible? As parents, we need to remember this. We accomplished this by visiting friends' homes or getting together with friends to watch a movie or play hoops. The only difference is that modern teenagers carry out the same activity digitally.

 

To Interact

 

Teenagers enjoy interacting with one another, and what better way to accomplish this than on social media, which gives them access to one another whenever they want? Finding community is the main focus of today's online teenagers!

 

Monetization

 

When we first met him, an adolescent told us that he didn't need a paper route since he could generate money by monetizing his YouTube channel.

 

Is Social Media Harmful or Beneficial for Our Children?

 

We'd like to use the example of a hammer to explain our response to this query. A hammer can be used as a blunt force weapon to harm people or property, as well as to foster or stimulate creativity and find solutions to issues. The same applies to social media. According to what will be shown later in this e-book, the majority of youths use social media in a positive way to encourage and promote creativity and find solutions to problems.

 

Conclusion

 

Parents and other adults who are responsible for children should teach young people how to manage risks by using logic rather than fear and how to make the most of opportunities. Parents always wanted to secure their kids from bad habits & social media addiction. The goal of every parent is to show youth how to manage life with positive habits & break the bad ones. 


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