Hello everyone, hope all of you are doing perfectly fine? Well it is another blessed Tuesday and am happy to be here again in this platform participating in this week's contest topic which says: Effect of social Media On Adolescent Mental Health, so join as further as we try to see it possibilities.
Well as usual let's break down those term we are going to be looking at so as not to get things mixed up on the way, social media is an online platform where we meet on social bases, Adolescent is the stage gap between the age of a child and an adult while Mental Health deals with a person's state of being which is free from psychological malfunction of the mind, intellect or emotions of the person. So in summary of the highlighted definition we are looking at what those online platform which we call social what it does to the psychological state of a person between the age of a child and an adult.
So going through this I got to understand that an adolescent mind at these stage is still developing and it is at this point that he or she gets corrected, learn things which form the person so the addition of Social Media to such person mentally is our concentration and we have also establish the fact that social media on its own has its advantage and disadvantage that is to say that any thing that seems too good to be true also has it disadvantage. Some of its advantage to this adolescent or every one is that it is a means where information is been accessed and those information could include educational sources which is very important to them and also what is happening around us or the world at large, another advantage is that it is a medium where people get to bond or even connect with one another either love ones, friends and so on, another of its advantage is that it also educates it's users in fields they have no knowledge on.
Haven looked at it advantage some of the disadvantage is that some tend to get overly used to it known as been addicted to its usage, some of its content are not sieved meaning they can be corrupting and so it exposes them to stuff they are not meant to indulge at such age and many more disadvantage. My own take on this two is that normally the disadvantage is has a big effect on these adolescents because judging from their maturity mental they are still developing thereby accumulating any and every thing that they see so at this stage of their life if not cautiously guided might be misleaded.
As I mentioned earlier it's disadvantage has a big imagine on these ones and since they have accumulated what they see online which negatively affect their mental health their future is practically at stake because it is what they grow up with now that would reflect in their future, and what I can say about the future of today's adolescents mental health is that at the rate at which they are going their future is at risk meaning they will definitely malfunction in some areas in the future especially in the fact of their over dependency on social media which may cause them to be low intellectually and since they are showed both it's positive and negative aspect it increases their exposure to been doomed.
It is not a new thing to know that social media makes the adolescent too lazy and over reliable on it Instead of exercising their intelligent quotient they start to have low problem solving skills, no knowledge of their own and stuffs like that which prevents adequately maturity of the mental state. All that is to say is that Guardians or parents should be alert and attentive to their children at Adolescent age especially those who are already introduce to social media by buying them cell phones, so as to reduce all the effects and damages we are seeing now.
Thanks to God and my parents for guiding me through to the stages and leading me to where I can control my intake of social media not social media controlling me. Thank you all for sticking with me and reading through together, am grateful and I love you all, do have a lovely day ahead I still remain your favorite girl 
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