As the world continues to evolve we re bound to come across many many amazing creative innovation, the beauty of life lies in this fact; sciences and technology are always on the look out to ensure we experience a more better and superior life when compared to the olden days, as a matter of fact this is the real essence of growth, that we evolve from old to new, from what was not, to what is, to a new ways and means of doing something much easier and more comfortable experience of life...
I recall way back when GSM started gaining waves in the society around 2000 & 2001, it was like the street was going crazy the excitement of people owning a mobile phone, they would talk so loud, laughing and walking on the road, that was a feeling of something new and it was good, cause now Instead of writing letters and waiting for one week plus to get a reply, one could just press a button and you're talking to someone hundreds and thousands of miles away from you.
Then came social media, Facebook wasn't that very popular but when 2GO was out, then it was another level of madness, almost every body went on rampage, I saw a lot of craziness during that period, my brothers nearly would stay up all through the night chatting with someone far and near, the joy and the feeling was good so people were ready to give it their everything.
Talking about the psychological effect of social media on the mental health of the adolescent I observed this during the era of 2GO, I saw it as pure madness; my very good friend told me how he met a girl on 2GO in a very far state, and they fell in love and he was traveling there to go meet the girl, I'm like bro, this someone you don't know, like how you going to a state you have never being to before, going to meet someone you don't know isn't that too much of a risk?...
We have seen and heard of such crazy stories were a lot of persons have either lost their previous life in the process going to meet someone they met on social media and in other aspect we've heard of those who met their life partners on social media, how people have got a life changing opportunities via social media and how others got scammed of their hard earned resources, we've heard of were social media had inspired many to greatness. gained access to various life-changing opportunities meanwhile many have also fallen into depression committed suicide, being heart broken because of unnecessary and unhealthy competition with peers on social media.
As a matter of fact there was a time i had to uninstall my Facebook cause it was becoming too much, everybody I knew were either celebrating one thing or the other while I was happy for them I was comparing that with my own life and it wasn't healthy for my psychology.
To wrap this up, how we allow things affect us depends on us, you've probably read of other many entries by others about the effect of social media on the adolescent, now know this the point of adolescent is a point or is an era were you just want to have fun explore life to the fullest get the best and latest stuffs, life was sweet making sense, no or less responsibility and so we were free as a bird in the skies....
Social media just like every other thing in life is just there but the degree to which we let these things get to us, that's on us not them, now we see people get addicted to just any thing and how did it all began? It started like fun, like joke, like it doesn't matter till it came to the point were it took over their psychology and then their entire being.....
Mobile devices, the internet, the social media are all very wonderful inventions, as a matter of fact they have purely done more greater good than harm to us they have helped us more in ways we least expect... however the effect the result of over dependency on these things will now affect our psychology because we give in too much of attention to it, cause we have allocated too much time to using them that's where addiction began, so in conclusion they are not to be blame but the users.
