By: Shisir Parajuli
As if
parents did not already have enough to worry about now they need to worry about
their children displaying negative psychological effects from over using
facebook.
Facebook is very popular social networking site over eight
hundred million users. As an avid user of facebook myself, I find it hard to
believe that at one point it didn’t exist. Infact, it has become so much apart
of people’s lives that you can learn their life story just by checking their
page. Their friends, likes and dislikes relationship status
Phone numbers address everything.
Social
media like facebook may both positive and negative effects. Talking about
positive aspects of facebook, it helps to keeping touch with family and friends
making new friends, expressing you.
As we have
many positive aspects of facebook we have many negative aspects and effects of
the social media. Use of social media may harm on our creativity and knowledge.
Creative power may get generated from social media but it doesn’t make that
creative power of learning.
Facebook
has many possibilities of doing well in life. We can find relevant things which
we need in our life including authentic knowledge about different application,
instant news, word-making games, IQ test, etc. Facebook mainly used by
different people having different perception. Some of them used facebook as
communication tool, some as the media which is helpful in their daily lives.
Negative
psychological effects of facebook from ‘Overdosing’. Latest research which
examines teens and facebook was conducted using 1,000 teen surveys and
observation of 300 teens actively studying. It concluded that multiple negative
psychological effects could result from spending too much time on facebook and
other social media.
Negative
effects of facebook on teens who overuse this social media include; teens whose
facebook frequently may became narcissistic, teens who have a strong facebook
presence may display psychological disorders, such as anti-social behaviours,
and mania and aggressive tendencies.
Facebook do
not only effects on mentally but it also effects in educational aspects.
Although this pretty much goes without saying, being connected to technology on
a ongoing basis can seriously impact on teen’s education.
The time
has come to determine which should take and which should left for using social
media. Parents and families also have the responsibility to lessen the negative
effects of facebook and its overuse on their children. Parents should not
foster their children to monitoring such software at home.
Psychological
and educational effects of facebook, other technologies and media on children
is invaluable. Perhaps attentive family/parents have already take action. But
for those that have not, it is the time to wake up to the consequences of
facebook and overuse can have on our children and combat it.
