Social Media Isolation

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Social media has made our world smaller and more connected; therefore, it just became like a small village, where the news now travels faster even overseas. Social media has provided the world with many advantages that have benefited many of people; however, it also has much more disadvantages than it’s advantages; especially to our children and adolescents today. The Irish Examiner reports that “According to research carried out by the US non- profit Family Online Safety Institute, the use of social media is the only form of online activity where parents believe its dangers outweigh

The results indicate that connectedness, not avoiding social isolation,mediates the effects of the social use of media on subjective well-being. On the other hand, both connectedness and avoiding social isolation mediate the effects of face-to-face communication on subjective well-being. These results suggest that the social use of media is limited to seeking connectedness to others, whereas face-to-face communication can facilitate avoiding social isolation as well as seeking connectedness” (Ahn 2453).

Furthermore, the effects of social media can cause social isolation which has had a great effect on children’s health, according to Matthew Pantell, M.D., a pediatrician at UC San Francisco Medical Center, he found that “socially isolated kids are at higher risk during adulthood to have higher blood pressure, higher body mass index and high levels of cholesterol” ("Social Isolation"). Also young students that experience repeated social stress related to being left out can be sensitized to stress that leaves them vulnerable and unable to cope with ordinary pressures” ("Social

Teachers and parents are trying to figure out how to address these online harassments, which are leading our youth to suffer emotionally and to have suicidal thoughts. One of the largest school districts in the United States completed a survey of Internet use and experiences says that: “youth who experienced traditional bullying or cyberbullying, as either an offender or a victim, had more suicidal thoughts and were more likely to attempt suicide than those who had not experienced such forms of peer aggression.” (Hinduja, Sameer, and Patchin 206). Children are now more up to use the internet and surf on social media because the society is not anymore supportive as it was before, teenagers feel that they aren't able to make a