The Impact of Social Media on Teenagers

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Introduction
What impact does this hyper-connected social media life have on teenagers and why are they so infatuated with it? The new age of social networking has been changing and escalating dramatically since 2003. These sites serve as a way of communicating with friends, business associates, strangers and people who share common interests. Websites such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Friendster, and twitter permit a user to create custom-made profiles that can include pictures, text, audio, and video, while sharing it with others. Thus, the popularity of social networking sites has grown exponentially in the last decade. According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, nearly “three-quarters” of all teens use social networks of some kind; many even have more than one account (Derek Stanovsky, 2013). In addition, this is an important topic to look at because even though, the use of the internet is very common in every Canadian household, parents as well as psychologists continue to debate how much of the internet usage is too much for young teens. One reason to its importance is...

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