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Social Media's Impact on Youth: Research Insights

This research report examines the impact of social media on youth. It analyzes how social media influences youth in areas like social life, political awareness, education, and trends. The report outlines objectives to assess social media's beneficial and detrimental effects on youth. It hypothesizes that social media creates awareness for youth lifestyle but can also spread misinformation. The conclusion finds that youth heavily use social media for over 2 hours daily, and it has both positively impacted skills but also reduced physical activity levels. Recommendations include monitoring youth social media use and implementing filters and privacy controls.

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944 views15 pages

Social Media's Impact on Youth: Research Insights

This research report examines the impact of social media on youth. It analyzes how social media influences youth in areas like social life, political awareness, education, and trends. The report outlines objectives to assess social media's beneficial and detrimental effects on youth. It hypothesizes that social media creates awareness for youth lifestyle but can also spread misinformation. The conclusion finds that youth heavily use social media for over 2 hours daily, and it has both positively impacted skills but also reduced physical activity levels. Recommendations include monitoring youth social media use and implementing filters and privacy controls.

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  • Introduction: This opening slide introduces the topic of the research, focusing on the impact of social media on youth.
  • Group Members: Lists the group members involved in the research report.
  • What is Social Media?: Defines social media as a platform for open discussion, creation, and sharing of content.
  • Characteristics of Social Media: Outlines the different features of social media including communicating, texting, and sharing multimedia content.
  • Importance of Social Media: Discusses the vital role social media plays in the lives of people, particularly the youth, and how it impacts them.
  • Research Question: Presents the central research question concerning the influence of social media on various aspects of youth life.
  • Significance of Study: Emphasizes the importance of understanding social media's role in educating and informing youth.
  • Research Objectives: Lists the goals of the research, focusing on analyzing social media's impact on youth's social life and evaluating its use.
  • Background Information: Provides context through quotes that underline the importance of social media for youth education and societal development.
  • Impact on Youth: Explores both positive and negative effects of social media on youth, including exposure and misinformation.
  • Hypothesis: Proposes ideas about how social media is perceived to affect the lifestyle and education of youth.
  • Conclusion: Summarizes key findings of the research, highlighting usage patterns and the impact of social media on various activities.
  • Recommendations: Offers guidance on using social media responsibly, emphasizing monitoring and content filtering.
  • Closing: Final slide thanking the audience, indicating the end of the presentation.

IMPACT OF SOCIAL

MEDIA ON YOUTH
RESEARCH REPORT

Group Members
Humza Humayun 13-4879
Syed Umer Shah

13-4871

SOCIAL MEDIA??
A platform for open discussion
(create and share content).

CHARACTERISTICS
Communicating
Texting
Images sharing
Audio and video sharing
Fast publishing
Linking with all over world
Direct connecting
And many more

IMPORTANCE
Important for all age groups
Major part of life for youth
Greater the importance, greater is the impact
Impact could be both ways

RESEARCH QUESTION
How social media is influencing on youth in
different aspects of social life, political
awareness, religious practices, educational
learning, trends adopting, sports activities and
so on?

SIGNIFICANCE
Create cognizance among youth that proper use
of social media become a solid tool to
educate, inform and groom the mentality level
of youth.

OBJECTIVES
Analyze the influence of social media on

youths social life.


Evaluate the utilizing social media by youth.
Assess the beneficial form of social media for

youth.
Recommend some measure for proper use of

social media.

BACKGROUND
Merriam Webster:

Social media is essential for youth to learn new trends


in education for growth and development of society.

Andres Kaplan:

Social media is a set of internet based application


that exchange of user generated content.
Anthony J. Bradley:

Social media is inevitable for the vast majority.

IMPACT ON YOUTH
Positive
Enhanced the
exposure
Create more
awareness
Increase
knowledge
Unlimited
information
Interaction with

Negative
Limitless
Unauthentic
Information
No age filters
Misuse of personal
information

HYPOTHESIS
It is proposed that social media is creating

awareness for youth in better living style.


Social media is swift source of information and

entertainment for youth.


Social media is great facilitator for youth in the

field of education.
It is likely to say that youth is utilizing social

media in positive way.

CONCLUSION
This research finds that
Young people use of social media sites is greater
during day time.
Social media networking forums average utilized

time is more than 2 hours/day.


Users mostly face problems from controversial

political links and unethical pictures, irrelevant


religious and anti-religious messages and useless
information.

CONCLUSION
It has deliberately affected the physical and

sports activities.
Positive use of social media forums can

brought socio-political awareness, enhance


skills.
It is also useful for advertising, job hunting

portals, publishing research articles and other


techniques etc.

RECOMMENDATION
To use social media positively:
Monitor the activity
Use software's to aware people from harmful
content
Age/Content filters
Standards of society should be met
Personal information should not be used
without consent of the person
Not to share anything without proper
authentication

THANK
YOU!!

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