2. Abstract
Social
Media
• Attracting much attention from researchers
worldwide
• Both positive and Negative effect
• It is a known fact that young adults and teenagers
are the most avid users of such sites.
• it has been found that these OSN sites are having a
great impact on the lives of young people.
3. Introduction
• Social media refers to interaction among people in which
they create, share, and exchange information and ideas
in virtual communities and networks
• Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein (specialized in social
media and viral marketing ) define social media as "a
group of Internet-based applications that build on the
ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0 and
that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated
content.
4. Types of Social media utilized by Youth
• Facebook
• YouTube
• Twitter
• Google+
• LinkedIn
• Yahoo Answers
• Instagram
• My space
• Flickr
• Pinterest
• Tumblr
• Skype
• Reddit
5. The social media sites view by US teen
(13-19) in per day
View in %
40
35
30
25
20
View in %
15
10
5
0
Facebook
YouTube
Google+
Twitter
Instagram
Tumblr
Flickr
Skype
6. What Teens do online?
• Use online social networking sites like MySpace or
Facebook-80%
• Go online to get information or news about current events
or politics-62%
• Buy things online like books, clothes or music.
eg, Amazon, ebay, bestbuy so on-48%
• Share something that you created yourself , such as
artwork , photos , videos or stories-38%
• Have a video chat conversation with other person through
application like Skype, Viber or Google talk-37%
7. Continue…
• Looking online for health, dieting and physical fitness
information-31%
• Record and upload video-27%
• Take material you find online like text, images and songs
and remix it in your own artistic creation-21%
• Create or work on own journal or blog-15%
• Stream video live to the internet for other people to
watch-13%
• Look for information online about a health topic that’s
hard to talk about, like drug use, sexual health, or
depression-17%
8. Typical mobile activities while watching
TV
Using mobile apps -33%
Browsing the internet(non-related content) -37%
Social Networking- 40%
Texting with friends and family-56%
10. Continue…
Disadvantages
• Understanding on how it works
• Commits illegal crime
• Negative effects on worker
productivity
• Distraction
• Serious detrimental outcomes on
individual’s health
• Among youth who report internet
harassment victimization and
unwanted sexual
encounters (sexting), 25% report
extreme upset.
11. Conclusion
• Overall, from the research
we found that social media
have very negative impacts
on youth, they enjoy in their
virtual world (Social media
sites)
• lack of seriousness and less
interact with society
• less problem solving skills
and they hesitate to make
eye contact while talking
•
less confidence and less
concern about surroundings
are the major factors .
The chart shows the Social media used by the teen(13-17) in per day, they used 37 percent of time in a day using Facebook, 34 percent of time they spend using YouTube, 5 percent of time they use Google+,7 percent-Twitter,9 percent-Instagram,4 percent of time Flickr and Skype.
% of teen internet users in the USA who do the following activities online.