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    The document discusses the effects of social media on individuals and families. It describes how the author became overly focused on capturing photos during a family trip to share on social media, and missed opportunities to create real memories. The author's grandfather helped them realize how social media addiction had changed their priorities. While social media has benefits, overuse can disrupt schoolwork, development, and cause depression. Both teens and adults are susceptible to negative impacts from excessive social media use like wasting time and feeling dissatisfied. In the end, the document states that social media itself is not good or bad - it depends on how individuals choose to use the technology.

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    The document discusses the effects of social media on individuals and families. It describes how the author became overly focused on capturing photos during a family trip to share on social media, and missed opportunities to create real memories. The author's grandfather helped them realize how social media addiction had changed their priorities. While social media has benefits, overuse can disrupt schoolwork, development, and cause depression. Both teens and adults are susceptible to negative impacts from excessive social media use like wasting time and feeling dissatisfied. In the end, the document states that social media itself is not good or bad - it depends on how individuals choose to use the technology.

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    The document discusses the effects of social media on individuals and families. It describes how the author became overly focused on capturing photos during a family trip to share on social media, and missed opportunities to create real memories. The author's grandfather helped them realize how social media addiction had changed their priorities. While social media has benefits, overuse can disrupt schoolwork, development, and cause depression. Both teens and adults are susceptible to negative impacts from excessive social media use like wasting time and feeling dissatisfied. In the end, the document states that social media itself is not good or bad - it depends on how individuals choose to use the technology.

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    Category : Junior Parivar II – Essay in English

    Title : SOCIAL MEDIA, ME AND MY FAMILY


    Back ground:
    Social Networking site is a web server that allows internet users to
    register them to create a personal profile and interconnect with selected
    others. One can personalize one’s space on this site in different ways
    using personal information, interests, graphics, etc. to give an idea of
    oneself to other people. These social network websites are more and
    more quoted as new sources of our life including happiness, depression,
    infatuation and new practices of social & political life of egalitarianism.
    When we talk of friendship in the column ‘friend’ in these sites, we
    define a link that the users have with the others, after a reciprocal
    agreement. In these sites we use summary statement of personal
    feelings using culturally approved terminology and consequently the real
    personal touch is lost in between people. A teenager faces serious
    understanding complications between virtual and real friendship.
    Discussions:
    Earlier I was so involved with my virtual friends that I didn’t had time
    for anything else. Somehow I had lost that connect with my real world.
    I can recollect an experience of mine after which I actually realized that
    social media could have adverse effect as well. I remember that my
    family (including myself) went to Udaipur. I was very excited about the
    trip and my friends actually boosted my excitement. They told me to
    click many photos. I had also decided in my mind about the different
    places and poses in which I would click photographs. So our trip started
    and my obsession for clicking photos also started along with it.
    Capturing the airport, hotel, nature, chilled outlook with family, etc. and
    then uploading the photos on my Instagram, Facebook and Twitter
    account were the only thing I was busy with all through the trip. I was
    very particular about clicking good photos so as to get maximum likes
    and positive comments. After the trip, we went to our grandparent’s
    house. My grandfather has a lot of interest in historical things so he
    asked me various things like what monuments I saw, history behind
    them, etc. I replied but couldn’t satisfy him. Grandpa told me that when
    I was a kid I used to remember each and everything as to what I saw,
    what I learnt about it in school etc. but now I have changed completely.
    He asked me to ask my inner self about the change inside me and the
    reason behind this. When I failed to answer he told that my addiction
    towards social media has changed me and will continue to change me in
    the near future if I don’t realize this. Grandpa told me that I have many
    photos of this trip but I should ask myself that how many memories I do
    have with my family and the places, which I had visited past 6-7 years.
    He said that photos, which I clicked, might get deleted but memories are
    the ones, which stays with us permanently. He made me realize that
    social media is not bad but addiction towards considered as malevolent.
    According to me social media is a double-edged sword, as it has both
    advantages and disadvantages nevertheless social media use has rapidly
    increased in recent times. As per 2018-19 survey of teen social media
    use, 71% of teens are reported to be Facebook users. Around half (52%)
    of teens said they use Instagram, while 41% reported that they use Snap
    chat. Not only teens but also youth particularly early 20’s and onwards
    are susceptible to social media. Youngsters addicted to social media do
    end up spending hours/days, watching videos, photos, and other content
    posted in the account they follow. This obsession disrupts other activities
    such as school work, sports, study and other productive routines. They
    end up wasting a substantial amount of time, every day, resulting in poor
    grades in school and colleges. So in this way kids and youngsters waste a
    lot of time on social media, which affects their temperament negatively.
    Their immersion in a virtual world delays their emotional, ethical and
    social development. My cousin sister also ended up landing in the vicious
    circle of social media addiction few years back but with proper
    counselling and guidance she was able to recover. Learning from this
    incident my parents regulate the content and the time my younger sister
    sees and spends on social media.
    Adults are also not spared from the effects of social media. My mother
    always says that the more she uses Facebook, the more she feels
    dissatisfied with her life. Not only her, many adults are observed to be
    suffering from “FACEBOOK DEPRESSION” after spending too much
    time on it or other social networking sites. Many people fear from being
    away from social media as they feel they will be out from the social loop
    which is called as FOMO (fear of missing out). FOMO leads to
    depression and anxiety among people.

    Conclusions:
    It is true that there are uses, misuse, disuse and abuses of social media.
    Nonetheless, it depends on who, used it how, when and where. Lastly,
    technology in social media per se is neither virtuous nor unscrupulous. It
    is the intention of the user that will determine whether it will fetch
    decent or ruthless results.

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