Media Influence on Teenagers

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realize that they did something wrong.

On the other hand the social media also can put teenagers under pressure about doing some things they would not do if someone was not telling them to do. If they see a lot that people smoking, do drugs or go to parties a lot of times they may feel like they will not be ‘cool’ without doing these things and obviously they do not want to miss anything of social life because what would they post about if they do not have a hard social life as well?

Also after these I think we do not even have to ask why the easily influenced layer of the teenagers are becoming anorexic or why are they struggle with bulimia. Plus because of these things if you do not look like as it expected or do not act like the others this ‘others’ may bully you.

As for me it could be all about me as well but it is not. I am not really living my life through social media and I am not easily influenced so social media hasn’t really shaped my sense of identity. Obviously sometimes advertisements make me buy something or sometimes when I look at a picture of a ‘perfect’ model I want to be like her. But it goes out of my mind really fast because as I wrote I am not easily influenced.

So in a nutshell I think everyone should think before posting something or start talking to someone who they don’t even know and select from everything what they saw on the internet what is beneficial for them because everything can easily have a bad end.