Is Social Media Harmful for Children

Is Social Media Harmful for Children?

In the last 20 years, there is a rising star on the internet, that is Social Media. At first social media is appropriate for only adults but when we continue, it slowly includes all age groups. And some think, that is not good for kids, additionally; it affects kids’ psychology they say. There is no doubt in my mind that is not okay for kids, however, there are actually benefits of it.

When we look at social media as a whole we can see that social media affects our mental health when we use it excessively. As adults we can generally say “this is social media, it is not real life” but our kids maybe can’t see that and probably get influenced by it. I am convinced that if we parent our kids’ tablets/telephones often it can be useful, for instance we can limit the time they spend on their tablets or telephones or we can also limit the time they spend on the social media apps and we can actually see how they spend their time. So what are the benefits of it? The benefits of social media are, your kids can learn languages -I will mention it later-. They can gain animal love, as you know on social media there are a lot of posts about animals doing funny things or people upload cute photos of their pets’ and that can affect your children in a good way. They can see new things from the other side of the world, it can spark curiosity and probably they want to travel there. 

To sum it up, if you see yourself as a good parent, you can let your child use social media.