ADOLESCENTS THEN & NOW BENEFITS OF ADOLESCENTS USING SOCIAL MEDIA RISKS OF YOUTHS USING SOCIAL MEDIA Meeting the challenges of adolescents in the world of creative writing

2. ADOLESCENTS
 Adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and
psychological human development that generally
occurs during the period from puberty to legal
adulthood. The individuals undergoing this
particular stage are called adolescents.

3. ADOLESCENTS THEN AND NOW
 Adolescents of 21st century
are very much advanced when
compared to the adolescents in
the previous decade.
 It is all because of the advancement
of technology and a radical change in
the media sector

4. BENEFITS OF ADOLESCENTS USING
SOCIAL MEDIA
 Socialization and Communication
 Enhancement of individual and collective creativity
 Opportunities for community development through raising
money for charity, volunteering for local events etc.
 Expansion of one’s online connections through shared
interests
 Benefits that extend into the view of self , community and
the world

5.  Enhanced Learning Opportunities
 Social media programs allow students
to gather outside the class to collaborate and
exchange ideas about assignments
 Some schools successfully use blogs as teaching
tool which has the benefit of reinforcing skills in
English , written expression, and creativity

6.  Accessing health information
 Adolescents with chronic illness can access
websites through which they can develop
supportive networks of people with similar
conditions
 Mobile technologies that teens use have already
produced multiple improvements to their health
care such as increased medications adherence ,
better disease understanding and fewer missed
appointments etc.

7. RISKS OF YOUTHS USING SOCIAL
MEDIA
 Cyber bullying and online harassment
 Cyber bullying is deliberately using digital media to
communicate false , embarrassing or hostile
information tragically , suicide about another
person.
 It can occur to any person online and cause
profound psychological outcomes including
depression , anxiety , severely isolation and
tragically suicide.

8.  Sexting
 Sexting is defined as – “sending , receiving
or forwarding sexually explicit messages ,
photographs or images via cell phone , computer
or both ”
 This needs to be seriously counseled
by the elders

9.  Facebook depression
 Reseaches have proposed a new phenomenon
called “FACEBOOK DEPRESSION” that develops
when preteens and teens spend a great time on
social media sites
 The intensity of the online world is
thought to be a factor that may trigger depression
in some adolescents

10. PRIVACY CONCERNS AND THE
DIGITAL FOOTPRINT
 The main risks to adolescents today are risks of
improper use of technology, lack of privacy, pasting
false information about themselves or others etc.
 One of the biggest threats to young
people on social media sites is to
their digital footprint and future
reputations because “WHAT GOES ONLINE
STAYS ONLINE”

11. TELEVISION AND AGGRESSION
 Adolescents can revel in violence by the way of
television, movies etc.
 Obviously we cannot assume that
individuals who watch killing on he screen
would be killers but we can say that they
are the passive participants in some way appealed
to the impulses that are
latent within them

12. INFLUENCE OF ADVERTISEMENTS
ON BUYING
 Banner advertisements
 Demographic-based advertisements
 Behavioral advertisements

13. MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF
ADOLESCENTS IN THE WORLD OF CREATIVE
WRITING
 Media should not be seen as an
opposing force to traditional goal
of classroom education..instead they
should complement the learning happening in the
classroom.
 These new literacies allow the students to learn
through a different lens and encourage them in
creative writing which in turn result in the creation of
their on blogs , WebPages etc.

14. BIBLIOGRAPHY
 http://www.infoagepub.com/products/Adolescence-
in-the-21st-Century
 http://www.academia.edu/1134177/Twenty-
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 http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/127/4/8
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 Arthur .T.Jersild, Judith.S.Brook &
David.W.Brook(1978): “The Psychology of
Adolescence ”: New York: Macmillan Publishing
Co.,Inc