# ** # How using Social Media affects Youth**
Social media has become the biggest consent of present time. Everyone is indulge into it from toddlers to youth, everybody is involved in it. It has become addiction for many kids and youth, they cannot even live without their phone and the social networking sites. Now that the social media is taking hold on over every day to activities of youth from communication to making friends and many more.

Now even small kids is involved with the technology and parents are worried about their physical and mental development. We have seen preschools have glued to the social media and spend hours in that which effect their health as well as the youths their age is also very important for the development of the brain.

The social media has brought huge mental effect which are even causing them depression and other mental illness. They are getting depressed by their the comparison with others on social media that how well other people are doing in their life.
# **Depression and mental health**
We have a good reason to worry about it. A survey is been conducted by the royal society of public health in which youth of UK has themselves confronted that social media platform has impacted their metal health and wellbeing. They get affected even by the one negative comment on their post. And the survey found that the social media platform has increased the felling of depression, anxiety and body image and loneliness.
# Indirect communication****
Social media platforms has increased a indirect communication among the youths. They keep themselves busy in this untill late in night they do not even worry about their homeworks and other activities. Now it has become comman that the youth are doing more of communication by looking at their phones than looking at each other. And not communicating directly has started creating the barrier among the youth of clear communication and not just only that it is also creating barrier in making direct friends, they are mostly depend on social media for making friends.
# **Increase in Cyber Crime**
Making friends through social media has also many disadvantages that their could be risk of trusting the person on the other side, and also their are a lot of cyber crimes occures due to this social media only. They can also be the part of cyber bullying which happens a lot in social media Kids text all sorts of things to each other from bullying text to threating one as well. They blackmail other person by using their personal information.
# **Social pressure **
Young boys and girls are more comparing themselves with each other, Which makes them more vulnerable to the downside of all this activities. Their is a lot of peer presure on each other to be like somebody else than being themselves because that is more into the trend.

Youths are comparing themselves with other by their stories and posts on their social media account that what they are doing and what they have achived in their life. They are demanding more of the things which they might even not need as well as they might not even afford it but they have to get it because of the social presure of being in the high standard. Sometimes youth also tend to involve in the wrong activites which may take them to the huge risk, sometimes even to the risk of life and death, just because they have desires and they want to fulfill it.

Though the use of social media has a lot of consurn related with the young people but it also has a lot to do with the adults. Now a days parents are so much involved themselves in social that they dont have time for their own kids and their involvement in social media.
# **Parents take to improve this**
It has been interviewed by the experts that first parents themselves has to do is to minimize the use of social media themselves, that is the foremost risk which they have to overcome. As it is said that kids get the example of their parents and elders in the house for what they do and they tend to copy them a lot. So we can start by setting a better examples for our kinds by minimlizing the use f social media by themselves and involve their own kids in other activites and get involve themselves so that kids a=can take motivation from them. Make time for your kids, Keep your phone aside while spending time with your family and kids. make a schedule for your work or important calls at home, listen to you kids if they have a anything to say and don't avoid the conversation just because you are busy is your phone or work, because that is the time kids are most likely to be involved in the phones when they don't feel important or heard.