Social Media and its impact to the FIlipino youth

What is social media Social media is a website and application that allows users to create and share content and participate in social networks. It helps us communicate and get information. However, as with everything else, social media has its advantages and disadvantages if it is exploited. These are the pros and cons of social media.

There are various benefits when using social media for regulation and management. Access to information and socialization in education. Some of its educational advantages are that teachers can collaborate easily and communicate with each other. Because they can keep in touch with each other, they can know what to do. You can access learning resources at any time, such as sharing a presentation. Social media can also help you prepare news and trends from around the world, catch up with what is happening and know what to do. Social media allows people to communicate with friends, and this increased online communication enhances these relationships. We can chat and video call with farm lover. It is easier than messaging (SMS), phone, letters. It also provides business opportunities like online work, trade and other commerce.

However, if it is misused and exploited, social media becomes harmful and may have a negative influence. Because of dependence on social media, students tend to spend more time on social media than learning. Sometimes, they just open their accounts, then scroll to the morning and read, get up late. People also tend to post on social media, post the actions they are doing and what they are going to do on social media, and post their actions and emotions. Their information and identity are becoming increasingly private. Social media is sometimes used as a criminal tool such as fraud, prostitution, illegal transactions. It can also be used for discrimination and bullying, it is used to destroy people's images, threaten them and lower them. Social media can also be harmful due to erroneous information or false news that may cause panic or confusion. Finally, people tend to be late if you are absorbed in social media, so being addicted to socialization will waste valuable time.

Even social media can be all beneficial or harmful. Its usefulness and danger depend on how people use it. Technology is designed to ease our lives. Therefore, we should benefit from using these tools and techniques.

According to the Philippine Youth Research Study conducted by the Global Philippine Foundation in 2001, media and technology are other major events in their lives. Television and radio are most influential. Technology is still a function of the class, but with the advent of Internet cafes among us, they will be able to democratize the availability of young people. As the world opens through media and technology, globalization will happen earlier in this generation. According to young people, they can understand anything through the internet.

We can not deny that the media has shaped our lives as young people. Young people in the Philippines tend to participate in various forms of media regardless of the possibility of impact on their lives. The media makes young people more antisocial. Because they always stay on mobile phones, they affect their physical activity and reduce the time spent with their families. Media may have very many negative effects on young people in the Philippines, but it can also bring us multiple benefits. The correct use of media depends on our responsibility, awareness and information. If you want to educate young people in the Philippines about the proper use of the media, you can reduce their impact.

Health is an important issue for young people in the Philippines because adolescence is characterized by rapid physical, physical, emotional and social development. An important factor in distinguishing between adults and adults is the initiation of risk-taking actions. Young people are often experimental periods and may expose young people to health-related problems. Often young people and adolescents lack understanding of the health needs and the effects of dangerous behavior. They also lack knowledge about how to protect themselves, and often do not know how to obtain information about available health services. Because most healthcare services are targeted at adults or children, it is often that you can not meet the special needs of young people in terms of confidentiality, privacy, cost, and accessibility.