The adolescence is clearly the hardest stage of a person's life, other's opinion is fundamental and teenagers are very susceptible to what surrounds them, so it easy for them to be diagnosed with depression, but what happens if this one is triggered by using too much facebook? That is what researchers found out during an investigation about how the social networks changes our perception of the lives of friends and family members.
The study was conducted by two sociologist at Utah Valley University, this one consisted in asking to 425 students how identified they felt about the statements "life is fair" and "many of friend have better life than me", additionally, researchers collected information about how much time they spent on facebook, their number of friends of facebook, clarifying how many of these they met personally and how many they met just by the network.It is easy to feel this way if you only see status telling you about how a good time your friends are having, but teenagers must be conscious that what is shown on facebook is not the complete picture of their friends' life, particularly with people of their same age because they try to project their best image possible.
Do you think that social networks can make you feel sad?
What would you do as a parent if you see that your child is suffering this condition?
Here is a video where you can see the main signs to identify this depression in teenagers and some advices for parents who are dealing with it.
Wow, I didn't know that Facebook can have such an impact on teenagers. Thinking about it, you are right when saying that adolescence is the most difficult stage in life, because teenagers are looking who they are, who they will be, etc. Everything can affect them even more. I think that if parents had a child who suffers of Facebook depression, obviously they have to help him/her going out, doing extra activities together, and not using so much the computer. Facebook can be addictive and very influential, but they (teens) have to understand that Internet is not everything, as they think; they won't die if they don't use it one day. If parents show them the beauty of life and how to enjoy it, they will can completely overcome the depression.
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DeleteI totally agree with you, there are so many things besides facebook and computer games, but teenagers nowadays seem to forget that. Adolescence have always been difficult and now must be even harder because of social networks.
Catalina, I completely agree with you. Adolescence is such a harsh stage in life but, I think that XXI Century teenagers had more things to lead with than their parents (even than us) since they are constantly exposed to the media and (as you said) encouraged to compare themselves with the people around them.
ReplyDeleteI guess that parents should be aware of this problem and teach their children from the very beginning that they are special and unique; not to compare themselves with the rest and love themselves more than anything in the world; if they love and accept themselves since childhood, adolescence, Facebook, twitter, tumbler, or any kind of social network shouldn’t affect them that much.
This is really an important topic to reflect about. Society's changing, we have to be aware that we are in front of a new statement, new ways of thinking, new ways of interacting amoung people.
ReplyDeleteIt's true, certaintly facebook is changing the way our kids are exposed to the world, but maybe it's not an issue of facebook itself. Pesonally, I think that the only one answer to get a good mental health is education.
When Facebook was created, it was an impact for the whole society. However, nowadays people live their lives through this website. It is very dangerous for teenager’s life to keep on this, because I think that they are a little bit confuse about what is real and what is not. Besides, we should know that we can write everything we want in this web page, and this could be real or not.
ReplyDeleteIn addition, Facebook it is not only one social network that does that. Twitter is also “helpful” to make “friends.” In my opinion, parents should be careful and try to help their children of this. They can make friends that are not who they say they are.
Technology is dangerous, believe it or not.
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ReplyDeleteI think that social networks are not the guilty party in this issue. We have discussed in class the advantages and disadvantages of technology and we always come to the same conclusion: the problem is not technology and the services (like Facebook) that it brings us but rather how that technology is used. I don’t think social networks can make adolescents unhappy, but I believe in the inattentive parents who let the computer raise their children. Social networks can become a potential risk if parents don’t communicate with their children, and don’t know what they are doing online. Therefore I would say the parents role is far more important in keeping their children safe from those issues than the social networks themselves. This is essential knowledge for parents whose children use facebook or other social networks.
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