Discussion: Young people and social media dependency

Discussion – young people are too dependent on social media. The use of social media has for years been growing and it seems like it may keep growing. As the use of social media has grown, we are getting more aware of our use, and especially of young people’s use of the social medias. While some means that young people use the social medias too much and are to dependent on these, others are of the opinion that young people are not addicted to the social media, but that they are addicted to communicating with each other. It is certainly true that young people use social medias a lot, and that some may seem addicted to these social medias. A lot of young people feel the need to constantly make themselves available on the social medias. Some say that this urge to be available all the time is causing stress for the youngsters. A study shows that 15% of young people with stress say that the cause of their stress is the social medias because they want to look good on these. This is apparently taking a lot of time and energy for these youngsters, which seems very worrying. The social medias can be a bad thing, some young people actually are addicted to these medias, and others have stress because of their image on the social medias, which does not seem healthy at all.