Pertanyaan

Every teenager is a member of one or more social media platforms. Social media tends to form an integral part of their lives. Social media has its advantages and disadvantages in the way it affects the lives of teenagers. Let us take a look at some of these effects. With social media, teens can easily find out any information around the world. This information can be quite useful and enables them to make informed decisions based on what they know. Social media platforms can also act as a great study tool for students. They can use them to ask each other difficult questions that they could not solve on their own and make a group discussion. Other than that, there are many jobs posted and applied for with the use of social media. This allows teenagers to have access to new job opportunities especially from their locality. However, by using social media, teenagers are exposed to cyberbullying. In addition, teenagers tend to spend much time on social media to interact in the virtual world and it affects the face to face communication and social skills of teenagers. You can find very outspoken kids on social media being quite reserved when it comes to face to face interactions. Spending much time on social media may also makes teens neglect their school work, extra-curricular activities and even their friends and family so that they can play a game or chat about various things not related to schoolwork. Such kids even start failing in school work and may end up being addicted to the social media platforms. Therefore, parents should be aware of negative effects of social media on teens. They should control its use by their children to minimize its negative effects. What is the main idea of paragraph 3?