Social media and the youth culture

 SOCIAL MEDIA  AND THE YOUTH CULTURE

Social media is more than likes in todays world as it now also does influences peoples fashion sense and even how they talk.


There are apps like TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and other social media apps which influence us today.

People mostly try to copy those who are setting trends in mostly tiktok and instagram as they go viral with their content.

Some of the examples of famous local tiktokers are Shermont and Alvin.

It is a copy of people to follow on the trends but no creativity on making something of your own.

People in fiji are creating their own viral videos using tiktok and other apps by making entertaining videos like comedy ones.


Social media is a platform which can make a person really confident and also insecure like if someones posting a video and he or she gets a lot of likes and gets supported locally can gain confidence through it but some people become insecure in they see themselves on the screen or someone taking a video of them.

In my opinion the influence is good and also bad as the good part is that is a way of promoting things fast such as culture and religion and on the bad side it affects many things such as school work for students.




-People on the social media get carried away with the likes and comments in which they keep checking for the notifications which is really distracting if they will be doing something important.

These social media apps also have filters in built for the photos like beauty standards which is also addictive where people like to use and post on the social media.

by using social media a lot there can be the fear of missing out(FOMO) which is when you will feel like that have missed on something in which you should have been there, and also u will start to compare the fake online life with your real life.

social media affects the mental health of people as it is very addictive and a person can spend hours on it just scrolling which could make a person depressed or stressed.

social media is not built for hours of scrolling as productive and things can be done which would be a healthier of way of using it such as posting religious videos and spreading your culture.











There are people who are called the keyboard warriors who try to bully people behind their screen without revealing their identity and bullying on social media is one of the most dangerous cases and nudity and violence videos are spread through it and recently one of the famous fijian tiktoker had committed suicide just because of bullying and comments being passed on to him which were discriminative.

Social media has started to take over the conversations that used to happen in face to face and now each and everything is discussed on video and audio calls

Despite this bad affects social media had helped children in the time of the covid as it was the source where they attended their classes through.

There is a difference in how the youth and the elder people use the social media as the young people mostly use and upload on social media like instagram and tiktok the elderly people use Facebook the most.

Sometimes the social media platforms creates a lot of fake confidence like if a person is supported through his video which went viral he is supported online only but when it come to the real world what if he is an introvert and cant talk face to face with people.




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