Why do Teenagers link to Social Media

For us teens, social media is not technology it’s just life. For some reasons, teenagers can’t go a day without surfing the net or posting something online. Teenagers use social media to entertainment themselves like watching videos posted or uploaded by other people. We can also gather information that can educate us and helps us in our academics. Social media also connects us to the people and enhances our communication and socialization. According to Kylie Burchat (March 13 2013), people also tend to communicate information that is now much more personal in nature. We learn to socialize to other people by sharing thoughts online. For us teens, it’s important to know that’s in and what’ out in our generation, most especially in social media.

One of the reasons why teenagers link to social media is for communication. As you all know, generation today is totally different, most especially to the teenagers in social media. According to Kylie Burchat (March 13, 2013), teenagers can communicate in many ways using social media, you can send messages, post comments or chat in real time when other people are online at the same time as you. Teenagers want to be updated on what is going on around the world or communicate with friends and family members. When they chat with their online friend, they can invite another friend online to join their conversation. According to Heather Gardner-Madras (July, 2009), there’s direct mail, email, person-to-person contact, text messages, Web sites and blogs, and any number of social networking sites. Communication now is indeed limitless so teenagers can communicate with other friends from a far. Some teenagers use social media to express themselves by blogging. They blog what they think and experience. So when they post their personal blogs, people can read, know and react to that blog posted. It gives other people a clue of what kind of teenager you really are and your personality or personal experiences.

Teenagers also use social media as a way to get information. Home works given to them nowadays is more on research so they tend to use social media to get the information they need. According to Aaron Elliott (August 1, 2013), anyone can simply look up for information on the amount of information published online daily. So it helps them in their responsibilities as a student in their academics. And according to Peter Campbell (March 2009), the Internet gives you access to a virtual smorgasbord of information. Information indeed became easier now. At the same time, it educates teenagers by the researches, educational videos and even online schooling. Social media also enhances teenagers way of talking and expressing themselves through English language.

Entertainment is also one of the reasons why teenagers link to social media. They can watch videos posted by other people in youtube. Teenagers nowadays are fun of taking videos of their fun experiences to be able to share it through social media. They too are fund of taking pictures of themselves, like what we call now as “selfie”. They also get entertained by browsing pictures with relatable quotes on it. Online games also entertain teenagers now. In this generation, phones can be used for social media. They can also download games on their phone. So teenagers can play games, anytime anywhere. Entertainment really became easier for teenagers because of social media.

To cap it all, social media is a big part of each and every teenager now. It enables them to connect to other people, to socialize, to earn knowledge and to express themselves. Like when they post there status on facebook, people can like and comment to their newly posted status. As well as on instagram, they can post pictures or videos of their amazing experiences and be creative on editing each picture and video. They can tweet what they feel and what’s in their mind on twitter. They can also earn followers on twitter and so their followers can read their tweets and retweet it if they feel the same way. Social media a way to relate yourself to other people. Some of the reasons why teenagers link to social media are communication, information and entertainment.