Impact of social media on adolescent: a study with special reference to namakkal district

Abstract

Today Social media is playing pivotal role in the world especially with adolescent community. Social media are used to communicate information from one person to group of peoples. But in the olden days there were no such kind of technology. In those days, media refer to TV, Radio and Telephone. Now a days the term social media include TV,Radio, FM, WhatsApp, Instagram, Face book, Twitter etc., In this article author explains the merits and demerits, its impacts and findings about impact of social media on adolescents. It gives both good and bad for the users. Today social media are unavoidable in the human community. Through social media all of us get information with one click. There are lot of merits like sharing of educational information, awareness message, information about any official announcements and fun with friends etc.,