In today’s world, many people use social media. This includes children, too. Social media becoming a common thing among children isn’t something most parents would want. There are some reasons for it, such as social media’s high addictiveness,s which is a significant issue for children, but there is one more reason. Social media has a negative impact on children’s social lives.
Children started to post photos of them in social media just because others do, and this leads others to use and post themselves on social media. Over time, children who don’t use social media are often seen as weird, and this results in others bullying them, which results in that group of people using social media too. As more children use those applications and more children see others post their photos, they become encouraged to do the same. However, if they post an ugly picture of themself while other people post and are seen as perfect on their profile, people would bully children who don’t try to be perfect on social media because of being worse than them. This is why people make them look perfect on social media, even though they aren’t in their daily life. This is a bad thing because people judge them just by looking at their profile and seeing an impressive lifestyle. This causes them to think that the child is the same as he is on social media. That child tries to copy his life on social media and not be himself, which results in others not to learn his real personality and attitudes. If the child doesn’t try to be himself in real life but still shows himself better on social media than who he really is, people will understand he was faking about himself and prejudge him based on that.
To sum up, most children use social media, and now it is common to see children using social media. However, a lot of children fake who they really are on social media and show a better version of themselfs which makes people prejudge them based on their profiles. This forces them to act how they are on their profiles instead of themselves, which creates pressure on the child.