Why Is Snapchat Bad For Children's Mental Health
Snapchat has become a real craze lately in society. Research has been done that nearly 77 percent of U.S. college students use Snapchat every day. Some researchers go as far as saying that “Snapchat is bad for children’s mental health.” Many people say that it has affected us negatively and positively.
One of the positive sides of Snapchat is that it is used to keep in touch with friends and allows you to see each other instead of just sending messages. If your friend lives far away from you it is another great form of communication. Also, it is a great way to keep track of your memories. Everywhere you go or do something with someone you can take pictures and save them. Plus you get to have fun with all the filters that can affect the pictures.
The Snapchat stories is a platform that allows you to share whatever you want to your friends for that 24 hours.
Although Snapchat has its positives, it can be affecting people in negative ways as well. Some people use Snapchat to brag about what they have or what they are doing. Also, another was Snapchat can affect people in that users deceive their friends. They want to post the best pictures and seems like they are happy and having a great time with the cool crowd. However, in reality they just post those things to seem cooler but is not actually having a great time.
Snapchat has some serious important issues affecting our society as well. Most of the time the picture that is sent only goes up for 10 seconds and after that it is gone forever, unless the person screenshotted the picture. This opens up a great window for cyberbullying. Sometimes people are sexting pictures and the receiver screenshots the very harmful picture and can use it negatively towards the sender.
I personally do not have a Snapchat. For one, I would not have enough data for anything else because all I would use it on would be Snapchat. However, if you were smart on how you used the App then the negatives would not outweigh the positives. I do believe that parents need to be cautious with young children having snapchat because they do not have the wisdom on how it can harm them.
One of the positive sides of Snapchat is that it is used to keep in touch with friends and allows you to see each other instead of just sending messages. If your friend lives far away from you it is another great form of communication. Also, it is a great way to keep track of your memories. Everywhere you go or do something with someone you can take pictures and save them. Plus you get to have fun with all the filters that can affect the pictures.
The Snapchat stories is a platform that allows you to share whatever you want to your friends for that 24 hours.
Although Snapchat has its positives, it can be affecting people in negative ways as well. Some people use Snapchat to brag about what they have or what they are doing. Also, another was Snapchat can affect people in that users deceive their friends. They want to post the best pictures and seems like they are happy and having a great time with the cool crowd. However, in reality they just post those things to seem cooler but is not actually having a great time.
Snapchat has some serious important issues affecting our society as well. Most of the time the picture that is sent only goes up for 10 seconds and after that it is gone forever, unless the person screenshotted the picture. This opens up a great window for cyberbullying. Sometimes people are sexting pictures and the receiver screenshots the very harmful picture and can use it negatively towards the sender.
I personally do not have a Snapchat. For one, I would not have enough data for anything else because all I would use it on would be Snapchat. However, if you were smart on how you used the App then the negatives would not outweigh the positives. I do believe that parents need to be cautious with young children having snapchat because they do not have the wisdom on how it can harm them.