Ashish

The statement "social media does more good than bad for teenagers" is partly true but it is also partly false.

Firstly it is true as social media can be good for teenagers. There are lots of examples of media such as reading newspapers, going on the internet, watching tv, reading a book, texting people and more. Out of those examples reading is definetly good for teenagers. Reading books helps you as it gives you a lot of knowledge and it helps you in engish classes as you can gain different types of skills. Using the internet can also be good as people use the internet for good things such as work, researching things, presentations etc. Reading newspapers is similar to reading books as you get knowledge but by reading newspapers you also get knowledge about the world and you can learn about whats happening around you.

But i think that the statment above can also be false. My reason behind this is that there are some types of social media that do more bad than good for teenagers. Some of the media that is bad is also good as I have stated above. The types of media that I think could be bad is using the internet and watching tv. I think that using the internet is something that all teenagers use and I think that most of them are using it much more than how much they are supposed to be. The main site on the internet is facebook and that is what most teenagers use. I am also one of those teenagers that use facebook but I think that using the internet for socialising with friends can be a waste of time. This is because friends meet each other 5 times a week and I think that they have enough time to talk to each other!

I think that another thing that could be bad for teenagers is watching too much tv. There are many soaps/tv programmes that teenagers watch that come on tv and many of the teenagers just pay attention to the tv and not any work that they have recieved from school. This is one of the reasons why some teenagers do not hand in their homework and make up excuses. Also, watching too much tv can be a problem for your eye sight. In schools atleast half of the teenagers have to wear glasses either just for reading or permanently. Watching too much tv is one of the reasons why people get glasses and that is one of the reasons why social media can be bad for teenagers.

In conclusion from my point of view I think that the statement "social media does more good than bad for teenagers" is true as I think that if teenagers use the internet and tv I think that they can also get knowledge and they can learn about many things that they did not know about before. By using the internet they can also produce different kinds of work and by using computers they could also be more confident in I.T.

By Ashish Pattni :)