Social media are gradually occupying parts of the lives of the youths and swallowing the times of those youths on a daily basis.
The advancement of social media based on digital technologies can create an abundance of opportunities as well as terrible dangers to the youths. Currently, the youths fall under intentional and unintentional manipulation and persuasion of social media with the influence of fake news and misinformation in their lives.
On the other hand, the youths can seek help such as data, figures and press releases from social media for learning and conducting research free of charge. Especially, not only sources of learning but general knowledge about various affairs such as religion, history, politics, literature and so on are available on social media. But the youths should have the basic knowledge to analyze whether all things posted on social media are correct or not.
For the time being, most users are applying social media for their interests. For example, the earliest status posted on social media can influence overall later statuses whatever it is right or wrong. Hence, the users particularly the youths need to scrutinize any statuses and information posted on social media. They should not hurriedly make conclusions over any statuses without browsing other sources of information so as to adjust both items and to pick out the best one.
However, the youths learning education need to avoid the malpractices such as copying the outcomes for their practical works in learning with the use of social media and plagiarizing data and information from the sources of the social media without expressing credits for the original compilers and without requesting the authors to use their works.
Thanks to social media, learners can cut their precious time and study time as well as cost. In fact, social media is a bridge between experienced persons and new generations in learning society for sharing their knowledge with each other. As such, the user youths need to take the advantage of social media for their lives by discarding the disadvantage.
Nonetheless, user youths should have efficient knowledge to criticize and analyze all items on social media without too much using it for losing their valuable time and must have the rationality over the statuses to be applied in practical life.
Nonetheless, user youths should have efficient knowledge to criticize and analyze all items on social media without too much using it for losing their valuable time and must have the rationality over the statuses to be applied in practical life.
