Are social Networking Sites having a Bad Impact on Kids and Youth?

If we think about it, social networking sites aren't bad. It's actually a good concept for people to interact and learn. The problem is the lack of discipline of those who use it.

I think that there are many young people for whom social networking is having a negative impact. However, I don't think that this is the case in all situations. I believe that those young people who are only allowed to use the computer for a limited amount of time every day are far less negatively impacted than those young people that are allowed to use the computer and visit social networking sites any time of the day or night. My almost 10-year-old daughter is allowed to use the computer and is allowed to use social networking, but she doesn't have a computer in her room and she is only allowed to use the computer for about an hour every day (not including time that she needs to use the computer for homework).

I think it is not good when one overdoes it. There must be limitations too in surfing the internet. And the games really consume their time. I think it is not a good influence to children and youth. THanks for this discussion. Have a nice daY!

S.N. is way out of control, especially for kids and youth. A lot of people are getting bullied over the net and it's more effective now than in your face bullying. My ten year old niece is begging my sister for a FB account and she has no idea! I rarely go on my FB or Twitter.

The risk of addiction is present in every activity we perform. And teens are the most vulnerable to all kind of addictions, indeed. They, usually, can't focus on long term goals, but only on the present's pleasures. It depends on education and their personality if social networking will affect their behaviour in a bad way or not. But you can't forbid it to them, because it's already a huge important part of everybody's lives. Indeed, navigating on facebook can take a lot of time in a useless way. I also confront with this problem and I prefer not to enter. Because when I am there, I jump from a page to another, I become curious, I spend always much more time than I would like, and I don't achieve absolutely anything. Just seeing who is in a relationship with who and what are the new frustrations of somebody I don't even know very well.

Hi.. i think that every thing have its risk and benefit. Like facebook, it can be useful to make relationship, sharing, networking, etc. But, it's contain some bad effects too. Like kidnapping, human trafficking especially girls and children. More over, it will be bad condition if the person who use it can't control self(like how many time wasted, the benefit compared with the risk, etc). So, if it's used by children, we need to control them. If it's for adult, we need to control our self.

Social Networking sites can be a bad thing, but then again they can also be a good thing. It really depends on how the child uses the site. If the child is using it to talk to people they have met already it usually has no problem. The only thing is that the child must maintain the friendship face-to-face also so they don't forget how to talk to people without computers.

social networking makes people more close to each other even we sit at home without going out. That's fantastic. If kids and youth can balance their time on facebook, that will be a good thing or just as you said, waist of time and there will be no value for them.