Young people today are greatly influenced by social media and spend increasing amounts of time online rather than going out. Social media allows them to connect with friends who share their interests, access global content, and participate in collaborative school projects. While some may become too addicted to technology, each generation faces its own challenges and today's youth do not experience world wars or slavery.
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To be young never better or getting worse
1. To be Young - Never better
or getting worse?
Diana Lazarevskaja
Liisa Hanvere
3. Social media
Nowadays youth is greatly influenced by social
media.
Types of social media:
social networking sites (Facebook)
blogs/microblogs (Twitter)
content communities (Youtube)
collaborative projects (Wikipedia)
virtual game-world (League of Legends)
virtual social worlds (Second Life)
4. Mobile social media
Connection to social
media is in almost every
persons pocket.
Smartphones are becoming more and
more popular among young people and
some of them already can卒t imagine life
without it.
Around 5 billion mobile phones in the world.
1,08 billion are smartphones.
5. Why do young people choose to spend time
online more and more rather than to go out
somewhere?
There is nothing interesting to do in their hometown
It is cheaper to spend time in some online game (lots of games
are absolutely free)
People find friends with same hobbies and interests
online faster than in real life
Social network is a place where people can show
themselves as they like them being seen by other
network users.
6. People gain access to content that is not available on
their national television (Korean TV series never seen on Estonian national television)
Some media are only available in social networks
Many school projects are done through collaborative
projects
There are people who are not accepted by the society (e.g.
they are being bullied, unable to trust people they become lonely and social media is their only connection with
world)
7. Being young nowadays - getting worse?
Every generation
has its own
difficulties and we
just have to face
them.
Our generation have persons who are too
addicted to technology and social networks but
we have to be thankful that we don卒t have world
war going on and in 21st century slavery is
almost gone.
8. Thanks for attention! : )
A lot of social media have been used while making
this presentation.