The Vermin Of Untamed Social Media Use Among Nigerian Youth -By Emuobohwo Riches Ogheneyoma

With the help of social media, life has become easier through the dissemination of information through platform like Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, and twitter. Through the help of social media people have been able to learn various skills without going anywhere to acquire it .

Social media technologies appears to have affected many young people’s way of thinking so much that they even take everything as a joke , they do anything just to go viral on social media. Because of what they have watched online they no longer have respect for their elders as long as you are not their parents you cannot correct them . Our youth no longer dress decent because of what they have seen or watched on social media, they want to dress just like their role model on social media. Social media has influenced our youth to dress immoral dressing. Some influencers on social media, sometimes do not do as they have said online causing problems in the life’s of our youth.

Social media has led many of our youth into criminal activities like killing their loved ones just to make money and meet up with what they see online, some even start stealing to be able to buy what they see online, some even pressure their parents because they couldn’t afford that lifestyle for them. Our young girls are selling their body to men in order to buy the trending things online like clothes and phones just to meet up with social media trends .
Our youth no longer see their naked pictures and videos trending online as a big deal they even use it as a medium to go viral on social media, some even send their naked pictures to men just for money .

Students no longer take their studies serious because of social media, they want to do the latest trend on social media, they wake up every morning just to do blog, making them not to perform very well academically. They even sacrifice their night sleep which is not good medically just to watch videos on social media causing damages to their eyes from their phone screen.

Social media has made some youth to have low self-esteem, they do not have confidence in their self because of the pressure on social media. Some youth have made attempts of suicide because of the pressure in social media.
I know social media has done a lot of things in the society like passing information but we cannot forget the fact that it has done more harm than good to the youth of the society. It is rear to find well-mannered youth because of the negative impact of social media. Some even start taking drugs because of peer-pressure from social media.

RICHES EMUOBOHWO IS A 200L STUDENT OF JOURNALISM AND MEDIA STUDIES AT DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY.