Social Media Addiction and Cyber Bullying Amongst the Teens and Students
- Introduction
- Current problem: Teens and students are greatly being affected social media addiction and cyber bullying.
- Population/Area of focus: Teenagers using social media platforms.
- Questionnaires are used for data collection.
- Key terms: addiction, social media, depression, cyber bullying.
Thesis statement: It is agreed that social media has much influence on people’s living styles, especially the youth, but there are many untouched areas regarding the same. More research needs to be done to unearth the addiction effects and resultant cyber bullying from this technology on teenagers. Therefore, the study shall employ quantitative methodologies of research to explore how social media has brought about addiction and encouraged cyber bullying among the teens.
- Related works /Literature review
- Other researches on the effects of social media to the teenagers: social media has helped excluded teens and teens feel included in the society.
- Psychological disorder amongst youth as a result of social media: Teens and students have been subjected to emotional distress due to cyber bullying which on the extreme has resulted to depression and loss of life.
- Social media has also impacted on students and teens psychological systems where it has resulted to a change in sleeping patterns.
- Social media and cyber bullying have also resulted to academic deterioration.
- Methodology
- The quantitative research used in this proposal will process, hypothesize, analyze, and map the data findings of the study.
- SPSS and the Alpha Cronbach approach will get used in data analysis
- Ethical consideration
- A degree of ethics was applied while researching. Teens and students that contributed to the study was out of their own will.
- Discussion
- The study is significant in outlining the importance of social media in the modern era to the teens and students and the effects associated.
- Questionnaires were used while assessing social media users since they are precise and contains no irrelevant data.
- This method of analysis assured of effective and practical results that are best for the study.