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Negative cultural impact of social media using smart phones on youth behavior

Introduction Into today’s Somaliland, the youth teenagers are using digital technology grows so rapidly and integrates into our society at such an accelerated rate, it’s hard to keep with it, let alone reflect on the effects it has on our lives. Although facebook YouTube and twitter did not exist a mere decade ago they are now ubiquitous forms of media and communication in our culture. Today’s generation of teenagers of Somaliland, born in the 1995s, aptly labeled the, are the most connected generation ever. These youth generation teens are digital natives growing up in an era of a massive influx of technology. They do not know of a world that does not include the Internet and easy access to technology. Parents of youth teenagers, however, are addicted social media. Social media addiction problem has been treated important, health business culture and education and others but it effects especially in the education field of secondary schools, because adolescent is more vulnerable to the addiction. Social media addiction was an important issue a few years ago. However, smart phone addiction has become a more serious problem recently in our country. Smartphone’s can be customized with new software, and the variety of these programs is increasing. The social communication platforms (like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Whatsupp, etc.), GPS functions and games are especially popular. Smartphone abuse to addiction is becoming more problematic nowadays in youth of Somaliland because most students whether higher learning students or low level students are more addicted to applications found on Smartphone’s so that they download and run numerous applications with Smartphone’s with Internet connection. It causes unhealthy, time wasting, degrading, (or becoming poor) and others. So the nature of this assignment is exploratory one because it tries to explore the reasons behind poor education of our youth students and we found that Facebook users had lower Grade Point Averages and they were online most of the time and utilized very less time for their studies.

Negative Cultural impact of social media and smart phones on youth behavior First we are trying to explain what is social media and smart phones and how it effect cultural on our youth behavior. Social media is any website that allows for social interaction which includes Group Six

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social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter; gaming sites such as Club Penguin, Second Life and the Sims; and video sites such as YouTube and blogs (O’Keeffe et al., 2011). As O’Keeffe etal, the social media is site or website that allows you easy to share your information another person using your smart phones through internet so we can say social media become part of the society in particular for the young people, and most of them lost their time like Facebook, snap chat, imo, and Whatsupp etc. Social media acts as a communication tool that allows youth to join online conversation and It also allows youth to access different kinds of videos on web and play online game (Osterrieder, 2013). Another definition social media is the tools, services and communication facilitating connection between peers with common interests Chris Garret - Chrisg.com. According to Laird (2012), youth spent at least 10.6 billion minutes each day surfing the sites which do not include mobile usage. Another hand Smartphone’s is a cell phone that allows you to do more than just make phone calls and send text messages. Smartphone’s can browse the internet and run basic software programs like a computer. Smartphone’s use a touch screen to allow users to interact with them a Smartphone is a mobile phone with highly advanced features. A typical Smartphone has a high-resolution touch screen display, Wi-Fi connectivity, Web browsing capabilities, and the ability to accept sophisticated applications. So Smartphone abuse to addiction is becoming more problematic nowadays in Somaliland because most students whether higher learning students or low level students are more addicted to applications found on smart phones such as whatsapp, twitter facebook E.T.C. and also changing the culture step by step The aim of this article was to find out the impact of cultural social media and Smartphone’s and the social media has both advantage and disadvantage In this article we are focusing only the drawbacks of social media; it can be categorized into few major points: Health effect, Business effect, Cultural and Society effect, finally This paper will stress more on the study of negative impacts of youth in term of academic performance, social interaction, health, behavior standards, security, privacy, and case sextant. One of the most obvious negative aspects of social networking is losing face-to-face contact with other people. Group Six

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Teens are sitting around with their gadgets in their hands all day long, tapping messages onto screens instead of communicating with real people. Many teenagers feel more comfortable with virtual friends than with real ones. The majority think that it is easier to chat on the Internet because they lack communication skills Eng Mohamed Abdullahi Yasiin is an expert in Communication and is working with a telephone company in Brittan. He is a citizen of Somaliland recently made national tests on the medical condition of China's mobile health he took Sample of Chinese mobile model using the Radiation or Radiation Instrument, He has done this experiment and can be viewed at the national TV Station in Somaliland in London. He demonstrated and saw the result that 7 times more than the amount of standard radioactive material, which can show the difference between the threats and the degree that it has proven that this mobile is not a threat to the Radiation risk. (Eng. Mohamed Abdullah Yasiin, interview in Somaliland national TV).

Health impact Using smart phones on social media and becoming addicted has a big problem on health impact so it causes many dangers diseases while some times smart phones becoming hot and causes explosion. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube nor other social media websites who has not heard of these social media websites? Everywhere you turn today, emphasis is being placed on social networking and connecting online. These popular websites have millions of users spending 22% of their time online, according to the (Nielsen Company). People of all ages are now tuning to this form of interactive dialogue as a means of communicating with others. But does this form of communication and socialization come with a price. Health impact of social media causes;Depression and stress When face-to-face communication has been removed, it becomes easy for some individuals to use a type of alter ego to exaggerate who they really are. Many social media users practice boosting the reality of their lives by posting things that make them appear more desirable to be with. People just want to measure up Those with less social confidence can easily see themselves as having less worth than others.

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Being constantly reminded that your life may not measure up to so many others can further lower a person’s self-confidence. In addition, social media is rampant with overly critical and often hurtful interaction. These unfriendly exchanges can take place so much more easily when the human element of face-toface communication has been removed. Such cruelty can be devastating to an already troubled individual. The feelings of inadequacy that are caused can sometimes lead to depression. having Smartphone means we’re always ‘available’-to take calls , text messages, instant messages, social media notifications and emails. The work day no longer finishes at 6pm as emails continue to push through late into the night. The research, which looked at 100 university students, retail workers and public-sector employees, found that the stress gets so bad for some, that they actually begin to experience phantom vibrations, thinking their phone is buzzing when it isn’t. For example: sometimes the person who used a Facebook he meets bad news which damage his mental like tired blurred and headaches. Staring at the tiny font in your texts and scrolling through dozens of tweets can lead to eyestrain, blurred vision, dizziness, and dry eyes. And blurred vision plus sore neck muscles can also cause headaches. If you're experiencing eye discomfort, make your phone's font size bigger. (MarkRosenfield, O.D., Ph.D.), he told man’s health that phone users should try to hold their phones at least 16 inches away from their faces. Every few minutes look up from your screen at something far away for short breaks, and don't forget to blink The new ipad and tablet phones are causing psychological problems in children Medical experts warn that babies are not allowed to use smart phones such as tablets and ipad. Experts have proven that they are bringing the wrong language to the child or the child is not learning to speak, and become a person who is discriminated against other people and becomes a person who is unable to debate other children. 60 researchers that leading professor Olivier hudi which specializes in psychology of child. He said the child has attracted the beauty pictures and voices of the tablets so if he learns he likes it, but it does bring in situations such as the child does not speak out and his personality is weak. And they never asked anything about the change that happening in the world and that is why the experts advised the kids to protect the tables and all the modern phones. (Research professor Olivier hudi which specializes in psychology of child)

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Bashir is a young man who is blindly using mobile phones, using social media has a lot of risk that effect young people like Bashir, I asked what happened, he told me that he was blind to his mobile he used it at night as the light is off, Bashir has gone to a doctor and the doctor told him, he was blind with the use of Facebook, medicines have been written and luckily he saved the doctor warned that he would not use mobile phones such as Smartphone’s. Bashir is now normal and has left the using Smartphone’s. Now he use small mobile that he use only a call. This story tells us Smartphone’s problem about in our society’s health, which needs to be get involved about young people. (basher osman mahamud) Radiation phone cells, internet over phone, even idle phone has a lot of radiation around it The World Health Organization says the radiation levels emitted from common cell phones to be "possibly carcinogenic." The new findings put phones in the same category as DDT and care. the amount of radio frequency energy that your body absorbs from your cell phone is measured by its Specific Absorption Rate. The units are measured in watts per kilogram, and each phone in the. must have an SAR of lower than 1.6 to pass clearance the rate of radiation of smart phones very dangers when a person become too much addicted (tech land times 2011) EYESIGHT direct exposure to blue light –like the one that comes from cell phone screens-can

cause damage to the retina of the eye 50% using social media. One survey of 2000 people found that 55% of respondents believe that eye discomfort is the main problem inflicted on them by their phones. All of them is not good to use along time social media and smart phones because mental is tired and caused many health problems. ACCIDENTS teens are more likely to respond to calls, text while driving and riding than adults. They talk and text on the phone without realizing that it can cost their lives. even the Somaliland website for distracted driving has proven that traffic crashes are the leading cause of death in teens. Education impact When we take advantage of what's good, one can benefit from social media education but we do not have our younger adolescents harmoniously, we watch and read things that are not good at night or day. It was seen when a student would come together to talk about their education. Now, ten young people are sitting in a sitting room where each of them is bullied by their mobile Group Six

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phones. The person who takes lessons from the Internet is also busy using the facebook e.t.c.They may have lost a lot of time as someone picks up a piece of paper or photographs with friends. Often it happens as the images are watching for his time so badly. It may have been too much time spent on the use of tools if it would be useful to read too much

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Cultural and society impact Culture is an active and vibrant constituent of a society. It is healthy for the society when it evolves with sustaining values, when it nurtures a lifestyle, attitude and consciousness aimed at betterment of society in the long run. Culture can be defined as a way of life which includes beliefs, aesthetics and institutions of a civilization. Considering today’s way of life, media is certainly an influential entity in our culture. The influence of the Internet has been most significant in the way it has transformed the lives of young people. Friendship interaction and peer-toper relations are increasingly conducted online or through text messaging. Such interactions have had major cultural consequences. Texting and online communications have influenced the evolution of language they have thrown up new rituals and symbols and have had an important impact on people’s Somaliland, the young in particular. Consequently what happens to people through their online interactions really matters to the way that youth change their culture? This leads to a loss of our own cultures and traditions. With the sudden increase in usage of social media, the views and cultures of the west are even more widespread especially among the youth. Being the youth, they tend to be extremely impressionable and they make changes in their lives based on what they see shared on facebook Group Six

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and instagram like cutting heir as bad , how to dressing and how to interact other society this leads to a huge loss in the inherent culture of a nation. This loss in culture is evident in the way we speak, the way we dress, the values we adopt, our responses to situations, the choices we make, our hobbies & interests, the movies we watch, and the music we listen to all of them change our culture. Every nation in the world has a culture of diversity that differs from the rest of the world and a life-sustaining culture that protects and boasts. Our tradition is a long-awaited generation of generations. It is as if the generations of generations have come to us in this generation. Since we are now responsible for what we are, we must protect our culture as well as our good faith, our spoken language, and our unhealthy dresses and other cultural practices. it seems to be getting weaker, which is why we have not given much importance to its protection and security. When it comes to Somali, it is a culture of socialization that easily emanates from other countries. This is good for us and does not understand what it is culture and that it is different from other peoples and must be proud of. Also, there are foreign cultures that have affected our good culture and caused more of the community let's leave our culture to understand that their culture is ancient. In recent years, it has emerged in many ways that our culture has a negative impact on social media, especially in the face book, snap chat, imo, whatsupp etc. which have a major impact on our culture and society. Everything has advantages and disadvantages. Social media has a lot of advantages but never can be forgotten and inefficient. So we will tell social media about the negative effects of our culture. Our culture has had a major impact on social media. What we say is that it has changed our many things in our culture. When using social media in particular, face book, snap chat, imo, and whatsupp etc, he sees many things including other people's culture. If they are how they dress and how they act. It is beautiful to him. This led to the person doing what he saw. He also dresses for the dress of other nations. He did not act only in the same way and he would move to the rest of the community. The act he does is damaging our culture. And this action also affects our good faith. The person is also treating bad things like films. Then the person who is going through a few simple steps will see what he sees and have a negative effect on him. Social effect instead of making us more connected, our Smartphone’s could be making us more isolated. Researchers from the University of Essex found that people who discussed personally Group Six

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meaningful topics when a cell phone was nearby (even if they weren’t being used) reported lower relationship quality and less trust in their partner.( University of Essex) They also felt their partner was less empathic to their concerns media often hypes the basic facts or information and presents them so as to increase the superficial appeal of things. mental set-up and the declining quality of their lifestyle. The solution is Children, who should invest their time in reading good books, studying, playing outdoors, exercising and engaging in social activities, today spend their evenings glued to the television. The media that is easily accessible to even small children exposes them to things they need not know and will not understand. Innocence is being lost at an early age thanks to the film music and dance shows in which children are encouraged to participate and imitate the attitudes and actions of adults. The negative psychological effects of media are seen in terms of media changing the people’s outlook on life. Media have changed the cultural and moral values of society. A majority of the audiences believe in what is depicted by the media. Youngsters and children often tend to mix the reel and the real world under the influence of the mass media. . What it may result in can be termed a ‘cultural lethargy of sorts’.. Lately, media theories that regard the audience as a passive entity have been discarded, and advanced media theories take into account the audience response. However, despite cognitive abilities of the audience, the media has been successfully ingraining several values and elements into a large section of our society. Although the programmers in the media reflect, the society we live in, at times, they do much more than reflect the surroundings they exaggerate, sensationalize and even trivialize what is of utmost importance to make way for entertainment. The media creates celebrities; it creates idols. A certain type of music or movies is made popular by the media. The popularity of violent and abusive rap songs amongst teenagers can be traced to media hype. The exposure to violence, drug abuse, sex and other unhealthy habits has a major role in the outburst of unfortunate incidents where children have got extremely violent and out of control. Be it the advertisements touting products that embody cultural, racial and communal prejudices or the television shows and films, which portray violence, sexually explicit content and abusive language , they have a large presence in our electronic media today, especially television. There are music videos and rock bands that give out the message that alcohol, drugs and sex are Group Six

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