According to the statistic, 95 percent of adolescents(12-17) use the internet, and 81 percent of them use Social Network Service (or Social Network Site). 94 percent of adolescents who use SNS joined Facebook, which is the most universal social media site (Sterling). As the teenage SNS users are increasing continuously, not merely advantages that television news or journals are never able to have and that the Internet can only have like exchanging information in real time appear, but disadvantages like addiction or cyberbullying are on the rise. Although SNS has positive effects to adolescents such as communicating, getting information, and building relationship, Social Network Service exerts negative influences more than positive. Therefore, people should recognize the problems on SNS and find the solution.
Positive Effects and Negative Effects of SNS on Adolescents Social Network Service has ambivalent characteristic. School reporters from across the UK showed that Social Networking Service helps people to get along well with others who live far away by exchanging their daily states and is also helpful to make new friends by interchanging about the things that are unfamiliar to each other (BBC). SNS is a good tool to make and keep relationships between people. People can ask after their family or friends and
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Finding activities that they can enjoy outside is also a good way. In case of severe addiction, escape from getting help from therapists, treatment programs, and support groups is helpful (‘What Is Internet Addiction and How Do You Overcome It?’). Self-controlling is a important thing to escape from addiction. Setting time to use SNS and removing SNS application from smartphone except really necessary one can be good example of self-controlling. By enjoying sports or outdoor leisure, people can reduce time to use SNS and can even make new interesting