Impact of Social Media on Self Esteem Adjustment Social Awareness and Academic Achievement of Higher Secondary School Students

Abstract

Internet is a very essential element of life which cannot be unheeded. There is a surely a drastic change in todayand#8223;s life, today is the age of digital technology. The world has been uniform by the World Wide Web (www). Today we live in a country where contacting someone, sharing our feelings as well as our thoughts, opinions is just a click away and the main contribution of this digital technology is Social media Revolution . Social Networking sites are now available to satisfy oneand#8223;s instant social needs. These networking sites have made it possible for the people to contact the friends who lives in a very distant places and also help us to share pictures, videos and audioand#8223;s with our near ones. Today it is very difficult to find out the teenager without having account on any social networking site. As they use these sites to keep in touch with friends, colleagues, relatives and nears and dears in order to express their feelings, views and opinions and also academic related problems. Internet is used for so many purposes viz, Commercial purpose, Health purpose, Educational purpose by a large community but unfortunately we have a huge community including majority of youth and teenagers who use Internet for only social networking sites (Boyd, 2006). Trusov, Bucklin, and Pauwels (2009) reviewed that the phenomena of social network is quite simple to understand, it is a web based facility which allows individuals to build a profile identity and generate subjective associations and connections among themselves and communicate them at a central Location.