Essay from Finland

Media's effect on young people minds.

Youth are the rising and future generation of society. The youth grows and is molded within a specific social environment. The stage of youth is one of assimilating knowledge of all kinds.

In understanding the surrounding world, youth display curiosity, rebelliousness, impassioned and uncontrolled enthusiasms. That quickly form judgments. Youth’s stage is crucial in the molding or forming of a stable social being. They can change the future of society with their well being and courageous behavior. Youth hope for a world free of poverty, inequity, unemployment and exploitation. Youth participation is important, because youth are the country’s power. They are a strong force in political and social movement. They are aspiring entrepreneurs rather than mere workers.

Media is all around us, especially in  young people’s lives. We need technology in our school project and also in the future, in our working life. We are using computers every day, and we need to develop our knowledge about technology, so we can succeed in our jobs.

Fitness and healthy lifestyles are very big topics right now, which is a good thing as long as it doesn’t get too healthy. By too healthy, I mean too strict a diet, or using too much bad active substance to gain more muscle. In bad situations, especially guys use steroids.

Today we have lots of bad effects, coming from media. Like Beyoncé sings, “pretty hurts”, but it shouldn’t...

But let’s not talk only about bad media effects. Media also has lots of positive things.

I asked a few people about it, and I had a lots of comments about how much more social they are after getting into social media.

Media good effects:

·         Easy ways for any news and information from all over the world.

·         Network for political and social awareness

·         Help to operate with the mission of providing one with more information.

Media bad effects:

·         Dependency only on media, so social participation decreasing.

·         Some media risks are like cyber bullying, increase in violence.

·         Youth become too open and public with personal information.

·         Influence for spending more money.