Tham, Jason (2012). Media Perspectives: How Social Media Reshape Consciousness, Redefine Identities.

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Tham, Jason (2012). Media Perspectives: How Social Media Reshape Consciousness, Redefine Identities. http://www.academia.edu/5761497/Media_Perspectives_How_Social_Media_Reshape_Consciousness

Social media can provide a supportive environment to explore a new world, which the interactions are having the different forms and types. For instance, most teens use online the networks to extend the friendships, profile updating with personal information or lifestyle or big events, photos, videos sharing, comments to friends’ posts, blog, study purpose, music, television shows, games, knowledge news, fashion and other aspects of teen culture. The structures of language, as a message, tell people how to think about current period, space, things and ongoing processes. Speaking to the effects of social media on children development, growth, health, knowledge, and behavior are not known yet, this problem is topical and may provide by different articles to better understand the issue.

Children are vulnerable, they are easy to be affected and they exactly are the main users of all the social networks. Teens and children are the groups of people need their parents to take care of what they are watching and following; wisdom and understanding of the phenomenon they should follow on. Social media are around and everywhere, smartphone, chats, television content, video sharing, apps, photos, ads, news are all called social media, which media platform is one of the first things children learn. Children normally never think of the message they search, but all the information about the tools they visited, it can be a real threat to used to against them. In the following paragraphs, I would like to gothrough the new ways for teens and children to create and navigate their social environments.