Social networking makes kids more peer-based. Young people are motivated to learn from their peers online. They interact and receive feedback from one another. They are motivated to learn more from each other than from adults. Teachers and adults are no longer the only sources of knowledge. It makes kids more networked than ever. It is easier Some of our teens join social media not to post their pictures but to find friends with whom they can share their thoughts, and sometimes it goes wrong and they interact bad people and such relation could lead to kidnapping. The Facebook-related abductions are increasing and we can find too many of such examples where facebook has helped the kidnappers eg. A man in Indonesia who posed as a photographer on Facebook was arrested and accused of kidnapping and raping three teenage girls. Authorities said he lured them into meeting him with him by promising to make them models, and then locked them in a house. Police found dozens of photos of naked girls on his camera and laptop.
The overuse of social media and technology has a negative effect on the health of all children, preteens and teenagers by making them more prone to anxiety, depression, and other psychological disorders, as well as by making them more susceptible to future health problems