Impact and Influence of Social Media In Children today

Various kinds in the modern era is a lot of social media is growing and close to the world of child play, including:

Facebook
This social network has 1 billion users. Biggest in this universe for the affairs of users. Facebook is not just a social network, Mark Zuckerberg injected several other platforms on this site. To visit www.facebook.com

Twitter www.twitter.com
Microblogging has half a billion users or nearly half of Facebook users. Established in 2006, Twitter got a cautious heart among netizens especially mobile users.

Google+ plus.google.com
Google is also tempted to jump in social networking. Now this social media has 400 million users.Google + famous for its Hangout feature.

Weibo weibo.com
Weibo or Sina Weibo founded August 2009. Currently has 300 million users.Weibo is often referred to as its Twitter China.

Renren renren.com
If the US has Twitter, China has Sina Weibo.Di China also has its own Facebook, namely RenRen.Didirikan December 2005, RenRen now has 250 million users.

Yelp
Yelp is often called location-based social networking. Users often get recommendation of location from this social network. Currently have 84 million users.

Tumblr
This social network into the realm of blogs. No less compete with other blog platforms like WordPress and Blogger. It currently has 81 million users

Pinterest
Social networking is relatively new. But able to attract 25 million users today. Pinterest is often called an online pin site.

Path
Called as smart jounal online, Path keeps connecting users with family, relatives, and best friends. Currently it has 5 million users.

YahooMeme
This media site was created by Yahoo! In 2009. The meme's name is meant as something that spreads quickly and attracts everyone's attention. Use of this web is almost the same as twitter in general.

INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR CHILDREN

The progress of information and technology media has been felt by almost all levels of society, both in terms of positive and negative of its use. This is because the access of information and technology media is quite easy or affordable for various circles, both for the young and mature and the rich or poor. In general, currently, children aged 5 to 12 years become the most users in utilizing the progress of information and technology media at this time. Therefore, do not be surprised if the positive impact of the development of information and technology media for children aged 5 to 12 years is said to be a multi-tasking generation.

Positive impact of the use of information and technology media include:

To facilitate a child in sharpening creativity and child abuse.
The existence of a variety of digital applications such as coloring, learning to read and write letters of course give positive impact for the development of the child's brain. They do not need more time and energy to learn to read and write in books or papers, just use the tablet as a learning tool that is more fun.
Children are more eager to learn because this kind of application is usually equipped with interesting animations, bright colors, and cheerful songs.
The ability to imagine children are also more honed because the games they use vary and have a diverse storyline

Negative impact of social media for children, including:

In terms of physical computer can cause chronic pain in the hands, wrists, back and shoulders if it lasts longer.May cause tension in the eye muscles because computer monitors radiate various rays such as infra red, ultraviolet and electromagnetic triggers of cancer.
From the psychological point of computer, internet, video games will erode time and communication in the family. Children become more interested in the interactive world than by doing the things they used to do.
"Addictions to computers will also reduce playing time with peers and classmates, so children will grow with the condition of lack of socialization,
Children can also become more difficult to concentrate in the real world. This is because the children are used to living in the digital world.
Early childhood is a master imitation, then by frequent video games that are usually the whiz to solve the problem by hitting or shooting. This indirectly teaches child abuse behavior.
There are also 10 characteristics of someone addicted to social networking in cyberspace according to Retrevo Gadgetology analyst is as follows:

First,

you speak or send a message of only 140 characters or less. This reflects that your mindset is so pervasive with Twitter that it only allows sending 140 characters in every message you send.

Second,

you are often fad to poke alias 'poke' friends or coworkers even if just to go to tolilet.

Third,

when asked by someone, "How is your weekend?". In your mind that first appeared was "Duh I forgot to update status on Facebook and Twitter".

Fourth,

you often post links about the success of playing games on Facebook. For example: 'Success goes up to 932 Mafia Wars level'. While on Twitter, within 24 hours instantly follow thousands of accounts at once.

Fifth,

you judge yourself as successful and valuable by measuring how often you retweed.

Sixth,

When the internet connection is hampered, you can not wait to continuously refresh the social networking page you want to open.

Seventh,

you assume that adding one person follower is very meaningful, like scoring in a sporting event.

Eight,

Check or update status on Facebook and Twitter before going to sleep.

Ninth,

Always wara-wiri on social networking at least once a day. And Tenth, when you want to eat alias eat also could not resist to stay active to social networking site.