Influence of Instagram on Teenagers

Gen Z are digital natives. Social networks are an active part in the lives of teenagers, and the influence on their behavior and daily life is evident. We spend hours and hours in technology and we are really good at using it, not like our parents who had to adapt to a new reality, we were born and we were already in it. 

Used responsibly, social networks give us useful coexistence tools to reinforce the relationship with our friends, provide relevant information for us and keep us up to date on things that interest us and we can get to know more people with the same interests as us and this improve our social skills. The problem with the use of social networks in an adolescent, being this stage where we forge our identity as people and find ourselves in society, we can be very susceptible to the dangers of social networks, which among the many consequences it affects our mental health. In fact, depression is one of the main causes of illness and disability among adolescents worldwide according to the who. This is not a surprise, since teenagers, being on social networks, are easy prey for cyberbullying, low self-esteem, false information, addiction to this ones, etc. 

We cannot prevent gen z from browsing social networks but we can make them do so responsibly...