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NAME: Hammad Hassan Raja 

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Hello everyone  and welcome to my blog. My name is Hammad Hassan Raja, I am currently a student at De MontFort University studying Computer Science BSc. My main goal to write this blog is to educate myself as well as all of you with research on my project topic which is "CLOUD COMPUTING". It will be a blog on how I managed to complete my project and It will consist the following blog posts:

• Introduction
• Primary Research
• Secondary research 
• Evaluation 

In this blog I will start by a current issue regarding IT and then proceed with my own topic with above mentioned headings. I like to play video games, In fact there was a time I used to play as a professional player locally. My firends often see me as the funny guy and I mostly tend to be a calm person. The recent developments of the world caused the rise of computer machines and i started to develop an interest in these machines with unlimited possibilities hence, chose computer science as my degree course

As the world is dynamic and is constantly developing with greater and better technology introduced to the world. All this tecnology is made to make our lives much more easier and comfortable. Although, I agree on the fact that technology has been beneficial for us in our daily lives but it also has impacted many of us negetively and one aspect of technology which has caused numerous issues is the use of "Social Media".

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A survey conducted by the Royal Society For Public Health including people of age 14 to 24 in United Kingdom on how social media platform impacted their health and the survey results were that platforms like Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram surge the feeling of depression, anxiety and loneliness. This survey gives us a little understanding of what social media does to our brains. 

Excessive use of these social media apps can have impacts far worse such as non-social behavior, anger issues and loosing on critical social skills. Communication skills have also decreased in the recent years just because of chatting on social media platforms this has also lead to lower slef-confidance in teenagers.

                                                                            

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Another issue of using social media is cyber bullying and according to Donna Wick (2023) "Kids text all sorts of things that you would never in a million years contemplate saying to anyone's face". Many of social media users have experinced cyber bullying at some point in their life wheather in a comment or a private message.

Social media forces individuals to live in an imaginary world with lavish lifestyle shown to all of us by huge influencers and this has a negetive impact on kids as well as the adults. To solve this growing problem we all need to limit our daily time spent on these apps and try not to think that whatever is shown to you is real. We should get invloved in physical sports and educate about the drawbacks of social media.

REFERENCE  LIST:

         Ehmke, R. (2023) How using social media affects teenagers, Child Mind Institute. Available at: https://childmind.org/article/how-using-social-media-affects-teenagers/#cyberbullying-and-the-imposter-syndrome (Accessed: 22 November 2023).