Instagram- is it good or bad ?

Instagram is a social media platform launched in 2010 which its users can share photos or videos. Many youths have an Instagram account and not to forget, the adults too. However, it has been found that Instagram has the most negative overall effect on young people’s mental health. The site encourages its users to present an upbeat, attractive image that others may find at best misleading and at worse harmful. The risk of developing an unhealthy body image is high. This is because people are racing to post their best picture and that will cause others to compare themselves with them. In addition, some users also uses curse words to hate on other people’s posts. This will influence young people to start using those words because they think it is cool.
Because of the negativity that surrounds this social media platform, there are activists who promotes self love and tries to spread positivity. People who supports them even started using hashtags to make it viral. This is actually working and many activists started to show up and encourage everyone to love themselves and to not compare themselves with others. Meanwhile, parents should keep an eye to what their children are doing on social media. Make sure they do not follow pages or people that can influence their mind at such young age.
It is a big problem if the negativity does not stop. Take celebrities for instance, they have many supporter but also haters who wants them to fail. Haters will leave bad comments on posts to hate on them. What is worse was that there are people supporting that behaviour by joining in with posting hate comments as well. This will promote bullying in real life. Especially with youths who are active on social media, they will be influenced and think that its okay to bully others. So, people really have to watch out with what they are posting or what comments do they leave on other’s posts as it will be an exemplary to some.
In contrary, it is a great educational tool to use in a classroom. Students can exchange opinions and views on different topic, participate in a group activity where each students asks the others to comment on a photo or video. This makes it possible for them to exchange knowledge with classmates and teachers. It is a perfect tool to support learning English, as it can be accessed easily in most device making it more inviting to consider using in a classroom. However, teachers should guide their students when using it and make sure they did not get distracted and start doing other things and not the assigned tasks.