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SOCIAL NETWORK IMPACT ON YOUTH

INTRODUCTION

Online social media have gained astounding worldwide growth and popularity which has led to attracting attention from variety of researchers globally. Although with time all generations have come to embrace the changes social network has brought about, teenagers and young adults are the most fanatic users of these sites. According to various research studies in the field of online social networks, it has been revealed that these sites are impacting the lives of the youth greatly. When using these sites such as Twitter, Facebook or MySpace, there are both positive and negative effects on the youth. For further reading http://www.speechprosody2012.org/academic-essay-sample-social-network-impact-on-youth.asp 

Use iPads and Kindles to get infants to read, experts say

Parents should turn to smartphones, iPads and Kindles to get young children interested in reading amid concerns that growing numbers of infants are rejecting books, a major charity has warned.

Research by the National Literacy Trust has found that technology can have a “new and important” role to play in getting children as young as three to read.

The study said that poorer children in particular could benefit from using touch screens alongside traditional books to generate more interest in stories.

Almost three-quarters of under-fives currently have access to technology such as smartphones and tablet computers in the home and the trust insisted that it should be exploited as a basis for reading.

The conclusions came as a separate study from the charity Booktrust warned of a “worrying cultural divide” in England, with poor adults much less likely to read books than those from wealthy families.

For further reading  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10687656/Use-iPads-and-Kindles-to-get-infants-to-read-experts-say.html#