Kofil Uddin: Is the use of social media hurting teenagers or rather helping them?

During these past few years, social media has had a big effect on teenagers. It was mostly around 2019-2021. Especially throughout the first few incidents relating to the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the black lives matter protests, and many others. These events I am researching are going to be specifically the ones that took place in New York City. There are many that say that social media can be seen as good and others say that it is bad. Most of the population who use it are teenagers. Social media has many helpful aspects to it such as being able to use it as a form of communication, to look at the latest news, events, trends, and interact with their friends on a daily basis. The negative aspects are how it can cause depression, anxiety, cases of cyberbullying, etc. To figure out if social media has more good than bad I will research what causes social media to be as popular as it is and how it affects the teenagers living in New York. There have been many instances and events where the use of social media has taken a huge role in those events.