The Negative Effects Of Media Influence On Teenagers's Life

Media growth widely and abruptly nowadays that has built a strong presence in teenagers’ life. Media has viewed as a window for learning and it can be seen as a primary window to the world. Moreover, media also become an inseparable part of teenagers’ life, so teenagers impossible will escape themselves from the media as well, especially in this era of progress. In short, there is always a shadow of the media used at everywhere and every time. People have built up their relationship with information that they essential for their life by the used of media and media has been used to convey the news to all over the world. As everyone knows that newspaper is the first media that appear in the world, but then it had been replaced by radio in the

Media act as a drug which can make teenagers get addicted easily. Besides, when teenagers who are still in school have paid too much interest on the media, it will influence teenagers’ education (Dunn, 2011). It is because teenagers consider that browsing on media are more significant than reading books (Abhishek, 2015). In addition, teenagers will not aware that spend time on media has actually taken their time a lot the whole day. If this situation persists occurs, teenagers will receive a worst result and score. “There is no education at all when people just educating the mind without educating the heart” a quote said from Aristotle (n.d.). Thus, teenagers should put all of their effort on education to gain knowledge. Moreover, media will lead teenagers to get a variety of diseases Reynolds (2012) indicates that there is a male teenager dead after playing online computer games for forty hours straight. The teenager was eighteen years old and he died at an internet cafe. He booked a private room at the cafe, at around noon and he began to play one of the popular games called ‘Diablo 3’. However, an attendant found that he fell asleep at the table on the morning two days after and tried to wake him up but he did not give any reaction. Then, the attendant has reported to the police. A report from the local hospital said he was sudden death due to the sedentary