Social Media

Social media is an online media in which the users can easily participate, share, and create the
content of blog, social networking, and the virtual world. Blog and social networking is the form of
social media that mostly used by the community around the world.

Social media, with its various features which are provided, certainly brings positive impacts for
the users. On the other hand, social media can also cause negative impacts if it is not wisely
used, especially for children and teenagers. In this case, it really needs attention from parents
and teachers to monitor the children and teenagers from the negative impact of social media. For
the worst, we have to restrict them to use social media.

There are many negative impacts of social media for children and teenagers. First, children and
teenagers become lazy to communicate in real world. Their understanding of the language is
disturbed. If a child is too much communicating in the virtual world, then their knowledge about
the details of communicating in real life, like body language and tone of voice, will be declined.

Second, social networking sites will make children and teenagers more self-interested. They are
not conscious of the environment around them, because most of their time is spent on the
internet. This can cause children to be less empathetic in the real world.

Third, for children and teenagers, there is no the rules of spelling and grammar in social
networking. This will make them more difficult to distinguish between communicating on social
networking sites and the real world. This clearly would affect their writing and speaking skills at
school.

Fourth, the assumption that internet is identical with pornography is not wrong. With its ability of
information dissemination owned by the internet, pornography is rampant. To anticipate it, the
producers of browser complete their program with the ability to choose a home page that can be
accessed. On the internet, there are many images of pornography and violence that can be the
impulse to someone to do criminal acts.

Fifth, social networking site is fertile land for the predators to commit a crime. We will never know
if someone new whom our children just know on the internet, uses the real identity or not. Fraud
is rampant in every field. The internet is not excluded from an impostor’s attack. The best ways is
not to heed or confirm any information you get from the information provider.

Last, credit card is the most used way in the internet world of the internet. The cyber criminals
often commit in this field. By the open system, the criminals are able to detect the online
transaction (using a credit card) and record the code of cards that are used. Then, they use the
data they get for their business of wickedness.

In conclusion, social media has many negative impacts to children and teenagers. They have to
be restricted in using social media due to many negative impacts of it. That is not good yet for
them since they cannot decide which one is good or bad.
 Impacts of Drugs Misuse
Drugs which contain compounds that give addictive effects for users are really harmful. At the
beginning, people, who misuse it, want to relive their stress by consuming the addictive drugs.
They do not think about the dangerous impacts which will appear after they consume it.
Teenagers often fall into this problem because their parents probably do not pay enough
attention to their children. The impacts of consuming this kind of drugs are not only for the users,
but also for their family, and even for our country.

First, the users will have the impact for themselves. They will have brain function disorder and
they do not grow normally as other teenagers. Besides, poisoning is the symptoms that arise due
to the use of drugs in a lot number, it influences their body and behaviour. If they consume it in
an excessive dose, they will get overdose that can cause death by stoppage of respiration or
brain blooding. Overdose occurs due to the tolerance so that we need a dose which is greater or
for a long time we stop consuming it, then we put up with the former dose in use. Health damage
or organ function disorder like liver, heart, pulmonary, the kidney, the endocrine glands,
reproduction, and skin diseases will also appear.

In addition, the consumer of drugs will also get behaviour or mental-social disorders which are
hard to control. They are easily offended, outraged, withdrawn from the community, and their
relationships with family/fellow are disturbed. Their value of religion, culture, and social life, that
they have, can decline. Furthermore, economic and law issues can be involved when the addicts
are in debt to meet the need of drugs. They can steal money or sell his personal belongings or
family. If they still go to school, they can use the school fees to buy drugs, so that they are
threatened dropped out of school. Maybe, they can be arrested by police or even in jail.

Second is the impact for their family. The comfortable and peaceful atmosphere of their family
can be disturbed. The family are worried because their belongings are lost in the house. Their
children are lying and not responsible. They steal, deceive, and become asocial. The parents are
embarrassed because their children are the addicts. The parents feel guilty, and try to cover the
child. The future of their children is unclear. The children are dropped out of school or
unemployed. Stress level increases. Parents are desperate for the increased output of money, or
because their children must be treated in the hospital for many times, maybe even live in prison.
Family should bear the burden of these socioeconomic problems.

Third is the impact for our country. The mafia of illicit trade are also trying to supply drugs. The
dealers relations with victims are connected and they create the black market. Therefore, the
market is formed and we are difficult to break the chain of their courses. The consumers of
narcotics do not have durability and sustainability so that our country’s development is
threatened. The state will suffer loss because the people are not productive and crime increases
and also the infrastructure that must be provided.

The misuse of drugs that is done by people can cause impacts not only for themselves but also
for their surroundings. The loss that they suffer is huge for this case. The impacts of drugs
misuse are really hazardous and bad for ourselves, family, and our lovely country.
 Smoking

Health research data base shows that in 2010 the number of cigarettes connoisseurs increase
annually on tobacco products including the number of children smokers. The dangers of smoking
on the body health have been researched and proved by many people. The effects which appear
are very harmful.

The impacts of smoking are already clearly known. Many researchers prove that habit of
smoking increases the risk of the various diseases, such as heart disease, lung cancer, breast
cancer, cervical cancer, throat cancer, cancer of the oesophagus, mouth cancer, kidney cancer,
gastrointestinal cancer, impotence, coronary heart disease, and other medical disorder.

It is known that 90% of lung cancer caused by cigarette because the smoke inhalation entirely
goes into the lungs. A cloud of cigarette will stimulate cell growing abnormally into the lungs. It is
estimated that one of ten moderate smokers and one of five heavy smokers will die because of
lung cancer.

A woman who smokes has more risk of developing breast cancer. The study shows women who
start smoking at the age of 20 years and five years before she is pregnant for the first time has a
greater risk to breast cancer. About 30 % of death of people who suffer cervical cancer are
caused by smoking because the women who start smoking are more vulnerable to the sexually
transmitted infection by a virus.

The study found that cigarette smoke damages DNA from cells of the oesophagus so that it
causes cancer of the oesophagus. About 80 % cases of oesophagus cancer have been
associated with smoking. Although cigarette smoke enters into the lungs, but there is some
smoke ingested so it increase the risk of gastrointestinal cancer.

When someone smokes, the smoke that contains nicotine and tobacco will enter into the body.
Nicotine along with other dangerous chemicals such as tar and carbon monoxide cause changes
in heartbeat, breathing circulation, and blood pressure. Carcinogens that screens out of the body
through the kidneys also change a DNA cell and damage kidney cells. This change affects
kidney function and triggers cancer.

Smoking is the main cause of mouth cancer. Smokers are known that they have six times greater
possibility to experience mouth cancer compared to those who do not smoke, and people who
smoke with smokeless tobacco are at risk of 50 times greater. The inhaled smoke of a cigarette
before entering into the lungs will pass through the throat so this will relate to cigarette cancer.

Nicotine in cigarette smoke causes the heart works faster and increases blood pressure, while
carbon monoxide takes oxygen in the blood more that makes the heart pump more blood. If the
heart works too hard and high blood pressure, thus it can cause a heart attack. Most of coronary
heart diseases are caused by cigarettes and will deteriorate if they have other diseases as
diabetes mellitus.

For men at age of 30s and 40s years, smoking can increase the risk of erectile dysfunction about
50 percent because smoking can damage blood vessels, nicotine narrows the arteries so it
reduces the flow of blood and blood pressure to the penis. If a person already suffers impotence,
then it can be an early warning that cigarettes are destructive for other regions of the body.

Some medical interference can also be caused by cigarettes such as high blood pressure
(hypertension), a disorder of fertility, aggravate asthma and inflammation of an airway, runs the
risk of higher experienced macular degeneration (loss of sight gradually), a cataract, become
more frequent sick, rise stain on the teeth and the gums, develop thrush in the intestines.

From the arguments above, it is obvious that various diseases can appear because of smoking.
The compounds of cigarette are not good for our body. There may be many other harms of
smoking. Smoking is harmful for our health.