The Digital Dilemma: Exploring social media's impact on youth alongside the Emergence of AI.

This project aims to analyze how social media has evolved and influenced youngsters both positively and negatively. In addition to this, this project deals with the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) along with its impacts on various realms like education, finance, health care, marketing, and entertainment. Social media platforms and AI have a long history and they both are creating challenges and opportunities for the young generation. The main objectives of this work are to analyze the positive and negative effects of social media on teens, to focus on the impact of AI on different realms and to study how AI affects social media which in turn affects children. The susceptibility of children to develop addictions to social media apps and websites, leading to a loss of valuable time and focus, is well-recognized. This study delves into the impact of these platforms on children's mental health. Despite the potential drawbacks, it is crucial to acknowledge the positive effects on youth, such as facilitating socialization, connection with others, and the ability to raise awareness. Finally, the findings portray how AI affects teens through social media by allowing them to personalize their accounts and contents, hide and report fake accounts or inappropriate content, use ‘filters’ to change their appearance and elevate the content quality, schedule posts for their posts to reach the right audience at right time, use chatbots powered by AI as a support system and so on. On the other hand, this technology can also lead youngsters to face a violation of personal information, bullying, and betrayal to name a few.