Facebook ruining teenagers

E-Paper | May 06, 2026

TEENAGERS nowadays spend most of their time on Facebook. Their morning is with Facebook and their evening is with Facebook.

This results in the lack of personality development and speaking skills.

I do not understand how reading about other people’s lives or wasting time looking at tons of pictures is time well spent. Facebook is a teenage fad and addiction. It is causing distress in families and ruining family relationships.

Facebook is wasting the precious time of youngsters, who should limit the use of Facebook and concentrate on real-life social activities.

M. HADI
Karachi

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Usman Durrani

Aug 16, 2013 10:35am

Its true ,excess of every thing is harmful and youngster can not realize they deprive by the real world. This virtual world can not develop that much personality and other skills as they need in this stage.There are other sites for information, knowledge , and research which develop the personality of youngsters.

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sakinanazar

Aug 16, 2013 05:31pm

this is the best comment i like this comment very much. face book is adverse thing which fed the brain of teenagers. they don't care about their education and spent the whole time in abysmal activities. they are playing with their future own . the government and parents should take some gigantic measure to stop this abortive activities so that Pakistan becomes prosperous because the youth is the golden asset of nation. we should secure our this asset.

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Agha Ata

Aug 16, 2013 06:22pm

In my 80 years of life, I notice that this is perhaps the 70th teenage fad and addiction (as they say) that is wasting their lives. But they all grew up with no visible affect or influence.

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Syed Ahmed

Aug 17, 2013 01:48am

I agree the social networking site Facebook at times is quite vulgar. Younger lot wastes lot of time. So is U-tube.

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Asif Ansari

Aug 17, 2013 03:33am

True! But not all?

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