Many people believe that media coverage of celebrities is having a negative effect on children. To what extent do you agree?

There is no doubt that these days social
media
brings us the opportunity to know deeply about famous
people
. While some
people
consider
this
can provide a positive effect on
children
, others argue that there are serious drawbacks. In
this
essay, I will support with examples why I tend to agree with the latter argument.
Firstly
, celebrities are becoming a reference point followed by many teenagers.
Furthermore
, their bodies are copied by young
people
who do not realize these bodies are unreal,
consequently
, they are creating a distortion of reality, which can be dangerous.
For instance
, Kardashians' family are giving the wrong idea of the perfect body to our
children
, who can not know if
this
type of body is normal or not. If famous
people
did not have that sort of coverage on social
media
,
children
would not have
this
model of reference.
As a result
, everyone would accept themselves, and they would not have as many problems related to that.
In addition
, celebrities provide not only an unreal body but
also
a bad attitude in front of the camera. It is clear that
children
enjoy their spare time on the internet,
consequently
, they spend a lot of time viewing celebrities' videos where they do not always have great behaviours. To illustrate, there a massive number of videos where famous are drinking spirits, smoking, or even worse consuming drugs, which is clearly not a good example for adolescents. As a consequence, they assume
this
is the normal way of living and they act the same way, adopting
this
type of lifestyle. To conclude, I firmly believe that covering
media
famous
people
's life is a dangerous game, and it has a negative effect on
children
. It is evident that young
people
can not distinguish between the real world and social
media
, which could lead to serious problems.
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