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Now a day’s parents support children in many situations similarly the children use that support in other activities like asking to buy a smartphone and make use of it to the extreme level in social sites and becoming irresponsible and untrustworthy in their daily scheduled activities.

In a recent study, researchers at the UCLA brain mapping center used an fMRI scanner to image the brains of 32 teenagers as they used a social media app resembling Instagram.

By watching the activity inside different regions of the brain as the teens used the app, the team found certain regions became activated by likes, with the brain's reward center becoming especially active.

The teenagers were shown more than 140 images where likes were believed to from their peers, but were in fact assigned by the research team.

Scans revealed that the nucleus accumbens, a part of the brain's reward circuitry, was especially active when teens saw a large number of likes on their own photos, which could inspire them to use social media more often.

With the rise of social media we may even be learning to read likes and shares instead of facial expressions.

 Whether you're on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, What's App or Twitter, the way you communicate with friends today is changing.

Before, if you were having a face to face interaction everything is qualitative. You use someone's gestures or facial expressions, that sort of thing, to see how effective your message is whenever you learn something new or you experience something, it's encoded in your brain, and it's encoded by subtle changes in the strength of connections between neurons.

Time spent on social media could, therefore, also cause the brain to change and grow.

We might be a bit less good at reading subtle expressions on faces that are moving, but we might be much quicker at monitoring what's going on in a whole group of our friends

Adolescence is a period that is very important for social learning, which could explain why teens are often more tuned in to what's going on in their respective cultures.