Abstract

Social media has become a part of children's lives during a crucial period of social development, where they learn about relationships and practice social behaviors with their parents, friends, and educators and other elements. Some Social media scaffolds are designed to foster long-term emotional connection and can play the roles of friends, teachers, and caregivers. As a result, they hold the potential to shape children's empathy development. This paper explores how communication with social media can affect children's social and emotional development, focusing on software media interaction, psychology, and neuropsychology. The exploration idea behind this proposal shows that, the media or artificial intelligence theoretically have high chances of influencing the development of empathy in children, depending on their design, intensity, and context of use. This gives a good chance of empirical understanding about the kind of effect they might have on children’s mind. Therefore, there is a need for studies investigating the effects on children’s social and emotional development of long-term regular and consistent communication with media of various designs and in different situations.

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