Social media is a very controversial topic. Some people believe that social media is a positive force, and some people believe that social media is a negative force in the world. The people who think social media is bad are wrong. Social media is a good thing as long as it is used appropriately and safely.
First, social media platforms such as Facebook, are very helpful connecting people with others and lost items. For example, in the book article “Social Media: Like it or Leave it” by Rebecca Rowell, she states “People use social network sites to reconnect with lost friends and family, ask for advice, buy and sell items, and help people in need directly.” Family members who live in different areas of the country or state, can remain connected to one another and even share daily experiences. Often people who are looking for certain products or services, post inquiries on social media platforms. People respond to these inquiries with suggestions of individuals or businesses to contact. Also, businesses advertise
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Social media can only be unsafe or harmful by user judgment. In the database article, “Don’t Listen to the Moral Panic, Social Media is Good for Young.” by Jay Watts, he explains that “No social media platform is intrinsically bad. Rather it is how we encourage young people to use them. There are those with mental health problems who have continuously located SM as beneficial.” The content that people post at times can be harmful to oneself or others. The social media platform itself is not harmful. At times, an inappropriate post or an event portrayed through social media triggers anger and outcry. Sometimes, this anger is directed towards social media platforms. This, however, is misplaced because it is not the platform that caused the issue or event. Furthermore, by design, social media tools are intended for good purposes. They are not inherently bad, it’s only when people use it
The social media’s greatest advertising and influencing form of media is Twitter. There is no greater site or form of media than Twitter it is instantaneous. Twitter first was developed in in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass and launched in July 2006. If teens wanted to travel to any major event and tweet about the event and gave input to moments it would be beneficial to public consumers. Teens become their own news or if teens want to just tweet about anything such as something that happened in school anyone that has twitter and follows this teen will know what teen said/tweeted instantly if they are on using.
Many people get hurt by social media and some people have committed suicide or lost there job are scholarships that is why social media is bad. people get hurt because of social media in many way like cyberbullying or sending a text to be funny and end up losing a scholarship or your job. Some may believe that social media is a helpful tool for keeping up with friends however, social media can have a negative effect on someone's career with one message Social media can ruin an athlete's life by one text that they sent just to be funny when they were younger.this shows how athletes ruined her life with social media A recruit losing attention because of something posted on social media. An athlete outing himself or a teammate as injured. Legal
The Use of Social Networking Nowadays, we are living under decent technology and it has changed a lot of things: Entertainment, communication, and relationship; economy, education, and habit; medical, political and cultural etc. Social media has allowed us to interact with many more people other than we are used to before. We are living in a world where people would rather use text message with their mobile phone than face-to-face to each other, share greeting with more than hundreds of friends on the social media such as upload how they feel on Facebook, show photo Instagram, and what they are doing with Snapchat.
While Teenagers feel that social media is more important than the real world its alot of negative effects of social media. One is that it can take over brain cells and effect mental and physical health. Being On social media every day, every hour, and every minute can really cause damage to your brain cells. Our brain grows as when learn new things and when we learn the new things it changes after we done experienced it. It Changes the way we think and feel.
There may be some reasons why social media is good for kids, but all and all social media is dangerous to the well-being and education of minors. To start with, social media is dangerous to kids that are online because people can be anonymous, predators, and/or cyberbullies. For example, Hinduja, a professor of criminal justice, at Florida Atlantic University says that about 20% of youth have been either victims or perpetrators of cyberbullying. Also, masking one 's identity on the internet make someone more likely to be a cyberbully (SIRS 1). Masking one’s identity can be a serious problem.
Throughout the past ten years, social media has increasingly become a phenomenon all over the world. In the United States alone, 81% of the population owns some sort of social media account (“Percentage of U.S. population”). With this increasing number, social media has reached an extremely large audience in which resulted in a melting pot of diverse discussions on daily topics. Due to this enormous audience, one must be quite cautious about what they share online. These platforms have become a useful tool that may result in real-life consequences if used in an inefficient way.
Today everyone is obsessed with social media. People are easily influenced by almost everything they come across on the internet including appearance and body image. In todays generation it is so common to be unhappy with the way you look. All this is due to societies high standards on the way we “should” look. With social media you can do many things, including pretending to be someone you are not.
So many people are on one network online, social media has essentially become a second world. That being said, social media should not be encouraged to the public. At first use, social media does not seem dangerous, but it is. These sites diminish its user’s privacy to the point that it is accepted (Anderson 1). Not only do social networks hurt us, but users use it in a way for emotional self-harm.
There are still points that require being fixed, but the positive effects outweigh the negative ones. Social media is a very precious tool that can be used to meet new personalities, and allow people to be in touch with friends and families; it positively affects the world by empowering people to educate and work online and gives space for
It can have both positive and negative effects,depending on how people used social media. Does the social media have negativity impact for it users?Why do I discuss this? Because now the use of social media become uncontrolled,especialy for the people in Indonesia. The majority of Indonesian people bought a variety of gadgets just to enjoy a variety of social media treats, from people In villagers to the city, rich people to the humble people, from kids to the elderly are all quite fond of this social media.
Currently, in this globalisation media social complements human life especially teenagers. Media social are the website and applications that enable a person to share information and communicate with other. It gained worldwide popularity among youth. Despite media social have a good thing, it still have negative effect that lead to teenagers moral collapse. One of the reasons Teens tend to moral collapse because some people spread the prank video.
Social media is very influental on everyone, from small children to adults. Social media as a negative imacts and positive impacts. Social media is being used in ways that shape politics, business, World culture, education, and more. Social media has been blamed for promoting social ills such as cybercrime. Social media is very influental for life.
Social media has been a constant habit of teenagers, checking their phones in the morning and right before bed. As adolescents are on the media 24/7, teenagers are seen as being easily deceived online, which I believe is true. Therefore, these young people’s mental health is being damaged. For decades now, millions of teenagers are spending a lot more time on social media.
Chapter 1 Background of the Study Introduction In the contemporary world, most people use social media for news, entertainment, to seek information and to be updated every day. Nowadays, the use of social media has greatly changed how people interact with other people. Today, most people only consider the benefits that the social media brought to the people without thinking about the possible negative implications of using it.
A report by WebMD News shows that teenagers who spend time on social media sites may be more likely to smoke, drink alcohol and use drugs according to Columbia University 's National Centre on Addiction and Substance Abuse