First, social media provides fake news which is not okay. People can get confused by it. Things can get more serious if the news is fake. Second, relationships are also destroyed from web. Relationships don't last long enough if it started on social media. Relationships can also be fake if they started on social media which shows another disadvantage of social media that we all use and believe in. Third, people can also pretend to be someone else. Imagine if that fake account is based on your friends and then imagine if you share your personal information with them just by keeping in mind that they are your friends and what if they leak you information with others. Some people believe that social media gives us information and new but as I …show more content…
In the meantime, we already know it is a significant source of concern among privacy advocates as well as parents who worry about their children's safety. But clearly, the disadvantages of social networking go much deeper than privacy and safety. These high school students described some of the serious drawbacks to relationships - the foundation of human development. Since the increase in use of social media, more and more fake words have been made up and used on a daily basis. These words are being used more and more in daily lives, and the true English language has been pushed aside for these made up words. Social Media makes bullying easier for those who are afraid to actually bully in person. It makes it easy to bully another person with the use of social media, because rather than having to look someone in the face, a bully can now intrude on other's lives by hiding behind their electronic device. Social Media puts forth an expectation of how things in the world should be. Women should be skinny, tall, have a thigh gap, and act proper; wearing dresses, nails painted, and hair done nicely. Men are expected to be tall, muscular and have a 6-pack. When in reality people are all different and beautiful in their own way and the expectations that social media puts on them is beyond awful. When out in public, people who spend the majority of their time on social media will analyze and judge any person they see walking down the sidewalk based on the expectations that social media puts out there. Social networks can change their terms and conditions, their functionality and even disappear overnight, leaving you struggling in the aftermath. New startups are launched every week, with some becoming a significant force in a very short space of time while others sink without
According to DoSomething.org. , “About 37% of young people between the ages of 12 and 17 have been bullied online. 30% have had it happen more than once.” Modern day technology has been proven to ruin reputations, relationships, and above all, lives as a
Though some bemoan the growth of social networking sites, saying that they undermine real personal relationships, the phenomenon continues to grow throughout the world. In the view of many people, the popularity and rapid evolution of social media
The life of a human beings in today's world, usually revolves around social media, but this is damaging to the relationships between other
Social media can lead to many things such as cyberbullying, a person catfishing, or invasion of privacy. Many people tend to use social media as a way to bully people. Which isn’t a good thing bullying shouldn't exist at all. Not only that but people also tend to use social media to make a fake account to talk to someone or pretend to be someone else.
One tough thing for people is to be able to express their feelings to other people that could help. So they feel the need to go on any source of social media and post their thoughts on their account. Social Media is also another big source of bullying. Sometimes, people who use social media to express their thoughts take it to the extreme and begin to judge others in the most hateful way. I think they do this because they want everyone else to feel the way they had felt while they were being bullied.
In society today we hope that individuals will take the time to support you rather than go against you, but that isn’t always the case in our society. Social media nowadays effects the way many individuals go about their friendships. Many individual try to paint this picture that their life is perfect but in reality it is far from it. “Social media is harmless if we are careful to remember that simple fact. It’s powerless if we neglect the inclination to compare and criticize our own lives through the falsified images we too are guilty of creating” (Herrick).
Peggy Orenstein suggests in her article how social networking hurts young girls by discouraging empathy and promoting narcissism. She also contends that social media can distort personality development, encourage self-absorption, and performance of sexuality. With the fast advancement of technology, accessibility to the internet is also growing to young children. Children start on social media now as young as seven years old. Facebook allows people to befriend anyone you want and you can have 622 friends on FB, when your school only has 250 students.
We feel the need to keep everyone involved in our lives through social media. Everybody only show parts of our lives that seem interesting or would receive many likes. Some people even go to the extent of creating a completely different person. You can live a completely new life through social media. Social media is slowly ruining the sense of identity.
Social media is now a major outlet for bullying. Bullying has always been a problem, but not until the twenty-first century has it been on something that isn’t reality: the internet. Bullies can do things online like name calling, gossiping, or posting embarrassing or personal pictures. This is easier for bullies because it is behind a screen, they don’t have to see what harm they are causing by bullying online. It is the main form of bullying in 2016.
Since there's many social media, it leads to problem like catfish. According to the article "Manti Te’o’s ‘Catfish’ Story is a Common One, on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. People on the internet have fake profiles to show who they want to be. They live under a mask. Everyone wants to fit in and get accepted by society.
However, teenagers would make Facebook or Instagram pages to mock and slander the victim. Making a Facebook page of the victim allows anyone to view the page and add their own comment. Being bullied on social media can affect a person's reputation, and self-esteem. They may find it hard to communicate with others and numerous victims will feel as if they have no choice but to commit suicide. With bullying comes many forms of harassment.
In addition, Facebook friends can also comment and exaggerate affairs. Using sociall media to date has pros and cons. However, it shocks me that people would like to date partners that they have never seen before. When single
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.
Social Media: Affects Relationships As technology progresses more and more, there have been great changes that have made our lives more easy and efficient. There are many advantages that technology has brought upon us, one in particular is the Internet. The Internet has allowed people to be connected quickly to information and be updated to the issues and happenings around us, but the social networks that have been invented to allow long distance connection have been resulting in negative outcomes for society and our generation. Social media gets in the way of building actual relationships, makes people become inauthentic about their lives and lowers their self-esteem, and has become a dangerous and threatening nature. During these days, it seems as if nobody can live without checking their social media accounts, whether it’s Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.
Imagine that 20 years ago the only way to stay in touch with a person was to mail a letter. In a modern world with the invention of social media, people can converse with someone using the internet and get a response within seconds. Although in the course of time all generations have started to take advantage of the novations that social media has brought about, teenagers and young adults are the most active users of these networks. According to numerous research studies in the area of online social networks, it has been shown that such sites are impacting the lives of the youth significantly. Understandably, there are a lot of different opinions about its positive and negative influence.