Argumentative Essay On Social Media

Social media is brilliantly made, plain and simple. It is a space in a different universe where everyone is on the scene. There is nothing that even comes close to it; nothing that compares to its dense communication. Social media is the new world that we live in. It is where we express ourselves while hiding behind our keyboard. It is a space where leaders can bring about change and reach millions. Social media has changed the way we receive news. We are alerted in an instant about any sort of event that may have occurred. Is this good or is this bad? Honestly, I believe that is for you to decide. However, I do have my own opinions regarding how it may be good and how it may be bad. This new universe has uncovered more debate on our interactions with other people and what can and cannot be posted. A man-made controversy, what’s new? Social media was meant for connecting and re-connecting, yet we seem to be drawn farther away from society by it. It is an extremely complicated issue that should nonetheless be addressed. However, social media can be used for good and for bringing about positive change in a broken world. One example of this could be the money that JJ Watt raised for the city of Houston, Texas by promoting his cause on his social media account. Social media has been used and abused is now under careful examination to discover the pure and true use for such a powerful communication platform.

More often than not children are unaware of what is really going on, they just do what is told or pressured to them in order to fit in or be considered “cool”. There are many advantages and disadvantages to social media when it comes down to peer pressure. With that being said, it all depends on how the social media site is being used on a day-to-day basis.

Our society has become heavily reliant on social media, and today’s younger generation cannot avoid using it in their everyday lives. As time has progressed, social media has advanced significantly, becoming easier to access with a touch of a button. These advancements provide both positive and negative consequences to youths’ relationships. Due to the rapid advancement of social media, youths’ real-life relationships with their peers have been affected both positively and negatively.

When you think of social media, the first thing that comes mind is communicating with your friends or family. This is one of the benefits of social media. You can communicate with your grandma that lives 300 miles away from you just by typing a message and clicking send. You can share your life events with her just by posting a picture. Even though this seems to be great, which it can be, have you ever thought of all of the bad things that can occur when using social media?

As social media has been on the rise for the past 10 years, so has the concern about the effect on people. A college student name Alexandra Tendler wrote an article about how social media make us anti-social and how the world evolves their lives around social media. Though social media has now become one of the world’s biggest resources, it’s now affecting people on how they deal with things going on in the real world. This argument contains visual evidence and insights to support their claims and it also contains a flaw or two. It’s not that Alexandra misworded or miss the point of the arguments, but this is indeed an opinionated topic and it misses the reality of things and how people deal with it.

When people think of social media they probably think of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. All of these websites allow you to post, comment, and like things other people say. It’s a great concept and all of these types of social media are very popular. I have an account or two on all of these websites, but after a while started to notice something. It started going from nice posts and pictures of my friends to videos and pictures of people I didn’t know all with very negative comment sections. This made the whole experience of seeing what my friends were doing a stressful time. After that occurred four years ago I decided to seek out an alternative form of social media that would have a more positive feeling to it. I needed to prove to myself that not all social media was a bad place or just a waste of time.

Social media could be leaving young people at a higher risk of maladaptive attitudes due to the promotion of unhealthy eating and exercising behavior on these platforms. There is an overwhelming body of research that finds that social media negatively affects young women’s idea of their body (Dignard, 2017; Kleemans, Daalmans, Carbaat, & Anschütz, 2016; Dittmar, 2009; Grabe, Ward, & Hyde, 2008). Accessibility and time spent on the internet is one thing that could be related to an internalization of the thin ideal, body surveillance, and drive for thinness in young girls (Tiggemann, & Slater, 2013). This is especially worrying when young women spend up 27 hours per week online, 14% of which is on social media platforms like Instagram (Ofcom, 2015).

The growth of new technologies has developed and led to Internet founded applications known as "social media" that allows people to network and share information with one another. Examples of social media include blogs, chat rooms, Snapchat, YouTube Channels, Facebook, and Twitter. Of course, there are many more applications that allows you to communicate online, however, these are the most common. You can access these social media cites by using a computer and or a cellular device. Social media has been the most prevalent today being that almost everyone is connected to social media in some shape or form. According to an article, “Social media sites rank as the fourth most popular source to access emergency information” (Travis). They have been used by individuals and communities all over the world to communicate and socialize. People use social media to keep in touch with loved ones and to post what’s going on in their daily lives. Social media is not only used for pleaser or leisure time, social media gives people knowledge about what’s going on in the world around us. In times of an emergency or disaster, social media has been very beneficial because it issues warnings, receive victim request for assistance and can spread information and receive user feedback.

Sending friend requests to a bunch of unknown people just to increase your friend list. Scanning the phone every two seconds looking for comments and likes on your posts. Keeping a regular check on your follower base and searching for ways to keep it growing. Browsing through all of your friends’ as well as their friends’ Facebook accounts only to find yourself feeling more and more miserable. While not all, most social media users have had this experience at some point in time where their source of entertainment turns into a constant source of anxiety. While social media platforms such as Facebook can be great for global connectivity, the frequent users of such sites are more likely to be depressed. It is because high use of social media causes individuals to be isolated from the real world, making them exceedingly dependent on these sites to feel accepted.

When we live in a diverse digital world where almost everything looks possible the creation of the Internet or the “World Wide Web” has opened so many doors to possibilities that people may have never imagined. That option for us to be sharing and communicating has given us the chance to share our opinions to people all over the world in a matter of seconds has created a way for us to change as social individuals. Through our life, we can change constantly and adapt to the situations that are presented. So the question is: how much social media plays a role in our lives as a highly valued outlet when it comes to free expression?

Social networks have benefits for many in the world, but there are other effects of social networks too; for example, cyber bullying, stalking, no personal privacy, and keeping track of individuals as they use social networking to update their status. Especially teenagers use social networking sites. How can society prevent all of this technology from causing harm to each individual teenager? Many people use their social networks for entertainment to pass the time. In recent years, I have seen many of my friends do this while waiting for the teacher to come to the classroom. They turn to their social network site when standing or sitting to wait for the teacher to arrive. They do not communicate with each other verbally. Sometimes, I feel like I do not know them at all. It’s complete silence. How can society help children, especially teenagers, to understand how the social networks are affecting them? Maybe parents need to stop their hands in some way. The American Academy of Pediatrics wrote, “The parents of teenager need to involve in the online websites for their children. There are 22 percent of teenagers who log in to their favorite social networks site more than 10 times a day. “That is just too much social networking!

Remember when there was a lifetime when everything was simpler and we didn't have technological devices that provided Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, etc. Yes, this time period did exist, sadly that time period has ended. “The most dramatic change is our ability to be “elsewhere” at any point in time, to sidestep what is difficult, what is hard in a personal interaction and go to another place where it does not have to be dealt with. So, it can be as simple as what happens when 15-year-olds gather for a birthday party. As anyone who has ever been 15 knows, there is a moment at such events when everyone wants to leave. Things get awkward. It is, however, very important that everyone stay and learn to get along with each other. These days, however, when this difficult moment comes, each 15-year-old simply retreats onto Facebook. Whether or not they physically leave the birthday party, they have “left” (Price). Our generation has been taught when someone becomes bored or has nothing to occupy their time with, they pull out their cell phone, and most likely that person will be on a social networking site. It has become an addiction for our generation to conform to society. Does social media create isolation?

As time goes on technology and the way that we use it has advanced significantly. People all around the world have grown to become very tech-savvy everything that is done today technology plays a huge role making everyday task easier and quicker to do. With all these great technology advances it does come with its downfalls such as kids getting ahold to it and becoming overly dependent on it and its features, like social media. Social media is something that an average person uses daily connecting people throughout the world easily. In recent years there has been many different social media sites that have taken over the minds of teens which have brought the rise of many different problems. There is a special type of message every person should be taught to use on social media – Netiquette; the acceptable way of communicating on the internet.

There are a lot things to do on social media for example communicate family who is far away or that you don’t see often, talk to your friends and just being informed. But people do not take in the consideration of social media not being for human relationship. Social networking is not always the answer. Social networking does have its downfalls. Downfalls meaning where is the eye contact where is the respect to one another and what about using the abbreviation for everything that social media allows. Why do individuals need approval from others rather than just being comfortable in our own skin; well that is just what social media does were looking for others approval on the way we dress, the way we look at others, and the way we should talk. In the road, it's very ordinary to see individuals utilizing their iPhones or cell phones, sending What’s Application or utilizing Facebook. You can see individuals doing that at the transport stop or on the underground, as well. Wouldn't it be ideal to peruse a book rather than this?

The use of social media in this modern time poses negative influence on the youth. For this reason, the parent must exercise some level of restrictions by limiting the time children spend on the internet, and also filters the data content available to them. The tremendous growth of social media has caused the youth to share unnecessary information on the internet making them vulnerable to sex predators, kidnappers, child molesters, identity theft, bullies, and so on. In his Blog, Suren Ramasubbu the Co-founder and CEO of Mobicip.com observers that “According to a report by Common Sense Media, 75% of teenagers in America currently have profiles on social networking sites, of which 68% use Facebook as their main social networking tool” (Ramasubbu 2017). Ramasubbu went on to emphasize that while social media clearly plays an important role in social connection and technical skills, it risks cannot be unnoticed in the life of the youths. The difficulties with self-control and defenseless to peer pressure makes teenagers helpless with such problems as social depression, social needs, sleep deficiency, and cyberbullying which are deemed realistic threats.