Argumentative Essay On Social Media

Nowadays, a lot of people are using social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler and so on. Since the Internet has propagated rapidly, social media have progressed a lot. The generalization of the internet makes us to live conveniently and fast. People are almost using smart phones, i-phones or comfortable devices which can access to internet. These equipments make us to do social network easily. It helps contact friends, family, and other people even though they live far away. It could be, however, abused, if you don’t use properly. Especially, it is important that we understand and regulate the use of social media by young children.

Social media shows that in the United States, there have been several terror attacks that have been claimed by ISIS, a terror group from Iraq. These terror attacks are shown on daily newscasts and have influenced social media pranks. The people from ISIS can be confused with an American of the Arab community due to the hijab and accessories they wear. In Brown et al. (2017), researchers found that children often associate their beliefs with what they have seen on social media. So when asked how they perceive those from Arab communities “Children's responses indicated stereotypes associating the Arab Muslim male target as more anti‐American and hostile and the Arab Muslim female target as more oppressed than others, both consistent

Thesis: There has been research performed and studies conducted to proclaim that the use of social media can increase our risk for depression.

There is a transformation happening today that is completely changing the way that we do things. The ways that we are communicating are shifting from face to face interactions to short, interactive messages. Technology seems to be making it easier to stay connected, but it is restricting our interactions with others and leading to isolation.

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.

Over time we have come to live in an era where technology is rapidly growing. We use the internet for many different things in our day to day life. Whether it is research, work, or even entertainment, how safe is all this information that we are revealing? Internet users are finding themselves running into privacy issues, with updates or unknown factors know to the common user. Social networks have been around for years now, and from the looks of it, it will only continue to expand. In 2004 Internet entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg and other his partners have created what is now one of the widespread of social networking sites, Facebook. Social media has become such an influence on society, it's unique characteristics give the public a real inside glimpse of an individual. Facebook, as I like to call it “the root to all evil” is a huge invader of privacy and I’ll tell you why. This popular social network has come to cause millions of users to have personal conflicts directly related to social media. Social networking sites, such as Facebook, indeed threaten our privacy. A few ways our privacy is violated is by storing personal information, routine updates, and tacking users web use.

Social media is, generally, any online platform that promotes communication between your friends. Social media often allows users to post pictures or words to express themselves and let his or her friends know what is going on in his or her life. Being a new and evolving thing, obviously us as humans are going to create controversy about this new technology’s effects on the brain and body- whether they be good or bad. Most people believe anything they hear about social media’s effects on attention span, or its effects on people’s own view of themselves; no one ever talks about the benefits of social media though. Social media is a mostly good thing, and here is why.

Natalie, a 14 year old girl, lays trembling in bed on a Tuesday night feeling scared, nervous, and isolated. Her mind is racing with a million thoughts about school, her friends and family, her home life, and many other concerns. She hasn’t spoke in two weeks and her parents are concerned for their daughters health because of her unusual behavior and her changing personality. Across the street Jeremy, a 15 year old boy, is severely depressed about something that his parents don’t know about. He is constantly on his phone and is always complaining. His parents also, noticed that he compares himself a lot with his closest friends. The next morning, Kristin, a 17 year old girl, is in a job interview and she knows that she has every attribute for getting the job. She has dreamed of having this job ever since she was a little girl and she is very hopeful she will have it. After the interview she walks out crying so much she has a headache. For some reason she didn’t get the job, and it is very devastating for her. You might be asking yourself, “what caused all this to happen to these teens?” The answer to that question is...social media.

When I was a child, many years ago, there was very few social media sites. Facebook was only for college students, twitter, and Instagram both hadn’t been established yet, and myspace was the thing to do for young teenagers like myself. I was all into social media back then, always updating my myspace top friends, keeping the best music on my profile, making sure my picture is on point, etc. I did these things because I had time to do these things, and I was able to leisurely spend my evenings checking up on different social media sites. When making sure no one would be mad at my top 5 friends list, that is the least stressful time in my life. Because now people expect so much more from you than just that. A lot of people ask for a lot, but give very little back in return. That is one reason I stopped messing around with a lot of social media, as well. Family I never talked to in my life would ask me for loans, and different favors. ‘Friends’ would feel like it would be necessary to post everything about our lives on social media. I am completely for Social Media, and this world we live in, but we must be very careful, because it can engulf us in the simplistic aspect of it. It is so simple to just unlock your phone, and check any social media site, post on any of them, and see what others are doing through their posts, so why wouldn’t you love to be on social media all the time? It is fun, until it starts affecting your real life. That is where this thing, Social Media,

In this age of social media, we are constantly worried about being popular. We are driven by “likes,” “comments,” and “followers.” Not caring what our peers thought, our middle school selves posted anything and everything. Now, as seniors and having had access to social media for an abundance of years, we are far more cautious about what we post but not in the way you might imagine. Instagram is a resourceful tool but, if used incorrectly, could impair your social status.

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.

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?

Ring! Ring! Ring! Do you hear that? That’s the sound of technology calling you. You can't keep ignoring it and sending it to voicemail. Sooner or later, you're going to have to pick it up, and when you do, it'll open a whole new world for you, a world of technology. We as inhabitants of the "Digital Age", have no choice but to embrace technology. Doing otherwise, will only complicate our lives further, and make things more difficult. In this Digital Age that we are currently living in, technology is becoming more and more a part of our daily lives. One of the biggest aspects of the Digital Age, was the introduction of social media. Social media makes our lives so much easier by connecting us and allowing us to share valuable information with one another. It's no coincidence that the use of social media has spread to our youth. However, some are debating whether this is a good or bad thing, as children and teens tend to be very impressionable. I for one believe that social media is beneficial to our youth, as it has proven to help increase their self-confidence, as wells as helping them create, and improve real world relationships. Despite this evidence however, some still believe that social media is harmful rather than helpful.

Today, we continue our advancement of new technologies and inventions throughout the world. Social media platforms thrive in the populations and is well known to everyone to be able to share ideas and deliver messages across the globe. However, there is a dilemma, with the growing popularity of users and consumers, others see social media as a tool to establish business, influence and intimidation. The world is filled with people who take superiority to those who are naive. Social media has many drawbacks in the progression of the modernized world, people should be aware of the detrimental effects of social media in our globe.

When it comes to connecting ideas and people in our modern era, there is little doubt that social media brings a plethora of benefits to the masses. The key differentiator is obtaining the audience necessary for making an event successful. For the National Day on Writing, we will focus on Facebook in particular, and the analysis of the audience we will be targeting.