Argumentative Essay On Social Media

Social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) offers infinite connections and the ability to express oneself to the world. But are these connections and images of self-based upon fact or fiction? Through selective self-presentation, people often present the “ideal self” instead of the “actual self” in the online environment to achieve the feeling of positive self-esteem. In “The Way We Live Now: I Tweet, Therefore I Am”, Peggy Orenstein writes of how her Twitter posts reflected an idealized version of her life. Two studies support the hypothesis that such editing can have a positive effect on personal self-esteem. “Mirror, Mirror on my Facebook Wall: Effects of Exposure to Facebook on Self-Esteem” by Amy Gonzales presents a study demonstrating

On the contrary, social media is known as the utmost ways to communicate with others through precise emotional signs. The online communication takes various signals away. For example one of the signals is, over the phone, one can hear the change in a person’s tone, or the ominous/menacing pause that sends a message for one to back off. But, the jokes and snide comments aren’t the only problem, there is also a hostile behavior. An incident, was when Devon, a thirteen year old, asserted that a friend would claim that she spread out rumors about him. Devon even claimed that the boy is a quiet adolescent, but throughout the posts he would express himself by capitalize letters and punctuated by endless exclamation marks, the young teenager claimed she felt as in her friend was screaming in her face. Sometimes kids act differently on behind the screen meaning when being on a social website such as Facebook because they feel more secure to behave like that on a computer and not in person. One feels the powerful behind the computer screen and do not realize the actions they make towards the other

We all currently live in a day and age when we may have a social media account and possibly even thought of having one . I’ve watch many people use social media to define their character as a human being. The poem “The Facebook sonnet” by Sherman Alexie show a real life way of how Facebook has been portrayed.This poem shows more than just a sarcastic way of how life is but reading further shows the reality of what this life has become. Many people hide behind a computer screen being someone they are not . Many people are unable to show true character through the screen. I’ve watched people unable to grow because they have self-esteem issues along with face-to-face conversation with someone they know but are more comfortable explaining feeling over screen. These 14 lines of this sonnet shows a great explanation of this real world in a dangerous way by not allowing one to grow within the human brain and self identity.There's a whole new term “friend” that no longer has same meaning anymore thanks to the internet world.

The posting of statuses in Facebook is not just for communication but rather to shape understanding for self and to create normative ways of transgressing or sometimes acting. Sauter also argues that writing is a way through which people can shape their lives realities and relations often in an unconscious way. Facebook is a modern communication platform that people use to shape their ethics, values understandings and beliefs. The use of technological tools is becoming more and more involved in people daily lives and conduct. The techno- social hybridity plays a major role in the modern societies by shaping self-formation and practices of people. Self-writing has become one of the major activity in human technologies, networks and other entities. Self-writing provides the practice that governs human conduct and re-shapes human behavior in the modern psychological

Social networking sites are often a platform used to create a sense of self that does not exist, one that is valued by society, and/or one that seeks attention. Individuals are creatures of expression that yearn for attention towards their feelings. For instance, the Steve Stephens murder incident on Facebook during Easter. Steve Stephens used the featured Facebook Live to express his feelings towards things that were going on in his life that caused him to go into a state of depression. In these videos, he shared that he attempted to talk to love ones and no one bothered to listen to him.

In order to understand the effect that social media has on self-esteem, we need to understand the construct of self-esteem. According to Coopersmith’s definition, self-esteem is “the evaluation which the individual makes and customarily maintains with regard to himself: it expresses an attitude of approval and indicates the extent to which an individual believes himself to be capable, significant, successful and worthy. In short, self-esteem is a personal judgment of the worthiness that is expressed in the attitudes the individual holds towards himself.” (p. 4–5) To put it more simply, self-esteem is the attitude that people have toward their own values.

However when I am attentive, interested or generally care I love spending one hundred percent of my mental energy on absorbing and memorizing what someone said. If I meet someone new and interesting in pottery club and am not racing against any deadlines, I will take all the time that is necessary to have a deep and meaningful conversation. Also I use what I remember about the conversation to build a better picture of what that person is really like. Most people seem to have a front and a true identity. Their front is whatever they are posting about on their Facebook wall. Vacations, family members celebrations, personal achievements, new stuff they just bought on sale are all examples. Then there is the potentially contrasting real self that overslept, missed a spot shaving, has bad breath or just feels ugly today. Personal struggles, with esteem or belonging that are intended to be hidden from everybody else, because they are kind of a weakness and if exploited by the wrong person those weaknesses can scar. Or sometimes the world knows something about someone that they have not even admitted to themselves yet.

2. Like I mentioned before, three studies with three methods were made in this study. The first method is based on self-protective orientation, which is basically for people with low self-esteem. People with low self-esteem can find Facebook appealing, and that is the reason why they can be more careful in what they can avoid to post. They can avoid several things, like awkwardness and face-to-face interactions. Their hypothesis was that even though people with low and high self-esteem connects with others trough Facebook, Facebook should be seen as an opportunity to gain support. In the first method they used eighty undergraduate Facebook users that completed the Rosenberg Self-Esteem scale. In this scale there were three

Although, I believe social media is an extraordinary platform to share thoughts and ideas, it truly does have a lasting effect on how we portray ourselves to be. Through various social media platforms, which include Facebook, Instagram, and others make it easily accessible to mainly focus on the crucial moments in our lives. These applications allow humans to present themselves as being acceptable to the social norm. Naturally, as humans, we enjoy having this idea of a perfect life and to do so, we display pictures that make us appear as having a socially acceptable life. One study a few years ago found that Facebook use was less linked to both less moment-to-moment happiness and life satisfaction. We as humans, compare ourselves to

Social media plays a huge role in today’s society. We are in the modern age, where Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media sites are important aspects of most people's lives. However, there is one significant problem with this modern generation that we live in. How do you actually know someone based on their social media post/ statuses? Therefore, the way we portray ourselves on social media might not necessarily be who we really are as a person. Depending on the audience of the social media sites, most people show a different side of themselves. In most cases, social media can be used to show rhetorical appeal to an audience.

Konnikova’s article How Facebook Makes Us Unhappy has multiple examples on how Facebook may be affecting us. “We want to learn about other people and have others learn about us- but through that very learning process we may start to resent both others’ lives and the image of ourselves that we feel we need to continuously maintain” (Konnikova, page1). This becomes exceptionally true, on Facebook many users have a different persona, social media allows its users to step away from reality and become whomever they are willing to portray. For example, many users do

One form of social media that has highly impacted the way we interact with others is Facebook. Facebook has caused us to devalue ourselves and devalue others, resulting in less authentic interpersonal relationships. This social media site has blurred our self concepts as we seek fulfillment through others. Social media allows us to create the image of the person we want to be rather than the true person we are.

Social sites are a beneficial way to communicate, however, it affects a person’s ability to communicate face to face with others. Many people spend much of their leisure time online rather than connecting with the offline world. In a specific article, a participant spends several hours each day updating her profile instead of talking face to face with others (Livingstone 399). Being online more than offline, decreases people’s abilities to interact with others who are disconnected. Furthermore, by communicating online also contributes to misrepresentation, which leads to misreading a text, leading to mixed emotions of a person who wrote the message. Therefore, social networking reduces an emotional aspect between people as it is hard to tell what a person is feeling through text. In addition, people lack confidence talking to an individual physically rather than virtually. In an

Many would say Facebook is a major part of their lives, and I can’t blame them, I used to feel the same way, back when I used to have a Facebook. Though, I soon found it to be a drama ensued playground. A place where cyberbullying was made a synch, and nothing is private. “Facebook seemed like a big deal in high school, so I got one. But as time progressed and I became more mature it seemed like it was nothing but a waste of time and it was all drama. So I deleted it.” A fellow classmate stated. For instance, a dear friend of mine was

Social media is a medium in which people post about whatever they deem necessary. According to Sherry Turkle’s book Alone Together, a vast majority of teens also use it to create a name for themselves and to pretend to be someone else; someone they want to be. However, in analyzing my social media, it was very difficult to find any trace of what kind of character I was attempting to portray. One similarity that I can see between Turkle’s analysis of social media and my personal account is that my account does portray a type of person that I aspire to be. Online, I am in some unconscious way making a name for myself, but the problem arises when there are no differences between my social media self and my real self. Online I portray myself as a chill, relaxed person and my Facebook reflects that very well. I am not here to impress anybody and I do not share anything for any other reason besides the fact that I enjoyed that thing. I post when I feel I need to yet looking deeper into my likes and shares there are some small, significant patterns between what I like and how it affects my image.