Argumentative Essay On Social Media

Social media is a game changing invention but it has come with a hefty amount of backlash. When I was younger I didn’t have a phone and social media was nothing compared to how it is now present day. It’s astonishing just how far the internet and social media have come. Not just when it comes to how advanced or how widespread they’ve become, what shocks me is just how influential social media has become. It’s almost borderline unsettling how much humans as a whole rely and depend on social media for nearly everything they know or want to discover. Social media has become not only a way to locate others and communicate with others but a way for people to learn and stay informed and aware of what goes on outside the doors of their cozy little nook. Looking back to my childhood days, I recall lounging on the couch with my mother in the morning watching news on the television but now that has become a distant memory if I need news today, I get it from social media on my cell phone. The poor television in the living room has become obsolete from lack of use because of a boost in social media's involvement with news and correct political issues.

Your behavior on social media can hurt your business, leadership, influence, and even destroy personal relationships. No I’m not overstating it. Today’s social media world seems filled with so-called trolls, toxic personalities, and people who just love to rant online. Are you one of these people?

Social media is a very big deal in today's society, teenagers use it to socialize, find information and for entertainment. The first thing we could find on social media is really nice comments on teens photos. The second thing we could find is teens speaking out and being heard. Social media is helpful to teens because it boosts their confidence and lets teens have a voice. Despite this, some people say social media leads to cyberbullying, but only a small percent of teens said it made them feel less.

Although social media can be beneficial for communication with family, long distance friends, and learning new things and seeing new interesting things, it can also be dangerous to someone who does not know how to use social media or is new to it. Social media is harmful in today’s society; like Facebook, and snapchat, should enforce privacy more heavily to avoid social anxiety, sexual harassment crimes,and communication.

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.

As a child grows up, everything they are exposed to affects their personality and shapes them into their own person. The schools they attend, the television shows they watch, and the people they are around can influence their ideology of the world and their place in it. Some people view social media (YouTube, Instagram, Musical.ly, Snapchat, etc.) as a good way to distract their children and keep them entertained, but children should not be allowed to spend a majority of their time on social media accounts. Some parents may argue that they should not shield their children from reality, but it is important to reduce the amount of social media children are exposed to, in order to reduce the amount of biased information and prejudice they may have.

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.

As a mother to an exceptionally smart 16 month old girl, I see firsthand how the face of technology and social media has changed the world we live in today. My daughter is so young, and yet I still catch myself resorting to the use of my phone to keep her entertained in public places. She knows how to work my phone without my help. I think as a parent this is our go to move in order to keep our children from throwing temper tantrums and being disruptive. Growing up I was not allowed to get a cell phone or have any sort of social media accounts until I was sixteen years old. Today, I see six and seven year olds with cell phones and internet access. I personally am a firm believer in social media. I think it is a great way to communicate with friends and family in other places, but how much is too much? As millennials, are we raising our own children to have addictive personalities?

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,

5000 hours of online observation, done by Southern California University, found that the digital world is creating new opportunities for young people to grapple with social norms, explore interests, develop technical skills, and work on new forms of self-expression that wasn’t possible before social media existed(Goldberg). This brings us to a crippling question that have people on either side of the argument, is social media truly beneficial for society? There are stats that can be found for either position to state their arguments, however, no one can ignore the actual facts that should lead people to realize that social media is beneficial to society.

We have brilliantly created social media, 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. The news outlets alert us 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 we can and cannot post. A man-made controversy, what’s new? The creators of social media made it for connecting and re-connecting, yet we seem to draw ourselves farther away from society by it. It is an extremely complicated issue that we need to address. However, there is a way to use this space 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. We have used and abused social media and because of this we should now carefully examine and discover the pure and true use for such a powerful communication

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.

In the age of social media, the world is greatly capable of connecting with others globally, “According to estimates, the number of worldwide social media users reached 1.96 billion and is expected to grow to some 2.5 billion by 2018” (“Statista”). Whether or not these connections are meaningful, are debatable. Especially when the number of those with social media accounts don’t match up with the number of people at protests. When social issues are now more blatant than ever due to social networking, the idea of social change through the use of social media is being tested daily. However, that “assistance” from social media might be doing more harm than good and creating a platform where entropy is taking hold instead. Although social media acts as a great tool to spread news and gather people, it isn’t sufficient enough to be what solely powers social change. Especially when it isn’t being properly utilized to help society reach real change.

Social media is defined as being a series of websites and apps that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. However authors such as Derek Thompson view social media as a “virus” that is spreading across the generations. My generation specifically has been affected the most by social media since we are more emotionally invested in the content on social media instead of with one another. Social media is information that is“,spread in short bursts and die quickly” The author Sherry Turkle theorizes that social media is standing between the ability to make meaningful conversations. As a result of the diminishing of genuine conversations there is a decrease in people's ability to empathize with others thus causing more youths to lose their sense of identity. Social media has changed how we as a generation see ourselves as individuals. Turkle states from one of her interviews that “,all interactions, certainly, have an element of performance. But online, she feels involved in her performances to the point that she has lost track of what is performance and what is not.” (24). Turkle is essentially stating that social media has caused us to place masks upon our true identity. We wear these masks to meet this idea of perfection and because of this, we no longer know who we truly are. We have lost ourselves behind the masks. Social media is becoming a virus of perfection giving my generation a skewed view of who they should be and what