Negative Effects Of Social Media On Teens

In the article “ Teenage Social Media Butterflies May Not Be Such A Bad Idea “ by Melissa Healy, social media isn’t as bad as you think. According to Amori Yee Mikami teenages are using social media to communicate with their friends and not strangers . Some adolescents count their parents as their friends on social networking sites. According to a L.A. psychology professor kaveri Subrahmanyam says children on and offline have the same relationship on social networking sites and in reality . Another thing Subrahmanyam said was that teens use social media in wayś that don't harm their well being. Some teens that struggle with depression or other type of behavior are most likely to be bully or harass, and also take online risks such as sexting

Social media seems to be changing how we communicate through society. Adolescents are consumed with media for an estimated 7.5-8.5 hours per day (Georgia, 2014; Giedd, 2012). Instead of interacting with each other face to face adolescents are socializing through their phones (George, 2014). The purpose of the paper was to research how social media affects the brain, sleep, and cyberbullying (Lemola, Perkinson- Gloor, Brand, Dewald- Kaufmann, & Grob, 2014; Mills, 2014; Betts & Spenser, 2017).

In 2014-2015 over 21% of teenagers have been cyberbullied. The effects of being cyberbullied include, usage of alcohol and/or drugs, skipping school, poor grades, have low self-esteem, have more health problems, and depression (What is Cyberbullying). Victims of cyberbullying are twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who haven’t experienced cyberbullying. Each year, approximately 4,500 teenagers commit suicide due cyberbullying and bullying. Self-harm is also common to victims of cyberbullying; the amount of teenagers who commit suicide and self-harm due to bullying rise along with the usage of social media.

Smartphones, although easy and convenient, can also make it easy and convenient for people online to get bullied, which can often lead to depression. We have probably all seen it happen before: some bully decides to comment something mean about someone else to try and hurt their feelings or put them down. Hurtful comments and posts like that can increase teen’s chances of developing depression if nothing is done to stop them. Statistics show that 20% of teens will experience some kind of depression before they are adults. Although not every case of depression is caused from cyberbullying, I believe that the number of cases has increased due to the increase in smartphone and social media use. In Kelly Wallace’s CNN article “Half of Teens Think

One in 12 high school students has attempted suicide in the past year due to social media (Rosen 2). The problem with social media is that, it's causing changes in eating and sleeping habits (Rosen 4). Depression is also taking a major role in this negativity (Rosen 3). Social media is said to be the leading cause of depression and anxiety (Ring 1). Teens are being diagnosed with disorders due to social media (Rosen 3). 10,000 adolescents showed that almost 1 in 3 teens have an anxiety disorder (Ring 1). Social media is destroying teens

Modern media such as T.V., films, and social medias (mainly Tumblr) frequently advertise a parade of skinny models and actresses. These appearances, more often than not, make teenage girls self conscious about their weight and physical appearance. Anorexia is most common around females, especially women. “47% of girls in the 5th-12th grade reported wanting to see weight loss because of magazine pictures.” Success and worth are often associated with being thin and/or skinny. Peer pressure plays major roles in a teenager’s environment and peer pressure may help fuel the desire to be “perfect”, and to be perfect, you have to be thin.

The phone you have in your hand or back pocket may be doing more harm to you then you think. The device you allow your child to use may have content you would never let them see. The social media networks everyone browses can hurt you more than throwing a brick at a window. Using the internet and technology has increased risks of many problems. People can suffer from mental illnesses, being hacked, having personal information shared, and become less social. The internet can be an amazing resource for students, adults, or the general population as an inquiry tool; however the internet has a negative impact on American youth’s mental and social growth.

I think Social media has a mostly Positive because you could talk and be entertain for adolescents.

Visualize this: It is almost time to eat dinner, and the teenagers have not bothered to do their homework because they have been preoccupied with social media all afternoon. They are spending a majority of their time taking pictures and posting them for ‘likes’ to fit in with everyone else, or they are stalking other people’s posts and pictures, wondering why their lives are not as thrilling as the others’ lives appear. Worst of all, kids of all ages are committing suicide after being cyberbullied to the point that they cannot take it anymore. Picturing it now? Regrettably, that describes the scenery of how their generation is now – the effects of social media on young people are horrifying.

Students mostly use slang words or shortened forms of words on social networking sites. They start relying on the computer grammar and spelling check features. This reduces their command over the language and their creative writing skills.

In this day and age, it is rare to come across someone who doesn’t own a smart phone,

For Freshman Lyana Delgado at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, social media was key in establishing relationships with her neighbors before school started. By joining a Facebook group for residents of Bromley Hall, meeting her neighbors was not an uncomfortable or awkward task. (Rodriguez). This is just one of the many ways that social media sites, like Facebook, help guide face-to-face interaction and aide in creating relationships. Social media sites help teenagers meet people that have similar interests and experiences as them.Social media sites are not detrimental to teenagers because it allows teenagers to meet other likeminded people, and it makes young adults feel better about themselves.

Paragraph 1: Social Media’s effects on students. I chose this topic, because I know what it’s like to start a homework assignment and in less than 5 minutes pick up my phone and hop on Instagram, because of my fear of missing out (FOMO). I end up wasting valuable time on checking to see what everyone else is doing every couple minutes and wonder why I get a low grade on an assignment. I wanted to see if and how much social media and FoMO affects student’s behavior and motivation and in turn damages their GPA. I want people to become more aware of how much time they actually spend studying versus studying 50% of the time and then being on your phone the rest of the time. Therefore, they can manage their time wisely and maybe even turn off their phone while trying to get work done. In order to find confirm this I would need to find out what student’s GPAs were like a couple decades ago before the invention of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc. to compare to student’s GPAs with the invention of social media around. I would also have to understand a student’s perspective on why they spend so much time on social media by asking a couple of questions on a survey.

Some of the top benefits of social media over the years are that it is free to anyone, the content can get out to resources virtually immediately, and it can be delivered to a wide variety of people. For these reasons, communication through social media has become an extremely accessible and convenient way to communicate. It is also popular for those who need to be in contact with others. One example that comes to mind is a teenager who goes away on a trip to visit a friend or family. They can be hundreds of miles away but still talk to their parents as if they weren’t. Another example is a person who is shy and has a hard time making friends face-to-face, social media sites are a great way to meet people and build relationships.

8). Some teenagers sleep with cell phones right beside them, or under their pillows, and are waken up to check their phones every time they hear a beep. These acts cause such horrible and severe health problem as mentioned above. Social media is a “place for hope;” however, on social media, we “invent ways of being with people that turn them into something closer to objects” (Turkle 153, 168). Due to this, social media has gradually become a platform for cyber bullying and sexting. When teenagers bully, they treat each other like objects. They say mean words to each other that sometimes break others hearts. Cyber bullying can cause abnormal fears, poor appetite, alcohol abuse, and probably death. Kirby, a kid who committed suicide, left a note for his parents saying: