Negative Impact Of Social Media

Next time you are out in public, notice how many people are immersed in their cellular devices. I bet you will see a lot, and most likely these people are on their social media accounts. According to Brooke Lusk, the database and media manager for the Prevention Researcher, social media can be defined as, “an aspect of the internet which allows individuals and groups to create and publish online content, share the content, and interact about it.” These days, people are very involved with the internet and social media. Some think this is a benefit while others think this is a detriment for many reasons. Social media allows people to stay connected and explore new things, but there are many negative aspects that can affect self esteem, cause

It has become extremely common for an individual to sign into their Facebook account, and see a picture that they feel exposed a little too much. Check into their Instagram account, and regret letting everyone know what their location was. Feel uncomfortable, or bullied by a tweet that a person posted to their Twitter. Per Farheen’s article on negative effects of social media “participating in social media sites such as these can make you feel more connected” (Sagheer 1). It is not okay for individuals to feel victimized due to the negative effects of social media. Social media tends to distract, humiliate, and destroy one-self through entertainment. If people would donate more time to things more supplemental to their growth, and limit their use of social media, then maybe people would stop walking over the harm that social media presents to our community. Monitoring the time invested into social media will help eliminate most of the detriment, privacy issues, and bullying flowing through today’s society.

Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are commonly used among the younger generations, but can the excessive use of these apps cause mayhem? According to a new study conducted by the Family Technology Education Non-Profit Group, teenagers are spending nearly 9 hours a day on social media. The excessive use of social media is a bad influence on adolescents because of the negative impacts it has. Social media can cause direct impacts to the mental health, safety, and lives of its users. Teenagers need to ensure that they are being cautious and responsible while using different social media networks.

Five big negative impacts on social networking are privacy, lies, laziness, Closeness of family, and lack of communication ability. One of the biggest of these five impacts is the lack of communication aspect of social networking. I found that social media affects the way people talk and it also affects their ability to talk to someone in the real world. The source said that people who get too used to texting and emailing lose their ability to talk normally in the real world. Employers always go for the millennial who had the communication ability not just on text but in the real world too. Employers and people in higher generations also see that us millennials are using slang and words that aren’t even english. For example, a study found that millennials are using the “slang” that we use to text in the business world. Employers do not want to see this and it makes it hard for some customers to understand what the employees are saying. Second you have the privacy problem in social networking. I found that people are posting private things on social media and it is getting to their employers; leading to them not getting the job or getting fired from the job they had. This is really bad because people may have been just sending something to their friend that they don’t want anyone else to see but somehow it still reaches their supervisor and they get consequences. As a young adult i have to learn to get past these negative impacts so here are some ways to get around these

Many people enjoy using social media sites but again this, at times, create a risk to society. The fact that people can share photos, videos and messages via social platform, causes these tools to be misused by some individuals. Pornographic platforms have been developed whose uploads have resulted in ruining the younger generation who end up being involved in sexual activities at early stages in their life (Ahn, June. 2011). The fact that the younger generation can interact with older generation, exposes them to sexual predators. Malicious people take advantage of the innocence of children and entice them resulting sexual abuse.

In today’s society, technology plays a major role in our daily lives; technology goes forward with speed and offers people access to so many things that wouldn’t be possible if it weren’t around. The healthcare systems also are no exception; in fact, technology opens the doors to so many new ideas and job opportunities, and healthcare delivery has become a center of focus for technology. Social media is continuously growing and changed the way and improved the everyday activities with respect to health. Devices like smartphones, computers, tablets and program systems that we use in the medical field have benefited us in so many different ways to easier managing tasks and even help the healthcare professionals to improve the

Right off the bat, Teens are exceptionally subject to their gadgets in light of the fact that separated from schoolwork they are experts at spending the small hours of the night stuck to any electronic gadgets sharing, tuning in to music and different things youngsters are occupied with. Addiction usually refers to compulsive behavior that leads to negative effects. In most addictions, people feel compelled to do certain activities at lesser time, so often that it becomes a harmful habit, which then interferes with other important activities such as work or school.What they are unaware of is that studies have shown that the use of this so called ‘escape from reality’ can cause

Online networking platforms are causing a growth issue in social and relationship growth. An issue that not only affects southerners, but the entire modern world. This is becoming more evident in younger generations who have never known life without it. It has become necessary to limit and control our usage of these online networking resources. There are a few statements that can be proven that lead to this necessity: social media can create unnecessary problems in people’s lives, there are people who resort to social media for things that they shouldn’t, there are people who use online dating for the wrong reasons and hurt others because of it, online dating and social media has become a go to thing for people, and there are online networking platforms that undermine face to face interactions. There are still good things that can come out of online networking platforms, but it is high time people recognized the importance of limiting and controlling their usage of these online networking resources.

With the advent of the internet, social media platforms have become a form of mass communication. The large database of information and mobilization has led to the increased integration of social media in daily life. Along with the transition towards new societal institutions, controversy and exposure of the negative effects surrounds the stigma of social media. With the increase of street protests in the United States, people believe that social media may be the cause for the unrest and the continually perceived unsuccessful movements. Although social media creates a different dynamic in the diffusion of current social and political demonstrations, the evidence shows that social media increases participation, efficiency, and success for protests and social movements. Being an integral part of current and future demonstrations, social media’s benefits and consequences should be studied more.

Researchers have shown an increase in body or self-dissatisfaction and the linkage with social media (add names). Social networking sites promote specific body ideals for men and women, thus creating the latest trend, which women will follow. A study showed how young women will “blindly follow a trend if it can provide them with the qualities they desire, such as attractiveness and popularity, while disregarding the consequences to their health” (Verma and Avgoulos 2004). The wide audience social media reaches have begun to negatively effect girls as young as 7 years of age by making them think their bodies are not normal (Grabe, Ward, and Hyde 2008). Grabe, Ward, and Hyde say the extreme cases of these young women have been linked to critical physical and mental problems, including different eating disorders, low self esteem, depression and obesity (2008).

The first recognizable social media site, Six Degrees, was created in 1997. Users could upload a profile and make friends with other users. In the early 2000s, social media site such as MySpace and Linkedin gained prominence. Sites such as Photobucket and Flickr allowed users to share photos. In 2005, YouTube allowed people to communicate and shared globally. Facebook and Twitter went global in 2005 and remain the most popular social media networks today (Hendricks, 2013). The intent of social media was to allow people to remain in contact; however, people are feeling more alone and disconnected. Social media has a negative impact on close friendship development.

Picture a world where beauty is determined by society, where nobody can truly appreciate the content of their beings. This is the new world we are subconsciously creating, a world where social media encourages people to communicate and share their lives. The age demographic that is particularly predisposed to social media are adolescents, with teenagers spending every waking minute “online”. Despite the fact that the basis of social media is communication, it can have a negative impact on an adolescent’s ability to communicate with people in reality. Young individuals are expected by society to own the flashiest clothing, mobile phones, cosmetics and many more materialistic belongings. Social media certainly creates a false snapshot of people’s lives aiming to perceive lives of luxury and perfection which ultimately only further encourages creating false online interpretations of their lives.

Some researchers have observed that the decline in the reading habits of students is as a result of technological innovations such as social networking. According to Agwu and Kalu (2011), the abuse of new technologies contributes to students’ poor reading. They opined that in this era of information and communication technology, the general orientation of young people has unconsciously changed from reading and the love of books to these new technologies. They further emphasized that people now live in the generation of ipod, laptop, iphone, facebook, twitter and other social networking sites, thereby reading has been literarily sacrificed on the altar of modern technologies. While social networking has become a staple of social interaction, therein lays a great deal of potential dangers. Marsh (2012) noted that social networking sites like every good things, has a flip side as well. Sites such as facebook, MySpace and Twitter can also have a negative effect. He relented that social networking are time-consuming as students are gradually becoming addicted to them. The hours and time spent on these sites is enough to be used to acquire knowledge rather such study and useful time is spent social networking. This is the reason Bature (2010 as cited Mbachu, 2011), pointed out that, “a white man once said if you want to hide anything from a Blackman, hide it in a book”. In other words, social networking is taking greater part of students’ studying hours and the negative effects

“Hey did you see that thing on Facebook?” You hear that often in communication between people throughout society. Social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter are accessed on daily basis by most people that own a cell phone or a computer.

Our lives seem to be more and more consumed by technology as great advances in this area have continue to be made, especially when it comes to social media. Many researchers have begun to notice that depending on how much time individuals spend on these social media sites, they can negatively affect their daily lifestyle in very significant ways.  For example, social networking has become a huge distraction for students and it can affect their grades depending on how often they check their various accounts while doing class work.  Researchers have also come to find out that social media can contribute to the development of psychological symptoms