Up until May of 2017, you could call me an addict, enthusiast, fanatic, fiend, follower, junkie, or even a devotee. My fixation: social media. This particular hobby is wildly popular among my peers; those older, those younger; and even my parents. I tasked myself with going cold turkey. I decided to quit this down right waste of time and try to discover what life is like when I stopped looking to my phone for comfort. This vice of mine presented itself in two forms: Instagram and Twitter. Instagram is the perfect place to go if you want a jab to your self-esteem. Everyone posts happy, smiling pictures to make their lives seem superior to yours. This is just an illusion you see, but I, like many others, fell for its illustrious lure. I would refresh and explore, always looking at something I desired, failing to realize the trance I was put under. If I was away from Instagram for an hour I would get seriously stressed out trying to catch up with everything I missed. There is just something about knowing as much as you can about the people around you that makes it hard to look away. Twitter, on the other hand, was more relaxed. It was full of funny videos, late night thoughts, and the fifty-a-day birthday posts. Those stupid birthday posts. Why it felt more important for someone to wish you well over social media rather than in person I will never know. This platform was less fake than Instagram, but how real is anything on the internet? This, of course, did not matter to me
Social media tricks people to believe others are living a ravisher life than they really are. They post only the highlights of their lives, and never the negative. It makes others view them falsely and more presentable than they actually are, which makes those viewing their profiles feel less satisfied with themselves and their lives. There are even some people who drop all social media because of how terrible it makes them feel, but there are also others who thrive for the attention of social media and go through ridiculous tasks in order to take the perfect picture. There have been many disputes over how social media websites such as Instagram or Facebook affects ones self-esteem, it can knock them down.
Social media has been a topic of debate for years. Some people are strongly against any use of it while others like the instant connection it provides. A major concern over social media is the lasting effects it has on teenagers. Social media can affect teenagers through many ways including things like their self-esteem. Cyberbullying is a raging topic of discussion centered around teens social media use. It can also effect their people skills and create a lack of community involvement. Some parents think that watching what their children do on social media is an invasion of privacy but is your concern for their privacy greater than your concern for their safety? Social media poses a great danger to today’s children. It can affect many aspects of their lives.
Thesis: Stay in the present moment, don’t let yourself believe you’re going to forget a memory because you didn’t document it through social media.
Everyone knows that lying is bad. Then why is it allowed on social media? Since you are a kid you are taught to never lie. Even though everyone knows this they still lie on a daily basis using social media. About 85% of people have social media. How many people do you think are currently lying social media out of that? Social media deceives the viewers because people create fake accounts, photoshop, and spread untruthful things.
It's often hard to realize just how much time that you actually spend skimming through Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. What did you do when you were a kid? How did you spend an hour? I bet you were self-invested in a video game or a book, similar to how you are today.
The invention of social media has made it possible for friends that meet while traveling, or the family that has people all over, or even the family that all lives in the same neighborhood, to stay in touch and share their daily experiences with each other. Social Media has made it possible for a woman in Greeneville, TN, to talk to and write messages to her
During my “phase” I was acting too cool and trying to be popular. Feeling the need to fit in and hang with the popular crowd, I began to spend time focusing on social media. This led
The addiction to social media use destroys our mental health just as much as it does to only avoiding the urge to look at it. Social media addiction is a classified mental health issue that can require professional treatment. Researchers at Nottingham Trent University in 2011 concluded that this issue leads to an assortment of problems such as relationship dilemmas, academic decline, and less participation in physical interactions in which our social media will replace our ties in real life (Brown 6). In the article “Smartphones: Uniting the World’s Children for Better, or Worse?”, an addictive behavior is defined as when one compulsively repeats the same behavior that subjects things in his or her life to. The addictive behavior social media can bring upon a person is as detrimental as drug or alcohol addictions (Smartphones: Uniting the World’s 2). Being addicted to this will impair your mental state and your sole desire will be to log back onto your feed. Your mind will become bogged down with social interactions 24/7 and your mental health will deteriorate from social media
Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, just a few of today’s most popular forms of social media. These new outlets for media have grown vastly popular, especially for teenagers. Social media is meant for networking and connecting individuals. It is amazing how social media connects billions of people across the world. However could it be doing more harm socially than good? In today’s world teens and social media are inseparable. Every teen has a smartphone and they are constantly drawn to their screens. Whether at school or at a resturaunt, teens will frequently be seen with their heads down, staring at their phones, snapchatting tweeting etc. Teens feel more comfortable sending a snapchat than carrying a conversation in person. Which is understandable since no in-person confrontation happens through social media. So while social media connects teens online, it also disconnects them from real life. That being said, although communicating through the medium of social media may seem easier, teens should spend more time communicating with people in person in order to better focus, learn people skills, and develop strong relationships with others.
Many small business owners are wading in the waters of social media, struggling to figure out how to use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Snapchat (the list goes on...and on..) etc. to grow their brand. Although most small business owners are using social media in some capacity, it has become clear that developing a social media strategy is not as simple as it seems. It’s easy to believe that since millions of people are using social media, we should just be able to build brand recognition by simply posting content...right? Yet, when we start delivering content, posting well written blog posts, and making offers through our various social media channels, we find out that people may not be as interested as we originally believed.
How can we make social media unique once again? We define social media as a way to communicate and keep up with today news. Social Media like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat are the three mainstream media most of us use now for our daily lives. Although many people may disagree about changing the thing and making something new out it. Creating a new social media app that is made for communicating with communities and around the world with a unique feature.
What can we do to make social media unique once again? We define social media as a way to communicate and keep up with today's news. Social Media like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat are the four mainstream media most of us use now in our daily lives. Although many people may disagree about changing our social media it will help create a new future for everyone. Creating a new social media app that is made for communicating with the communities and around the world with a unique feature from each of the mainstream media that we use everyday to assist our lives.
Posting on various social media outlets such as Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram are outlets that the recent generations are prone to using. Being able to post online about yourself and showing the world who you are is the new thing to do. This also comes along with pretending who you are online getting caught in an unrealistic fantasy world. Be able to get away from your real life and going to your online fantasy life is what everyone seems to be doing. Many of these people will hide the ugly truths about what is actually going on in their lives, trying to prove to the world that their lives and who they are are perfect. Doing so, no one really sees the dangerous side to how social media and technology has been affecting our everyday lives. Between editing a picture of yourself to make you look skinnier or to fix your acne to try and fish for compliments from others they don’t even know seems to be okay. Behind the scenes, social media has been an ongoing issue for teens for decades because of one major issue called cyberbullying.
I was not sure what to expect when giving up Instagram, however, I did notice that I was more involved in conversations and living in the present. I often caught myself about to go on Instagram and begin scrolling through endless photos of trendy foods and perfect pictures of my friends, but before I fell into the trap of Instagram I stopped. I took a moment, turned off my phone, and focused on the present. Social media has such a large impact on our
Being addicted to social media is someone who spends too much time on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites, which interferes with their daily lives. When a person is continuously on social media it becomes an addiction, which causes them to loose focus of the importance around them (meaning their everyday lives.) When social media takes over a person life they start to seek it for social validation, fear of missing out, and finesse. Although some people use social media to stay in contact with family and close friends, many use it showing off like they've got it all together, leaving me to wonder the intentions of their post.