Persuasive Essay On Social Media

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.

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.

In our project, we decided to shift our audience from mostly middle-aged men in our discussion board to families with young children on Facebook. This shift in who we chose as our audience really affected our project the most, because it changed our perspective to overall gun control to gun safety, and more importantly gun safety around children. Narrowing our viewpoint like this really helped our argument, because it allowed us to be more concise in what we said, and the way in which we presented our argument. For example, we know that a lot of our parents use Facebook, and so we decided to use Facebook as our platform, because it reaches a lot of parents, which was our target audience. In doing this, I think that we were successful in our arguments and how we presented them.

Emerson claims that people should be able to be confident and not care what others have to say about them. His argument is viable today because social media makes humanity feel insecure in many ways. Most of our society judges or makes funny jokes of people’s appearances on social media into making them feel insecure. The bullies mostly only do it online because they know they can escape since they are behind a screen and not in front of their face. There are many crowds who are afraid to go out into the real world. According to Elite Daily, an article on insecurity, “It's easy to forget that people only post their best moments and choose to keep all their worst ones private. Your life may fall short of someone's picture perfect one, but more often than not, so does the life of whomever posted it.” Most of the population only post pictures they feel confident about and look cute. They choose to not upload or delete the worst ones they have of themselves. Elite Daily argues, that social media has made mostly everyone obsessed with making life look perfect for ourselves. Some humans around the world have a mindset of needing to look perfect in the communities. For Example, most women do their full on face makeup everyday and spend lots of time trying to find the perfect outfit to look fabulous. They still wish to have a perfect body therefore they end up assimilating plastic surgery. According to Odyssey, an article on insecurity by social media, “We feel good posting a picture on our profiles that makes us happy, but happiness only lasts as long as it takes to find yet another picture that makes us feel as though we need to do better. Everyone should post what makes them feel good, especially ones with authenticity. But I truly think what needs to change is how we focus on life as a whole.” Society should not be able to only focus on their looks but also need to focus on other important things in life too. Soon, they will take better pictures and be even happier than the last picture. When someone receive a low number of likes on their picture, they automatically know “that makes us feel as though we need to do better” and upload a cuter picture. The author of Odyssey states, he/she should be able to feel

Social media is a huge place for businesses to grow, and all large or small companies should have accounts interacting with their given audience. Consumers thrive off of social media, so when they see a brand using witty marketing, it will appeal to them! However, there are some brands totally killing the game of social media, whether it be witty or downright hilarious. Here are five companies you should check out right now.Staples' Twitter account and their tweets are relatable on a spiritual level for people who work in an office setting. With it being so relatable to people who do work in that setting, the company has been able to easily connect with viewers and have a huge social following. Not only does Staples have office drone tweets, but they also connect with their followers by

Many people have described the Internet as “a whole new world.” From Facebook to Google, there are a multitude of ways to connect with others and acquire information like never before. According to Pew Research Center, seventy-six percent of social media users in the United States use Facebook daily (Social Media Fact Sheet).That is an immense amount of connections and information being shared. The United States has made many technological advancements for the good, however, the United States has given up their privacy for safety and convenience.

Social Media allows people to keep up with what others are doing and share what they are accomplishing. It provides a direct liberation for someone who wants to share their feelings and beliefs, all they must do is type what they are thinking and then click the post button and their friends or followers will see what they have posted. Happiness is a feeling that people strive to have, philosophers have written their ideas about how someone can become happy and how to have The Good Life, whether it be through religion, or by not caring. Philosophers such as Aristotle, Saint Augustine, and Epictetus have their own ideas of what makes the Good Life, and people that use social media have aspects of the philosopher’s ideas in the ways they use the sites. Although, there are multiple other ways to happiness, and people are diverse; therefore, their Good Life is different from another’s. Social media can contribute to a person’s happiness through the unique aspects it presents for each person. People also have basic needs that social media fulfills, they use the sites to communicate, and to have vindication from others from what they are doing. Social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have positive and negative influences on the lives that people live.

Social media tricks people into believing others are living a rather lavish life, more than they 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 to take the perfect picture. Even I can admit how self-centered I really am, my whole Instagram over explodes with pictures of just me, when I don’t get enough likes or comments I sometimes delete it as I think it’s not good enough.

Out of the variety of news sources such as TV, radio, or newspapers, one of the popular sources in today’s world is social media. People are getting addicted to and can’t live without social media such as Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. They use social media as of where they can post their status but also where they can receive a lot of different news. While social media are spreading any kinds of news such as trend, celebrity or even politics, people easily get the information that is not true called “fake news.” The fake news raises the major problem in social media as the news source. Once people see the news, they tend to believe and share it. Liking can spread out fake news in a second. When people like the news, the activity

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.

Youth are like magnets. They will latch on to the most popular trend whether it be clothes or shoes, beneficial or harmful. Children yearn to be cool, popular, and accepted. With these natural contained qualities, children are bound to come across social media, specifically a well-known site, Facebook. A site that enables communication. A site that might cause a child to be “lame” if not having an account. Whether or not children under thirteen should become users on this social media extravaganza is a regularly discussed topic. Some may argue against it simply because of the expected dangers that come along with any social network, but some believe that kids under thirteen should be allowed to partake in this site just as everybody else. These advocates are insightful. With considering the beneficial factors of Facebook including educational purposes and social development coupled with protective parenting, children under thirteen should most definitely have the deserved right of joining a quest they are regardless destined to pursue, Facebook.

Twitter is an online social platform that connects people from all over the world. It is one of the largest online platform alongside Facebook and Google. Twitter is a very flexible platform and it offers wide range of usage ranging quick news access to marketing and promotions to general communication medium. Thus, being able to interact on Twitter successfully can be a very useful skill. There are four steps in using and engaging on Twitter and these are access Twitter, create your Twitter Account, set up your Twitter account and finally, interact on Twitter.