Persuasive Essay On Social Media

The consequences of social media usage among adolescents are prominent throughout the film, Generation Like. Generation Like is a PBS film that dives into adolescents' relationships with social media, empowerment, and online behavior. Social media impacts the way children socially develop. Around the ages of 9 to 11, children want to feel accepted and admired by friends as well as

We are dictated by social media. It’s controlling. It’s possessive. Yet, we haven’t even paused to realize it because as teenagers we don’t know any differently. With teens as the subject of example, it is clear that social media has become a way of life. So now there is a debate. What exactly is it that social media does to us? Is the teenage generation the first product of a world run by social media? Most importantly, is this a positive or negative thing for us? There are many different things to consider. With all factors in mind, the biggest question of all comes to mind. Since it first emerged, what has social media truly changed about today’s teen generation?

My personal thoughts on the impact of the social media by the PBS Frontline “Generation Like” video was very informative and showed how much I have been out touch with reality with the communication movement with today’s generation and how involved the social media plays a part in our lives. After carefully examining the video and looking back at past court cases, I believe the social media can be a double-edged sword for our adolescence teenagers. The media can either be positive or negative impact on our adolescence children. The video by PBS provided a transparent imagine how teens were able to accomplish a positive self imagine and fame on different social medias like Facebook, Twitter, and My Space to build their self confidence about themselves by communicating with their peers and on a global level of

In the film, a company called "The Cool Hunters," searchers for trendsetters. They find teens that "look outside their backyard for inspiration" according to Dee Dee Gordon who is a Teen Market Researcher. These people go out, take pictures of trendsetting teens, and interview them while posting publicly their findings. In result, more and more teen's spot what is on these sites, almost mimicking what they see is cool. Once that happens, these trends no longer are considered genuine. Due to the trends posted publicly, teens are receiving a less than authentic experience. This type of researching and advertising corresponds with Douglas Rushkoff's argument on how teen market and media are fixed into a "giant feedback loop." The researchers

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.

Do you really have privacy when you send messages or post a picture on social media or is the government watching your every move? Social media has been around for over a decade and continues to grow. On social media people have the freedom to say what is on their mind, so why would the government need to overview everything said and done on the internet? The government wants control over its people. The first amendment gives us freedom of speech, but on social media the government overlooks every conversation you have. Although your privacy is being striped with the government breathing down your back, I do understand that sometimes it is necessary for them to check what people are doing online.

When you correlate social media with a tech-savvy young adult, you can assume technology takes up most of our lives in the not so healthiest way. One of the ways we communicate with technology is through social media. Social media is a platform used for interaction towards different audiences. In addition However, social media has countless different platforms in today’s world. It is an essential part in people’s lives. Shaping the future, social media continues to become the innovation as time goes on. The social media platforms I often use are Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat. There are many benefits and reasons of social media platforms that explain why I use social media on a daily basis.

In the world of social media people from all over the world are able to connect. However, is this connection really good? Are strangers being able to view your every move ok? Why not social media? You as a social media user are in charge of what your audience is able to see, but at the age of 12 are you really capable of understanding this power and controlling it? Adolescents under the age of 18 should not be allowed to have a social media account, where they can encounter potentially dangerous and life threatening situations such as bullying, child molestation, and sex trafficking. The innocence and immaturity of a learning and growing child prevents them from understanding the potential online dangers they can encounter, such as

POTUS 45 On Facebook, there have been no posts on Donald Trump’s government page within the two-week period. The last post is dated 9th September 2017. The post is a shared post from Donald Trump’s son Facebook account.

To begin with, in “Are we slaves to our online selves” of Jules Evans states “Growing up in today’s online world must be difficult, because the very adolescent experiment, every awkward mistake, is out there online, perhaps forever (503)”. I totally agree with the author, because today’s society is more concerned about becoming popular and famous rather than caring about the ones that surround them. Social media has become a big part of our generation’s lives, people now on days are more in their cellphones than with people, and it can be both harmful and disappointing. Social media has a negative effect, for example, kids/teenager are more expose to cyberbullying, effects on social skills and also compromise education.

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.

As I watched Generation Like by Frank Koughan and Douglas Rushkoff, I noticed the teens were all of different race, background and social class. But one thing that they had in common was the strive to be accepted and liked by their peers. For example, Kaylie Lynch who is a sixteen-year-old who loves The Hunger Games and is recognized as a huge fan by the creators and her public social media, feels empowered by others noticing that she is associated with The Hunger Games just because one of the actors from the movie replied to her tweet. Another example is Taylor Oakley who started a YouTube channel after high school basically to have someone to talk to after all three of his best friends moved away to college. He felt that every view he had on his video was a friend he gained, a virtual friend that turned into real ones. The teens in Generation Like demonstrated the characteristics of Erikson’s Identity versus Role Confusion Stage.

The new generation is now using media as a form of socializing. Children use social media as a means to contact their friends, they use television as a way to relax, and kids play video games with their friends. Children are watching movies that are above their cognitive perception, and also playing video games that are rated above their age group. With all of the new media, it is starting to get hard to keep up. Cyberbullying has become an issue and violent video games have become normal.

Robin Henig and Maria Konnikova separately researched and wrote about the “millennial generation” and how different aspects are playing into the decline of maturation from adolescence into adulthood. Society around us changes every day which means the things you have to go through are different versus what other generations had to overcome. The world needs to take into account all of the ongoing norms that keep altering in generations today. Consequently, the technological world’s easy access to social media is what really needs to be focused on. Although social networking allows for great connections and even potentially expands your friend group, it is only causing a decline in social interaction around the world and in my opinion leading us as humans to more judgement, ridicule, and bullying. Moreover these acts of bullying are affecting Gen Y's adult years more than people are realizing, as it potentially results in psychological problems, wrong decisions, and even alters social interactions with others.

Every teenager hates when their parents relate back to their generation being in school and how it was so easy. The world needs to take into account all of the ongoing norms that keep altering in generations today. Society around us changes everyday which means the things you have to go through are different than what other generations might’ve had to overcome. Robin Henig and Maria Konnikova separately researched and wrote about this “millennial generation” and how different aspects are playing into the decline of maturation for adolescence into adulthood. Technologies easy access to social media today is what really needs to be focused on. Although social networking allows for great connections and even expands your friend group, Konnikova is right. Networking is only causing a decline in social interaction around the world and in my opinion leading us as humans to more judgement, ridicule, and bullying. The acts of bullying are affecting Gen Y's adult years more than people are realizing, as it potentially leads to psychological problems, wrong decisions, and even alters social interactions with others.