Social Media Negatives

According to the Pew Research Center, “41% of social media-users have experienced at least one negative outcome as a result of using a social networking site.” In this article, Norton uses logos, pathos, and ethos to explain his standpoint to his audience. Logos are used when Norton brings up the legal issues of social media such as privacy concerns. Bringing the reader into Norton’s own personal experiences of abuse and name-calling uses pathos. Finally, ethos are used indirectly in the article due to the fact that Norton is a writer and has experience with social networking and the negative impact it can have. Norton uses logos, pathos, and ethos by establishing evidence and logical points in his article to persuade his audience against using social networking.

As technology editing tools have become easier to use, many people have felt obligated to go on a photoshop epidemic every time they share an image to the world of social media. In a pervasive world where images of unrealistic standards fuel over the media on how one should look, social media has one of the most significant impacts in body dissatisfaction in today’s society. Throughout the last decade, social media has become one of the most common and favored ways for people to communicate, connect, and share. Thus, there have been many debates and discussions on whether social media has a positive or a negative impact in the way an individual perceive themselves. With the rapid growth and rise of smartphone usage among adolescents and young adults, social media outlets have become an essential part of one’s daily life. Today, when adolescents and young adults turn on their smartphones, often times, the first thing they will refer to is a social media site. It has become a place where they are exposed to news, images, and expectations. Thus, often times, these images, ideals, and expectations are ingrained in their brain and bombarded with what is considered to be beautiful in today’s society. Moreover, these unrealistic standards will often lead to a form of comparison, influencing them to take extreme measures. Although social media serves as a platform where people can connect, communicate, and share, it has a negative impact on one’s body image because it can lead to a

In the Information Age, social media has become the new top marketing platform for businesses. Whether big or small, businesses are turning to popular social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for their marketing strategies, since social media has become the new resource of large consumer outreach and high revenue increase.

Several studies show that social media can have a serious negative impact on an individual. A study by Forest & Wood (2012) shows a clear negative relationship between low-esteem users and their use of social media and how it jeopardizes their chances of creating meaningful relationships. Another study conducted by Pea et al (2012) show negative physical and emotional outcomes for young girls using social media. A study conducted by Lin et al. (2016) discusses how social media use is linked to depressive symptoms. Lastly, a study conducted by Verduyn et al. (2015) shows a negative relationship based on how users interact with social media leads to lower feelings of self-worth and emotional well-being. Social media is a staple of modern society and its use can have serious negative consequences. Making those effects apparent and understood by at risk individuals is imperative so they do not suffer damage unknowingly.

Social media is used daily and we spend too much time on it. Truong (2017), a Health News Writer for Refinery29 has said, Teen females that spend just 30 minutes or more on social media daily have a negative view about their body image. The photos posted on social media are unrealistic and make females feel bad about themselves. Social media like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter puts a lot of pressure on young females to look perfect and if they do not then they are not attractive. Some female teens will start a diet and even develop an eating disorder to look like the females in the media. Females teens spend too much time on social media causing them to have a negative view about their body image and we need to help them have a positive view about their bodies.

Have you ever wondered how life would be without social media? Would we be able to maintain communications with family, friends, and co-workers? Without social media, how could we impact the world and influence people? Would it be possible to unite people in times of need? There are many questions about what kind of impact social media has on the world. People are always trying to assess the impact of social media on society. “Social media remains new enough to receive credit and blame for a lot of things- good and bad- that are frequently overblown” (Lowrey). I’m arguing that social media makes a positive change on the world, because it connects people together, enables influence, and helps unite people in times of need.

In today's world, people view social media as either a social benefit or a social detriment. Social media helps us with our day to day lives like helping people connect with one another, determine whether or not someone would be fit for a job, and allows us to have easy access to news, but it does have its downfalls. Some of these downfalls include cyberbullying, overexposure, and making us to addicted to our technology.

Like most of my peers I related to the article, “Social Media Is Changing How College Students Deal With Mental Health, For Better Or Worse,” heavily. The article explained, in detail, how social media can affect the mental health of a first year college students. I agree with this article to an extent. I also think social media affects not only people my age, but younger generations as well.

Anyone who is online has seen food, transformation, or other health related images and videos on social media. Mass media has caused an enormous amount of controversy within the last few years concerning body image and what is politically correct. However, mass media’s impact on health can be beneficial if it is used the correct way. The social media aspect of mass media has become something that is involved in most people’s everyday lives; and it’s not going away anytime soon. Mass media posts need to be controlled so companies do not promote unhealthy, unrealistic body images; and instead endorse a healthy standard to benefit readers physically and mentally.

Social media use among adolescents has rapidly increased in developed nation and contributed in one of their favorite daily activities (Tartari, 2015). A survey conducted by Pew Internet & the American Life Project indicated that 75% of adolescents are currently associates with social media sites (Lenhart, Purcell, Smith, & Zikuhr, 2010). 22% of adolescents logs into their favorite social network sites more than once or approximately more than ten times per day (Common, Sense Media, 2009). Osbourne-Gowey (2014) disputes that social media is a collection of online applications designed for adolescents and individuals to achieve online interaction enhancement. Power (2014) illustrated that use of social media benefits adolescents with the capacity to develop friendships, communication, share information, collaborate, and modify users-generated content. However, it has led to various negatives and risks impacts on adolescents. The main of this essay is to discuss and examined the impact of social media on adolescents in developed nation. The focus will be on both positives, negatives and the risks social media impacts on adolescents.

With the growth of Social Media, the way society communicates with each other changed forever. A social network allowing users to share the events of their lives through posting photos and status updates, to monitor the lives of their friends, and to communicate directly via a built-in messenger has revolutionized Internet communication, causing millions of people all over the world to share all kinds of information about themselves. There were, of course, other social networks before Facebook, but none of them garnered such a significant user base, remained as persistent, and continued to act as an effective form of communication as much as Facebook did. Along with Facebook, currently there are many other social networks, each with their own features and purposes; what unites them all, though, is the idea of sharing. Seemingly, this should positively impact the communication skills of users, since it allows communication even for people far away from each other, or who are unable to communicate live. However, there have been numerous research studies proving the opposite: social media platforms not only impair a user’s ability to share thoughts, but distort communication processes, creating more problems than they solve.

As technology editing tools have become even more prevalent, many feel the need to excessively use photoshop before they share an image online. In a pervasive world where images of unrealistic standards fuel the media on how one should look, social media has one of the most significant impacts on body dissatisfaction in today’s society. Throughout the last decade, social media has become one of the most common and favored ways for people to communicate, connect, and share. Thus, there have been many debates and discussions on whether the media has a positive or a negative impact on the way an individual perceives him or herself. As the rapid growth of smartphone usage among adolescents and adults has increased, social media has become an essential part of one’s daily life. Today, when most adolescents and adults turn on their smartphones, often times, the first thing they will refer to is a social media site. It has become a place where they are exposed to news, images, and expectations. Often times, these images, ideals, and expectations are ingrained in their brain and bombarded with what is considered to be beautiful in today’s society. Moreover, these unrealistic standards will often lead to a form of comparison, influencing them to take extreme measures. Although social media serves as a platform where people can connect, communicate, and share, it has a negative impact on one’s body image, because it can lead to a lack of self confidence and severe health conditions.

Used by the majority of Americans, social media has become a prominent source of entertainment, education, and communication. Social media is consistently at the fingertips of the average American, however, with this much exposure it has been shown to display negative effects, including of mental illness, addiction, low self-esteem and an outlet for bullying. Eventually, this can result in the downfall of social media

A picture is worth their pride. A picture is worth their self-esteem. A picture is worth their dignity. Social media networking has become a large part of today’s society. Media applications such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat are rising in popularity, not only amongst teens, but adults as well. According to Pew Research Center, in 2015, 65% of American adults now use social networking sites up from 7% back in 2005 (Perrin). Bringing people from all over the world together, social media sites have made it easier for people to communicate and interact on all different levels.

Games aren 't only distracting, but people get addicted to them. High schoolers have parents around which sometimes helps with them not playing too much, however when kids that are obsessed with games go off to college or whatever there isn’t anyone there to tell them to start and they just play all day. This can also affect the people around someone addicted to video games. Screens draw attention, so if someone is constantly playing video games this distracts others and they may end up watching for long periods of time. Video games are fun, but they are too addicting and distract others.