Social Media Stereotypes

Your daughter taps in her passcode on her phone, she immediately goes to instagram and scrolls through her feed. She's thirteen years old, young and growing. Models by the ocean in Monaco with perfect, skinny, tan bodies, million dollar clothes, and makeup done by professionals. Seven million followers, six hundred thousand likes, and five thousand comments. Your daughter locks her bedroom door and stands by the mirror and grasps her stomach and frowns, she touches her clothes and her hair and looks at her untouched face. As she scans her body she's disappointed in what she sees. She asks herself why she doesn't look like those girls by the pools and those girls laying on the sandy beach with curled blonde hair. Why doesn't she get as many

Representation of oneself is sometimes different online than it is in person, and that is because social media and online gaming such as; Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, World at Warcraft, etc. gives everyone the ability to create an online profile with no limitations of who that person can become online. Therefore online users tend to feel more uninhibited, and they express themselves more candidly than in the real world. Thus making their own self- representation online different from the "real world". However some online users fall into false self-representation because they do not stay truth to themselves or others become cyberbullied  victims do to self-representation.

Very informative post great job! I have personally never heard this song before until now but thanks your explanation I somewhat understand it. Drugs are an issue not only in the United States but all over the world in my opinion. I believe that is great that the Korean Broadcast Station outlaws music videos for any small details because media has a lot to do with the way our society views drugs now a day. I can also agree with you that in our culture we see this as regular and we don’t see it as a big deal and the way the media portrays drugs and alcohol has a lot to do with that.

Instagram twitter and facebook are just some of the titans of social media. Once something happens to someone, a post comes up showing what happened or how it happened. When someone posts something they think is funny about someone else it could be hurtful. With parents owning instagram or twitter, their children definitely have been brought up once or twice. That is just normal, but other times those children have photos or videos of them doing something ridiculous or funny. “I really don’t like it when my parents post pictures of me on their social media accounts, especially after finding out that some of my friends follow them,” Said Maisy Hoffman an eighth grader in Manhattan. Teenagers and tweens are becoming more self conscious about

As teenagers in the year 2015, they are exposed to many difficulties in society and within themselves. The school system, government, or poor parenting may cause the challenges that teen may face. Many situations or people can be blamed for these issues; however that will not make the matter at hand any different or disappear.

Social media puts us in a little box so we can all be alike. Stereotyping our personalities in order to target us with advertisements. Everyone has two identities; the one they give themselves and the one social media gives them. Not everyone fits perfectly into the advertising identity, there are things that social media got wrong. As a girl, I go through these stereotypes quite often because of societies already made impressions into others around me. Many advertisements don't fit my personality the way society wants. I am put into the box of a Starbucks lover, the makeup hoarder, and the girl who eats her feeling in chocolate.

There was a lot of items on my social media sights that I never thought of to be considered inappropriate, but after I thought about it they really were. They weren’t inappropriate in the sense that there was exposure or there were pictures of me drinking or smoking, but there were profane words that I found and also many other pictures or posts that I wouldn’t find appropriate for a teacher to have on her profile.

When I was in 7th grade I was jumped right after lunch time by three kids. They cornered me into the bathroom and each of them got a good piece of me. Yelling “terrorist”, “Sand N****”, and other profane words along while stomping me down and beating me to a pulp. The beating was roughly 3 minutes in real time but to me it felt like a horrendous tedious 3 hours. I was never handled like that ever and I would’ve never thought that something like that would ever happen to me in my lifetime, where I was living. I’ve brought that day along myself, October 13th 200* and I will never forget that. Before that incident I was harassed not as harshly but it came to my attention just about 3rd grade, I grew immune to their verbal attacks and I never had

Essena O’Neill is an Australian teenager that got extremely famous on social media having more than 612,000 followers on Instagram. Every time she posted a picture she was paid almost $2,000 per post in the platform. Even though in the pictures she posted it was all happiness and sunshine the truth behind them wasn’t even close to that. Recently she decided to get rid of 2,000 post she posted on Instagram and just leave 96 with captions telling the story behind the picture such as saying how much she was paid, how she feels about it, and how miserable it was to keep up with the “perfect” image that made her gain popularity and money. She has declared a war against social media and their ridiculous standards of beauty, describing it as a “contrived

Colleges and employers look through an applicants social media to see if they can find out about their attitudes. Some believe social media can't prove any attitudes, but it can show the attitude towards situations may being posted about whether it be positive or negative. If an applicant happens to post about the bad day they were having and speaks negatively then that shows the attitude they have when faced with it. For example, if the employee would happen to have a bad day at work and showed up, how do you think they would react and what would be the attitude they put out? However, posting positive and friendly things online shows that the applicant has a pretty positive attitude. For example, if an applicant posts that it is a “beautiful

We’ve gotten to the point where everybody is so scared of being called racist, sexist, homophobic, or anything else that describes being hateful towards a certain group. Sometimes people define such words, but a plethora of people get offended way too easily nowadays. I have a sinister outlook on most subjects. I don’t think that I go against any other topic more than political correctness. I say and do things that go against these correct morals almost every day. Feeling hatred towards my generation, I see most of us as children, whose highest achievement is our amount of idiocrasy. Maybe this is just my harsh outlook and attitude, being the cynical, callous person that I am.

Why does it seem that older people gravitate more heavily towards conservative news outlets? For example, the older demographic follows news through outlets such as Facebook, Fox News, and other print media like newspaper and magazines. The Baby Boomers tend to favor older media forms that they’re comfortable with. However, millennials find news through other platforms such as Snapchat, Tumblr, and Twitter. The apps most millennials use now are short bursts of news featuring strong headlines. Through media, movies, and TV shows people’s perception and fear of crime are distorted by what media they consume.

Today we stand as a divided nation. The people are healing after an extremely divisive election. We push people who do not agree with us out of our lives and surround ourselves with yes men and women who share our exact opinions. We wage a casual war against ideology that most Americans are guilty of, stemming from social media stopping this rapid spread is a tall order, but to do so we must have politicians disavow and quit feeding into it and increase research into the issues. It is a sad place to be but we are at this point and we must do everything in our power to keep it from growing.

For the election year of 2016, almost all traditional methods of political campaign have been thrown out. Public opinions have flared; social media has been plagued with political satires. Donald Trump’s hair has earned its own Twitter account—an account with its own political values. Public opinions arise in the most surprising situations. Throughout today’s world, citizens are bombarded with a constant flow of information, personal insight and breaking news. Along with this current of information always comes personal view of the issue. Any opinion allows for another chapter of story to be told, but the source of the information should derive from a reputable source. Forms of public information, news, and opinions can provide useful, insightful

You probably wake up in the morning, eat breakfast, get ready for the day, and then grab your phone to check your Snapchat, Facebook, or other forms of social media. Social media is taking over the world. More and more teenagers are getting a social media account. They are getting in trouble in school, putting themselves into a bubble, and bullying others. This is what social media’s overall bad stereotype is. What if on the flip side it was not that but something better? Yes, teenagers do get in trouble at school, but they do not do it as much as the society seems to think. Teenagers need to follow the rules, that makes absolute sense, but the society is putting a bad label on the heads of teenagers. Teenagers using social media in our world