Stolen By Social Networking Sites

I personally believe that the internet does not socialize adolescents. The internet does not socialize adolescents, if anything it causes adolescents to become antisocial. Adolescents become antisocial, because the internet has many social sites which gives others the chance to hide behind a computer or cellphone screen. In person adolescents tend to be more into their electronic devices than getting to know others and socialize. Everything has become available through a cell phone or an other device, for instance if someone wanted to talk to their friends they can easily text or call a friend instead of having a face to face conversation. Nowadays adolescents are very antisocial because of their internet.

Everything looks and feels easier to do with social media. People who use social media are somehow limiting their abilities to make real interpersonal connections. Some teenagers are socially awkward in general, they seem really weird in person but on Facebook they seem to come off as pretty cool people. Technology is able to affect the teenagers of America in many ways, lowering their communication standards, which make them socially awkward. “The most recent nationally representative surveys of the Pew Internet Project show how immersed teens and young adults are in the tech environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones. Moreover, 96% of those ages 18-29 are Internet users, 84%

The more time teens are online the more vulnerable they are. There are sexual predators, cyberbullies, and scams online. There are online studies that say if a teen is online for a long time that is a sign of depression or social anxiety. Teens might get bullied in school and feel more confident being behind a screen but when it comes to talking to someone face to face can get them nervous and give them anxiety. And because of that, they might stay the distance from their family and peers. ¨They might be teased, bullied, and avoid school altogether. Desperate to meet people and connect, they might surf the web and visit chat rooms and game sites to the exclusion of all else.¨ (source 1)

Even though social media can sometimes be a good way to communicate because it is fast and easily accessible, it can also be damaging. When it comes time to use the social skills that teens were supposed to learn growing up, they will not be able to use them as effectively. Social media takes away most of the opportunities for people to be thrown into situations where they are forced to use those skills. These abilities would be used, for example, “During an interview, your teen will be expected to think on his feet and respond appropriately. Not being prepared for these kinds of face-to-face interactions can lead to anxiety in children”(Holmboe). When teens are absorbed into their social media all the time, it takes away the experiences that are needed to build a good background. In order to develop a good background while growing up, teens should spend less time on their cell phones, and more time creating face to face interactions.

Thanks to technology, people have enjoyed many efficient ways of communicating and socializing. Social networking sites have blown up in popularity among teenagers and adults from all over the world; therefore, 1.5 billion people have incorporated social websites into their daily routine. Social networking sites refer to online platforms or services that allow subscribers to create a profile and interact with other users. Social websites, such as Facebook, arise from people’s needs to belong to a community, and they have a profound impact on their social and personal lives and intellectual development.

I agree, Social media is one of the most common major issues that we are facing, especially among adolescents and children. These different sites like Facebook, YouTube, twitter, and myspace are all sites that have been used among people to prevent interaction and get involved through these websites. These sites are quantified your isolation these sites are been used for many different and interesting reasons, sometimes it was mandatory to get signed up and being involved in these sites just as a habit that others have adopted recently. Everything basically started to seem so tedious to people especially young students and teenagers who tend to show up their lifestyles by using these sites and have plenty of friends that consider as a fans being followed by like an audience so the social media actually harming adult and kids by preventing their privacy, main tool that create loneliness, effects on our mental and physical health , but also it’s a great easy way to people who have a short conversation among friends, families that results to make a distance among them.

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.

Online social networking sites have come to play an important role in the daily life of humans, Social networking sites (SNS) serve to provide a new communication landscape, with SNS users being benefitted in several ways when using them, like information and recreation. Using online social networks has enabled users to create and share content about themselves as well as others. It provides a platform, as a single destination, to exchange personal information with family, friends, colleagues, and strangers alike.

We are all using social media. In many different ways whether it be to communicate with your family, friends, or maybe even people we hardly even know. Social media is universal and it is becoming more and more popular than ever before. It is coming to the point where it is shaping our everyday lives. We are at a point where social media is better to communicate with someone than talking in person or over the phone. Social media is worldwide and it is connecting us to many different things. For example, the news, entertainment, or just for our own personal enjoyment. You cannot go somewhere without seeing someone on their phone and I bet you they are most likely on a social media site. With social media there are many different types such as Facebook, YouTube, Snap Chat, Twitter, and the most popular or them all Instagram. There are many more but these five are the most popular and the most used today. Now, with these five social media platforms on the rise and more people using them it does not stray away from young teenagers using them. Tons of adolescent are using them and it is affecting their lives also. With posting, tweeting, instagramming, or snapchatting, just to name a few. We have to be more cautious with what young teenagers are posting about on social media websites. That could possible affect the lives or the people they are talking about.

In today 's day and age the new thing is technology, every day teenagers spend countless hours on the phones or their computers a day. They are on there going through and making new friends and having fun. They can go on and and instant message them for advice on home work or just talk and interact with one another. They can virtually do anything they want to. But on there is always a downside on the internet.

Social media has many positive effects on the society. Social media is an integral part of today’s society. The first things is the teens and children are the most people in our society using the social media because they need to use the social media on study or in the free time to have some entertainment game. According to (Teenagers and social networking – it might actually be good for them) Indeed, social scientists who study young people have found that their digital use can be inventive and even beneficial. This is true not just in terms of their social lives, but their education too. So if you use a ton of social media, do you become unable, or unwilling, to engage in face-to-face contact? The evidence suggests not. Research by Amanda Lenhart of the Pew Research Centre, a US thinktank, found that the most avid texters are also the kids most likely to spend time with friends in person. One form of socialising doesn't replace the other. It augments it."Kids still spend time face to face," Lenhart says. Indeed, as they get older and are given more freedom, they often ease up on social networking. Early on, the web is their "third space", but by the late teens, it's replaced in reaction to greater autonomy... (Thompson, October 05, 2013) The second thing is keep you in touch will family and friends because if you are an international student you need to keep in touch with them. So you will use the social media to be in touch with them by using some apps such as (Whatsapp, Facebook).

These days, it is virtually social suicide not to have a Facebook, Twitter or Snapchat account. Nevertheless while social networking sites provide many opportunities and means for communicating, users may not realize that is posted today can come back to haunt them tomorrow. What has written on the web lasts forever. It is equally as dangerous to stay on social media as it is to leave, so we are free to decide how we want to improve our online experience.

Social media is bad for the teenager aspect of life by causing world corruption in many ways. Social media can change and become cyberbullying, social outcasting, lack of communication skills, and most of all, not being able to find whom you can become. This is not only through social media, but also video games, television, and self-reflection caused through these. Social media have progressed so far that communicating through face to face talks don’t seem as appealing anymore. There is Skype where we can video chat. Also, Facebook where we can chat or blog about irrelevant things such as what we are eating at the moment. I have seen some people even text each other when sitting side by side. Technology is an addiction, one many have trouble overcoming. I 've had trouble with social media for a few years due to drama, since you 're not talking to the person 's face to face you seem to have a newfound courage to be mean or even two-faced. I then went without my phone for a year and felt as though I could finally breathe and take in whatever was around me.

It is my view, speaking as a young person, that teenagers are controlled by the technology around them. We are forced to learn about how to use Facebook, twitter, the internet and other widely used software and sites from an extremely young age. If we take as a starting point, your own experiences when you were teenagers using ICT, I think we would agree that technology and the influence of social media is much more prevalent now, in our contemporary society, than it was in your own formative years. I would suggest that as teenages you would have had much more face to face social interaction; your parents would have known what you were watching and you all starred in your own version of Gogglebox. So I’m going to hazard a

Many of Us for the most part has been affecting by social media in their daily person to person interaction now days, the texting, email and media account like “Facebook” just to mention one of them ,has been eliminating the phone calls, letter or even deeper, it is affecting our relationship with our families and friends because is more distance .