The Dangers Of Social Media

People today would be surprised to know that social media has not been around forever. In fact, even more surprising is the realization that people did not really even have or use cell phones almost twenty years ago, and in those days cell phones were only used for calling. We have come a long way. Now, the whole world is in the palm of our hands, or in our cars, or on our wrists. Possibly the greatest thing to come out of this drastic evolution is social media. Social media is where everyone can keep up with family, check in with friends, and share their big time experiences with the rest of the world. However, it has opened up many, many more doors than ever intended, both good and bad. Social media has ironically turned people less social, provided an easy outlet for people to bully and point out insecurities, but also has changed the way we receive important information and news.

Erik Qualman once said, “We don't have a choice on whether we do social media, the question is how well we do it?” (Qualman, Erik). This quote clearly states that social media has become a part of today's society and that avoiding it would be nearly impossible without total isolation. The quote also ask a rhetorical question that simply queries, how properly do we use social media? Qualman made it obvious that we’re not being as effective as we should be on social media. Social media began it’s thriving point, with the 21st generation, around 2005 when the website Facebook was created. At that point and time, the website was mainly for communication purposes. Whereas now, all social media has formed into an entertainment center. Unfortunately, the original intentions of social media have reached an ultimate downfall. Social media can be used in several harmful ways; such as, the unintentional way, the intentional way, and the way that people tend to forget about.

Many people do online shopping instead of simply going to the store. This means personal information is saved to the computer. As this may seem as something normal there is ways people can steal that information. It has been proven over and over by big companies being hacked for example PlayStation Network. Technology does have positive sides to it but it can be an issue to your security. Besides having access to credit card information, hackers can locate where you live or even where are you now. This is dangerous since they can be searching for reasons to harm you. Another side effect now in the social media aspect is that social media basically defines you for possible employment. Companies can do basic researches and find your information of Facebook or any other social media and base their decisions on that. They can access your private information and depending who you are daily can shape up your character. This means that you should be perfect and any flaws you may have to them can be found thanks to the social media you enjoy

Social media has become a part of our life, and no one can imagine living without it. Social media has grown a lot over the several years. Young individuals have always thought that social media is a marvelous piece of technology, but they never think about the negative effects of ‘like’ culture, which contributes to conformity and other negative consequences. The article, The Insidious Evils of ‘Like’ Culture, written by Neil Strauss, tells us about to what people can go to get more “likes.”

This allows for many people to become something that they are not and while not wholly bad there is still cause for concern. Many use social media to depict themselves as they would like to be seen, often times creating their own identity separate from their true selves. There are obviously many different levels to this, which vary greatly in harm, but lets consider how tricky this can become when going from online to meeting the person in real life. I believe that the widespread communication aspect allows for many different, albeit great online communities to be formed but it is simply that, a way for people to hone in on things that please them. Speaking more positively, it isn't all bad and there are many people who just seek communication which is completely fine. In essence digital media is, at its basest form, a way for people to share, communicate, and make

Social media is an outlet that lets people post everything and anything on to a social media site. Users are compelled to post things onto social media to try and get as many likes and retweets as possible. Between food, parties, bullying, and to new life adventures it gets posted onto the internet without anyone thinking about the consequences that could come from a post. Once it is posted on the site people are constantly checking to see how many likes they have received.Society as a whole has let social media control almost every aspect of their life. Social media has also opened a door for cyber bullying, this has made it hard for kids to have a safe place to go because people have to be on their

For instance, it can cause some pervert talk to you and making you think that they are young and beautiful,but in reality they can be really old and ugly. They could end up getting you to send them pictures or even get you into meeting up with them and they end up raping you. However social media can also get you robbed or even hacked and text some nasty thing to a family member or even you could post something and then show someone that you not home and they can come and rob your house.So as you can see Social media can be the reason that bad stuff happen like get robbed or talk to a pervert.

Recently more teenagers than ever have multiple social media accounts, and it’s not uncommon to see a group full of teens sitting together, glued to their phones, sitting in silence. The author of Hazards of Social Media, Brittany Tate, includes that studies have shown that this could be bad for both mental and physical health reasons. Teenagers that are hyperactive texters and excessive users of social media are more likely to try cigarettes, try alcohol, be binge drinkers, use illicit drugs, be in a physical fight, and have sex.

Social media is a weapon, for the predators and for anyone who looks to hurt others. It is a weapon to destroy someone's emotions. It gives anyone the chance to respond and reply to someone's looks and posts without saying it straight to their face. Making it so much easier for anyone to become a

How does one feel, when going online and talk to a random person through a social media? Does one feel invincible? Like, one has a voice? We all feel that one way or another, because what kind of harm can come to a person through a screen. As it turns out, there is a danger to social media and the online world. This is true, especially for the youths of today; it is also true for the adults as well. Though many know the dangers of Social Media, there are many kids that will still ignore it; which is why it is important to not only educate, but to also educate the parents about the steps they can take to ensure safety on the internet.

In the article, Liliana Escobar-Chaves and Craig Anderson focus on how youth are spending more time on social media and how that time spent of social media is causing them to bring negative effects to society. The authors go on to explain how the trends in increased social media use is increasing the health risks of obesity, smoking, drinking, unsafe sex and violence. The authors provide an in-depth look into each health risk and provide multiple facts and research studies to help support their claims. These research studies provide a clear and excellent understanding into how the increase in the use of social media can have a negative effect on the health risks they mentioned in the article.

There is also some people that suffer of a lack in trusting in their selves, social media play an important role by helping them to have more confidence and meeting a similar mankind. Social media is not safe because it is not a filtrated environment and people are different but it is a criteria of our human being.

In the offline world, communities are much more easily managed, and rules enforced. However, in the virtual world that is the internet, rules become arbitrary. It is scary how much we have incorporated social media into our lives, to the point we are almost dependent on it. While social networking sites may have started off as places where we could share thoughts with our peers and communicate with our family, they has since evolved into wild beasts. Privacy has become practically non-existent, security concerns are arising, people are becoming more isolated; these, among many others are the side effect of these so popular social networking sites. But what’s worse is most people can’t see the dangers associated with them, and even those who do are too afraid to be left out.

Social media can play a dangerous role in our lives by many ways like damaging friendships, bullying, losing respect from others, and can even affect your chances of getting a job and being accepted to college. As stated by Alan Finder from the assignment Social Networking Timed Write, “Many companies that recruit on college campuses have been using search engines like google and Yahoo to conduct background checks on seniors looking for their first job. But now, college career counselors and other experts say, some recruiters are looking applicants on social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and other media sites where college students often post risque’ or teasing photographs and provocative comments about drinking, recreational drug use and sexual exploits.” What Alan Finder is stating is that whatever you do on social media can have an a huge affect on being accepted to college. I must easily agree with Alan Finder since social media has been affecting many people’s lives in a bad way ever since everyone started using it.

Power is the goal of most users of the Internet, and they are persistent to make their opinions known on social media platforms. Our constant practice of opening our email, blogging, and utilizing the many social media sites has opened us up to the potential danger of being controlled. Interacting with the search engines that do not hold privacy as a priority, can give sensitive information to those who have less than honorable intentions in mind. Because we often need to collaborate on projects, we use WEB Sites that enable easily changeable text to get the message and our thoughts expressed. Sites such as Wikipedia can be used as an information data bank to create documents. These texts can easily be altered by other users to fit another topic. Although this site has dangerous and ethical flaws, there are some good to its existence. One advantage is that you can look at all the writing that was done previously and view how the writing had continued its development.