The Effects Of Selfie

When scrolling through your Instagram feed or watching Snapchat stories of classmates and friends, it can be very difficult and sometimes impossible to not feel jealous or discouraged. These days, teens post nearly every aspect of their lives on social media. You see everything from what someone ate for breakfast, what workout they did that day, to what cute new outfit they have on for their fancy family dinner that night. A wide range of pressures arises with social media usage. Teens feel they always need to be available, many gain reassurance from likes and shares, and they are faced with the struggle of keeping up with the constant image of a “perfect life”. This is very dangerous because many teens are experiencing discomfort in their own skin when they compare themselves to others. It is difficult not to judge yourself and others when you are constantly viewing what your classmates, friends, and celebrities are doing. When interviewing a friend, Brayden Xilas who has been personally impacted by social media, she said “There has become an unspoken competition for teens to prove they have the best life through social media”. Friends and classmates are constantly trying to “one up” each other which causes a lot of stress for people to always be doing something worthy of sharing on social media.

Did you know social media can change you? Social media can cause problems with your health? In the article, “Student examines negative effects of social media on teens” by Aurelie Krakowsky and “The Upside of Selfies: Social media isn’t all that bad for kids” by Kelly Wallace talks about social media, but clearly it’s harmful to people. Social media is for people to enjoy on a daily basis and be updated on what is happening in the world; however it can be harmful to your health and even your education. It can lower kids self esteem and make them feel uncomfortable about themselves. It can also cause health issues and distant yourself from the people around you.

Utilizing social media has been shown to enhance communication, social interaction, and sharpen technical skills of teenagers. Benefits to teens of social media allow them to socialize with friends, make new friend, and even help each other on group projects or homework. Studies indicate that over 20% of teenagers log onto social media sites over 10 times in one day. A con in social media is that its has caused cyberbullying and online hate. Studies have shown that online harassment is no more common than offline harassment. Another con in social media is that sexting has increased 20% in teens. These teens have indicated that they have posted nude or semi nude photos of themselves. Teens do not realize the risk

A large majority of us teenagers today spend most of our time using social media like Instagram or Snapchat or texting our friends for hours at a time. Phones can become detrimental to our health and relationships if overused, but if used in moderate means, things may not become harmful. Because the proportion of cell phone usage to face to face communication our relationships have started to turn downhill and become shallower and meaningful. Today, when two friends hang out together they spend the majority of their time together scrolling through Instagram; they truly do not spend quality time together. We cannot have a relationship with our phone. If, on the other hand, we did not spend all of their time on our cell phones, we would develop deeper relationships, and create beautiful memories with our friends. To generate a richer environment in which we as teenagers live, we should take action to make society less inclined to see what Kim Kardashian will dress up as for Halloween, but more inclined to share our experiences and ideas while in the company of our friends.

Selfies help people express themselves in ways they would have never before. You are usually very comfortable with your own self taking pictures and not others, therefore you can be funny, nerdy, or sexy without feeling judged. Time magazine reports that selfies can just be an outlet of self expression and we shouldn't be so consumed with all the selfies floating in cyber space. “Self captured images allow young adults and teens to express their mood states and share important experiences,” says Dr. Andrea Letamendi, a clinical psychologist and research fellow at UCLA. As teens and adolescents try to form their identity, selfies serve as a way to test how they look, and therefore feel, in certain outfits, make-up, poses and places. And because we live in a digital world, selfies provide a way of participating and interacting with that world. Selfies has also allowed women to publicly celebrate their flaws. For example, Demi Lovato has posted selfies to Instagram without any makeup on and has encouraged her fans to do likewise. Other sites have been supporting women to take selfies everyday for a year, regardless of how they

Are you a victim of cyberbullying on the internet, or a victim of all the positive impact that social media can offer ? In the articles, “Student examines negative effects of social media on teens” by Aurelie Krakowsky, and the article, ¨the upside of selfies: social media isn't all bad for kids” by Kelly Wallace (CNN), the authors argue about how social media can be bad for kids but can also be very useful at some times. Over all social media can harmful in many ways; however there are more benefits that truly exceed them.

Of the distractions facing today’s motorists, selfies can be especially dangerous. This is because they involve all three types of distractions. In order to take a self-portrait, people must access the cameras on their cellphones, position their phones and snap the shot.

There have been students who have threatened other students online and in person, but most people are too scared to confront the situation, so they hide behind the screen and terrorize people just for the satisfaction. There have been teens sharing inappropriate photos online that should be banned right away, and could prevent and perverts from finding out where they might live or find out any other kind of private information they have no business knowing. Snapchat is an app that over 30 million users use on the daily. Little that adults may know, there is now a modification Snapchat has come up with allowing users to share their location. A little map will come up and show anyone who wishes to find out where they live or stay. This could be very dangerous, it could lead to someone being kidnapped, killed, or abducted. Your child could be on the amber alert just by one app with one setting on it. Teens need to be more careful with what they do/post online. A lot of us are unaware of the dangers that could happen at any time. Anything you post, once you post it, it’s going to be there forever. Even if you delete it just seconds after, it can never be unseen ever

The relationship between teenagers and self-centered social media is a true nightmare for parents. The horrors of this relationship are highlighted in John Paul Titlows’ #Me: Instagram Narcissism and the Scourge of the Selfie. In this reading, a spotlight is shown on what teenagers are willing to post in the search for acceptance, as well as what teenagers are learning from this volatile relationship.

Social media is the fastest growing trend among teenagers and young adults. Whether you believe that social media is a good or bad influence, millions of kids join social media every day. In the article “The Upside of Selfies: Social media is not that bad for kids” by an unknown author, describes how social media has a positive on many teenagers. While the article “Creep Show” by Alyssa Giacobble, shows the dark and unpleasant side of social media. Both articles explain social media in a variety of ways, but the positive side of social media overwhelms the negative side.

On 19th November 2013, the word ‘selfie’ was named Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year. In a society where images are constantly being circulated, and with applications such as Snapchat being popular amongst a number of generations, this isn’t surprising. According to http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/snapchat-statistics/ the expanded ramblings website, on 16th March 2014 it was recorded that Snapchat’s share of total selfies distributed on social media made up 5% of self-portraits shared worldwide. With 100 million daily users, and an average of 9000 snaps a second the app is one of the most popular ways of sharing ‘selfies’ through social media, amongst other website such as Facebook and Instagram. As well as every day communities using

The use of selfies and Snapchat is something that I never really understood. I don’t have a snapchat and most people think I live in the stone age because of that. I get that it is a fun way to communicate with friends, but when it starts to take over and people begin to pay more attention to the notifications and pictures on their phones instead of the environment around

“What Selfie Sticks Really Tell Us About Ourselves” by Kate Murphy support Christine Rosen’s arguments about visual culture because Rosen argues that people today are becoming desensitized to tragedy and moral evils due to the growth in image culture. She believes that we do not see images as they once were because too many people alter the original image, making up a whole opinion and the new culture that is based on lies. Murphy further enriches Rosen points by showing how people of today's society have become careless because they are looking for the perfect picture and disregard others in the process, egomaniacs which can be seen as narcissistic but in reality is just insecurity buried deep inside, and also cannot relate to others because

Focus on self-image is a major factor in everyday life for people today. In recent years it has become an issue within the youth, and how they view their worth. There are multiple causes of self-image issues, but the main reasons are genetics, clinical depression, bullying, past abuse, and media (Lifespan 1). Media has a strong influence on people’s idea of what they should look like physically and affect their mental state.

Throughout the world we see lots of teenagers posting their photos of themselves and sometimes they post of their friends and family on social networks, the photos that they post on media are called ‘selfies’. The most teenagers, who post lots of ‘selfies’ are likely to be narcissists. Some of the teenagers stand in front of a mirror while holding up their phones to best capture of them. Once Fox said; “the more interesting finding is that they also score higher on this other anti-social personality trait, psychopathy, and are more prone to self-objectification.”- This quote means that these young people believes that they are very attractive than other people and value themselves for their looks.