The Effects of Social Media

According to a recent study by IDC Research, 80% of smartphone users check their phones within 15 minutes of waking up each morning.

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.

Turkle educates readers on the fact that because of texting and emailing, we do not hold conversations any longer. Most people with cell phones prefer to text each other when in reality they are right next to each other. Co-workers rather email each other rather than get up and go to each other’s office. Some people find comfort in the technology; it’s like a shield that separates them from what can hurt them. She tells us of this experience she encounter while she was studying where she brought an elderly woman an electronic baby seal, and the lady began to talk to the baby seal about the loss of her child. The elderly woman did this because she was comforted by this technology. There is also the reassurance that if we regret a comment we can just delete it, we can edit

She explains that the constant usage of these devices to converse, creates a barrier of isolation that prevents interpersonal communication. Consequently, leading to the underdevelopment of social skills. Turkle emphasizes that “Face – to – face conversation unfolds slowly. When we communicate on our digital devices, we learn different habits,” while also losing the ability to self – reflect (95). Moreover, social media can be used to create a persona, making digital conversation more likely to be disingenuous. Turkle’s essay also explores the correlation between being alone and loneliness. She believes the constant need to connect is negatively modifying the perception of being alone and being lonely; “if we are unable to be alone, we are far more likely to be lonely” (Turkle 97). Thus, using digital communication to combat loneliness, yet only to end up being “alone together.” Towards the end, Turkle provides a resolution to fix the escape from communication. She suggests using “device – free zones,” to improve interpersonal conversation; while also demonstrating to children the value of

Social media has started to take over the lives of young and old, but with that comes some negative effects. There was on average 1.32 billion daily users on Facebook in just June of 2017 (Company Info). This is the age of technology, were new websites or apps are being made to make it easier to talk to people. While it might be a good thing that we are now able to talk to someone across the country, or the world, in real time, it is the way that we are talking to people that is alarming. Social media and texting have changed the way younger people interact with others, our social skills, and the way we write in a very negative way.

After they have been exposed to the dazzling world of the internet, teenagers tend to live their lives in full view to their online audience. They have been “checking-in” their locations online, posting personal affairs on their social media walls, and sharing their selfies to let people know where they are and what they are up to. For some people and experts from different generations, the idea of doing all these things seems to be odd. One of these experts is Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and psychologist, who studies the opportunities and challenges associated with our digital connectivity. Turkle, in the Tedtalk “Connected, But Alone?” claims that the technological devices, that have been recently invented, have a psychological power that makes their users do things that only few years ago were very strange and unusual (02:20). Although that the social media has brought a new type of interaction with others into our lives, it made many users, especially the teenagers, be less confident about their own identities, and it reduced their interpersonal relationships with other people around them.

With the development of technology, the social media has become an obbligato part of our life. In the 19th century, people still used the newspapers as their main source of information about their city; in the 20th century, with the popularity of electricity, people started to listen to radio and watch television to know the event of their country; in the 21st century, computers and mobile phones gradually become popular, people enjoy the convenience and comfort of internet. However, does the social media usually give people a positive impact? Just like Allcott and Gentzkow said, “American democracy has been repeatedly buffeted by changes in media technology.” (211) Social Media creates a negative effect on today’s world by influencing the presidential election, disrupting politics, and controlling the business. Some people use social media to spread rumors and satisfy an own personal desire, and the biggest and the nearest effect of our daily life is the 2016 presidential election of the United States.

Peter Drucker is best known for being the Father of Modern Management, as well as being the author of several books and articles about innovation, entrepreneurship and strategies for dealing with the world. Drucker once said, “The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said” (Drucker). Social Media has an had enormous effect on the world today. Everyday people are posting cruel comments and inappropriate posts about others without thinking about the effect it can have on that person. Although these sites provide us with easier ways of connecting with the world, they also have a negative impact on how people can view themselves. Social media sites such as, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram cause negativity all over the world today.

Social networking is a way for people to communicate, spread news, and advertise. Social networking has changed the way people interact. As young adults, we tend to spend many hours on social media sites such as, Instagram, Facebook, and twitter. As people spend a large amount of time on social media, Interaction with other people has become effortless and they experience less face-to- face conversations. Social media plays such a big role in our everyday lives that some people cannot imagine not using it at least once a day. In the article, The Flight From Conversation, by Sherry Turkle states, “We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection” (Turkle 29). In several ways, Social networking does not offer any positive aspects to individuals that use them.”41% of social media-using teens have experienced at least one negative outcome as a result of using a social networking site” (Pew Research Center, 2011). Although, social networking may be a person’s only form of communication and staying connected to family and friends, it is a huge platform for cyber bullying, invasion of privacy, and extreme usage of social media reduces the level of human interaction which creates social isolation.

| 1. Social media allows youths to share private information that can lead to exploitation and abuse.

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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.

Turkle transpires the idea that digital communication— through FaceBook, Twitter, text— damages the social skills and livelihoods of people. She builds upon her established emotional connection with the reader and her credentials to convey her theories. She logically points out that while this digital media is an

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