The Negative Effects Of Social Media And Its Effects On Society

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.

How often is social media used, and for what reasons? 94% of teens say they use social media every day, and when used in an unsecure setting it can be harsh (Lenhart). With the pressure to fit into the “norm” of society, kids can often be cruel. Many teens become the subject of online bullying. This makes teens become self-conscious and depressed. Overall, the world today exposes society to many different forms of social media, which can often lead to cyberbullying.

In the last twenty years, a phenomenon known as social media has become popular, and with this phenomenon, people have started to be able to communicate and share their lives with others all over the world with ease, and this has brought the world together in a unique way. However, all good things have problems, and a multitude of problems have come from becoming addicted to using social media. In Fanni Bányai’s article "Problematic Social Media Use: Results from a Large-Scale Nationally Representative Adolescent Sample,” she says, “Negative outcomes triggered by the excessive use of social media may have a detrimental effect on the personal, social, and/ or professional lives of the users.” and I agree because it is easy to see the impact of social media overuse in the society of todays world. Social media is a fantastic thing that allows people to stay in touch with distant friends and family to share experiences, but social media also can become addictive and destroy face to face friendships, but these problems are fixed by planning time to use social media, and not posting everything an individual does.

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

There is no doubt that social media and the internet is an insanely popular way of communicating among our friends and family, but with so much time spent on social media, there are bound to be effects that can be felt by all of us. Big social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat have such a widespread user base that the amount of time spent on these platforms by all users is most likely an unbelievable number. A lot of people may think that social media is a waste of time and has addictive qualities, and has mostly negative impacts on its users; Social media can also be used in a variety of ways that are more beneficial and not time wasting.

Social media is a large set of networks that allow individuals to communicate and engage with one another. Originally, these networks started as an extra way of communicating, but have now become a primary source (Johnson, Auria, et al. 1). Media can be used in positive ways such as spreading mass news, social marketing, connecting with family and friends, and as a search engine. Now, it is commonly used in negative ways. Festinger proposed that individuals use social media to evaluate and compare themselves with one another (Tatangelo & Ricciardelli 776). This leads to change in their “social and emotional development,” especially in teenagers (776). That statement can be proven by the fact that because so many individuals rely on social media, they end up worrying about what others think, so they feel insecure or ashamed. The effect of this can end up causing extreme changes to an individual’s life. This essay will argue that individuals darken social media by using it as a mask to influence one another, which increases the risk of mental health issues. This will be accomplished by analyzing how the people who engage in the media can change their own image, an individual’s self-image, value and identity, which can lead to stress, anxiety, depression, and even suicide.

Nearly all communications are now done through some form of social media. Today around “seven-in-ten Americans use social media” to connect with their friends or to entertain themselves. In 2005 when the Pew Research Center began to track social media use, just “5% of American adults used at least one of these platforms” and by 2011 half of all Americans began to use social media (Pew Research Center). Today “69% of the public uses some type of social media” (Pew Research Center). Social media can negatively hurt relationships because of miscommunication and words are exchanged that normally would not be exchanged in person.

Isolation is increasing in my life since social media are taking such a huge roll in it. I have discovered that social media is helping me build walls in my own life. I notice the continuous blank stare at my phone as I roam the halls of Florida International University. It’s as if my social anxiety is a broken leg and my cellphone is my crutch. My cell phone brings me so much comfort, although I am comforted, I feel so disconnected with the world. Learning is much easier through social media websites. I am anti-social during school and with myself. All of this brings me to the conclusion that social media causes negative impacts in my daily life. Some of which include avoiding peers around the halls and using the internet to learn. I am not an electronic loving person, but why am I allowing social media to lock me up with handcuffs that I don’t have the keys for?

My phone buzzes during class, is it worth getting it taken away then wait five minutes till class is over? This is the burden that technology holds on young adults. The phones ,tablets and computers becoming more advanced making them harder to shy away from making our lives more depend on all the technology in our lives.

Social media has positively impacted young adults because it creates friendships. Danah Boyd, an author, principal researcher at Microsoft and the founder of Data & Society references the story of an interview with a sixteen year-old girl, Tara in her publication “It’s Complicated: the social lives of networked teens.” “Tara likes Facebook because it allows her to connect with her friends. Like many of her peers, Tara spends hours each work viewing her friends’ photos and updates, writing comments, and reading comments left by others” (Boyd). Communication is a crucial element in teenager’s social lives and the social networks can help maintain that. Essentially, Boyd focuses on the fact that one of the most burdening reasons teens use social media is to connect with friends. Social media can be interpreted in several different ways, but this reasoning is often overlooked. Staying connected with

Social Media is any website that allows social interaction between people, from everywhere in the world. Social Media is growing extremely fast throughout the entire world. Adults and teenagers are joining social media sites everyday such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. When Facebook first came about it was used for family and friends to stay connected while in different parts of the world. It is also a way for entrepreneurs and companies to market and promote their businesses. The introduction of social media has changed the world both negatively and positively.

Social media is the reason for many of the world's problems. It can be used to raise awareness for an important cause, but can also be used to distribute hatred throughout the country. Being a teenager, I can be the first to say that social media is how most teens ruin their life. “According to a common sense media poll from August 2009, 22% of teenagers log on to their favorites social media site more than 10 times a day, and more than half of adolescents log on to a social media site more than once a day.” Essential connections occur through the use of internet, but the reliance teens have on social media is

Does social media help us communicate effectively? Social media has created an epidemic of worldwide online communication among users. Users can communicate through a variety of social media outlets, such as but not limited to Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram; Facebook is the largest of the social media sites, with about 92% of users (Hampton, Goulet, Rainie, & Purcell, 2011, p. 3). These tools are used to socialize and stay in contact with familiar faces and family members to compensate for either lost time or long distance by the sharing of personal information, ideas and pictures. Social media outlines what users chose to show publicly online to the people they choose to accept as friends, producing false perceptions and fabricated relationships. From the first appearance of the first social media site, social media has created a prolonged frenzy that has transformed and adapted itself into an immense part of our daily use. The extensive use of social media, with all things, comes with a price: the negative side effects of relationships among friendships as well as the harmful effects to the users. The evolution of social media has progressed into an immense part of our daily lifestyle that has hindered our real life relationships into unengaged relationships that are filled with miscommunication.

Being a student, I think the penetration rate about the social media for me is almost 100 percent. At least me and my friends use it every day. We probably used it for translator the words or chat with others. Even more we use it for fun. Everyone use social media. Undisputed, social media is another way for us to keep communicate with each other. However, it could bring the negative and the positive effects. According to my personal experience, I think the negative effects on social media is much more than the positive effects.

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