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    Social Media as well as texting plays an important role in our day to day life. Many say a negative impact on our life. Just about everywhere, there will be somebody on their mobile device either communicating with someone or playing Angry Birds. Most People in this day and age own a cell phone. For the people owning cellphones, they are more likely to be less social because they spend on average one hour and forty minutes on social media alone. Social media is decreasing the in skill communications

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    Computers and social media have been a part of lives for decades, from msn and yahoo to snapchat and Instagram, from the flip phone to the iPhone technology keeps evolving. Although it keeps getting better there are a large number of negative effects for one is cyber bullying. I bet you didn’t know that About 4,400 deaths per year, at least 100 young people attempt suicide, and 14 percent of high school students considered suicide, and 7 percent have attempted it. The younger they are the more likely

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    Research Paper Outline As smartphone and media editing tools have become easier to use, many people have felt the need to go on a photoshop epidemic every time they upload an image to the world of social media. In a pervasive world where images of unrealistic standards fuel over the media on how one should look, social media has one of the biggest impacts in body dissatisfaction in today’s society. Throughout the last generation, social media has become one of the most common and favored ways to

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    Blink This day and age we call social is far from it. People are becoming slaves to their devices, living their life through a screen. We find self worth through how many “likes” we got on our picture, or how many “friends” on our Facebook page. Social media has created a generation of smart phones and dumb people. Where staying connected, is more important than creating connections with others. Where we would rather stare at our friend list while waiting for the bus than simply striking up a conversation

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    Social Media and the Negative Effects on Adolescents Social media seems to be changing how we communicate through society. Adolescents are consumed with media for an estimated 7.5-8.5 hours per day (Georgia, 2014; Giedd, 2012). Instead of interacting with each other face to face adolescents are socializing through their phones (George, 2014). The purpose of the paper was to research how social media affects the brain, sleep, and cyberbullying (Lemola, Perkinson- Gloor, Brand, Dewald- Kaufmann

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    11/22/2017 Negative Effect of Social Media When one thinks of social media one of the first things that comes to mind is an application such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Tumblr and many other applications that allow one to share information on the internet. So taking that into consideration one can deduce that social media is any application or website that allows one to share information about them or about other things on the worldwide web in real-time. Before social media people wrote

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    Social media has become a huge factor now in everyone’s life. Social media has made an impact in society in both negative and positive ways. A lot of teen and even adults have developed depression because of social media. Social media has set the standards very high for everyone to fit in because people are judged. Not even that but people have started to live in such a bubble because they are so envious of someone else’s life or want their life to be like someone else’s. It makes people so concerned

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    The Twitter Effect: The Impact of Social Media on the News Networked technologies like Twitter "disrupt established concepts of communication, prevailing notions of space and time and the distance between public and private spheres," (Noah, A., & Weiss, A. S., 2010). As a result, journalism is not just in the process of negotiating a shift to a digital media environment, but more significantly to a networked one. (Hermida, A., 2012). As an increasing amount of people have gained access to the internet

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    Positive Effect of Social Media Since the birth of social media people have argued whether it has a positive or negative effect on society. Social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram give people a chance to stay connected. Although, with the power of social media comes the possibility of cyber bullying. While there are some negatives associated with social media, the positives in communication all around, has made the world stronger and a better place to live in. Social networking

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    The negative effects of social media on teenagers With the economy the way it is today, most parents have to work. So how do we protect our teens when it comes to social media? They use text, snapchat, and an array of apps that can cause a plethora of issues. Teenagers do not always make the best choices when they use social media, which often puts them in unsavory positions with the individuals that they have shared with. The encounter everything from bullying to suicide because technology has

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