Informative Essay: Social Media Takeover

Derissa Crawford

Professor Kobeleva

English 1101

2 October 2014

Social Media Takeover

Social media has become one of America’s main lines of communication not only for teenagers, but also for adults. We as a community must acknowledge the fact that social media may be helping us in some areas; however, it is truly destroying us in other parts. While social media provides numerous advantages such as easy access and an efficient way of communicating, it forces people to waste incredible amounts of time on useless entertainment, and damages people’s social skills, verbal skills, and most importantly distorts people’s sense of reality.

Social media has revolutionized how people are able to entertain one another. People are always worried about

Social media allows people to misspell word freely and also allows people to use incorrect grammar. With people using social sites more than they write formal documents such as emails to employers, resumes, and letters their bad grammar techniques and constant misspelling of words transfer over to their formal documents. People have acquired horrible speech habits and etiquette from the bad grammar and verbal skills that come from constantly misspelling words and incorrect sentence structure used on social sites. People that are constantly on social media are beginning to talk like they write. An example would be “aint that right,” when someone asks another person something that they agree on. Social media is ruining people’s social skills because they are becoming more comfortable with talking to someone through a social site than they are with talking face to face. “The study… found that even when there is an opportunity to see people face-to-face, on weekends for example, up to 11% of adults still prefer to stay at home and communicate on their devices instead” (Fowlkes). This is not a good habit to develop because it will affect people’s daily lives, such as when they are trying to meet and impress someone or when they are at a job