The Impact Of Social Media

In today’s modern society technology is a big part of everyone’s life. We have become so attached to technology that it has become a second instinct to us, and it has consumed us. We even have “virtual friends” that we talk to everyday but haven’t met once. This is where social media comes in. Apart from being consumed from technology we are also consumed by social media. Social media has become a big part of our lives; it allows us to communicate and share our lives with our real life friends and family. But it also allows us to do the same thing with “virtual friends”, people who we have never met before but have as friends on social media. What makes us even more attached to social media is that we have access to it everywhere we go on our

With all the social media that we encounter, our social skills have decreased dramatically. On social media people tend to make their sentences short and less grammatically correct. We also tend to speak in our “txt” language using shorten phrases and abbreviations such as “lol, k, rofl, brb, g2g, etc. A social app called Snapchat is making us loose our social skills. Instead of talking with someone face to face this social app allows people to communicate via their cameras on their cellular devices. People take pictures on this app and send them to another person. The other person receives the picture and is only able to view it for a short period of time, which is about 10 seconds. This is not an effective way of communication because of many reasons: because the time to view this picture is so short people often forget what they are talking about, also the captions that you are able to put on the pictures are so short that a conversation doesn’t really last long. Not to mention that most of the time people using Snapchat do not really have much to talk about. Jasmine Fowlkes even mentions this in her article “Why social media is destroying our social skills”, “Social media interaction now dominates both online and offline conversations. In a society where interacting and over-sharing online is the norm, you’re probably more likely to speak to friends and family through electronic

A study published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface researchers found that even though social media make people appear smarter, but in reality it might be making us “stupider”. Researchers put groups of people in several social groups and one nonsocial group they then gave them brain puzzling tests. The group that didn’t socialize got an average score but the groups that did socialize got higher scores which was odd because it was a difficult test. What the researchers found is that they just “stole” the answers from their fellow peers. And that’s what people on social networks today do; instead of making things up on their own they get their information from other sources but don’t even bother in mentioning where they got it from. People on social media tend to say statements but don’t really know what they are talking about; they do not take the time to do research. They just say these things to make them seem smart. There is so much information on the internet that we cannot retain it all. So social media is making us “stupider” by stealing other people’s