Social Networking And The Negative Effects Of Social Media

Social media is websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. Users are able to communicate with one another and share content such as photos, videos, and also personal thoughts or information. There are many types of social media applications including chat rooms, photo/video sharing, blogging, video chatting, etc. Some of the most used social media sites are Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google, and Tumblr. Helen Popkin, of CNBC states “56 percent of Americans have a social networking site and 6.9 hours is the amount of time an average American spends on his or her social networking site in a month” (Popkin). Social media has become extremely popular in the last decade. This excessive and increasingly popular use of social media has had a negative impact on interaction and communication.

In a variety of ways, social media has its negative effects. Those who are afraid of interaction use social media as their passage way to communication. This becomes a major problem in the socialization of individuals because they begin to depend solely on social

Users are free to communicate about many different topics. A lack of censoring has become a prominent issue in the use of social media. People are able to write what they want, whenever. This lack of censoring had led to an increase in violence.

“Youth who oftentimes are continually exposed to violence in the media result to violence to solve their problems. This can partially be attributed to what they see and who they’re around, because youth learn their social skills from their surroundings” (Bandura).

Those who constantly view violence are more likely to exhibit violent behavior. Violence has become such a huge trend on social media. Users often find it interesting to view violent content such as fights, drug use, and gang relations. Making it more likely for them to adapt to that