There are about one and a half billion users of social media worldwide. It can be used to meet new people, find old friends, chat the day away, join interest groups, or even to share pictures. Social networks were mostly created so people could meet and find new friends. What most users of social media don't know, are the dangers of using social media. One example is when you meet a person online, because they are not always who they say they are. If someone is not who you may think they are, who could they be? They can be a stalker or a person that wants to steal your identity; which could be done easily thanks to new developments of new technology. Also thanks to new technology it is now easier for people using your information to track you. Posting personal information can risk your family and friends lives. Social media can be used as a weapon against you. It can even lead to a kidnapping, or even someone's death. Many people use social media to help to waste time, but could also become an unhealthy addiction. Also social media can damage your future. When you are a teen you tend to post pretty much anything you want. This is dangerous because you can post too much personal information. What most teens don't realize is that what they do on social media now can affect them for the rest of their life. It can even come back to haunt you in the future. Social media is dangerous because it makes it easier to be stalked, identity theft to happen, kidnappings and murders, and also can ruin your future. Posting personal information can also make it easier to be stalked. To stalk means to pursue by tracking. The study from Women's Aid and the Network to Survive Stalking, warns that Smartphones are being targete... ... middle of paper ... ...edia can lead to a ruined career. Social media impacts a lot of people's daily lives. Seventy percent of teens use social media sites, according to the article on the US Department of Labor website. Social media can be distracting, even reports show that teens who check there Facebook at least one time every fifteen minutes have low grades. This teens are more likely to display antisocial behavior, aggressive tendencies, or even anxiety. How you interact today on social media can either build or break your future opportunities. Even though social media is full of opportunities; you don't always benefit from them. Social media can change your entire outlook. It's changed my outlook, what about you? Social media is a waste of time and dangerous. Giving your time to it can literally kill you. Is social media really worth it?
Social media can also be a bad thing for the present generation. People who use social media too much can be a scary crime such as a user could be a victim of a
If teens are on social media over 4 hours per day then they have the chance to make many mistakes. According to Be smart about it: How to use social media to your advantage in a picture graph, [It shows us] 44 percent of employers find good things that influence them to hire while 54 percent of employers found negative things on social media. The repercussions of these social media mistakes has led to 10 percent more employers finding hopeful applicants unfortunately unemployable. Another example of a mistake is in the article Is Technology killing our friendships?”Some kids might mistake the “friends” on their social media for true friends.” This is the mistake of their virtual friends being their real friends while the virtual friends might not be who they think they are. Teens make lots of mistakes while spending so much time on social media, and the mistakes are then there for everyone to see
All in all, adolescents can severely be harmed when they use social media. The negative impacts of social media include causing children to lack face-to-face communications, be absent from indispensable experiences, and undergo emotional suffering. All of these effects of social media would make the lives of children difficult. Since using social media is such an unhealthy activity, we all should reduce our time using it and spend more time in the real world. If we do so, we may have a brighter
“Focus on how to be social, not on how to do social.”-Joy Baer Social Media as described by google are websites and applications used for social networking. Many adolescents use Facebook, Myspace, and Instagram, twitter etc. as a form of communication without being explained the many risk factors. Over time more and more proposed threats with teens using social networks has arisen. Social media negatively impacts teens by exposing them to higher risk activities such as cyberbullying, sexting and a lack of privacy.
The impact of social media on young people is of specific significance, not just on the grounds that this specific group is psychologically vulnerable. In light of the fact that they are among the heaviest users of social media. While social media without a doubt assumes an essential part in expanding social associations and learning, its dangers can 't be ignored. The trouble in self-regulation and powerlessness to peer pressure makes teenagers helpless against such disasters as depression, sexting, and cyberbullying, which are reasonable dangers. Different issues, for example, internet dependence and lack of sleep are issues that plague our youth. Even though social networking sites promote increased interaction with friends and family. Social media has an unethical impact on our youth, because of the lack of interpersonal skills and
Most importantly, I think that social media has a negative effect on people. It is more dangerous to people being on social media. As an example, Agata Blaszczak-Boxe article “Social Media Use in Teens Linked to Poor Sleep, Anxiety”, states that “pressure to be available 24/7 on social media may lead poorer sleep quality as well risk of depression and anxiety, according to a new study”. Also examined teens’ sleep quality, self-esteem, anxiety, and depression. The whole time spending on social media the examiner showed decreased sleep quality, lower self-esteem, increased anxiety, and depression levels. It shows that social media can also affect the health. Social media can be a serious danger to people’s well-being that can cause problems to them.
Social media is a fun way to connect with friends and family. It could be used for good or for bad. There are cons and pros, but today I will be talking about the cons. Social media could be used for all types of things like business or maybe just for fun. But some people take advantage and use it for the wrong things like cyber bullying, sharing inappropriate photos or stealing people's identities. It could
The first reason social media is bad is because, it causes teens to eat things they should not. Teens will eat anything for Youtube. For example, they will eat Tide Pods which is filled with laundry detergent. The American Association Of Poison Control Centers have had at least 170 people that have called in. Teens would eat
Teen privacy is an enormous idea parents are struggling to get across the to their kids. According to NPR, 62% of parents have taken their children’s phones as punishment for foul posting. (Ludden). When teens text, they feel like they are never alone. They have 24/7 access to talk someone (Blanchard). Teens are exposed to multiple outlets to expose their private life. Other risks teens are exposed to by social media is loss of privacy. According to Lexis Nexis, half of the Americans surveyed (1000) gave out too much personal information (Ramasubbu). Not only are teens exposed to over exposure of private life, emotional problems can be set in through social media use. The lack of self regulation to peer pressure makes teens vulnerable to Facebook depression, cyberbullying, and sexting. Social media can also cause sleep deprivation and internet addiction (Ramasubbu). Social media use and cell phone use in teens can causes a lack of social awareness in teens. According to Yazino, teens at parties are often too attached to their smartphone devices, but no one is truly engaging. From first hand experience, teens at parties don’t really know how to interact and start a conversation with one another. Social media interaction controls both online and offline communications between people (Fowlkes). Social media is basically the hub
Take a minute and think about how much we use Social Media. How scary is it to think that we depend on it so much, that we can not live without it? It frightens me that today 's teens depend on this for everything from the latest news to what their favorite celebrities are up to. We can access this information at any given moment with just a few touches or clicks. Society today depends on this for their comfort, money, news, happiness, and contacting friends, which has formed into a major problem. Social Media can have benefits as well, but based on how it is used today, it is more of an issue than a benefit.
“When you’re on a site like Facebook, you get lots of posts about what people are doing. That sets up social comparison,” states John Jonides from “Facebook Makes Us Sadder and Less Satisfied.” Social media and the internet are bad for people, especially teens, because it makes them feel left out. It also makes them want to multitask and mess up on their work, and their social skills suffer.
People from the 21st century might think that life before the internet was impossible to survive, but believe it or not, people survived. The majority of people are very dependent on what the internet provides. Using their cellular devices to search up the nearest restaurant, find an address, and even answers to a test are available through the web. All these answers can easily be found by just a click away, but not everything about the internet is good. Cyber bullying, child pornography, internet addiction, and even social media are a few of the powerful things that can be considered the downside of the internet. People are able to see how far the internet has come across history and the improvements it has made in all aspects of society,
“Opponents of social networking say that the sites prevent face-to-face communication; waste time on frivolous activity; alter children’s brains and behavior making them more prone to ADHD; and spread false and potentially dangerous information” stated in the article (Are Social Networking Sites Good for Our Society)? Social networking is changing the world of today. Teens assume social networking as beneficial but there are several disadvantages. Social networking has impacted teen’s lives’ and perspectives of the world. Social networking spreads false information, lacks privacy, lowers grades, and ends friendships.
Our society is changing drastically everyday with new technology for people to use. The technology are being part of an educational tool to survive in life. People use the internet services to develop communication and learn how to have a regular lives of the society. Majority of people using social networking are teenagers. It is a huge part for teenagers lives to “survive”. There can be a possibility positive effects using social network, but can also be a negative effects as well. Teenagers are able to use this tool as a professional or being able to contact with people that moved away. When the negative effects show it can cause cyberbullying, school work research, and relationships.
Teenagers have become dependent on social media and networking sites. In fact 25% of teenagers log on to a social media site ten or more times a day. (Lepi, 2013) However, Larry D. Rosen found interesting information in a study about teenager psyche, saying, “Daily overuse of media and technology has a negative effect on the health of all […] teenagers by making them more prone to anxiety, depression, and other psychological disorders, as well as by making them more susceptible to future health problems.” (2011) What exactly is a social media or network site? A dictionary definition would say social media are forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content. (Merriam Webster, 2013) The most common examples include: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, Tumblr, and Pinterest. (Bennet, 2013) Teenagers use social media and networks to find out information, talk to people who live far away, or vent and tell everyone every detail of their life. This dependency on social media has a drastic effect on a teenager’s relationships and can have long term effects on their social capabilities. Studies are showing how many teens find it easier to communicate online than face to face; the teens think being behind the screen makes it easier to connect with one and another. This, in turn, makes deception a more common occurrence on the web. The three biggest areas effected from social media and networks on teen relationships would be between significant others, distant and close family, and friends. There are both negative and positive effects in all three areas but, in most situati...