How Social Media Hurting In Our Real Life An interesting fact that says, more than 350 million Facebook users suffer from Facebook Addiction Syndrome (Brown p.1)! It shows how the social networking sites like Facebook are taking control over our life. These social networking sites are virtual communities that help and encourage its user to share their personal information, making new friends and communicate with other users. However, its role is very questionable. There are many reasons to worry about it.
It has caused countless arguments, cyber bullying, people committing suicide and horrible images and videos being uploaded for the world to see. This simple site is actually very complex. People tend to think its a great way to make friends and reconnect with old ones, but in my opinion is a way of causing stress and anxiety in someones life. Often people use it to cause upset and insult someone from the comfort of behind their computer screen. The problem with Facebook is that it often puts people in bad situations often leading to suicide, self harm, low self-esteem, being harmed by a predator and not being hired by a company.
This is just a natural human action. Humans always want more things, and they are never satisfied. The warning signs of depression on a social media site are “social isolation, obsession, academic performance change, physical appearance/health decline, or significant mood change over a period of time” (Stenzel 111-112). The studies and figures show that social media sites cause depression which sometimes causes suicide. Suicide is becoming more and more frequent in teens in the world, and social media has a part in that growing number of
But there is always a treat of loosing ones self in these means and going to some unrealistic relationships that can newer be as strong as real ones. This leads us to conclusion that these Network Sites do isolate people from their real lives and make them forget the real values of a friendship. The use of these Sites cannot be good for any normal relationship because there can newer be real emotions in a virtual dialogue like in the real one. Being able to see and learn so much about a person while sitting in the comfort of your own home is unnatural. There is probably over 50 percent of breakups that were caused by Facebook and its content, or even more of them actually happened on these kinds of sites.
That night we arrived at Benning after 14 long, grueling hours on a greyhound bus. We step off and of course there was nobody around except one Black hat (instructor) he said two things; one here is your room and be ready for week one, Ground Week, on Monday morning. The first week, Ground Week, was intense. I was drenched in sweat from 4AM to 6PM, we did a PT (physical training) test right off the bat 0400 that Monday I smoked it of course. After that we spent the day in processing which is always the boring part I thought, not this time if we weren’t busy we were doing PT.
Smith, Hi Jayden.” Said Stacy “Hey everyone.” Replied mom and Jayden *two hours late Stacy went home the Mr. Smith came home. * Friday may 31, 2013 *Today was kind of a languid day. It was no school so everyone was just home relaxing and watching television. Mom and dad went to work. * Saturday June 1, 2013 *Steven’s end of the year party is today.
Mine include spending an entire weekend with my computer on my lap working on that 24 page final paper for Mr. Hale's class, pausing only long enough to get another cup of coffee! We’ve all had the pleasure of waiting for hours in line to get into the bookstore on the first day of the new quarter, only to wait an hour or longer to get out of the bookstore and then pray that we make it to the first class of the day - on time! We have made lifelong friends, learned to be part of a community and had some crazy adventures. For you, some of those could have been all night study groups with too much food and way too much caffeine, those students involved in sports who had bus trips to away games or the field trips like mine to the Dayton Art Institute (for Art Appreciation) when a few students got lost or one whose car wouldn’t start afterwards. These adventures provided us with fun, stress, and new appreciation as lessons learned by life itself.
“Social Media Can Be Deadly” Column Response The deadly shooting of 20-year old college student Justin Valdez last month was one that surprised many Americans, given the context of the actual incident. Leonard Pitts Jr. utilizes the context of this event to make an important connection to the effects of social media on society. In his column, Pitts emphasizes the use of social media to convey his purpose; that while social media may be bringing people closer to one another, it physically alienates each person from the rest of society in a detrimental manner, leading to tragic events such as that of Justin Valdez’s death. Pitts begins his column by introducing the background information behind the killing of Justin Valdez, highlighting particular
Sahara Ethel English 1101 27 Jenuary 2013 “I m Your Teacher, Not your Internet Service Provider” After doing internet teaching for four years, Ellen Laird writes the article “I’m Your Teacher, Not Your Internet Service Provider”. After all these years of teaching, Laird could not wait to put an end to it. She tells us how her honeymoon for distance learning is over because of how she has to stay up late trying to post assignment especially those who don’t respect deadlines. She stays up late when her family sleeps just to make her online classes effective. She also explains to us how she response to emails and post assignments all alone during the night.
Social Media's Effects On Young People In this essay I shall evaluate social media effects on young people. Social media has many communicate platforms that use for interaction with other people and obtaining information. Statistics shows that 751 million users access Facebook from mobile with 7000 different devices and there are over 288 million monthly active users on twitter in the world (Social Media Stats and Facts for 2013 | Social Media Today. Retrieved from http://socialmediatoday.co). Although social media is thought as beneficial, it has three negative effects and can be dangerous for young people.