“Ding-Ding-Ding” your cell phone is
ringing with yet another notification from your friend Sally on Facebook.
Instinctively you grab your cellphone and check the notification even though
you are at a very important business meeting. Your boss shoots you a very
shrewd look as you shyly put your phone away, questioning why you would even
check in the first place without thinking. This is a sign of being a “social
media addict”. While there is no real “known term” for the sudden urge to check
your Twitter, social media has become a widespread epidemic involving a
majority of young teens and adults worldwide. While social networking can help
others communicate in a fast and easy to use system, it can also have its
absurdities. Social media can ruin real life relationships and can distract you
from your real world tasks (Small Business Chronicle). This can ultimately
damage ones emotions and the way others interact with one another due to the
fake image we perceive online. It also can ruin the way you “think
independently” and can butcher your self-esteem (Readers Digest). Social media
is the perfect place for fake fantasies to unwind, pictures to be chopped and
edited, and false presumptions to be made, which could lead to the
deterioration of someone’s self-image. Is it possible that the world will be
able to alter and cut back on its use of the internet? Or do you think we will
lead to each other’s demise?
Works Cited:
"5 Weird Negative Effects of
Social Media on Your Brain | Reader's Digest." Readers Digest.
Web. 25 Feb. 2016.
<http://www.rd.com/health/wellness/negative-effects-of-social-media/>.
"The Negative Effect of Social
Media on Society and Individuals." The Negative Effect of Social Media
on Society and Individuals. Web. 25 Feb. 2016.
<http://smallbusiness.chron.com/negative-effect-social-media-society-individuals-27617.html>.
