Social Media

“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>.