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Persuasive Essay On Social Media

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Everyone knows that lying is bad. Then why is it allowed on social media? Since you are a kid you are taught to never lie. Even though everyone knows this they still lie on a daily basis using social media. About 85% of people have social media. How many people do you think are currently lying social media out of that? Social media deceives the viewers because people create fake accounts, photoshop, and spread untruthful things. Do you know what a finsta is? Well everyone who has Instagram does. A finsta is a “fake Instagram account”. Approximately 71% of teenagers have a finsta (Raimonde). Finsta’s start off as just posting funny things with you and your friends and family, until it changes. Finstas have been around for almost a year and a half and even now they are starting to change. They have turned into a place where people talk about drama or just gossip, but not only that they have become lies. People have started creating finstas pretending to be other people. It can just be a friend pulling a prank to a real problem. On finstas, people will post funny pictures of their friends, but recently they haven’t been pictures of friends and stories of their friends. There has been a big increase in hacked accounts. The main problem with social media is once it's posted it doesn’t go away and even if you delete it there are screenshots and shared posts. With all of the hacked accounts they will make up stories or pictures about a person and everyone just believes it. Furthermore, social media is untruthful through photoshop. With Photoshop there are so much more untruthful and rude things on the internet. Using photoshop people take real pictures and change them so people see things in a different way. People photoshop many different things such as pictures with their friends, a meme, and logo. Not only that photoshop is used every to politics to marketing. “Photoshop has been used since 1988 when Thomas and John Knoll came up with the idea to edit images. Ever since then it has taken over the media and graphics industry by a storm and now, after two decades of its invention, there have been debates over whether or not Photoshop has a lasting impact on society’s beauty standards.” (Raimonde) When photoshop has

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