Social Media – Speech We live in a generation where losing your phone is worse than losing your virginity. We live in a generation where it has become common to send inappropriate pictures to people who we have just met. We live in a generation where we are so dependent on technology that it is as addictive as a drug. Fellow students, let me ask you all this question, would you want to see our future generation, our future leaders, and our future role models acting like this? What is this world coming to?! In order to prevent this, I firmly believe that the correct and safe use of social media must be taught in schools. Social networking websites can be utilised as a beneficial tool to keep in touch with friends and to communicate …show more content…
According to neuroscientist, Mark Goulston, there are certain “feel-good” brain hormones such as oxytocin and dopamine that are located in the pleasure and reward centres of your brain and are released when individuals actively use social media sites. Although social media is a psychological addiction unlike substance addiction, brain scans reveal that there are frighteningly similar impairments of regions of the brain, especially in the degradation of white matter that those with drug dependence usually characterise. These regions control emotional processing, decision making and attention. Social media is extremely addictive as it provides immediate and satisfying rewards (through the release of hormones) with very little effort. Your brain automatically begins to crave it more and more as you desire these chemical stimulations. Sounds like a drug right? Some studies even show that around 5%-10% of users find it difficult to control the amount of time they spent online and literally cannot log off. So although social media stimulates our brain and sends chemicals that make us feel great - it’s harmful to our real life relationships and distances us from the connections we have around us, often times becoming a distraction to young people which can deter them from their schoolwork and affect their ability to interact with people face to face. Instead of continuing our ways, we can change. As a nation and together
Did you know social media can change you? Social media can cause problems with your health? In the article, “Student examines negative effects of social media on teens” by Aurelie Krakowsky and “The Upside of Selfies: Social media isn’t all that bad for kids” by Kelly Wallace talks about social media, but clearly it’s harmful to people. Social media is for people to enjoy on a daily basis and be updated on what is happening in the world; however it can be harmful to your health and even your education. It can lower kids self esteem and make them feel uncomfortable about themselves. It can also cause health issues and distant yourself from the people around you.
According to the article entitled “ The Good and Bad of Social Media” by Jason Howie, “ They have looked particularly at its effects on human emotion and relationship. Some studies show that using social media can cause depression.” The usage of the media doesn't just slow you down but can slowly shut your real life down. Therefore social media ends up hitting you from left to right or any possible way it has. The mindset of always wanting to be on it can destroy your life routines, makes you put up with things you shouldn’t put up with. Sometimes, people end up getting bullying and killed for some unnecessary things they do on the media. Furthermore, Howie writes “ We expect more from technology and less from one another. More and more, we desire technologies that provide a false idea of a relationship.” We depend on the media to give us the answers instead of asking our surroundings and communicating with them. We always believe what media tells us and whether it's false or not, we use it believing it's better than our own knowledge. Our privacy isn’t privacy because media after media we end up in a random page which can get our information in just one
Social media is also causing the deaths of many teens and adults because people want to stay with all the new things happening in the world. Social media tools are designed to distract us from mortality and up reminding us in a particularly vivid manner that life is a sequence of losses (Daily Telegraph). Snapchat advertises on one of its filters to not text and drive but people still do it. Many teens distract themselves with social media for others to know how they are living and what they have in life. It's clear that, for teenagers, spending too much time online can really deter social and educational development, the internet world is such that there is alway something new to do and to distract one from one's responsibilities (The Danger of Teen Internet Addiction). Getting addicted to something is very hard to break away from. The internet is a new drug to many teens and adults of society nowadays. Mark Zuckerberg created the social media app, Facebook, on February 4, 2004. It attracted many people to sign up and make an account. Another app created was Myspace on August 1st 2003. Social media has influenced how today's teens look upon life. Teenagers tend to think everything they see on social
Social networking is a website which can be used to interact with other people on the same platform. This can be used to meet new people and keep in contract with friends and families. In this report I will be explaining different social medias and their purposes. Also I will be giving real examples of the social media webpages.
I agree with everything what Simon Sinek says, we easily allow social media to take advantage of us. We want to always take that short cut to becoming happy, but since it’s a short cut it only lasts for a short amount of time. We can easily become addicted to social media because of dopamine that feeling of feeling good easily makes it hard to break of the addiction. He also said that we are growing in a generation with lower self-esteem, because of social media and the lack of good leadership in this world. For example I used to be honestly addicted to social media, I would come back to Facebook or Instagram as soon I had the chance to see how many likes I got. The second I started to use Instagram and Facebook less, I started to feel less
There are a lot of studies that show negative effects on the brain when partaking in Social Media coverage. Many believe these studies are inconclusive and have circumstancial evidence. There really isn’t any proof that suggests that social media has harmful effects on the brain, but it does have harmful effects on one’s physical well being. There is also proof of social media being good for a person’s mental health and with outstanding communicative benefits.
Claim: Today, I invite you all to consider why social media is a necessary part of politics in todays’ society.
Social media distracts billions of users daily. For instance, it distracts people by always using it and it can cause them to ignore their children, and some pervert could come along and snatch them up because they were into social media. This shows that social media is distracting because it cause your child to be taken away, and you could have prevented this from happening if you payed attention to your child and not your friends. Also, social media can make us students make terrible grades because it can keep us up all night so then students sleep during class and is exhausted so they can't pay attention in class so they fail. All people should limit using social media because it can cause bad things to happen because we're distracted.
Being on social media daily, affects the youth-even adults- physically, socially, and emotionally/mentally. Because technology is so addictive, over the past few years, social media has begun to influence and take control of our lives.
I feel that social media has drastically rewired the psychology of teenagers, the most shocking being the degradation of white matter. White matter is extremely important in transmitting nerve signals quickly and connecting different regions of the brain. The degradation will eventually impair our ability to remember events and perform executive functions (eg.: remain attentive, problem-solving, planning etc.), making it detrimental to our health. Degradation of white matter is characteristic in addictions as well as aging, making addiction to social media have some of the same detrimental effects as old age and drug addiction.
4: We are slowly turning into slaves of technology; setting our mindsets into shortcuts, to abbreviations, to initials, to emojis, to GIFs, to stickers, and to memes.
Social networking is a way of connecting people in the virtual world. Social networking websites have exploded in recent years,
Social media is one of the most common ways for people to communicate anywhere and at any time in modern society. Some people think that it is beneficial to have in society. Although, many people are starting to see negative effects arise from the use of social media as well. These negative effects are increasing and becoming more problematic every day. The disadvantages of social media far outweigh the advantages. Social media effects everyone in society, especially teenagers by negatively impacting their lives, face-to-face interactions, and mental health.
Social media addiction causes people to pay more attention about others or significant individuals life rather than their own. When people spend a lot of time on social media they start observing what is going on in someone else’s life and it becomes entertaining. Unfortunately focusing on someone else’s problem or lifestyle is a way people distract themselves from focusing on themselves. The more time and attention they give to social media just so they can keep up with their peers or celebrities is out of control. For example, I personally spend majority of my free time being on social media, from keeping up to the latest fashion trends to observing what others around me are doing. Social media can become addictive to many without even noticing. When I spend time on social media, in that current moment, I don’t focus on what going
My audience will learn the significance of being a social networker in today's computer-centric world. They will obtain knowledge on its history and the many uses social-networking provides.