Krystal Social Media Project (condensed)-1bfk85a
Social media and its negative impact
One day while scrolling through social media ,Instagram to be more specific. i came across and old friends account ,but instead of me felling joy over finding this old friends accont felt overwhelmed and upset.why because of jealousy, seeing her happy and having the perfect picture life while mine wasn’t hurt my self esteem. But there’s more, social media doesn’t just lower self esteem it gives dangerous people an opportunity to do bad things and or cause harm.Every person i bring this topic to always says the same thing “it helps you connect with far away friends and family” Yes this is a good thing but i can’t help and think social media’s negative effects on kids and teens overpowers this one positive.If you would like to learn more about this very controversial topic i suggest you read on .
I got three words LOW SELF ESTEEM . Why do i say this because those lovely apps on your phone called Snapchat ,Instagram and Facebook even though you probably don’t use Facebook because only old people use Facebook ,cause these three words LOW SELF ESTEEM . And that’s not a good thing .For example during an interview with my fellow classmate Ella i asked if social media ever causes her to feel upset or sad about herself she told me and i quote “it does ,even though i shouldn’t i feel sad when i see people who look better than me” this clearly shows how social media can cause low self esteem because it not only supports my reason (social media can cause low self esteem)but connects with real life. It shows how a real life normal person feels sad and has gotten a negative outcome from just looking at a picture on snap or scrolling thru there feed.It connects with real life because it’s coming from a young teen who’s just trying to live life but keeps getting knocked down because of other picture perfect life .Another piece of evidence that can also support my reason social media can cause low self esteem is from the article on m.huffpost.com. Is “60% of people using social media reported that it has impacted their self esteem in a negative way”.This also supports why i think social media can cause low self esteem because its credible,true and unbelievable.I say this because it states real statistics that comes from scientist and researcher that went to school for years to learn how to do theses studies and if they believe this why shouldn’t we .
Another negative outcome that comes from social media is the dangerous people and opportunities they get because of social media. In the text protect your privacy online it states “there are child molesters and there are a lot of crazies out on the internet” furthermore you can obviously see how this connects with my reason it shows the sertin danger you can and will face at one point if you have social media, and how i’m not the only one who has this same mind set.in addition another piece of evidence that can go with my reason would be my own personal experience.I’ve only been on this earth for 13 years. I’ve only been on social media for two or three years, and i’ve had multiple exsperzes with people much older than me.texting me or commenting on one of my pictures WITHOUT ME EVEN KNOWING THEM.There was this one experience where there was a guy commenting on me and my friends pictures and texted us but he would tell me he was 16 tell one of my friends he was 18 and then tell another he was 19.I’ve been taught how to use social media in a safe way but teens and kids that don’t wouldn’t know what to do in that situation.I just hope you take and understand thats this piece evidence is coming from experience.I’ve been put through this horrible experience. And so many other people have to, this SHOULDN’T be taken lightly.
On the contrary some people still believe social media is fine how it is,because of its one positive .That being how it helps you connect with far away friends and family. Yes this is a really good point and i can’t deny it.But like i said although this may be true the detrimental effects of social media can not be overpowered.In addition to causing low self esteem and being dangerous social media has also been proven to affect students grades .In the article “negative and positive effects of excessive social media use on teens” it states”teens who get hooked on such forms of social media find it hard to spend too much time away from it there school work can suffer as a result”i can connect with this piece of evidence on so many levels .i’ve myself gotten stuck in an internet hole or procrastinated to the point of not doing my work, or not paying attention to real life relationships.Because i’m so focused on whos posting what and who’s texting me back.in fact i also found another piece of evidence on the website we.weebly.com and it stated “in a comparison of teenage Facebook user who spend 1+ hour per day and less than 1 hour on Facebook per day the Gpa of non users was 3.5 – 4.0 while the Gpa for users was on average 3.0-3.5” at this rate after reading through this evidence you can tell how well it goes with my reason.It brings real statistics that you can trust. And shows how after doing a bunch of research ,researchers have come to the conclusion that social media is affecting your studies.
So now that you’ve read my speech and had an opportunity to watch my youtube video . I hope you understand the negative effects social media has on us. That being causing grades to go down, self esteem to decreases and danger to be more frequent. I hope you spend the time to spread the word on this topic and teach others what’s going ,on all social media forms and cites. Tell all the kids and teens you know that social media has a negative effect on them if they don’t know what they’re doing. And lastly stop the cycle from continuing before it’s too late.