Ryan Horne
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In this generation social media has a significant impact and plays an important role in the modern society we live in. It is the cause for most of the positive and negative affects in the world and most importantly our children. In my opinion social media wasn’t always negative and was really started for positive reasons. When it was first created and established, it was simply made to make communication much easier and also reconnect others from all over. In the world we live in today, social media is key and very important to have. Social media is the link for us to be able to communicate, for free! It is open for us to contact anyone from anywhere at anytime. But because of the many negative effects it has had on people, there will be reasons for it to be very intrusive. It has allowed us to hide behind screens and falsely advertise things, create unrealistic relationships, and limit the social interaction of others face-to-face. Then you have the topic of how it is taking over our lives and controlling the lives of children. In this day and age, it is rare you will see a person without a cell phone tweeting out in public. I can agree that it’s very time consuming and takes away actual time being spent when with others. Our lives are very much revolved around social media and cell phones. Without it, I can honestly say the world will be MUCH different.
I personally believe there is a responsibility to using social media because, no one is forced to use it, and every one has a choice to live life with or without it. When getting a new cell phone, the first thing anyone does is go to the app store and downloads Twitter, Facebook, and or Instagram. Immediately, we are already subjected to using those specific apps because of what’s out there surrounding us. If that’s all that you know and accustomed to, it will be automatically instilled in your brain. Priorities and productivity is shot because of this, when doing things like being at work or sitting in class, we have to constantly check our phones to look at our profiles. No one can give any right or wrong answer on why this is done but it is now just the way of life and what our lives now consist of.
There are many positive ways social media was used especially in great times of togetherness and unity. When President Barack Obama was elected social media was one of the reasons he had such a great amount of supporters. Celebrities and a lot of influential people went to social media to help get the people out there to vote and come together to make history happen. The president himself joined social media when making a twitter account and expressing himself about the many things that were going on in our country. With him doing that it bought about such a great unity that we needed at the time and it made others want to make a twitter account just to add the President of the United States as a friend.
In the future, I see social media becoming more of an important factor in our lives. We can’t stop the growth of something that’s constantly growing by the day but what we can do is help make the outcomes of social media better for our world. Help promote unity, equality, and great tips on becoming a healthier person. If we can keep our lives centered and balanced, then we should all be fine with or without it.
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