Mass media is where and how people today get most of their information. This can vary from a news channel on television to a social …show more content…
In other words 50 percent of people are pressured to want what only 2 percent of them can have, this ties into the instant gratification as well since people get these unrealistic goals forced onto them, they'll get upset when they aren't met quickly. Now all of this wouldn't be brought to people's attention without probable cause, there have many suicides associated with social media. People do recognize that there are other elements outside of social media that can lead to this but, social media is a common factor among these cases. One theory behind "social media suicides" is anonymity. When people talk online, there is sometimes a "blanket" like an effect that happens, people feel what they say online is different from saying it to a person in real life. This can cause people to more cruel than they usually would. This doesn't even mention how a person can feel like the whole world is against them. Supporting this idea how many users agree or disagree with a topic. Say a person receives a status saying "you're ugly" and it gets 30 likes. That person that received that message might think 31 people think that that person is ugly. In contradiction to the fact, those people don't feel strong either way. It is this