How Does Social Media Affect People's Life

Effects of Social Media Before social media existed the way people met each other was through face to face communication. Now when walking down the sidewalk people pretend to be on their phones so they do not have to talk or acknowledge each other. People now days lack social/people skills. Social media over the past couple of years have taken control of people’s lives. Social media is not just taking over people’s lives it is also effecting people’s brains, behavior and thinking. Social Media effects people’s brains in many negative ways. People are addicted to their phones and other objects. Something can be considered an addiction if it becomes so important that it is in the way of one’s daily activities. Social media has caused …show more content…
The reason for this behaviour is because social media takes people away from real relationships. Social media has depleted face to face contact/relationships. Face to face contact use to be the only way people could meet others and when one is face to face with another person they cannot pretend to be someone else. Now days Facebook, Instagram and other social accounts allow people to pretend to be someone they are not. An example of this would be the television show Catfish. There are some many cases where a person pretends to be someone else and they think nothing is wrong with this behaviour even though it is hurting others. This act is extremely selfish! Social media has also made people become every lazy. Maltese philosopher Edward De Bono says that “social media stops people from original thinking.” He argues social media causes “laziness”: “we just feel we’ll just get more information and we don’t need to have ideas ourselves – we’ll get ideas from someone else, we don’t need to look at the data we’ll just see what someone else has said and so on.” (Zevallos, 2011) An example of this would be people who use the search engine Google to answer homework questions or anything else they