In current day America, people ranging from a large assortment of ages are all using one or another form of social media. No matter what ethnicity, gender, or social class people are getting online from the east coast to the west coast. People use social media for a variety of reason such as, to stay in contact with family and friends, to fill up spare time, share their personal life or opinions, and mostly to keep up to date with current events and news. Although the reasons behind why people use social media seems fairly legit and important, the general population is beginning to believe that people are using at a all new high. In theory though, who says that there is people with an addiction over social media?
A lot of us have a large …show more content…
This leaves for people being out in public with them engulfed with their heads into there phone. Even just the other week I was out with a friend and the whole time they were going through a social media app called Instagram. Coming from the other side of the situation, it makes you feel like your talking to a wall. It really made me realize just how involved people get with social media when they cant even sit down and eat without having the urge to get online. Along with that, there has been cases recently of people’s usage of social media grew so much that they would skip school, meal, and shower. It reminds me with people who have a hoarding addiction. If you cant take care of your own well being, it’s then can surely be considered an addiction. Another sign of it is when people mainly teens go all day without even leaving the room they 're in or when it’s effecting teens schooling, then your talking about some sort of an addiction. A negative part of social networking addiction is an aspect a lot of people don’t think of right off the bat. Mainly a lot of the time we think of how it impacts themselves, but it also impact the people around them. Majority of the time when people start getting the social isolation, you can see signs of depression which can cause turmoil and disconnection with close family and friends. I would say if it did get to this point you would more than likely need professional
A lot of us have a large …show more content…
This leaves for people being out in public with them engulfed with their heads into there phone. Even just the other week I was out with a friend and the whole time they were going through a social media app called Instagram. Coming from the other side of the situation, it makes you feel like your talking to a wall. It really made me realize just how involved people get with social media when they cant even sit down and eat without having the urge to get online. Along with that, there has been cases recently of people’s usage of social media grew so much that they would skip school, meal, and shower. It reminds me with people who have a hoarding addiction. If you cant take care of your own well being, it’s then can surely be considered an addiction. Another sign of it is when people mainly teens go all day without even leaving the room they 're in or when it’s effecting teens schooling, then your talking about some sort of an addiction. A negative part of social networking addiction is an aspect a lot of people don’t think of right off the bat. Mainly a lot of the time we think of how it impacts themselves, but it also impact the people around them. Majority of the time when people start getting the social isolation, you can see signs of depression which can cause turmoil and disconnection with close family and friends. I would say if it did get to this point you would more than likely need professional