Is Social Media Affecting Your Well Being?
Imagine that you get a call from the principal every day because your daughter or son is always on their phone, due to the distraction of social media. That it’s only been two minutes of being in class when the teacher already kicked them out because she or he had already warned them, yet they don’t listen. That for every single peep or ring they hear, they have to look at their phones right away because there that addicted to social media. What are we supposed to do about it? One thing for sure is that I wouldn’t like my kids to be failing due to the distraction of social media. If social media interferes with your child’s learning, then what makes you think they will have a good future? The disadvantages …show more content…
As a teenager I think that social media is the only thing in life that is worth spending time. The following statistic “Young adults act much like teens in their tendency to use sites. Fully 72% of online 18-29 year olds use social networking websites, nearly identical to the rate among teens, and significantly higher than the 39% of internet users age 30 and up who use these sites” demonstrates how not only are teenagers the problem but there are many parents who don’t seem to care if their kids are on social media all day because they do the same thing (Winkler). Yeah anyone can say that we get to see what’s going on or what’s new, but most of the time it’s nothing but drama. Facebook is one of the Medias that are considered with the most drama involved in a daily basis. As the well-known writer and editor, Andrew Santella, puts “Social networks depend on the belief that we all have a story to tell, we all have some pictures to show and the world wants to hear from us.” Is trying to say that the world will always be posting pictures or tweets and that will distract us because we will do the same (Santella 47). This shows how social media is a distraction because for every single thing we do, we post it right away. Since there are millions of people in the world who have social media, for example, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc… they will always be posting things in which will seem interesting to us and that distracts us from our lives. My mom does not let me use my phone while I’m doing my homework because she knows that social media will distract me from getting my work done. Not only is social media a big distraction while working on homework, but it’s also a distraction having a phone in front of you in class. I know this because it’s happened to me and that’s why I either turn it off or get it out of my sight. I see many of my colleagues checking their phones when they hear a noise and not
Imagine that you get a call from the principal every day because your daughter or son is always on their phone, due to the distraction of social media. That it’s only been two minutes of being in class when the teacher already kicked them out because she or he had already warned them, yet they don’t listen. That for every single peep or ring they hear, they have to look at their phones right away because there that addicted to social media. What are we supposed to do about it? One thing for sure is that I wouldn’t like my kids to be failing due to the distraction of social media. If social media interferes with your child’s learning, then what makes you think they will have a good future? The disadvantages …show more content…
As a teenager I think that social media is the only thing in life that is worth spending time. The following statistic “Young adults act much like teens in their tendency to use sites. Fully 72% of online 18-29 year olds use social networking websites, nearly identical to the rate among teens, and significantly higher than the 39% of internet users age 30 and up who use these sites” demonstrates how not only are teenagers the problem but there are many parents who don’t seem to care if their kids are on social media all day because they do the same thing (Winkler). Yeah anyone can say that we get to see what’s going on or what’s new, but most of the time it’s nothing but drama. Facebook is one of the Medias that are considered with the most drama involved in a daily basis. As the well-known writer and editor, Andrew Santella, puts “Social networks depend on the belief that we all have a story to tell, we all have some pictures to show and the world wants to hear from us.” Is trying to say that the world will always be posting pictures or tweets and that will distract us because we will do the same (Santella 47). This shows how social media is a distraction because for every single thing we do, we post it right away. Since there are millions of people in the world who have social media, for example, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc… they will always be posting things in which will seem interesting to us and that distracts us from our lives. My mom does not let me use my phone while I’m doing my homework because she knows that social media will distract me from getting my work done. Not only is social media a big distraction while working on homework, but it’s also a distraction having a phone in front of you in class. I know this because it’s happened to me and that’s why I either turn it off or get it out of my sight. I see many of my colleagues checking their phones when they hear a noise and not