Megan Meier was a 13 year old teenager living in Missouri. Meier wasn’t enjoying a normal teenage life filled with friends. Instead, Meier battled loneliness and depression because she was obese and for years had tried to lose weight. She also had attention deficit disorder. Meier’s dark and depressed days were finally over when she made a friend through her MySpace account named Josh. Josh was the most friendly, and cute boy she ever met. Moreover, he was the first boy who called her pretty. As a result, Meier fell deeply in love with Josh and created a close bond with him. Suddenly, Josh started to avoid Meier and wanted to end his friendship with her. Furthermore, he suddenly started to post messages taunting Meier, calling her "fat" and
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Since then the situation has only become worse. One survey has found that “some 70 per cent of those aged 18 to 34 said someone has written rude posts on their Facebook wall, posted nasty tweets or otherwise been rude online. That drops to 60 per cent among those aged 34 to 55” (Shaw, “Is social media making us rude?”). (What is significant about these figures is that more than half of social media users have said something rude or offensive about others.) In other words, more than half of the social media users are saying something rude or offensive about others. Clearly, too many people aren’t being impolite just by their nature. Social media is provoking them to be more aggressive, and providing them with easy tools to behave in an offensive way with many people. So, the problem is not just with people being impolite on social media, but social media itself. Social media is destroying human emotions and humanity. Social media; ironically, is making people less human or less …show more content…
According to their results, a third of users felt lonely and envious seeing the work and love successes, as well as vacation photos, of friends (Mason, “Does Facebook Make People Lonely?”). Another group of researchers directed a new study and asked 600 adults in Germany about their feelings while using social media. A third of the participants said they had undergone mostly negative feelings, like frustration. Finally, the researchers concluded that the central cause for feelings of frustration was overwhelmingly envy; a direct result of comparing themselves to others on social media. As mentioned earlier, social media does not create animosity in people, but it gives opportunities to feel lonely and dissatisfied. Social media helps to access information of others in a way that would be hard to obtain offline. People who use social media can easily post overly positive things about their life to show off and create jealousy. Opening to every single pages of social media sites where thousands of people are enjoying themselves at any luxurious trip, or enjoying the company of loved ones can create an excessive amount of animosity. In real life, someone would not know thousands of people who are experiencing a perfect life on a smiling picture. For that reason, extreme envy or dissatisfaction cannot be built in real
Since then the situation has only become worse. One survey has found that “some 70 per cent of those aged 18 to 34 said someone has written rude posts on their Facebook wall, posted nasty tweets or otherwise been rude online. That drops to 60 per cent among those aged 34 to 55” (Shaw, “Is social media making us rude?”). (What is significant about these figures is that more than half of social media users have said something rude or offensive about others.) In other words, more than half of the social media users are saying something rude or offensive about others. Clearly, too many people aren’t being impolite just by their nature. Social media is provoking them to be more aggressive, and providing them with easy tools to behave in an offensive way with many people. So, the problem is not just with people being impolite on social media, but social media itself. Social media is destroying human emotions and humanity. Social media; ironically, is making people less human or less …show more content…
According to their results, a third of users felt lonely and envious seeing the work and love successes, as well as vacation photos, of friends (Mason, “Does Facebook Make People Lonely?”). Another group of researchers directed a new study and asked 600 adults in Germany about their feelings while using social media. A third of the participants said they had undergone mostly negative feelings, like frustration. Finally, the researchers concluded that the central cause for feelings of frustration was overwhelmingly envy; a direct result of comparing themselves to others on social media. As mentioned earlier, social media does not create animosity in people, but it gives opportunities to feel lonely and dissatisfied. Social media helps to access information of others in a way that would be hard to obtain offline. People who use social media can easily post overly positive things about their life to show off and create jealousy. Opening to every single pages of social media sites where thousands of people are enjoying themselves at any luxurious trip, or enjoying the company of loved ones can create an excessive amount of animosity. In real life, someone would not know thousands of people who are experiencing a perfect life on a smiling picture. For that reason, extreme envy or dissatisfaction cannot be built in real