So Long Social Media Analysis

In the article So Long Social Media the author talks about how the way the younger generation has shifted the way that they use social media. While a few years back a network site like Facebook was the dominant force in social media, the current time shows that instagram and snapchat have come to the fore front of social media when it comes to young people. While a site like facebook is still being used very frequently their age group has evolved to be one that is much older than it used to be. Social media also plays a major role in the way people of society communicate today. It is a fun way to interact with others who share the same interests. The article mentions that most teens use these social media ways to communicate and too keep in …show more content…
One of the reasons is that their family is more active on it and they do not have the privacy that they used to. I can totally agree with this statement from my own personal experience. I have had aunts contact my parents just to let them know what I was up too by the things that I was posting. This really began to bother me and it gave me the feeling that members of my family were always watching me. Another reason why younger people are leaving facebook is that anything that is posted on that site is forever and cannot be taken away. This makes one become more aware of what they are posting and it forces them to act more professionally. A social media platform allows one to be a little more relaxed and less conscious about what they post because those posted get deleted forever after a short amount of time of being …show more content…
She thinks that all of the privacy in social media is causing this problem, but I would have to disagree that there is a problem here at all. Just because less young people are using facebook all of the time doesn’t mean that they have stopped using it completely. I think that social media can benefit people by have both a private and public side of it. One site like facebook for example can but used to show the professional side of someone while something like snapchat can be used for personal pleasure. To think that young people are not sharing their ideas on social media platforms is insane. Social media is one the primary ways people of the younger demographic get their ideas out to the public. Take twitter for instance the main idea of that site is to establish are brand for oneself and to try to promote that brand by putting your ideas out into the public