Social Media And Social Research

Social media has changed the world in many capacities some being positive and negative. Through statistics gathered at least 73% of all adults use social media, most of them being young adults (Quinn, 1). Keeping this in mind, we will see the major cause and effects of social media among the affluence which is the youth of today. One can see that social media can affect their health as well their relationships cause of the many established online today. It has also brought forth the sharing of information which you think sharing would be good but, this may put someone into another perspective of in of receiving info online. The vast majorities of information are very difficult to decipher whether or not they are reliable. The effects of social …show more content…
That means that obviously most of our socialization among the youth is online or through technology. This is a huge indicator of social media obstructing the people of today. Rather than being able to socialize, we have been culturally accustomed to this way of communicating through the screens of technology. Now there are great uses of social media giving us the means to communicate with those who are may be far from where we live but we must consider the other side as well. How often do people who use social media for that purpose more than any other, not often. There has been additional research done by social media leading to terrible things such as sleep deprivation (Shamist, et al, 3). How many people are sitting on their phone when they get in bed? A minute of checking social media can link into four hours of surfing the web of things you saw you on Facebook. Finally comprehending that person has work or school in about 3 or 4 hours they finally get off and go to sleep. Then wake up to only again check social media immediately and start their days not so pleasantly. Many of the youth can relate to this today and its dreadful set back of this generation. That it has succumbed to this instant gratification limitation of the web and social media. The point is that social media not only distracts …show more content…
In an article written by Kelly Quinn, he in complexity did research on privacy and social media. Studies have shown those who have more friends on social media tend to have less privacy over their accounts. Proving of this virtual reality everyone enjoys living in, that may seem harmless but really is not. He expounds on the dangers of social media and it giving out personal information. He writes specifically about how some social media websites may have privacy features that may give exactly where you are on a GPS (Quinn, 3). Although it may be great to share information such as but anyone could see the problem with it as well. There are many ways to set up privacy on your social media accounts, but there also are ways that social media has secretly use agreements to the things that enable them over again. Giving information such as your name, your address, and your number may seem innocent when giving to someone who may seem friendly online. On the other hand, if it may be that easy for someone to access that you should really consider those who may not be so friendly but actually be threatening getting a hold of that information. Young adults of this generation are convinced to believe that giving away information so freely is cool or hip when really it is not. It is actually scary and can put one’s life in danger. It is another thing that has changed within human