The Negative Effects Of Social Media On Society

As we develop new technologies, we also develop new social norms of thinking and each generation thinks differently whether social media/technology makes a positive impact or negative impact. When people use social media positively, our generation is slightly improved, but if people use it negatively, then our generation is ruined. How do we find out how people use this technology? When people get addicted to it, it affects us because we need it all the time and it changes our values. Instead of being a community, we’ve became individualistic to the max. We tend not to trust anyone but ourselves. Why is that? This is because we’ve become such an individualistic society that we don’t rely on others and we don’t have that face to face deep communication. …show more content…
When we use social media, it also changes our value of communication. We tend to not value it as much and according to Turkle, prefer texting than talking. If it’s something we crave for and constantly need, then it’s become a problem to our generation because we don’t have that value of a community and instead we value the hyper-individualism created through social media. The parents are enabling this to happen by the way they do their parenting and by them buying their kids these new technological devices. When parents give their child a tablet to shut them up at the dinner table, their teaching them not to value family time as well as to be disrespectful not only to their family but to those around the child. It all comes down to how the parent informs and teaches their kids about social media. The parents are usually the people in which the kid looks up to. If the kid sees you on their phone a lot, they will grow up to think that the phone is more important than family. It also depends on how you teach the kid about the internet and whatever you put up you can’t change because it’s been on the web and millions of people will see it. Instead of wanting to know what’s happening in our family lives and talking to them at the dinner table, we would rather go on Instagram or Twitter and see what’s happening with our favorite celebrity. Social media has changed our values very much, now we value immediacy, quantity instead of quality, and privacy. It’s easier for people to have a voice on social media but it’s harder for our voice to have an impact. We start valuing the efficiency that social media gives us instead of valuing that deep