How Social Media Influences Society
Magazines use to be the main place to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, as well as the latest fashions and other helpful tidbits. However with the ushering in of the technological era, social media sites such as Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr have been developed. Through these sites a girl, or guy, can browse through for hours exploring the beauty and elegance of the top rung of the social ladder. While these sites do provide an ever entertaining stream of pictures, videos, and fashion, they can also be a large source for insecurities, self doubt, and brewery for depression.
There are millions of girls, of all ages, that spend a lot of times looking at stars in magazines and on social media sites. …show more content…
Having drugs such as marijuana and party pictures containing minors under the influence, posted all over some social media pages are practically a neon light for children to be drawn to these addictions. Not only are all of the companies that have pictures and adds posted on these sites drawing kids to their products, but even people as simple as the popular kids at school posting a bunch of partying pictures with boose and drugs all over the place. Younger kids look through their news feeds and see the kids that they look up to plastering these distasteful pictures up and want to be like them. Huffingtonpost.com, released an article where they researched the affects of social media sites on children 's involvment with controlled substances. They found that, “70 percent of teenagers age 12 to 17 spend time on a social media site in a typical day, which amounts to 17 million teenage users. Those that interact via social media on a daily basis are five times likelier to use tobacco, three times likelier to use alcohol, and twice as likely to use marijuana. Forty percent of these teens surveyed admit to having seen pictures of people under the influence, and are four times likelier to use marijuana than those who haven’t scrolled through these images. The data makes sense: those exposed to pictures of drugs and alcohol are more inclined to seek and experiment with it …show more content…
Some specialists have developed theories to attempt to explain why such behaviors go on in young growing children; the theory is called the labeling theory and it is introduced by many experts. According to labeling theorists, “The self is viewed as a social process subject to the reactions of others (Mead, 1934; Cooley, 1962; Becker, 1963). Formal labeling includes assessment by social workers and other professionals. Informal labeling includes categorization by nonprofessionals such as parents and friends. The process by which formal and informal labels are hypothesized to affect behavior over time is via the self-concept or self-label. For example, more deviant formal labels are hypothesized to result in more deviant self-labels and subsequent increases in deviant behavior over time. Labeling theory thus specifies relationships over time among labels from different sources and between these labels and deviant behavior” (Downs). These theories provide insight on the possible reasons of why kids form the way they do, and the causes behind the somewhat rebellious outbursts that kids display in the adolescent stages of their
Magazines use to be the main place to catch up on the latest celebrity gossip, as well as the latest fashions and other helpful tidbits. However with the ushering in of the technological era, social media sites such as Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr have been developed. Through these sites a girl, or guy, can browse through for hours exploring the beauty and elegance of the top rung of the social ladder. While these sites do provide an ever entertaining stream of pictures, videos, and fashion, they can also be a large source for insecurities, self doubt, and brewery for depression.
There are millions of girls, of all ages, that spend a lot of times looking at stars in magazines and on social media sites. …show more content…
Having drugs such as marijuana and party pictures containing minors under the influence, posted all over some social media pages are practically a neon light for children to be drawn to these addictions. Not only are all of the companies that have pictures and adds posted on these sites drawing kids to their products, but even people as simple as the popular kids at school posting a bunch of partying pictures with boose and drugs all over the place. Younger kids look through their news feeds and see the kids that they look up to plastering these distasteful pictures up and want to be like them. Huffingtonpost.com, released an article where they researched the affects of social media sites on children 's involvment with controlled substances. They found that, “70 percent of teenagers age 12 to 17 spend time on a social media site in a typical day, which amounts to 17 million teenage users. Those that interact via social media on a daily basis are five times likelier to use tobacco, three times likelier to use alcohol, and twice as likely to use marijuana. Forty percent of these teens surveyed admit to having seen pictures of people under the influence, and are four times likelier to use marijuana than those who haven’t scrolled through these images. The data makes sense: those exposed to pictures of drugs and alcohol are more inclined to seek and experiment with it …show more content…
Some specialists have developed theories to attempt to explain why such behaviors go on in young growing children; the theory is called the labeling theory and it is introduced by many experts. According to labeling theorists, “The self is viewed as a social process subject to the reactions of others (Mead, 1934; Cooley, 1962; Becker, 1963). Formal labeling includes assessment by social workers and other professionals. Informal labeling includes categorization by nonprofessionals such as parents and friends. The process by which formal and informal labels are hypothesized to affect behavior over time is via the self-concept or self-label. For example, more deviant formal labels are hypothesized to result in more deviant self-labels and subsequent increases in deviant behavior over time. Labeling theory thus specifies relationships over time among labels from different sources and between these labels and deviant behavior” (Downs). These theories provide insight on the possible reasons of why kids form the way they do, and the causes behind the somewhat rebellious outbursts that kids display in the adolescent stages of their