Seventy-eight percent of Americans have a social media profile; worldwide, that’s 1.96 billion profiles. Being a small percent of the data, I can say social media has its ups and downs. In short, social media is websites and applications that permit users to produce and share content to partake in social networking. This includes, but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and Snapchat. Growing up in the technology age, I’ve had firsthand experience with all of these applications and being the ripe age of 18, I have seen the progression; therefore, I’ve been exposed to social media for the majority of my life. Now, as an adult, I can confidently say social media is slowly diminishing our mental and emotional abilities. Half of
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Social media is flooded with celebrity news on a daily basis and now-a-day’s there isn’t a day that goes by that one doesn’t hear about the Kardashians. They are the “new standard of beauty,” which boys or girls cannot compete with. Each one of the Kardashian gets their makeup and hair done each morning and gets a personal stylist to dress them. Not only that but their photos either professional or a selfie gets edited before getting released to the public eye. One can find that it’s not just the Kardashians that use editing software, like Photoshop, but “actually 97% of celebrities” get digitally enhanced. There is no way for a social media viewer to ever feel happy with themselves if they continue to brainwash their mind into thinking there is only one way to look. Thin. For example, I watched my friend-let’s call her Rose-suffer through an eating disorder fueled by social media. She would keep photos of her favorite photo shopped celebrities as her cell phone background for motivation. She really thought people didn’t love her because she wasn’t thin. Who’s to know if she wasn’t exposed to social media if she would develop an eating disorder, but social media was the trigger to a long ride of suffering. I hear all the time that people now-a-days are more encouraging and willing to boost other people’s confidence and be of a friendlier nature than a decade ago. However, most …show more content…
The amount of time people spend on technology, the less likely one is to observe their true self, and their losing time to interact with “realistic ideals” of a person. Moreover, numerous young people think they are insignificant in many ways because they have been enclosed in what social media portrays as a “beautiful” stereotype. These celebrities portray a photo shopped world, showing off unrealistic standards for the human body. Likewise, the pressure to please viewers frequently reoccurs leading the user to develop a depressive state. Since the user compares their life to others, they feel the need to show the viewers that they are achieving some sort of happiness, but in reality they are digging themselves deeper into depression. In conclusion, social media has society by the throat, slipping further into the vortex of
Social media is flooded with celebrity news on a daily basis and now-a-day’s there isn’t a day that goes by that one doesn’t hear about the Kardashians. They are the “new standard of beauty,” which boys or girls cannot compete with. Each one of the Kardashian gets their makeup and hair done each morning and gets a personal stylist to dress them. Not only that but their photos either professional or a selfie gets edited before getting released to the public eye. One can find that it’s not just the Kardashians that use editing software, like Photoshop, but “actually 97% of celebrities” get digitally enhanced. There is no way for a social media viewer to ever feel happy with themselves if they continue to brainwash their mind into thinking there is only one way to look. Thin. For example, I watched my friend-let’s call her Rose-suffer through an eating disorder fueled by social media. She would keep photos of her favorite photo shopped celebrities as her cell phone background for motivation. She really thought people didn’t love her because she wasn’t thin. Who’s to know if she wasn’t exposed to social media if she would develop an eating disorder, but social media was the trigger to a long ride of suffering. I hear all the time that people now-a-days are more encouraging and willing to boost other people’s confidence and be of a friendlier nature than a decade ago. However, most …show more content…
The amount of time people spend on technology, the less likely one is to observe their true self, and their losing time to interact with “realistic ideals” of a person. Moreover, numerous young people think they are insignificant in many ways because they have been enclosed in what social media portrays as a “beautiful” stereotype. These celebrities portray a photo shopped world, showing off unrealistic standards for the human body. Likewise, the pressure to please viewers frequently reoccurs leading the user to develop a depressive state. Since the user compares their life to others, they feel the need to show the viewers that they are achieving some sort of happiness, but in reality they are digging themselves deeper into depression. In conclusion, social media has society by the throat, slipping further into the vortex of