Social media has greatly impacted our society within the past decade. Today people rely on social media for entertainment, news, and for work purposes. As of now more than 86% of teenagers are on some type of social media networking site (Greenwood). Many parents of teenagers see social media as a waste of time. According to one article, teenagers are on their phones nearly nine hours a day (Tsukayama). With that being said many teenagers are now starting to use social media for school purposes as well. For instance, one principal in Virginia says he expects his teachers to have Twitter and Instagram accounts, “To be honest, social media is becoming a fundamental part of our entire district,” (Asher). Teachers are now having to learn to adapt
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“The average Millennial gets 74% of her news from online sources,” says American Press. In a recent interview, Business Insider conducted to see how teenagers learn about what is happening in the world. More than half say that they use the different “stories” on Snapchat or get on Twitter to learn about the events happening in the news (Godlewski). “Through speaking with a few teens, Insider discovered that they aren 't going to specific news sites to pick and choose articles to read, but rather checking certain apps where the news has been preselected for them,” (Godlewski). Previous generations are used to watching the news on television or simply reading the paper, but today teens can go to a social media app on their phone and instantly find anything they want to know about. In the recent 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were tweeting everyday to inform voters of their stance. In fact, the most popular tweet of 2016 so far was the day after the election when Clinton tweeted, “To all the little girls watching… never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world” (Spangler). Not only were the candidates able to connect with voters, but it let voters stay up to date on with the candidates believed in …show more content…
“Studies are finding that teenagers on social media have a better understanding of word reading, have a higher vocabulary, and are better at spelling because of the phonetic nature of textspeak” (Obee). They are blogging on social media sites which is improving their overall writing skills (Thompson). Just by putting a simple post on Facebook is helping practice their writing skills. Writing things on social media gives teenagers a voice as well. With that being said, the student who is too shy to speak their opinion in class, could write on Twitter to voice their opinion without having to speak out in front of the class. One researcher from the University of Toronto said, “‘Everybody thinks kids are ruining their language by using communicating through social media, but these teens’ communication skills shows them expressing themselves flexibly through all registers. They actually show an extremely lucid command of the language. We shouldn’t worry’” (Obee). However, parents are worrying, they feel as if their children do not know when it is appropriate to use texting language (slang) verusus when to use formal English language. However, during an interview most teenagers say they when know to use formal language. During this interview, Annie age sixteen said, “‘To be honest, I hate netspeak. When people talk like ‘hey u, i wna c u 2mro @ 7 at AHS’ just makes them sound
“The average Millennial gets 74% of her news from online sources,” says American Press. In a recent interview, Business Insider conducted to see how teenagers learn about what is happening in the world. More than half say that they use the different “stories” on Snapchat or get on Twitter to learn about the events happening in the news (Godlewski). “Through speaking with a few teens, Insider discovered that they aren 't going to specific news sites to pick and choose articles to read, but rather checking certain apps where the news has been preselected for them,” (Godlewski). Previous generations are used to watching the news on television or simply reading the paper, but today teens can go to a social media app on their phone and instantly find anything they want to know about. In the recent 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were tweeting everyday to inform voters of their stance. In fact, the most popular tweet of 2016 so far was the day after the election when Clinton tweeted, “To all the little girls watching… never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world” (Spangler). Not only were the candidates able to connect with voters, but it let voters stay up to date on with the candidates believed in …show more content…
“Studies are finding that teenagers on social media have a better understanding of word reading, have a higher vocabulary, and are better at spelling because of the phonetic nature of textspeak” (Obee). They are blogging on social media sites which is improving their overall writing skills (Thompson). Just by putting a simple post on Facebook is helping practice their writing skills. Writing things on social media gives teenagers a voice as well. With that being said, the student who is too shy to speak their opinion in class, could write on Twitter to voice their opinion without having to speak out in front of the class. One researcher from the University of Toronto said, “‘Everybody thinks kids are ruining their language by using communicating through social media, but these teens’ communication skills shows them expressing themselves flexibly through all registers. They actually show an extremely lucid command of the language. We shouldn’t worry’” (Obee). However, parents are worrying, they feel as if their children do not know when it is appropriate to use texting language (slang) verusus when to use formal English language. However, during an interview most teenagers say they when know to use formal language. During this interview, Annie age sixteen said, “‘To be honest, I hate netspeak. When people talk like ‘hey u, i wna c u 2mro @ 7 at AHS’ just makes them sound