It is said that about 78 percent of U.S. Americans are using social media. (Statista.com, 2016). Of those 78 percent, how many are NOT addicted to any kind of social media? From children to adults, how dangerous is social media? Not just for personal safety, but for our mental health. Instead of spending quality time with our friends and our significant others, and feeling an emotional connection, we look to our phones. How often do you have a question, and you google it? Why not ask someone? Is social media ruining our lives? The answer to that question, is yes. Social media is absolutely ruining our lives, and our future generations lives. Social media is an on-going detriment to society, from lack of verbal communication, to luring pedophiles
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When we go out on dates, what are we doing? We are sitting on our phones, not communicating with each other. Waiters and waitresses have seen couples on their phones, instead of enjoying each other’s company, they will see them flipping back and forth between apps and text messages. Many times, they will see one person of the party that looks annoyed that their significant other will not get off their phones. They just know that one of them is thinking that their partner is cheating. Why wouldn’t they be? It’s a much easier access now. You’re a happily married man or woman, (or so you think) and you can easily reconnect with an old fling from high school; one thing leads to another and the next thing you know you are meeting for a drink. Then the next thing you know, you have cheated on your significant other, who trusted you. Yes, the door shouldn’t be open for that to happen inside of your relationship, yes, social media shouldn’t be the deciding factor on whether you’re going to cheat on your partner, but the sad truth of the matter is that it does. If it wasn’t so easy, if you had to just randomly bump into the person, then more relationships would thrive. Many people in these relationships, also dislike when their partner is insecure. With “Who are you texting?” “Why are you friends with this person?”, That can also drive many to cheat. Facebook or Snapchat has …show more content…
You must be a certain age in order to access a social media account. When you sign up for Facebook or Twitter, they ask you to provide your birthdate. If you are considered too young, by their standards, they will deny you the access. Many teens will then change their birthdate and lie in order to gain access. Those age requirements are there for a reason, children and teens do not have the mental maturity to know the real right from wrong. Pedophiles have such an easy access to these kids just by befriending them online. A teen girl can get a friend request from a young male (or so it appears), whom she thinks is the same age as her. They then strike up a conversation and build an online relationship. He then suggests they meet, and she will happily agree because she feels like she has known him now for a while. “In 100% of the cases, teens that are victims of sexual predators have gone willingly to meet with them.” (Pursesight.com, 2011). After all, they have gotten to know each other, right? Wrong. She then meets up with this “boy”, and the boy turns out to be a grown man. A mentally unstable, sick minded, grown man. That’s worst-case scenario, but it is the case for many teens. The worst part is they do all of this behind their parents backs, parents would obviously not be okay with any of this being done, but when their children go and then they never return, they wouldn’t even be able to
When we go out on dates, what are we doing? We are sitting on our phones, not communicating with each other. Waiters and waitresses have seen couples on their phones, instead of enjoying each other’s company, they will see them flipping back and forth between apps and text messages. Many times, they will see one person of the party that looks annoyed that their significant other will not get off their phones. They just know that one of them is thinking that their partner is cheating. Why wouldn’t they be? It’s a much easier access now. You’re a happily married man or woman, (or so you think) and you can easily reconnect with an old fling from high school; one thing leads to another and the next thing you know you are meeting for a drink. Then the next thing you know, you have cheated on your significant other, who trusted you. Yes, the door shouldn’t be open for that to happen inside of your relationship, yes, social media shouldn’t be the deciding factor on whether you’re going to cheat on your partner, but the sad truth of the matter is that it does. If it wasn’t so easy, if you had to just randomly bump into the person, then more relationships would thrive. Many people in these relationships, also dislike when their partner is insecure. With “Who are you texting?” “Why are you friends with this person?”, That can also drive many to cheat. Facebook or Snapchat has …show more content…
You must be a certain age in order to access a social media account. When you sign up for Facebook or Twitter, they ask you to provide your birthdate. If you are considered too young, by their standards, they will deny you the access. Many teens will then change their birthdate and lie in order to gain access. Those age requirements are there for a reason, children and teens do not have the mental maturity to know the real right from wrong. Pedophiles have such an easy access to these kids just by befriending them online. A teen girl can get a friend request from a young male (or so it appears), whom she thinks is the same age as her. They then strike up a conversation and build an online relationship. He then suggests they meet, and she will happily agree because she feels like she has known him now for a while. “In 100% of the cases, teens that are victims of sexual predators have gone willingly to meet with them.” (Pursesight.com, 2011). After all, they have gotten to know each other, right? Wrong. She then meets up with this “boy”, and the boy turns out to be a grown man. A mentally unstable, sick minded, grown man. That’s worst-case scenario, but it is the case for many teens. The worst part is they do all of this behind their parents backs, parents would obviously not be okay with any of this being done, but when their children go and then they never return, they wouldn’t even be able to