Social Media Informative Essay

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Today's was of people social communication is getting more advance every day. With this new age of social media people can connect not only with their friends and family, but with people all over the world. With those connection with people it can be positive, but it can also be a big negative on people. The positive side with that connection with people on social media can lead to relationships, better jobs opportunity, and can help people with their fear of social anxiety. But when they're is a positive side of things there is a negative side of things. With social media there is a lot of negative. The negative of social media are stalking, bulling, people uncomfortable with their bodies. The purpose of this is to essay to the show of how big of a negative impact social media have people and to persuade an audience on the danger of social media.
The first source I will be using to support my argument is an article by Richard Perloff titled "Social Media Effects on Young Women's Body Image Concerns: Theoretical Perspectives and an Agenda for Research" publish in 2014 in a online articled Springer. In this article Perloff argument is that young woman in the world think the perfect body is the body the models on social
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In this article by Brett Litwiller and Amy Brausch titled "Cyber Bullying and Physical Bullying in Adolescent Suicide: The Role of Violent Behavior and Substance Use" publish in 2013 in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. The article give data about people who are being cyber bullied but it also talks about the impact it has on who is being bullied on social media, but also talk about type of behavior associated within the victims of the bulling. In the article it also states that in America suicide is the third leading cause of death within people between the age of 11 and 24, but also the suicide attempts have increase in the past year because of bulling on social

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