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Velghe 2

Velghe 2

Fofoaivaoese Velghe

Mrs. Hardwick

English Composition II

10-01-2020

Impact of Social Media to the society.

Introduction

Have you ever found yourself in a literal rabbit hole, where you are scrolling through videos on social media, and you are so consumed you lose track of time? Social media is any numeral tool that permits users to create and share content with the community. Social media includes a wide variety of websites and also apps. Some of the platforms are like Facebook. Social media can be very powerful on society in both optimistic and even negative ways. This gives people a manner that will stay in trace with the people who live at a far distance. Social media has both advantages and disadvantages. It has different impacts on society since it mainly involves the use of technology in a big way.

Although there are a lot of advantages that are reaped from social media applications, there are some of the demerits, and one is wasting time on social media (Cherak, Stephana et al p.159, 2020). Many people today, instead of doing what is important many people are concentrating on social media that is not helping much. People are on the phones most of the time instead of being at work. It is important to only reply once most especially to the people who bore you. It is important to excuse yourself from the conversation and getaway. This because a lot of time will be wasted and hence the discussion might not be important like the work that one is doing.

Another problem is that there are dangers of cybercrime and bullying; allowing kids always to be online will affect their education because being online all the time will affect how they are reading (Matlhare et al. 2020). It is not possible to read while still online. It is important to keep on checking on the kid's social media profile. Today social media has been one of the areas when many students waste a lot of their time. Instead of doing studies, many of them start chatting with their friends, reducing their education performance.

Due to the increased use and improvements in technology, there have been many reported cases about cyberbullying. A lot of children have been bullied in some of the social media platforms. Also, some of the teens have reported on their accounts being hacked. Some are hacked, and anything that is written becomes public. Another major problem brought about by the negative impacts of social media is health issues due to social media. Due to spending a lot of time on social media, there are problems like sleep deprivation. People who are always on their screens are the ones that are mostly being faced with this problem.

This problem about the negative impacts of social media it is a problem just like the other problems. The issue has brought challenges that are affecting different people negatively. The i9ssue has a lot of negative impacts, and for this reason, the issue becomes a problem just like all the others (Cinelli, Matteo, et al.) It has made people suffer since May of the children have suffered a low performance in school. Cyber attacks and bullying have been used to victimize most of people. The problem that should be looked at is that if it is not addressed to many people will undergo a lot of negative impacts, and this is not right.

A lot of children are having problems since there is a lot of cyberbullying. This issue is affecting a lot of school-going children. For this reason, a lot of children have been affected by these types of bullying, and it is continuing to trend (O’Reilly, 2020). There have been a lot of problems that are affecting the children who are bullied. Sometimes they are told to do things that they feel they don’t want to. Through bullying, some of the children have been affected psychologically. Many have been said in case they report such instances, they will arrest.

The problem is worth further investigations since, as seen, it has been seen to cause a lot of questions. As technology is improving every day, then the risks are seen to be improving daily. Thus, it is important to ensure that the issues that have shown up it seems that all this might improve in the coming future. For this reason, it is important to ensure that all these challenges are looked at better so that in the next lot, solutions for the same problems will be sought.

Technology has made a lot of improvements, and many disadvantages are as a result. The other reason why this issue should be investigated further is coming up with measures that will aid in curtailing the spread of these dangers to the school-going children. There are a lot of disadvantages that result from children using social media. When they spend a lot of hours on social media, many disadvantages come as a result. Thus, it is important to look at all the factors causing the children to be much on social media and stop the negative impacts.

The reason to help the reader understand the problem since social media is a subject of modern technology. I made the reader understand through the rampant reported bullying mainly to the teenagers. the other issue that is facing most of the school-going children is the wastage of time in social media. For this reason, a lot of children have suffered since many are failing in school. They are spending al0ot of time on the screen, and many forget to be in their books. The most affected area by social media in education. Many of the school-going children are using some social media platforms that socially are not upright. This is also affecting such student morals. The issue exists, and it is also getting worse. Since technology is improving every day, many children, especially those in high school, are affected much. Issues about cyberbullying and other kinds of attacks are increasing each and a new day, and hence the problem is getting worse daily.

This problem with this issue is going to increase if it is not addressed. The government should ensure that it comes with policies that will look at the social media platforms and give proper guidelines to stop any kind of negative impact both to the school going chil5ren and also the society.

Work cited

Cherak, Stephana J., et al. "Impact of social media interventions and tools among informal caregivers of critically ill patients after patient admission to the intensive care unit: A scoping review." PloS one 15.9 (2020): e0238803.

Cinelli, Matteo, et al. "The covid-19 social media infodemic." arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.05004 (2020).

Matlhare, Boitumelo, Gabriel Faimau, and Latang Sechele. "RISK PERCEPTION AND KNOWLEDGE OF CYBERCRIME AND ITS PREVENTIVE STRATEGIES AMONG YOUTH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA."

O’Reilly, M. (2020). Social media and adolescent mental health: the good, the bad and the ugly. Journal of Mental Health, 29(2), 200-206.