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Yanisa Anna Wetchaporn

Ms. Orana Meenongwha

English 10/10:05

May 25, 2017

Impacts of Social Media

Introduction

Nowadays, social media become the most influential in any generation whether

teenagers, adults and seniors. It is a main part of lifestyle and necessary for people in society.

Now people addicted to use phone from then. It leads to consequence of the effect of social

media. Social media is websites and other online means of communication are used by large

groups of people to share information and to develop social and professional contact. Not

surprisingly, that people are interested in using social media more than other activities. Social

media changes lifestyle of society. The behavior of user changed whether communication,

trading or even searching information. People change the way to communicate from see each

other change to chat in the phone because now the technology is widespread. It is

comfortable for user. The reason is people can see each other face in their smartphone.

Absolutely, people prefer to spend most of the time to use online than other activity. People

like to show off expensive stuff such as shoes, clothes, cars. Instagram might be a good

alternative that exactly show how they boast or what they have or how much does it cost.

This stuff makes a competition to snatch to be themselves. So, this is going to be show off in

internet. Apparently, social media is already come into most of the life. The example of
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impact might make you realize that social media has disadvantage more than you think. The

way to figure it out is do not social media dominate too much. Use appropriate and avoid if it

is not necessary. This report has an aim to look how to the effect of social media which has

influence on teenager.

Self- perception

The most impact nowadays is self- perception. This topic is becoming big impact in

todays society. Too often people see on the news a teen taking their own life because of

social media. Nothing is considered private anymore. Self- perception is the act or

apprehending by means of the sense or of the mind. This problem is threatened by social

media. Someone deleted social media because they felt themselves becoming depresses by it.

The pressure of taking the right picture, with the right filter, wearing the right outfit, at the

right place, with the right people was too much pressure. Regardless of whether you realize

it, you are spending a great deal of the time and effort on the creation of your digital identity

(how social media affects our self-perception. 2014, march 13). Someone has cyberbullying

by internet in many ways for example taking a photo or video and sharing it without the

subjects consent, knowing it might be embarrassing, starting rumors or spreading gossip

online or making fun of someone in an online chat. They believed that not only do the

dangers of cyber bullying exist online but also in the content of friends pages can impact a

teens current mood. Whether it be feeling inside that anxiety all the time about how many

liked now or they get on their own page or the number of friend requests they receive every

week. Personal life is downed and happiness is disappeared. Self perception has a lot of

effect especially a teenager because of depression. When preteens and teens spend a great

deal of time on social media sites such as Facebook, and then begin to exhibit classic

symptoms of depression (home n.d.) The way to treat social media depression is take the time
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to unplug from the technology and social media accounts every day. They effect with your

health whether increase peoples stress levels, produce anxiety negatively affect a persons

sense of self or might even cause a person to develop mental health disorder or relapse back

to one.

Behavior change

On the research, BYUs Marriott School of Management in Provo, Utah survey about

how social media effect with nutrient habit by researcher from this school do an experiment

and look how the people reaction when see different foods pictures both are sweet food and

salty foods. The researcher said that the effect becomes stronger based on the number

of pictures a person looks at, and that just having a handful of friends who post food pics on

social media will probably have less impact. A person has to actually view numerous pictures

not just 2 or 3 but to have this effect. If over 60 pictures the picture can lead to appetize and

that is effect with your diet. (Social Media and its effect on your appetite |. Moreover, social

media make inability to think independent. It might because social media is the biggest issue

for many people can give own opinion. The pressure of it is when people give an own

opinion but other people not agree with them. It is just not a fight seemed like an educated

people discuss but it is not reasonable each other and the issue that in reality people argument

base on reason or evident but on social media people use only their feeling without reason to

explain to each other and it will be more harmful than argument with face to face and these

effect the behavior for each person. The difficultly with social media is that it able to hurt

someone who using social media by posting too much personal info. Some school make a

class for educate about especially this issue for understand the dangers and consequences. In

other word, professor try to teach how social media is influencing education at its foundation

for caught up how effect they are. That is not enough. Social media has effect on education.
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In California, Texas, Washington, and Arizona were survey and asked about the experience

during their high school years by asked how much time that spend time with social media?

They said 43.2% of the students said about two or more hours, 29.5% said between one and

two hours, and 27.3% said they are on these sites for 30 minutes to an hour. (how much does

social media affect high school students?). This research can proof that how much student

addicted to the social media. They are more becoming of social media makes student cannot

allocation of time correctly and use their time as a waste and also it may lead to poor grades.

Furthermore, the relationship between student and teacher is not the same at all.

Relationship between family, friend, society

Relationship is being disappear whether in family, friend, or society around us. Before

social media has influences like much now, people spend most of the time to stay together but

now it is not the same. In this generation, the impact of social media affects a lot to many

relationships. The way to communicate changes. The communication in family or the

moment is less because kids tend to more interested in social media more than family. One

reason that kids addicted to social media was, when your parents do not have time to spend

with, they just solve a problem by giving a social media to them for kids do not feel like the

parent do not give you a love or attention. That is why family also one factor that makes kids
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addicted to the social media. So, kids give their attention to social media more their family

and spend time with it. Not surprisingly, many kids will bully from social media or become a

bully other kids or other person. With friend, social media might have not affect that much in

the way to talk but it happens a lot when cyberbullying on social media such as Facebook,

Instagram, Twitter and other. The fighting of cyberbullying is so strong and dangerous. The

government was created a law for violation of privacy rights to infringement who was bully

in social media. This is how the social media is effect on society. They are just not impact in

politics but also in socialization, privacy. Sometime people share too much information which

may pose threats to threats to them. Even with the tight security settings your personal

information may leak on the social sites. Downloading your videos or pictures and copying

your status is an easy task and can be done within few clicks (negative effects of social media

on society, 2015, 31 October). The following affect is the relationship with friend. Teens use

their smartphone to report what they are feeling or tell about their story though out social

media to connect friend. Drama can cause conflict with a friend over text message or even

something that happened online for example someone post something about you with a lie

because they just want to win and exposed your secret or whatever but it is not true. Other

people that do not know you might think they tell the truth and think you might have a

personality like they mentioned about you. Moreover, they might share your picture that not

suitable or a picture that you do not like and share without permission. It makes them good at

storytelling, but not good at story living. If you are really that person, you are absolutely hate

that person and your privacy is not private anymore. This is how social media effect on

teenager relationship.

Conclusion

The result of the impact on social media that effect on nowadays are many solutions.

Most of the time, social media has lots of disadvantage in the way effect on each person or
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even society. Whether the behaviors to person to person or person to society or person to

environment and also the relationship between family, friend, and society. Overall social

media seem like has more disadvantages than advantages because after many researcher

research about the impact of its, the graph show the amount of people in this generation that

addicted a lot and became an influences that important to teenagers, adults and seniors. It

seems like everyone need it as if they cannot live without social media. Many examples that

show about how it effects with us such as self- perception, behavior change, or less time to

spend together with family or friend is different. That is why we should solve this problem

and might have an campaign to give them a knowledge and information to warning them but

even has an campaign but it depends on each person. So, the best way to solve and easiest is

make yourself not addicted too much on it whether Facebook, Instagram, snapchat, or twitter.

We should have an activity such as play sport or play an instrument or charity that is look

more useful not just spend most of the time to social media. Today society is everyone head

down to use their phone not care anybody else. It is a simple way to get effect on it because

no one care each other for example a simple situation, in Thailand on the BTS, most people

look their phone and when has older person or pregnant woman, no one care about them.

Although, they are type of people that should care the most and suitable for sit. So, everyone

should more give attention the social media that how much they effect on you.
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Appendix