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Seattle Kiser Instructor: Malcolm Campbell English 1103 February 13th, 2014 The Effects of Social Media Social media has become a very big part of peoples lives. Social media can connect you to people across the world, your country, or your own town. Many people spend hours and a considerable amount of the day using social media. Many people cannot go large amount of times without checking it. Social media is still very young when considering its effects, especially medically, but according to Elizabeth Koikai, still a number of behaviors associated with excessive use of social media have lately become the subject of much discussion and research. Social media has many positive and negative effects that are coming up more and more. Social media seems to be having more negative effects on self-esteem then positive ones. Maeve Duggan and Aaron Smiths research has concluded that 73% of online users have some sort of account with social media. Social media is a display case where people can pick and choose what they want people to see. Some people out there wind up negatively comparing themselves to whats portrayed on Facebook by their friends. says clinical psychologist Craig Malkin. Seeing and reading about peoples, perfect lives can have damaging effects on peoples self-esteem. Looking at peoples pictures today perfectly edited with filters or that are posed can cause people to compare themselves to others. Also, many people base their self-esteem by how
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There are also many social effects that many researchers are concerned about. Koikai also states that, We are trading a great deal of physical interaction with a very superficial and sometimes shallow form of interaction. Cornell University's Steven Strogatz tells us that people are starting to have a hard telling their real friends from so called friends online. People

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are focusing too much attention on their online, virtual friends and are not focusing on the relationships that matter. Social media has many positives too. I allows people to be informed about various opinions around the world and has become a major source for all kinds of information. It has also become a major source for people to find and reconnect with old friends. It has also become a place where you can easily spread the word of kidnapped children in your area. It has become a place where friends can get to know you better. You and you friends can find more common interests with each other. Job interviewers can get a better view into an applicants life and motives. Social media is also creating a controversial issue over privacy. Should people be posting various aspects of their life online? Social media has allowed people to enter other peoples lives that they have never met. People should be more aware of what they put out there because they do not who may be watching. Social media has not been around long enough to discuss various health negatives, however we are starting to the effects surface. Many people learn how to control and manage their time on social media and others do not. Social media is not the place for discontent and low self-esteem people. Social media is constantly showing us ideal images and lives which are not true. A picture and post can show many things, but we cannot truly evaluate or test the truth behind them just by glancing over their profile.
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Professor Campbell- So this draft is really just me getting all my thoughts and ideas typed out. I would really like to talk to you about my ideas and what I should add or take away. I also

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do not know if I am leaning towards an exploratory or an argumentative essay in this draft. I feel its exploratory. Kim: I really do like your essay. There are very interesting points being made in your essay and this is something that we can all connect on. What confused me a little was you explained some of the negatives, and then a short paragraph on the positives and then, right back to the negative. You also later went in and talked about health issues. I see what youre trying to say but are you trying to attack this essay on health issues? If so, I think it would be beneficial to elaborate. An example would be depression; maybe adding symptoms and how people socially act would be good in adding to your paper. Another thing I noticed, you quoted a lot of people, it isnt bad, but it does take up a majority of the essay. I think by adding more your essay will be a great one. !

Reviewer: Kimberly Frez