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What Impact Does Social Media Have On Teens?

Social media has become an influential versatile in the lives of today youth. With social

media becoming more advanced and even more addictive for the youth of today. Some might

just say it’s more than just a hobby. It’s a lifestyle. Adolescences is a period that is very

important for social learning which could explain why teens are often more tuned in to what's

going on in their respective cultures. According to Lauren Sherman thinks we may even be

learning to read likes and shares instead of facial expressions.​ Social media should be limited

due to cyberbullying, suicide, false news reports.

People should minimize the use social media because it causes too many distractions.

According to the article, Tweens identified as children spend about 6 hours on average

consuming media (Wallace). Kids spend way too much time devoting their attention to social

media then being productive. It just shows you that these kids live in this massive 24/7 digital

media technology world and it’s snapping every aspect of their life. They spend far much time

with media technology than any other thing in their life. This is the dominant in ternediary in

their life (Wallace). Teens rather spend all the time on media other than do other things in their

life. Some 60% say they text and more than 75% say they listen to music while working on

school work at home. Teens feel that them being on their phones help them get they homework

and classwork done. Teens are spending more time on social media that they are losing sleep.
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A San-Francisco based non-profit that tracks children and their technology use, finds that teens

age 13 to 18 spends almost nine hours a day- that's longer than they sleep. Teens gives they

attention to social media they are on social media more than they sleep. According to Steyer

nearly two-thirds of teens today tells us they don’t think watching TV or texting while doing

homework makes any differences to their ability to study and learn even though there’s more and

more research to the contrary (Wallace). Teens feel that them being on their phones don’t

interfere with them losing sleep interfere with their work ethics. Why we can't just ignore the

pings while driving?

People should minimize the use of social media because it causes too many distractions.

Smartphones are affecting our brains without us even being aware of it. People are letting

smartphones affect their brains and not even noticing it. According to Greenfield the part of the

brain that say ‘ok how important is this text worth dying for? Is this text worth killing somebody

else for?(Wallace). People would rather text while driving and risk their other than ignore the

text and be safe.

Social media

has a big impact

on our brain.

This graph

shows the
amount of time that teens and adults spend on social media. As you can see teens spend more

time on social media that also proves teens give all their attention to their phones and is not being

productive. It also shows that adults spend less amount on social media that because adults go

work and are productive with their everyday life.

People should minimize the use of technology because it causes too many distractions.

Social media has become second-nature but the impact is this having on our brain-East. Social

media has become the most impact on humans. According to Dumontneil whenever you learn

something new or you experience something. It’s encoded in your brain, and its enclosed by

subtle changes in the strength of connections between neurons (Wallace). When people learn

new things they brain becomes connected with that material. Why is it hard for teens to stay off

their phones.

People should minimize the use social media because it causes too many distractions.

72% of teens and feel the need to immediately respond to text, social media, social networking,

messages and other notifications(Wallace). Teens are so addicted to their phone that they can’t

stay off of it. If your teens would prefer gaming indoors alone as opposed to going out to the

movies, meeting friends for burgers or any of the other ways that teens build(Wallace). Having a

child that rather sit in the house and not go outdoors and be active that’s not good. The older the

child gets the more time he/she spends on an electronic.

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children eight and younger spent about 15 minutes a day staring at a mobile screen in 2013 and

now they spend 48 minutes a day(Howard). Since the year 2013, the minute’s kids normally

spend looking at a mobile screen has increased. According to Gortmaker the time that children

are teenagers spending over, let’s say, six hours engaged with screen devices(Wallace). The

older kids get they spend more time looking at a screen device. Cyberbullying has got out of

control to the point kids are committing suicide.

People should minimize the use of social media because it may lead to cyberbullying. An

officer wrote that the actions of the accused boy and the cause mental distress to the

victim(Lynch). They bullied her so bad to the point she had become depressed and suicidal.

According to the police, the accused boy said Gabbie texted him to say she was having a bad day

and attempted to hang herself and had marks on her neck(Lynch). She was being bullied so much

she felt like she didn’t have anyone to go to and tried hanging herself. Teens who spend most of

the time on social media have been cyberbullying or doing it to other peers.

People should minimize the use of social media because it may lead to cyberbullying.

Those say they were cyberbullied were most likely to say they considered suicide(Landau). Kids

who have considered suicide have been a victim of being bullied. According to Patchin in our

research, about 82% of the time, the target know who the bully is and it’s usually somebody

from the social circle(Landau). When someone is getting bullied most of the time someone you
know knows the person who is doing and don’t want to tell an adult. The impact cyberbullying

has on someone may lead to suicide.

People should minimize the use of social media because it may lead to suicide. Few

minutes after death four people posted “you finally did it”(Hassan). Four teens began to taunt

Brandy after she passes. According to swearer people are most likely to write horrible things

when they think they’re being anonymous(Hassan). Teens feel just because they don’t leave a

name nobody will find out they are the ones who are being a bully. Social media should be taken

away due to cyberbullying, too many distractions and not pay attention in school.

Most people would disagree because some people feel social media is a positive outlook

such as getting in contact with friends they haven’t seen in years and family who they haven’t

heard from in a while and also to see what’s trending and find opportunities that will better the

future. Also look at the news so they can know what is going on within the environment and for

police to find evidence just in case somebody commits a crime but the decision to send a

message to their friend or post information on Facebook or Instagram.

The amount of social media that is used needs to be limited due to the consequences it

causes teens to not pay attention in school. It causes too many distractions and also leads to

cyberbullying. Social media has advanced over the years. Social media has taken over teens lives

to the point teens would rather sit indoors and be on social media other than to be productive.

Society should be more concerned because teens are not as active as they should be. This
generation rather socializes with friends through social media instead meeting up and doing

outdoors activities. Teens are also losing one on one skills because the would rather meet “new”

people through social media and video call them instead of meeting up and going to the movies,

park, getting ice cream or just for a walk.

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Hassan Carma. ​“Teen who shot herself in front of parent is still being bullied”.​ Cable News

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