Social media – a negative network
- Mar 4, 2016
- 1 min read
We are the social media generation. Everywhere you look, people are scrolling through their phones, posting selfies on Instagram, or tweeting the latest Internet meme of the year.
This opinion article was originally featured in PantherNOW and discusses how social media can negatively influence young adults.
Check out the article’s excerpt below and click the link if you want to read the full story!
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Maytinee Kramer/Staff Writer
We are the social media generation. Everywhere you look, people are scrolling through their phones, posting selfies on Instagram, or tweeting the latest Internet meme of the year. Social media and smartphones have changed our personal and social lives, giving us the means to broadcast our thoughts and lives to the world. However, the influence of social media on girls is of particular importance because of their vulnerability, and because they’re the heaviest users of social networking.
As TIME Magazine wrote, 92 percent of American children have an online presence before the age of two, with parents posting images of their children online, otherwise known as “sharenting.”
As children grow up, social media teaches them to be narcissistic and perpetuates their exhibionist ways. The boom in today’s selfie culture further gives rise to a competitive spirit as well as the trend of sexualization. Many students today can’t think about a life without social media as it has become so engraved in our everyday lives.
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Photo Credit: Maytinee Kramer
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