Blog #5 social media

Today social media has taken over everyone’s life. Studies have discovered that an average individual person looks at their device 221 times a day or more depending on the individual every 4.3 minutes . Teens have a higher percentage of being on their devices more because the generation they were born into technology was a major successful factor and is still increasing which lead them to be more addicted to their phones then the setting around them and can’t go without looking at their social media with more than five minutes.

 Web searching, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook all  apps that are provided on our cellular devices have taken peoples’ attention spans away from the real world and their attention only to what is going on with the people they are talking to on their phones or what they see on the screen.

People don’t know even how to make a verbal communication with someone anymore. People are scared to say their feelings and to be straight up with someone in person so, this is generally when texting and private messaging comes into place. It is amazing to see how much social media does. For an example, most people you typically ask that are in a relationship how they met they will answer over social media when back in the olden days they didn’t have cell phones which made them make every effort to try to make a connection with one another possible in person not by meeting over the internet and it being some random person that you don’t even know or anything about them.

 Also, social media can be a disadvantage to a lot of people . This is sometimes where harassment and rumors began and lead to harm. Being harassed on social media and judged has been ranked for one of the biggest number for suicide thoughts. For an example, when someone post a picture of them or a group of people and you specifically heard something about that certain individual or group this is where people go off and talk with spreads to rumors and can lead to very serious situations. 

 Rumors are also a very big part of social media when your friends post something just for that individual to get attention and them feel good about themselves while on the other hand they have switched up the whole story and everyone sees it because it’s on social media so people generally believe what they see or hear and rumors start from there. In the article Intimacy for the Avoidant it talks about how social media has made individuals feel lonely and depressed but on the other hand people use social media to interact with others to make them feel good about themselves. The more you are attached to your phone the more depressed you will be because your mind is so engaged in what  you are looking at on your phone while you aren’t going out and enjoying the outside life.