Impacts
of Social Media on Young People in the United States
“Social
Media Sucking Up Most of Our Time” (1) that’s an eyes catching title of an
article related to the social media topic. Social media services and networking
have become a significant part among American. It’s even not too emphasized if
social media is considered a spiritual meal in American daily life, especially
young people such as teenagers or young adults. Social media is everywhere and
people are using it with variety of purposes.
I. Benefits of Social Media
A. The fastest way of updating
1. Webpages (news, information)
2. Facebook (Posts, status)
B. A tool to connect with the community
1. Chatting and contacting family
2. Commenting
C. A learning tool
1. Class blog
2. Forums
II. Drawbacks
Social media brings visible benefits to young people in the United States. However, everything has its negative side. Overusing social media tools could bring out the other side of it, drawback. In parallel with those significant advantages, social media disadvantages have been affected young people in their daily routine, college life, and cause a serious danger while driving.
Overuse à Deactivate, addicted, imaginary society,
A. Daily life
Living
in an imaginary society, not real
1. Lack of face-to-face communication skills, reserve when face real life, and subsidiary (dependent)
2. Misleading
B. While driving
Last but not least, a problem seems to be not visible,
using social media tools while driving or driver distraction has become an
issue which kills people, especially young people
1. Dangerous for the driver and other people
2. Aftermath of a car accident
1. Distract
from studying
Many
college students find out that they access their personal sites such as
Facebook or Twitter for no reason related to those benefits. It’s because
checking Facebook has become their hobby. I personally a Facebook addicted
person who would check my Facebook times per day that I cannot even count. 2. Waste times
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