“The Good and the Bad: How Social Media Affected Me as a Gen Z Individual”
Social media has a huge impact on me as a Gen Z individual. It greatly affects my life because media has the power to influence my thoughts. This influence is sometimes positive and sometimes negative. Through social media I can express my opinions, I am able to create new friendships, and connect with my old friends or relatives. Social Media can also lead me to people who had the same interests as mine. However, social media is very addicting, the more time we spent on social media can lead to depression, cyber bullying, anxiety, and exposure to content that is not age appropriate.Today’s teens and children are part of the first generation to grow up overwhelmed by technology, and more specifically, social media. There are social media sites used to connect on a personal level (Facebook, Twitter), share photos (Instagram), and even network, find jobs and compare careers. We’ll explore some of the consequences both good and bad of this level of exposure to social media’s constant connectedness and how to address some of these consequences with the young people in your life. How social media affected me as a Gen Z Individual? The pros and cons of social media are clear. On the positive side, social media gives everyone in society access to information and collaboration that has never been possible before. On the negative side, sometimes constant access and collaboration can be abused. Especially if it’s used to falsely accuse or destroy someone’s reputation.
Social Media greatly affected me on how I spend my time on a daily basis. A big part of my time is used up in using social media, productivity has decreased. It influenced on how I deal with my task as an individual. The only good thing for me was I can connect and converse with my family and friends wherever they are and catch up on things.Social media affected me as an Gen Z individual by gathering information through to any social media platforms. It has a big advantage as a young individual like me because I can use this to communicate and socialize to other people even though we're not hung out together. Although, we can't control if there's a bad effect to us. We can watch or get information that were not applicable to our innocence , just like scandals. Also we can gather so much fake news, so were we can used this to share to everybody without knowing if it is legit or not and it cause trouble and misunderstanding to each of us.
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