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“The Good and the Bad: How Social Media Affected Me as a Gen Z Individual”

When we think about social network platforms we can see that more and more people dive into these types of media , we cannot deny the fact that social media has become a huge part of our lives in which it allows us to communicate with others and share interests. Social media platforms also helps us to promote the works of those who like to write , draw and other interest in life but as much as the possibility that the social media can provide, there are also some bad sides to it some people who cannot resist from using it. There are also a lot of scammers or trolls in social media because you don't know the person behind the screen. Some people may lack or have difficulties in socializing in real life and social media has helped them to build their social lives. Social networking platforms serves as a rendezvous in working and promoting one’s self. However, these types of media bring negative effects in some aspects of life for Gen Z users.

While social media has great advantages, it also carries many disadvantages, particularly for the youth. As a Gen Z individual, social media is negatively affecting my behavior, mental health, and physical health. In terms of behavior, I sometimes have a difficult time interacting with others face to face which might lead to unsociable behavior. With social media it has become impossible to avoid bad news and the negative influences on our lives. It turns out, I sometimes feel unhappy with the current circumstances leading to mental health problems with self-esteem, depression and many more. In terms of physical health, I already experienced some side effects of excessive use of social media. One of the them is the eye strain especially that we are attending virtual classes. Lastly, the lack of sleep and stress which can cause a negative impact on our health. There are a lot of pros and cons of social media but do not forget to live the real life and don't spend all your free time scrolling through your feed before it consumes the whole out of you.

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The Good and the Bad: How Social Media Affected Me as a Gen Z Individual

The 21st century is compose of the generation Z or Gen Z for short. These generation primarily strive on using new and upgraded technology and devices as part of their daily lives. It is often highlighted that we cannot separate technology from this generation. As decades have past since the first invention of these technology, humankind’s main objective is to innovate and upgrade them more to the point where they will make our daily lives much more easier. Which basically summarizes what’s happening around the globe. Together with our technology, social media was born and continued to grow. According to a website Forbes, “Social media has risen as an option for people to build influence and opportunity.” which greatly describes our social world today, especially for the millennials or the Gen Z. Most of the teenagers and above often have their own devices and social media accounts, there are so many that the companies who made these social media platforms are said to be one of the most riches companies all over the business world. Yet as all things are, there are certain effects that social media bring to us, both the good and the bad.

As part of the Gen Z, I and my fellow generation have noticed some of these said effects. There are tons of good or advantages that the social media have brought to us. This is certain as there is a good reason why social media was created, a dream and certain goals the creators hoped they would achieve, which some came true. One of it, as noticed by many if not all, is that social media helps us to connect with people. Not just those who are near us, but definitely those who are far from us. It also let us make more connections with other people whom we have not yet met thus widening our capacity to make friends and relationships. Social media also allows as to know the current trends, events, happenings, and important news that are occurring not just in our country, but all over the world without even getting of our  seats. It has helped our world to be more connected with each other and be able to learn from it. But as all have their own disadvantages, the antagonistic effects of social media is also rampant in our society today. As social media feed us information, it is common among Gen Z individuals to just accept accept what they have seen and learned in the internet, to not even fact-check them and referring to other sources if these are true at all. That is why many share this information, thus creating a spread of false information, which might lead to misunderstandings and confusion among us. As we are indulged in using social media, it even influences the way we act, feel, and view things that sometimes deviate from the truth, clouding our judgement. One result of it is Cyber-bullying, where as you let people know things about, there will always be individuals who will criticize you thus often making us anxious and trigger our fears regarding what these people think of us. As we go further our lives here on Earth, we will always be interconnected with social media and even furtherly deepen the connection between both of us, which will have greater impact for both humanity and social media. Who knows, we might even have to name another generation much more compelled by social media than the current reigning one, the Gen Z.

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“The Good and the Bad: How Social Media Affected Me as a Gen Z Individual”

There is a good effect of Social media to the generation z or what we call it millennials. Some of the millennials like us are using social media to express our feelings and share our ideas and gets encouragements from others and that’s the way we gain our self-confidence and those introverts individuals would also express their ideas without worrying so much. We millennials also found friends on social media where we can communicate with and share our own thoughts. Generation Z interacted with social media and technology and how it influences their online and social relationships. The purpose of social media is to connect with friends and family and also other people to make friends with them to share information and to communicate each other. But  as most of us inhabit a fluid digital and physical world in which the demarcation between them is less clear and teens are not the only ones negotiating their balance.

Generation Z is more interacted with technologies especially in social media where we can communicate, posting pictures, posting our what we feel now, etc. Social Media affected me as Generation Z individual where we easily communicate with our friends, looking for latest updates and learning through technology.  As a generation Z Individual social media affects me in good in various aspects on my daily life. Social media is very beneficial in communicating and interacting with friends. Also there bad effects of social media, it distracts myself from sleeping early cause social media entertains me without having a track about the time. Social media also show unrealistic views of other people's lives and peer pressure.

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“The Good and the Bad: How Social Media Affected Me as a Gen Z Individual”

As a student the impact of social media in me is that it helps me in my academic needs as a student to gather information that I need and using social media also a distraction on our studies and not everything we see or read is not good for us because some students nowadays are more on social media and they are busy sharing information that is not factual and credible. Social media helps us to communicate with other people and it is easy for us to access everything we need in our daily lives. We should always remember that we need to know our limitations when we use social media and we need to be careful on everything we post or share in social media. in this time of pandemic, We students have many realizations that social media is slowly consuming our time and it  is not normal anymore because i often neglected things that my parents task me to do. social media has its power to control, influence my mind and the way i think. As one of gen Z, the social media has affects my daily life. every morning when i woke up the first thing i hold is my phone then i check my social media immediately scrolling through my facebook, instagram and checking my pubg mobile . sometimes i skip the task that my parents has gave me to do. all of these things are not healthy  for our mental health it leads us to suicidal which is not good for us. Let us keep in mind that we must maintain balance and give time ourselves instead of social media.

As a Gen Z individual, The impact of social media  has it's positive and negative effect as a student and also as a netizen. Being a student who is in need to use online platforms to help me in my studies is already a big help in gathering information, yet distractions come along the way by simply scrolling through the screen will lead you to open other apps and forget what was your original goal in using the internet. Another thing is that Social Media became an everyday routine from communication, learning , and entertainment. With only one click away social media kept things easy and accessible. It also affected me in a way that netizens will attack , judge, talk and spread false information. It dawned to me that people like that will be there, and one must be careful. Social Media has affected me in so many ways and as a person born in Generation Z, I can say that social media  has good and bad effects on every Gen Z’s individual. Social media is very addicting, it implies that I spends so much time and effort on social media which can lead me to anxiety, depression, and even exposured. But  I only know one thing about social media, this social media has never felt me to be alone rather it helps me to unlock and discover this wonderful world. And also it helps me to improve my self-confidence, influence my thoughts and through social media I can hereby express my opinions and connected with many people. Connecting people is a good way in social media but let us not abuse ourselves and expose to it

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“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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“The Good and the Bad: How Social Media Affected Me as a Gen Z Individual”

Social Media is the most used invention in this current era. It is usually utilized by expressing oneself to others through stories, posts, or comments; communicating with other people despite the distance and time, and gathering information, may it be educational related questions and answers or a simple gossip. Also, social media has taken over the majority of the people and became a part of our daily lives because we rely on it even for the simplest matter. It created an impact on people to the extent that it can influence how a person thinks or acts. As time passes by, technology including social media has been continuously developing to fulfill and satisfy our wants and needs. It aims to bring comfort and entertainment to everyone, but some downsides affect us all. This is where the most FAQs and debatable question enters, “How did social media affect us, the Generation Z individuals?” 

In my case, which can also be relatable for others, social media helped me in so many ways such as expressing myself to others and honing my thinking skills to bond and create a connection with other people. However, I also went through a phase wherein I was intoxicated by it due to the social media “standards” or shall we say ''unrealistic beauty standards'' set up by the people. I overshared in social media, my emotions depended on it, and I became numb enough not to think rationally and critically which is a big disadvantage for me. In social media, a person must be wise enough to decipher real intentions behind the screens. These are the negative effects that I got from social media. To make everything shorter, social media affects the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health of a person. There is no such thing as a haven in this world. There will always be flaws, imperfections, and bad experiences, but these effects that we got from social media could be an advantage if we are going to use it for good. As for me, I turned these negative effects into a realization that will surely be helpful for me in my future endeavors. As you can see, if we reflect on our actions and knowledge regarding social media, we'll come to apprehend that we have the power to help ourselves in times like this. Social media is a product of a human being’s mind and we, Generation Z individuals, are humans who are capable of thinking. If we learn to discipline ourselves to prevent these negative effects to leave a mark on us, then social media would be a better place, not just for Generation Z individuals, but also for people from other Generations.

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“The Good and the Bad: How Social Media Affected Me as a Gen Z Individual”

In recent years the growing success of social media has led to being the source of information on major events. It has improved from the very original purpose of it. The emergence of social media way back in the early 2000s was mainly to connect and for communications during this period that Gen Z was born. They may not be the first one to use social media, but it grew with the availability of social media, so the bond of social media to Gen Z was strong and will get stronger in the future. Social media has helped Gen Z in a lot of ways. One thing why teens generally had a more positive view of social media is that they see it as a way to connect with their family and friends and a more diverse group of people. Social Media has been part of every millennial's life, especially when in terms of education. It has a great contribution to us as living individuals nowadays. As time passes by the existence of Social Media has made considerable changes in society. However, it has a major effect on people in the modern era. Somehow social media consumes a lot of time when we are using it, and in result instead of doing tasks, homework, assignments we forget that we have a lot of work to do.

The rise of Social Media is a beneficiary event to us mankind, our current and future generations will be more inclined to technology so as to social media, because of how it caught our attention and interests. These certain inventions entertained us as to the extent that we got addicted to it.  Social Media made our lives easier, the communication and sharing of information is more faster and accessible than the traditional ways, and that's why social media became popular because of the advantages of its functions. Social Media became more prominent with our lives as this helps us communicate easier,  specially during this pandemic, we are prohibited to communicate personally with our friends and loved ones, social media has its uses to make those tasks possible. Through social media, we are able to communicate and interact with people we know and people we love. But despite its uses, there are certain bad effects to the usage of social media. 

The rise of social media means that there are various people joining the community. People that are insensitive, negative and manipulative. With the various people out there, it is uncertain whether they are a good person or not. Chances of being manipulated by their information is high. It is more preferable to have enough knowledge about the contents and the users of social media to execute our chance of being a victim by those. Using social media has cognitive effects on us mankind, the anxiety caused by the information we get or the stress feeling from a specific post or message of a person can cause us harm. There are many cases of mental health issues caused by consuming social media, certain traumas being experienced by several users are happening. Using too much social media is not a good idea, too much exposure of information and communication could lead us to addiction and information overload which is a very risky psychological issue for us.

In using social media it got to the point where it manipulated the users where every decision they make is predicted by an algorithm. Social media has also caused chaos towards individuals where they are divided for the reason of different opinions and beliefs brainwashed by false information creating conflict and making a gap to citizens when  it comes to politics. Some even took it too far by believing that the corona virus is not real and the government is just making it as a diversion to take our attention away from the real problem. It caused depression and anxiety to teens due to cyberbullying and also creating impossible standards towards beauty where they think that they need to meet the expectations of others to be cool. It caused mental problems and even physical problems due to high exposure of radiation for the reason that they have been staring at their phones for a long time. The good effect of social media to me as a Gen z individual is I am able to access the latest news and information that I want. I can make friends and talk to them easily. It enables me to connect and communicate to different sides of the world. It helps Me to communicate with loved ones wherever they are. I can gather news and information faster than before. Hence all things are good but with moderation.

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The Good and the Bad: How Social Media Affected Me as a Gen Z Individual

Due to the rapid development of technology, we can see individuals that are using social media everywhere, may it be in the streets or inside a vehicle. As a generation Z individual, social media have a great impact of our lives. Facebook is one of the most popular social media platform where we can interact, play, watch videos, and share information to other people. We treat social media as part of our lives since it made us possible to communicate with our friends and other people and to share and acquire various information. Social media help us to improve our communication skills by interacting with other users across the globe and help us be updated about the happenings in our lives. It can also help us to think critically about getting various information for our research papers and can motivate us that we can accomplish great things in our lives. In this situation that we are in and as a student, social media enables us to form study groups and to share notes with our classmates virtually.

           Although social media can benefit us, we can’t deny that it can also bring negative effects to us. It can cause misunderstandings due to false information that is being spread throughout social media. It’s not just the Corona Virus that is rapidly spreading in this time, but also false information that sometimes, we unconsciously shared it to our friends. Spending too much on social media can cause unhealthy sleeping patterns and blurry eyesight. Social media causes us to make unrealistic beauty standards that makes us use applications that can hide our flaws. Spending time on using social media can affect our relationship with our family because instead that we will talk with them in person, our attention is on our phone browsing through our newsfeed. However, we cannot really blame social media for this, we should blame ourselves too for not having self-control in using social media and not having enough discipline for ourselves.