Impact of Social media

Project Description

The impact of social media is different for everyone, and for everyone, I say this because social media is such a broad and vast space. The many benefits it brings can seem to outweigh the negatives, but this is also a perspective-based topic.

My Social Media Survey Results & Why

I have many different social media accounts; however, I typically use only 3 to 5 of them each day or week. This may seem like a lot, but I'm not on social media for long but to usually send a message or check out a message quickly. When the day is going terribly slow and my plans are later in the day, then I am on social media a LOT because I use YouTube and Instagram to communicate with my friends often.

Interesting Demographic I Believe Social media Influences

This is an intriguing demographic, which I think social media might have had a connection to. The reason I believe there is a connection is that instead of in the past, where it was harder to find relationships and connect with people, in the last 20 years social media has made it easier to create people's ideal types and, in a way, skew their POV. Since they see these people all over social media, they keep looking for the one that fits their ideal type instead of trying to find someone who is compatible and a suitable match for them. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with this, but it is not necessarily a great thing because it harms the overall population. This connection to me is that I've had a hard time in the dating sphere myself, and it's because I find most people want the wealth, a completely set person, for life instead of the old traditional finding someone to better yourself and them. Even though it is an article that also talks about cohabitation without marriage, I feel it is just in the long run because of either financial ability or rather the commitment that comes with marriage. I truly believe social media makes marriage even more risky because it leaves so much room for someone to just appear in an online space and go from there with talking to anyone, so it is a major risk, but at the same time, it all depends on you and your partner to talk and communicate.

Fry, R. (2023, June 28). A record-high share of 40-year-olds in the U.S. have never been married. Pew Research Center.pewresearch

My Opinion on Social Media's Effect on society

I think social media had an optimistic idea that was supposed to be very beneficial for society as a whole, but it was corrupted in a way. Overall, social media is a major positive thing, but for humans it is a risk as well. Since we thrive on social interactions, it provides a way to help with that, but the counterpart to that is it also provides a method to negatively influence someone. Social media allows for people to have jobs, to advertise their products, and to keep in contact over long distances easily and in different ways than just words. This is a major pro, but with every benefit social media brings, people have found ways to bring along toxic and downright terrible behavior, which influences other people's lives.

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