An Analysis Of Udorie's Perspective Of Social Media
1. What is Udorie’s perspective of social media? What is her main contention? Do you agree with this?
Within this article, I found that June Eric Udorie’s viewpoint was that social media consumes the minds of teenagers. With the images that teenagers are exposed to, it exhibitions a figure that teens feel like they must live up to those certain standards. Udorie’s main contention is that social media should be avoided as much as possible during specific times, due to the increasing risk rate of anxiety and depression frequently occurring in female teenagers. I personally agree that Female teenagers are more commonly pressured into looking, sounding and acting an explicit way in direction to fit in and not be criticized for their diversity. …show more content…
Udorie’s solution to this major problem is to demonstrate how people must make personal, social and health education constitutional in schools. A range of issues such as, healthy eating and sleeping consent would essentially need to be covered within the education unit; Due to the main issue being teens being placed under pressure, introducing personal, social and health education would change the opinions of a large portion of teens thoughts to the way they view themselves and others. I believe a large portion of teenagers would allow this type of information to sink in, but only for a temporary period. I believe this is caused by social media having a constant reminder of teens not being good enough because of who they are and how they socially …show more content…
An example of this technique is in the second to last paragraph. “So, I ask: What are we waiting for? Inaction on these issues is harming the physical and emotional wellbeing of young people in this country. What has to happen before we do something?”. This here is an attempt to allow the reader to really think about this issue and realize how social media consumes our individuality. The direct text is also written informal without the use of slang to also allow them to realize that this is a serious issue well as the age
Within this article, I found that June Eric Udorie’s viewpoint was that social media consumes the minds of teenagers. With the images that teenagers are exposed to, it exhibitions a figure that teens feel like they must live up to those certain standards. Udorie’s main contention is that social media should be avoided as much as possible during specific times, due to the increasing risk rate of anxiety and depression frequently occurring in female teenagers. I personally agree that Female teenagers are more commonly pressured into looking, sounding and acting an explicit way in direction to fit in and not be criticized for their diversity. …show more content…
Udorie’s solution to this major problem is to demonstrate how people must make personal, social and health education constitutional in schools. A range of issues such as, healthy eating and sleeping consent would essentially need to be covered within the education unit; Due to the main issue being teens being placed under pressure, introducing personal, social and health education would change the opinions of a large portion of teens thoughts to the way they view themselves and others. I believe a large portion of teenagers would allow this type of information to sink in, but only for a temporary period. I believe this is caused by social media having a constant reminder of teens not being good enough because of who they are and how they socially …show more content…
An example of this technique is in the second to last paragraph. “So, I ask: What are we waiting for? Inaction on these issues is harming the physical and emotional wellbeing of young people in this country. What has to happen before we do something?”. This here is an attempt to allow the reader to really think about this issue and realize how social media consumes our individuality. The direct text is also written informal without the use of slang to also allow them to realize that this is a serious issue well as the age