Negative effects of social media
Han Nguyen
Instructor Heidi Giffin
English – 090
July 7, 2014
The negative effects of social media What do you truly know about social media? Nowadays, social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have grown rapidly, and the use of social media has become a part of teenager’s life. Besides some positive effects of social media networks, there are a lot of negative effects, which are really harmful to our lives such as cyber bullying, decreasing academic achievement and damaging the ability to communicate. Since the technology grows, cyber bullying is significantly popular on social media networks. It is so difficult for cyber bullying to be controlled by parents and teachers. Cyber bullying is a new kind of bullying; the bully can harass, insult and humiliate the victim via the Internet through social media. It is a serious problem among children and teenagers. Cyber bullying is an easy way to bully others because the bully can avoid being caught. Being bullied makes victims feel isolated; it also makes them feel weary of living leading to suicide. With a growth of technology, some parents don’t even understand clearly about social media, so parents are not aware of cyber bullying. In order to avoid being in cyber bullying, children and teenagers should never agree to provide any private information. On the other hand, parents should give teachers the mandate to punish the bully. Besides cyber bullying, social media networks are the big distractions for teenager and college students. The overwhelmed usage of social media networks lead to decreasing academic achievement. After Facebook and Instagram came out, a lot of young people are addicted those sites. Social media networks are totally consuming all the user’s minds. They spend a lot of time on Internet just to entertain. Being addicted to the Internet make students not focusing on schoolwork, and they drop out of school. Internet is a dangerous place. For
Instructor Heidi Giffin
English – 090
July 7, 2014
The negative effects of social media What do you truly know about social media? Nowadays, social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram have grown rapidly, and the use of social media has become a part of teenager’s life. Besides some positive effects of social media networks, there are a lot of negative effects, which are really harmful to our lives such as cyber bullying, decreasing academic achievement and damaging the ability to communicate. Since the technology grows, cyber bullying is significantly popular on social media networks. It is so difficult for cyber bullying to be controlled by parents and teachers. Cyber bullying is a new kind of bullying; the bully can harass, insult and humiliate the victim via the Internet through social media. It is a serious problem among children and teenagers. Cyber bullying is an easy way to bully others because the bully can avoid being caught. Being bullied makes victims feel isolated; it also makes them feel weary of living leading to suicide. With a growth of technology, some parents don’t even understand clearly about social media, so parents are not aware of cyber bullying. In order to avoid being in cyber bullying, children and teenagers should never agree to provide any private information. On the other hand, parents should give teachers the mandate to punish the bully. Besides cyber bullying, social media networks are the big distractions for teenager and college students. The overwhelmed usage of social media networks lead to decreasing academic achievement. After Facebook and Instagram came out, a lot of young people are addicted those sites. Social media networks are totally consuming all the user’s minds. They spend a lot of time on Internet just to entertain. Being addicted to the Internet make students not focusing on schoolwork, and they drop out of school. Internet is a dangerous place. For