Analysis Of The Article 'Antisocial Networking' By Hilary Stout

Bzz, Bzz. As the phone becomes spammed by countless messages from friends and relatives. Social media is a computer-mediated technology allowing adults and teenagers to virtually communicate with one another. In the article, “Antisocial Networking,” Hilary Stout of the New York Times argues against social media. The generalize argument stated by Hilary Stout is the overuse of social media is causing teenagers’ brain to be rewired. This would be resulting in less empathy for others, the inability to understand different emotions, and the loss of recognizing facial expressions. Although social media may be beneficial, Hilary Stout’s claim of how the overuse of social media is causing teenagers’ brain to be rewired is true because emotional

This is true because when an individual uses social media, he prevents himself from obtaining face to face interaction. In the article, “Social Media- A Good Thing or a Bad Thing” Syed Noman Ali states how the overuse of social media reduces human interaction. Ali states, “the interaction with other people became effortless and people isolate their lives behind a virtual wall,” (Ali par. 7) meaning people don't take the time to interact with one another anymore because they're so caught up with using social media as a source of communication. If people continue to rely on social media to interact with those around them, it will only take away their need to develop social skills. Putting more effort into visual interaction will improve communication through emotions, connection, and empathy for one another. Although people communicate online with their friends, hiding behind a virtual wall is only causing face to face interaction to be less frequent. Social media causes people to isolate themselves from offline interaction and are oftentimes used as a way to verbally abuse

Teenagers may stress online over matters such as the ending of friendships, arguments, and physical confrontation. In the article, “The Tone of Life on Social Networking Sites” Lee Raine, Amanda Lenhart, and Aaron Smith stated that teenagers and adults may encounter anti-social people or have terrible consequences for their encounters. They believe there have been people who “[witness] bad behavior on those sites and nearly a third have experienced some negative outcomes from their curiosity on social media” (Raine, Lenhart, Smith, par. 6). It’s ultimately possible to assume that teenagers and adults have a greatly amount of curiosity which leads them to stressing on social media. This quote is significant because statistics have shown that 15% of adults ended their friendships with someone, 12% have resulted into face to face arguments, 11% have caused problems with their family, 3% have gotten into physical fights and gotten in trouble at work. The stress may lead to frustration and aggression, which affects teenagers and adults mentally and physically. The stress may become uncontrollable which creates a negative impact to their well-being. Stress leads to multiple causes on social networking sites, but people won’t develop stress if they limit themselves on the amount of social media that they use on the