Social Media Critique

A Critique of “Is Social Media Ruining Our Kids” by Sreedhar Potarazu The main vision of secure environment for teenagers has passed through various stages in the last decades. The inclusion of the technology as an inseparable part of our lives challenges the standards of this safe environment and makes it difficult or even impossible to guarantee the security of the children. In other words, the increasing role of social media poses a dangerous threat to the safety of adolescents both physically and psychologically by means of easy access to the activities that provoke a high level of stress, aggression, and diseases. Since the online performances of the kids are not observed by parents accurately, they are more susceptible

The writer contends that having tablets and smartphones makes it available to engage hazardous activities without even leaving their homes. He also adds that while some parents think that they can follow their children on Facebook, only 15 percent of the children report that they use Facebook. Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram are also preferred by the most adolescents, which creates even more challenging duty to control the children’s online behaviors. According to the survey conducted among 80.000 college students in the U.S, the issue can lead to anxiety, stress, and even suicide, which was experienced on 1.3 percent of the students. Potarazu describes the grounds of such disasters as a pressure from their peers, competition to be the best, and the judgmental environment of the social media. Considering all these terrifying statistics, the author spotlights the importance of the actions against the issue while mentioning that we need to “pull our head out of sand” and proposes several potential solutions to deal with the phenomenon (2015, par.9). Then he adds that instead of promotion of the social media to our children which faster the trouble, we need to concentrate on creating a mechanism that prevents

Utilizing such outside resources increases the quality of the article through providing credible facts to the claims that Potarazu puts forward. In the paper, the author successfully combines this factual data with his own opinion by emotional messages about the subject, which method provides the readers with fundamental insights into the matter. Such quality makes the article convincing and influential. In a more detailed way, according to the article “Two Routes to Persuasion” written by David Myers, a professor of psychology at Michigan university, while the statistic numbers are strengthening long-term influences on people, the emotional ones increase the short-term impacts. In, the article Potarazu utilizes the both ways in a very effective and efficient way, and such methodology persuades the audience about the validity of the