Social Media Affecting Education

Social Media is Hurting Education

Introduction

The first rank of a website that being used nowadays is social media, I believe everyone has used or using at least one platform of it. One clear example is Facebook, which the company is the top five most valuable company in the World which the number of active users continuously increased from 100million in 2008 to 1.68billion in 2016 ("Facebook World Stat", 2017). It can be seen obviously that the number of social media users are dramatically growing in a decade. However, social media is a double-edged sword, many people might use social media just for socialize and entertaining but never literally concern about the drawbacks of it. Indeed, there is a long debate since social media started

Since there are more uses of social media, the communication through social media is also increasing, which people try to tighten the original languages or use an abbreviation in order to make it easier and it becomes texting language. For instance, "Wat" instead of "What", "2moro" instead of "Tomorrow", and "ASAP" for "as soon as possible" and there are a ton more of these. If keep on let this happen, people especially kids and teenagers will lose their reality communication ability which lead to the losing of traditional and cultural language in the near future when those teenagers grow up and become adults. Along with similar line, the next generation that will be born with further development of technologies, they going to creates more alter on languages and other things. If there is no limitation for it, the problems will involve over than only teenagers. According to Shriver (2013), students start to rely on technologies features like dictation and spell check. Also, they use less grammar to communicate which caused reduction of language and academic writing skill. On these grounds, we can argue that social media facilitating students' convenience redeem with their habitual of using shortcut language. Moreover, social media change the way of people interact from face-to-face to through-the-screen. Usage of it

As the social media is based on the Internet, it keeps everything recorded forever and accessible. In detail, everything that was uploaded to social media is accessible by anyone and there is nothing 100% private as the company informed. For instance, there is much news about celebrities leaked their photos on Social Media because they uploaded those photos on iCloud, then it was hacked by anonymous hackers. Sometimes, teenagers like to do pranks and posted online just to receive attention without thinking of the following consequences. According to Foster (2015), a director of dad guidebook website to help men lead their family well, the moment that a simple mistake lapse on the social media, it can quickly ruin person's life. I have an example of a friend of mine, she filmed a sexy dancing video clip with her friends as a normal clamorously teenagers and posted on her Facebook. Unfortunately, the clip was seen by a teacher, which her school quite strict with students' reputation. The result was she got fired out of the school. I believe no one was expecting this was going to happen. Her fun time with her friends turned to be a nightmare in just a few days. Furthermore, many social media users have to regret what they posted online because those things cannot be deleted forever. It is true that there is a delete button, but how do they know that once they uploaded