Social Media Truthly Helpful

Is social media truthfully helpful? Or is it doing more harm than good? Social media comes in handy when it comes to gaining information or when it comes to keeping up with family and friends. With every pro, there is always a con that comes behind the pro. Social media may be the reason why today’s children grow up to be so disrespectful towards one another. There is cyber-bullying, lack of socialization, loss of privacy, and psychological/mental disorders behind social media. Social media can have a lot of things that make it good, but there are many more bad reasons to social media. One of the biggest concerns of social media is cyber-bullying. It’s easy for someone to bully someone online rather than in person. The person can hide behind a computer screen or cell phone and bully someone without revealing his or her identity. The use of social media makes it a lot easier to bully someone because there are so many different sites and

Nothing is private on social media; once something is posted on the internet, it’s there forever. A job can search a person’s name and pull up his or her social media accounts and see if he or she is a right candidate for their company. Once one posts something online, it can share his or her location for others to know where he or she is. When one signs up for social media sites, it stores all personal information. It makes it easy for predators or scam artists to get any information online. Psychological/ Mental Disorders also come from social media. Increase in social media has led to more teens being diagnosed with depression and anxiety. Some teens feel alone because they don’t know how to cope with the social issues or harassments that come from social media. It also causes malfunctions in brain activity due to teens constantly looking at a computer or cell phone screen for hours. It can cause unhealthy relationships between people and shape their outlooks on