Charles Chen
Ms. Frankie Tsui
11-1 American History
17 June 2015
Social Media’s Negative Impact on the Modern American Society Social media came in many forms: newspapers, radio broadcasting, television broadcasting, and today’s social networks like Facebook. Whereas they came in variations, they, fundamentally, served similarly: to spread information in a quicker and more efficient mean and to provide entertainment. By 1966, 97% of American households possessed televisions. On the spot broadcasts later domestically and internationally thrived, innovative 3C devices like cell phones, sooner or later in the twenty-first century, emerged and stormed this globe. However, this proliferating rate of superfluous exposure to social media and manipulated messages spread would negatively impact the society as a whole, for instance, people lost trust in the government when the government was using the social media as propaganda; suicidal rate mushroomed as many utilized social media for cyber bullying; brainwashing advertisement with unreal contents allured many households to purchase unnecessary merchandises, and more. While those social media and mass communication devices were initially invented to confront the difficulty to
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Why was it bad to have competition? It was important to note that, as more Americans themselves were “imprisoned” and “dragged behind” by the Facebook Depression and the IUD, contributing to poor socializing and communication skills, other nations would soon surpass America on an economic scale and a living quality or standard scale, which international residents would flood in the market for employment and education. To add on, it was also critical to note that the social media would also lead to “anxiety and other psychological issues like anxiety” (Rosen, 2011). With a bigger population drowned in this crisis, it seemed that United States’ dominance over the world, inevitably, would soon