Stereotypes Of Social Media

There is a huge stereotype revolving around this generation and social media. A lot of people have seemed to get it in their head that social media makes people anti-social. This is not a belief held by just old people though, It seems that this belief has also spread to a lot of young adults and teens. Teens still use social media though despite a lot of them complaining about what they think it is doing to them, though what they believe is not the case. People claim social media separates us, but social media has done the exact opposite of that, not just for teens, but for all generations that have got to experience it. We are now closer than we have ever been in the past as a community, nation, and even as a world all because social media.

There are tons of things that get in the way of humans connecting in day to day life. You may never meet someone or not get a chance to communicate with them often. Distance is one of the biggest things that keep people separated in our day to day life. Even when people only live a 10-15 minute drive away life gets extremely busy and you may need to do other things. While without social media you would just not be able to talk at all, now because that we have social media extremely portable with it literally being held in our pockets, we can talk to anyone we know at any time we want to. Whether we are home, the store, or even in the middle of nowhere somewhere in deep Kansas. You can still talk with them despite being difficult to be actually next to each

They say that people spend too long looking at their phones and tweeting, instead of getting to know each other better. That is not true all the time though. Social media is not the cause of being antisocial. If some one wants to be antisocial they do not need social media in order to help them do that. There is obviously a line that people cross with using social media. There is a line people cross when using anything though. My family usually avoids using electronics at the table at all for example. Social media is not the problem in these cases, the problem in a lot of the cases is people's own lack of willpower to stay off their phone, maybe they just feel awkward around other people and do not want to try to get better, or maybe their lack of discipline to set rules for when they should or should not use social media. People have been antisocial for a long time way before social media was made. Social media does make it easier to be antisocial but to say it is the cause of antisocialness is like blaming the guns themselves for murder, On second thought maybe I should not have started that debate… People need to be held responsible for what they are do with their lives. We can not blame social media, drugs, or guns for what people do with them. Social media can be abused, but people really enjoy pushing off the blame to other things because they do not like thinking as themselves as part of the problem. That is