Argument essay about social media

Nowadays, a lot of people are using social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler and so on. Since the Internet has propagated rapidly, social media have progressed a lot. The generalization of the internet makes us to live conveniently and fast. People are almost using smart phones, i-phones or comfortable devices which can access to internet. These equipments make us to do social network easily. It helps contact friends, family, and other people even though they live far away. It could be, however, abused, if you don’t use properly. Especially, it is important that we understand and regulate the use of social media by young children.

             First of all, social media, especially facebook, are very addicted. People would say drug or alcohol is more addicted than social media or social media addiction is not big problems, but it is not true. There is a report of the social media addiction by University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

A team from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business recently conducted an experiment involving 205 people in Wurtzburg, Germany to analyze the addictive properties of social media and other vices.

Participants in the week-long study were polled via BlackBerry smart phones seven times per day and asked to report when they experienced a desire within the past 30 minutes, and whether or not the succumbed to that desire. They were also asked to gauge each desire on a scale from mild to “irresistible.”

In the light of these facts, surely social media make addicts, and it is hard to escape. The problem is most people who have an addiction to social media and don’t even realize it.

             Second, people can get mental and physical disorders easily through using social media. People might bet think social media is not matter with the disorders. They argued the social media is good for mental diseases because social media help express their feelings or thought easily. Also, through social media, they can be connected each other more. However, social media just offer limited meeting. They just meet on websites, not physical meeting. Psychologist, Aric Sigman suggests

“The use of social networking sites as opposed to face-to-face interaction could lead to major health problems.”

Also he claimed in the British Journal The Biologist

“Spending too much time online could lead to social isolation, loneliness and a negative outlook. These types of psychological symptoms could eventually lead to more serious health concerns, such as heart disease, cancer and dementia.”

             Using social media disturbs make deep relationship with others. When they are using social media we do not need to move a lot. It is okay just to stay. We do not need to active a lot. As a result, it leads naturally mental and physical disorders.

             Third, social media doesn’t help for their studies or talents. People think social media is good places to show their talents or works what they did. For example, they argue people can share video clip what they playing the instruments or dancing or singing. It is, however, for people who already good to do those. If you are not good at those things and if you spend time to do social media, it would be hard to progress your talents. I did surveys about relationships between using social media and studying last semester. Most students answered using social media is not helpful to study. Also, students who got good grades spend just a little time to use social media. Using social media steals your time to what really want to do easily. If you do not pay attention, your time is gone very fast, and it cannot be returned. If you read books, study, exercising, practice singing, dancing or playing the instruments instead of using social media, it would be much better for you and your future life.

Question #5: Using the Social Network helps you in your work and studies

18 ~ 24 year-old = 20			25~30 year-old = 5			Over 30 year-old = 5
Agree	No opinion	Disagree	Agree	No opinion	Disagree	Agree	No opinion	Disagree
2 10%	7 35%	11 55%	3 60%	1 20%	1 20%	1 20%	1 20%	3 60%

Question #6: Using the Social Network helps you in your work and studies

GPA (0 ~ 2.0) = 0			GPA (2.1 ~ 3.5) = 19			GPA ( over 3.6) = 11
Agree	No opinion	Disagree	Agree	No opinion	Disagree	Agree	No opinion	Disagree
0 0%	0 0%	0 0%	5 26%	6 32%	8 42%	1 9%	3 27%	6 64%

 

Especially, the young generation and children are easy to be exposed to environments which using social media. Social media are favorite not only along with teens or youngsters; it’s growing among working people and also old people. Social media addiction drug exactly where everyone is continuously logged on it irrespective that they have worked or they don’t have anything to complete. It’s regarded Social media an addiction exactly where many people have become addicts every day. It could be occurred mental and physical disease and make you waste time. Those are why we need to understand and regulate the use of social media by young children.

Works cited

Epstein, Zach. " Facebook and Twitter are more addictive than cigarettes or alcohol, study finds." Fox News, 7, Oct. 1996. Web. 06 Feb. 2012.

Sigman, Aric. "Is Facebook Really Bad For Your Health?" Mental Health Blog, 12 Jan. 2008. Web. 25 Feb. 2009

Claim: It is important that we understand and regulate the use of social media by young children (from facebook addiction)

Reason1: It is easy to addict.

Hard evidence: There are many people who have an addiction to Facebook and most don’t even realize it.

Reason2: It makes us keep watching it, so we stay home a lot. So they can get mentally and physically disorder easily.

Hard evidence: Facebook and loneliness. Mental and physical disease increased. Psychologist, Aric Sigman suggests that the use of social networking sites as opposed to face-to-face interaction could lead to major health problems

Reason3: The social media doesn’t help for their studies or talents.

Hard evidence: survey results said many people said they do not think the social media help their studies.

I think it is a really big problem for me because I set aside time for a break period and it seems to get extended because of Facebook. I'll take a break and get absorbed into it, so my 15 minute break turns into an hour gone by and that is where it becomes a problem. Time flies on the Internet and it is not a cognitive process. I don't think about it.(in interview)

I want to wirte an argumentative essay about negative affect in the social media.
Of course, not only the social media has advantages, but also it has negative effects.
For example, the social media can make the confusion of the identity, and your personal information can be shared to everyone easily, and you waste a lot of time to use the social media to no purpose.

My Experience and Thought of the Social Media

Inhyup Kim

Instructor: Professor Crane

English 1010

19 May 2012

My Experience and Thought of the Social Media

             A lot of people in the world use the social media nowadays. Especially, over 500 million people use the Facebook. It is really big number. If I take a look around, I can find easily people who are using the Facebook, Twitter, or any other social media. I started to use the social media after my mission. Before my mission, I did not have interested in the social media. Frankly, I do not know what the Facebook is. The social media have a bunch of advantages when you use. For example, I could contact my friends who are living far away easily. Using the social media can make us to keep touching my friends and make relationship with others more easily. Russ Ouellette said

             “Facebook allows us to keep in touch with colleagues, family members, and even distant relationships that would have normally had communications gaps of years(19).”

Also, people can check the social media any time because technology was developed remarkably. However, in spite of these advantages, the social media have some side effects. I used the Facebook just only one year, but I could see and think about negative ways in the social media; wasting time, relationships, and hypocrite in the social media.

             First of all, the social networks make us spend a lot of time to do it. As I mentioned previously, the technology was rapidly progressed. It makes us to access the social networks wherever and whenever you are. It is really convenient, but it could make us to use all day long. Many people spend a lot of time to manage their social network page, or look around others pages. The last semester, I took a sociology class. In this class, I had a chance to do surveys as a project. My survey topic was the relationships between the using social media and the studying in the college. Many students were using the social media more than an hour a day. Surprisingly, one of the students was using the Facebook more than 4hours. However, many people said the social media is not helpful for studying. I was so surprised, and I could feel the social media is so addicted. I thought if we don’t have the social media, we could certainly focus on our studying more and spend our time more efficiently to progress our talents, such as playing the instruments, exercise, or reading books. If we cut down our social media time,

             Second, the social networks affects in our relationships. The humans are social animals. We cannot meet everyone a day, but it has limit to do. In this view, the social networks are really helpful to keep touching our friends. However, this is not real meeting. Many people have hundreds of friends in the Facebook, but they do not contact everyone, just a few people who really you liked. Jake Martin said

“So Facebook has, for all intents and purposes, become a way for me to acquire as many “friends” as possible with whom I will never have to communicate again( 23).”

The relationships in online is shallow and short. If you use just the social networks without any physical meeting, you can feel loneliness more easily. I read a research that people who use the Facebook are unhappy than people who do not use. The relationships in nowadays changed a lot, but intimate friends are coming from real life, not online.

             Third, people in the social media play the hypocrite. In online we cannot see everyone everyday. Especially, if they live far away, it will be harder. We usually contact them or hear their news through the social media. We saw their pictures or read their messages on the “wall,” a sort of cyber bulletin board. As I mentioned before, we cannot see them, so people can make fake face easily. One day, I called a friend in Korea, and talked about the Facebook. He totally dislikes using the Facebook, because he saw a lot of people posted hypocritical messages. He said many people are lying online. He avoids doing the social networks, but it does not mean he is anti-social. He is meeting friends and keeps contacting by using cell phone, just does not use the social media. Also, I felt it sometimes. I think personal ostentation and vanity make these phenomena. For these reason, I like to meet someone physically because when I meet them, I can see their pure and undissembled features and characters.

             By using the social media I experienced the social media are a strong influence on our lives. Using the social media is unavoidable because everyone uses and connects each other through the social media. I think we need to use the social media with wisdom. When we do, we can live healthier and more efficiently.

Works cited

Martin, Jake. "FACEBOOKED." America 18 May 2009: 22+. Academic Search Premier. Web. 19 May 2012.

Ouellette, Russ. "Improving Your Relationships Through Social Media." New Hampshire Business Review 32.10 (2010): 19. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 18 May