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Social Media Assignment

I don’t want 10 pages.

Watch one or more of these videos about the evils of social media.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5GecYjy9-Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAV1DaLtw2c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkMh6xdJNeM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QWoP6jJG3k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szQsPQW4GLo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lLbc3DWqfI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiZUWVwHpe0

There over 150 videos on YouTube about social media.

Answer the following questions in a WORD document which you will upload on the ASSIGNMENTS, ESSAY TAB.

1. Which social media sites do you use? How many hours a week do you spend on them?
2. How often do you check your smartphone in a day?
3. Do you feel the social media you use is beneficial or detrimental to you? In what ways?
4. Do you lose valuable sleep time because of the social media?
5. Has the social media on your phone made your physical social life better or worse?
6. Do you believe social media is affecting your brain?

Put your name of the paper. Copy question 1. Answer question 1. Copy question 2. Answer question 2. Etc

Save the document to your disk. Go to BB, click assignment, clicks essay. Click feb20. Click “browse your computer”. Upload the file and click submit.

Answer 1

Q1) Which social media sites do you use? How many hours a week do you spend on them?

Ans) I use facebook often. In a week i use mostly about 10 hours.

Q2) How often do you check your smartphone in a day?

Ans) Every time. Mostly once in 10 minute.

Q3) Do you feel the social media you use is beneficial or detrimental to you? In what ways?

Ans) Every social media has two sides — bright and dark. It can either be a help or a hindrance depending on the way how students use it. It is a known fact that social media is being used for hiring, as an educational and entertainment tool, and as a platform for people to like and get liked. These platforms are also being used to craft a ‘positioning’ for oneself.

Better perspectives: Social media can be used to develop better perspectives on issues and events. Also, as per estimates, more than 30% of college administration and teachers review students’ profiles on social media. Point to ponder over!

Challenges

Take a look at the darker side of the use of social media. These platforms may literally act as a hindrance for the progressive development of a student. Learning process of a student is believed to be jeopardised by the overuse of social media. Health issues, specifically mental health-related ones, severe addiction leading to isolation from real-life friends, loss of productive time, identity crisis and negative academic performance are perceived to be the major pitfalls of social media overuse.

Health issues: It is found that students are using social media to vent out their frustrations. Their feeds, most of the times, lead to an endless stream of stress. It is found, through research, that one negative post of a person will influence 1.3 negative posts by friends, leading to a chain of feeds that might result in stress and negative moods. Cyberbullying, having a distorted view of other people’s opinions and a perceived waste of time are some of the factors that lead to stress. Some of the studies have established a link between excessive use of social media and sleep disturbance.

Envious behaviour: Research shows that if envy is controlled, social media may not induce depression. It is a known fact that the incidence of envious posts is increasing on social networking sites, leading to a vicious circle. This, in turn, leads to inferiority complex and jealousy. Students blindly aspiring to follow lifestyles depicted by their peers on social media is another point of concern.

Delusions: Most of the students are invariably trapped in the thought that social media will help and thus they keep coming back to it, even though such an act does not really make them feel better. This ‘forecasting error’ is similar to the ones found in other addictions. It is shown through surveys that students who excessively engage with these platforms feel worse after using them, as compared to people who engage in other activities.

Reduction in productivity: Students tend to chat with ‘friends’ for hours leading to a waste of time that could have been used for studying, playing or learning new skills and acquiring needed competencies. Students who are excessively active on social media platforms struggle to find the time needed for academic activities.

Addiction: A study on psychological characteristics, personality and social media concludes that it might be plausible to speak specifically of ‘Facebook Addiction Disorder’. This is clearly because many of the addiction criteria such as neglect of personal life, mental preoccupation, escaping from reality, mood modifying experiences, and concealing the addictive behaviour appear to be present in people who use social networks excessively

Q4) Do you lose valuable sleep time because of the social media?

Ans) yes

Q5) Has the social media on your phone made your physical social life better or worse?

Ans) As i said previous it made both better and worse

Q6)

1. Do you believe social media is affecting your brain?
2. Ans) No it doesnot affect my brain