Social media consideration/ issue

Social Media Consideration/Issue

Technology

Technology can be a great thing. It lets us communicate with friends half way across the world or in the room next door. It has provided endless sources of information and entertainment. However, technology is also shaping the way we function and use our brains. We are becoming addicted to our phones and losing our uniqueness. Here are some problems with technology that we may not realize are occurring: 

1) We aren't spending quality time with each other.

We are too distracted to give each other attention. Hanging out becomes sitting in the same room while on our phones. When having fun with our friends, we have to tweet, Snapchat, and Instagram our every activity. We are too absorbed in technology that we forget who is in front of us.

2) We are forgetting to live in the moment.

We have to update our social media whenever we do anything. We have to take 100 pictures of every event or view or moment we have. Our mobiles are part of every memory we make. We don't take the time to appreciate what is around us and the opportunities we get. We don't do things for the experience, we do them to get likes on our Instagram post. We need to remember how to enjoy ourselves and live in the moment, not in our phones. 

3) We are limiting our thoughts.

our our thoughts are compose in 140 characters or less. We try to use the shortest words and shortest sentences possible. We don't bother to express our opinions or read anyone else's so we stop forming them. We are forgetting how to think for ourselves and produce our own profound thoughts.

Social

Social media has completed change the way we view ourselves, the way we see others and the way we interact with the world around us. While social media has many positive meanings, including promoting awareness of specific causes, advertising businesses and helping friendships between individuals who may have never met without social networking. 

The overuse of social media is a problem impacting all generations, and internet usage can have a highly negative impact on our mental and emotional health.

Heavy technology usage often leads to addiction, especially in teens and young adults. However, this addiction is not limited to the generations, elderly generation are starting to use social networks to stay connected with their friends and families. Spending countless hours on the social sites can distract the focus and attention from a particular chore.

Many people who overuse social media or use social media networks as their main form of communication report feeling anxious and depressed after overuse of social media.

Symptoms like anxiety, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder can be triggered by the overuse of social media, as individuals are constantly concerned about their posts and communicating with others. 

Privacy

Most social media tools have privacy. This allows content to be public or restricted. These controls allow you to restrict who can and cannot view personal information, images and comments that are posted by me, or others on to my online space. Most social media tools provide varying levels of privacy; here are some general examples:

1) Maximum privacy restrictions can hide my profile within a search function. This means that I will need to invite people to join my profile. If other social media users attempt to search for my profile it will not be listed in the search results. All personal information, images and comments will only be seen by people that I have granted access.

2) Custom privacy restrictions can enable you to restrict individual elements of your profile’s content. For example, I may choose to restrict a selected person’s access to some of my profile’s content, such as images