I wanted to write an essay about Social media, because it’s a very popular and discussed topic nowadays. There’s always a lot to say about it and to discuss. So I decided to talk about this interesting topic as well. Social media has a big effect on everyone, specially on teenagers and on young people. It changes their mentality and their opinion about a lot of things. In my country as well social media is big part of everyone’s life. In my life it has a huge importance as well. So now I want to talk about it.
92% of teenagers and young people go online everyday. 71% use more than one social media site. 43% of teenagers say they feel pressure to only post content on social media that makes them look good to others. Furthermore 26% of teens say these sites make them feel worse about their own life.
Social media often makes young people insecure about their own life. They look to the fabulous life of others on social media and really believe that that’s the whole reality. But that’s actually not true. The glamorous life of some people that we see is not their entire life. But young people believe that it is. So they want to have life like that as well. But of course they fail, because that’s literally impossible. No one’s life is perfect. People only share the best on their life on social media. The beautiful picture makes teenagers believe that these people’s life is perfect and that makes them insecure and discontented about their own life. That’s a really big problemo.
An other big problem is the photoshopped pictures on social media. These pictures also make young people insecure about their bodies. They strive to have a similar perfect face and perfect body shape, blindly believing that it’s a real life and will make them happy. The perfection doesn’t exist. Everyone is unique, has a unique body type and unique facial features. Perfection is a fake thing that was invented by the social media. Social media kills the unique beauty and individuality that people have, making them believe that they should be appropriated to the standard that is called the perfection on social media nowadays.
Social media also has lots of positive sides as well. On of them is the opportunity to create and to develop your own business. Social media can be a great platform to do it. People can get lots of opportunities. Social media can help people to start their own business without having to spend much money. On social media they can have the chance to connect with right people that their business needs. It’s a really big opportunity for small businesses to develop.
Social media also can be a big opportunity for artists. It’s a great platform to share with people the art that they create. It can be music, painting etc. They can connect with right people to achieve big things in their career. Artists can also find there audience. On social media they can find people that will love and appreciate their art. Social media can be a great promotion for artists that can not spend money on it. Social media makes this a lot easier for artists to share there art with the world.
Personally I think that social media is good thing, but of course it has negative sides as well. It can motivate people to strive for more and achieve bigger things, but it can also make people feel depressed and insecure about their own selves. Everything in this life has both positive and negative sides. Social media is not an exception. It think that social media is a necessary thing in 21st century, but it should be used for good things. For me social media actually is a great thing. I use it daily and it only brings good things to my life.