The Effect of Social Media

Hi guys,

my name is Gary Haas and I will be talking

about the effects of social media on today's society.

Um

Social media has become a giant thing in everyone's lives and I just wanted to kind of

shed the light on the things that most people don't

talk about because social media seems to be this fun,

amazing, great place,

which it is because you can connect with so

many people but there's also so many negative sides.

So first we're gonna start off with the types

of social media and the types of social media.

These just range between all the different types.

They're all owned basically by the same person, which is facebook, facebook

was

the original

social media page after Myspace and then facebook came

around and once facebook came around there was instagram,

Snapchat, twitter, facebook, Tiktok

read it. Um Youtube, just so many different types of

different ways to put out content in different formats. And

it,

I think that social media took off more

than what people were expecting it to. I would think it's become way

a much more bigger part of our lives than anyone thought that it would.

Yeah,

so the effects of social media, there's negative and positive effects.

We're gonna start with the positive effects because let's be honest,

we all have facebook, we all have instagram, we all have Snapchat,

it's,

we all do it, we all have social media.

So the positive, it's very quick global connections,

they create many jobs throughout,

through influencing and this means if you look at

the bottom right hand corner of the red pictures,

all the faces.

These are all social media influencers, actors, music

musicians, gamers, Youtubers just models.

These are all people who basically have built a platform on social media and

are now able to monetize that and they get offers from amazon and walmart and

all these different places to promote their products because

as we'll get into later, what

most companies started to realize what social media

influencers started to promote their products was that

it was a way cheaper way of advertising

than doing commercials or newspapers or anything like that

because all you have to do is send a free product to somebody and tell them

to show their followers and tell their followers

and you would be surprised at the amount of

products that are sold once someone

on social media shows it

um it's an outlet for a very creative expression

um through different types of music, different types of video styles, comedy,

um drama, just there's so many ways to

express yourself creatively on the internet and on social media. Um

not only can you create yourself, but you can literally do anything social media is,

it's the internet, the internet is everything and anything you can

go on twitter and find out what's going on today,

you can go on instagram and see if someone went with the

concert that you want to go to was like you can,

especially twitter, that is the place where most people, younger people,

I should say get there

news,

some of it's fake news, some of its real news, but twitter is so fast.

Everything through social media is just so, so, so fast

now the negative attributes

because of people promoting their lives. There's a lot of times

lies in that

not everybody is flying around on jets and purchasing Luton and all of this stuff,

this is a facade.

It's a face.

It's to promote that they are living this amazing

lifestyle that you'll never be able to obtain.

That's just false.

A lot of the people, they just show what they want to show and

it causes problems for a lot of people like eating a eating problem

disorders, body dysmorphia, depression, anxiety.

Um you can end up isolating yourself

all of these things relate back to cyber bullying on the internet,

there's people like in the top picture, I want to be thin,

I'll never look like that because you are able to comment on somebody's

page or on somebody's content

under a

discrete profile and nobody can really know who you are. It's not face to face.

People get very bold and they just want to hurt people and

the majority of the time, social media can be an extremely negative space

now cancel culture,

cancel culture.

I put under negative attributes but it can

also be a positive because there are sometimes when

people do need to be held accountable and shown what's right and shown how to change,

but once that person changes,

you need to accept it.

There's no,

here's an example, Jeffrey star, he's a makeup artist.

He said some very racial bad things back in the day.

He has apologized multiple times for it because it continuously being

brought up and he has now said that he has changed.

He didn't know who that person was.

That person was just anxious and dangerous and just,

he just said that person was, was sad and alone and didn't know what to do.

So they just fought back.

Um, but now he's changed and he literally does everything for the black community.

He does, he does so much. So

I,

I like to, if someone does get canceled,

I like to, if they prove that they have changed then let them change.

That's the whole point of cancel culture is to prove,

is to teach people and allow them to change, not to completely just shut them off,

ruin their lives, destroy them.

That is

the extreme negative sides of social media

Now onto the chart. Social Media has taken over.

You can see in 2004 way less, probably about

100 million people, maybe even zero.

I think zero people were using social media in 2004

All the way from 2004 to 2018,

two

billion

people

Over two billion people are on Facebook

Over 1.5 billion year on YouTube

Over one billionaire on Instagram.

The growth in social media has been

astronomical and everything has moved so fast,

especially with the new technology we're getting and the updated cameras and

it's social media has

absolutely

taken over

now because

social media has taken over. It has created it basically, its own culture.

So represented by the pearl necklace.

That is basically everything that when you

watch an influencer or you watch somebody on

instagram, Tiktok, facebook, whatever

and they have a product on that you that it's just, it's become a trendy thing

that everyone wants to have. That is what social media has kind of

berthed is trends. They know how to get one person on it and then get everyone on it.

Um, speaking of trends, the picture to the right of the flames and the smiley faces,

those are streaks on Snapchat and once streaks on Snapchat were introduced that

basically brought Snapchat made had made it a daily thing in your life,

which is what social media tries to do is they make everything a daily thing.

They want you to wake up, go on social media,

go to your on the toilet, go to social media, you're eating, go to social media,

you're in the shower, go to social media, watch youtube video.

You know,

also it's social media wants to draw you in

and they'll do everything they can to do it,

which is fine because it's great. But it's also bad.

Yeah,

there's a video.

There's the Tiktok dances,

all the dances that have gone crazy because of social media,

veganism and eating just eating healthy and taking care of yourself.

Working out.

People always put on these fronts of working out

and waking up at six a.m. Every day and

going to work out and walking their dog and being fun. Um, okay.

And now vegans, everyone like you're not supposed to mean bad.

Everyone's two faced on the internet.

They show one thing what they really mean another, they're also investigators.

They once cancel, culture gets in there, they investigate, they get in their heart

and they do not stop and not quit until you are destroyed, likes and dislikes.

The amount of likes on a photo should not determine how

you feel about yourself or what you think about yourself.

But it does for many, many,

many people and that is one of the many negative side effects of social media.

Amazon amazon is just on there because those are one of the stores that

advertising has just become such a big thing on social media,

especially with amazon,

all these influencers can just make a wish list and whoever buys off of there,

the influencer gets half the money.

There's just so many different ways for social media to explode and

become this great and amazing thing.

But then you go down to the last bottom picture in its Photoshop. It's face tuned.

It's altering yourself to look like you're not to make you look like

what society thinks a perfect person looks like and nobody looks like that

at all.

Yeah,

to understand social media, you watch this video,

it's basically this young girl and she explains

what social media is, why it's so important to everybody,

why it's an everyday thing.

So please go back and watch.

Mhm.

So

how to how to stop instagram, How to stop social media?

Delete it if you're having anxiety, if you're having depression,

if you're isolating yourself, there are studies that prove that social media

and Snapchat instagram facebook, they all just make it worse.

Nothing on social media is real.

It is all fake. You live your life, You have fun

and be yourself.

Thank you so much for watching.

Now I'm going to shut down my ipad

and get off social media.

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