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Hi, I'm Trevor.
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And did you know that 79% of people in America
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have a social media profile that is a staggering number?
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And compared to our 300 million people in this country,
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that is about 232 240 million people that have a
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social media account.
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So my paper was on the positives and negatives of
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social media.
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Social media is a platform that can be used for
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good, and it can also be used to harm.
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The positives are that you can be united with people
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all around the world, Um, family that's in other areas
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and that with people that are far away from you,
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the negatives are that social media can be used to
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harm and to stereotype other people in the categories that
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they're not and to hurt people.
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Social media has connected people all around the world.
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So the one thing about social media that's so cool
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is that you can reach different demographics of people all
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around the world, and it doesn't matter.
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You know where you're at, you can send a message
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to them and talk to them, or you can like
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their posts or see what they're doing or see what
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they're up to, depending on what they post.
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Um, also, I mean, I think of like a grand
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parent, uh, living far away from their grandchild and then
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you can see, like, pictures of your grandchild on your
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phone, just a click away.
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So I think that's that's one of the really good
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benefits about social media, but with benefits come negatives.
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Um, on the right is, uh, a infographic about some
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of the negative effects that social media has for teens.
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That's not specifically what I read on on my paper.
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Um, what I wrote on was that social media can
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be used to hurt others.
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Um, social media has like the ability to connect people,
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but also has the ability to give other people, yeah,
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the power or feel like they have a right to
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say what they want to say.
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And sometimes that comes off as mean, and that comes
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off as inappropriate at the time or just inappropriate in
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general, because people can be mean and and that can
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happen on social media.
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And unless you're taking really good caution on who follows
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you and who can comment and whatever.
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Then you're probably going to get comments like that, especially
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if you have a lot of followers.
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The best way to prevent area comments or stereotypes or
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any kind of harmful comment that comes from a place
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that's that's not okay, would be to educate yourself.
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Um, it's proven that people with higher education levels are
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less likely to be sexist, less likely to be racist,
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less likely to be.
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I'm not gonna say mean because all people can be
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mean from day to day, and some people can have
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bad days, and it just depends.
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Um, but But those two are proven and and so
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you're less likely tohave these prejudices in your heart because
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you are more educated.
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So the best way to prevent being mean or or
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prejudices will be education.
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Yeah, and then if we can all become educated and
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be better together than we can unify each other better.
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So what?
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I'm thinking what I'm saying.
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This is when you look around the world, you see
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a bunch of division and you see racial issues and
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you see um, movements going on and and everybody trying
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to get their voice heard and so this wouldn't need
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to happen.
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Or this wouldn't happen.
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Have we been united and, you know, followed?
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Um, example.
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I'm a Christian, so I would follow the example of
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Christ. So?
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So I would like, try to treat people how they
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want to be, how I want to be treated and
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and do what's right and follow what I believe as
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my basis of knowledge on what is right.
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And I think that if we could just altogether be
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nicer, be kinder, be more encouraging to each other than
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we could make a better world.
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Thank you.