How social media affects the identity development of adolescents

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  1. Hello, My name is bryan Herta.
  2. Today I will be talking about how
  3. social media affects the identity construction of adolescence
  4. today, we're gonna be looking at both the positives,
  5. the negatives and what you should take away from this.
  6. This presidency is open for anyone to use. So if you have
  7. um any you want to look at something again, you can go ahead.
  8. Um another thing to know is I am not trying
  9. to convince your mind otherwise of something you should believe.
  10. I'm simply trying to inform you based on all the information I have gathered.
  11. So yeah, you know, don't don't think of it like a lecture like
  12. me trying to convince you or slapping you on the head with a
  13. book just simply as me informing you of what I have found.
  14. All right, So let's get started.
  15. So first, you know, the positives,
  16. what how does social media social media benefit adolescents?
  17. So, you know,
  18. when people believe that social media, you know, it's the root of all evil,
  19. it's simply natural.
  20. Uh social media um has many positive, like it helps adolescents with self esteem.
  21. You know, when
  22. adolescents play video games, they can create an identity of who they want to be,
  23. just helps them, you know, feel better about themselves um because you know, they
  24. are welcome back community. So they're not really like
  25. punished for like
  26. being who they want to be.
  27. It makes them feel better about themselves because
  28. they're welcomed by others and you know,
  29. the others, you know share similar
  30. um
  31. characteristics, you know, like they're similar every everyone in that group.
  32. you know, they have a similar idea, they're kind of welcomed and you know,
  33. it makes you feel like not only makes you feel like you're part of that group.
  34. Another thing is um
  35. you know,
  36. adolescents can post what they want on social media to like portray themselves.
  37. So for example, I could post with a lot of money, people would think I'm rich, I could
  38. post myself painting and like people would think I'm an artist.
  39. So you know, people get that like um idea like um
  40. they can be who they want to be, it helps them, you know,
  41. feel better about themselves and who they want to be.
  42. Another thing to look at is actually helps prevent depression,
  43. which is like the complete opposite of what some people think.
  44. Um
  45. you know from the article that I read,
  46. uh it's listed at the bottom of the article says that um
  47. adolescent needs someone to listen to the story to their story.
  48. What that means is they
  49. um was a excuse me.
  50. They need someone to guide them along their path.
  51. What that means is a lot of times, you know,
  52. we often talk with someone about like what you wanna do with your life,
  53. what you're currently doing, how you wanna do that stuff like that, you know,
  54. just get a,
  55. you know, plan of your life and you talk to someone about it, however, if you know,
  56. you don't have anyone to talk to,
  57. you can feel a little lonely and that can lead to depression.
  58. So you know,
  59. social media is an open platform where you can meet anyone talk to anyone.
  60. So it helps with that, you know, I need to talk to someone, I need a
  61. explain myself. Social media hopes with that because
  62. it makes them feel not lonely.
  63. Yeah
  64. another thing is it helps them discover themselves as I said in the first example,
  65. you know video games, people
  66. are welcomed
  67. by a community, it helps them, you know,
  68. uh it makes them feel welcomed by the community because of who they are.
  69. Um
  70. uh this is actually a quote I found from the text
  71. listed at the bottom which says importantly the basis of person
  72. society integration is that individuals choose and commit to cultural values
  73. and the norms that fits their own personal interests and values.
  74. What this means is, you know,
  75. people look at, you know, people in society, they create values um for themselves,
  76. you know based on what they see around them.
  77. So if people, you know, posting on social media,
  78. you know, they're all like having fun hanging out with friends and you know,
  79. you might think I need to go make friends which
  80. can be a positive but it can also be a negative
  81. but I think right now I'm seeing this as a positive because you can
  82. make friends have fun travel,
  83. do stuff like that because you know, it's good for them
  84. Alright, that's done with the positives now onto the negatives all my by
  85. you know, social media as you know it seems from most people it's pretty good,
  86. others is pretty bad
  87. but you know social media has its flaws obviously what doesn't have its flaws,
  88. but social media can cause high levels of anxiety
  89. and
  90. um
  91. what this text basically said is,
  92. you know, although you know,
  93. there's no significant correlation between
  94. technology use and identity exploration.
  95. There is like high
  96. um
  97. there is a significant correlation in regard to time spent using
  98. communication technology with an identity
  99. distress and with existential anxiety,
  100. what this means is, you know, although there's not a connection between,
  101. you know how people find themselves in technology.
  102. They have seen that like because people on social media so much there is that
  103. like worried nous that not worrying this more
  104. like that fear that's better that people,
  105. you know,
  106. they're not finding themselves who they are and they just like create like um
  107. and anxiety within yourself because you worry,
  108. you're not gonna find anyone or you're not gonna find yourself.
  109. Another thing is online relationships
  110. and some things to know is that like although you know it sounds good,
  111. it's not as good because
  112. it makes you more vulnerable towards um
  113. people you meet in real life because you when you date online, it makes you, you know,
  114. you don't see the person I guess as often as you would like you're not actually there,
  115. you're like messaging each other and I can create like a
  116. uh
  117. problem when you actually try to, you know, talk to meet someone in real life,
  118. you know that real life, you try to meet someone that's not through online, it can,
  119. you know,
  120. make you more worried because you're actually seeing a person face to face,
  121. you know, on a date instead of through a phone.
  122. So yeah,
  123. uh solution to this I would say is, you know,
  124. adolescents need to be careful with who they meet online. They need to be careful,
  125. make their account's private so, you know, people can make fun of them,
  126. they also shouldn't spend as much time on social media basically, like
  127. um don't, you know, don't date online, not saying you should, shouldn't,
  128. but you know, you need to be careful because it can create some very, very bad
  129. um experiences
  130. now what I want you to take away.
  131. Social media does affect everyone differently and
  132. it especially affects every adolescent differently because,
  133. you know, maybe some people are finding more addictive, maybe some others don't.
  134. So, you know, just keep that in mind. You know, they're both positive and negatives.
  135. Like I said at the very start, I'm not trying to change your mind,
  136. I'm just saying this is what I found.
  137. So here's what you should take away
  138. that was both positive and negative.
  139. Lastly,
  140. there's more to social media than just, you know,
  141. I mean, there's more
  142. and just social media that affects the identity development of social media
  143. messed that up. Excuse me. Um,
  144. what the last point is trying to say is social media isn't the main cause of
  145. what adolescents turn out to be because there's a lot of causes, you know, of,
  146. you know, who they hang out with, what their families like, where they live,
  147. what they do.
  148. So just keep that in mind when you know,
  149. you think about what's the main cause of uh identity of adolescence.
  150. So yeah, that's my presentation. I hope you enjoyed hope. It was very informative
  151. and
  152. thank you.
  153. II