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Some People Say That Social Media Like Facebook Are Replacing Proper Social Life. Others Say They Enrich Social Communication

Mia Periš wrote a school assignment on December 17th, 2020 about the impacts of social media. In 3 sentences: Social media have become almost essential for communication today as they allow easy and fast connections with distant friends and meeting new people, though they can also enable risks like child predators with fake profiles. Teenagers may become obsessed with social media and refuse real social interaction, or girls can develop eating disorders from unrealistic beauty standards on platforms like Instagram. Overall social media are useful for communication if used correctly while avoiding potential downsides like addiction or mental health issues.

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Some People Say That Social Media Like Facebook Are Replacing Proper Social Life. Others Say They Enrich Social Communication

Mia Periš wrote a school assignment on December 17th, 2020 about the impacts of social media. In 3 sentences: Social media have become almost essential for communication today as they allow easy and fast connections with distant friends and meeting new people, though they can also enable risks like child predators with fake profiles. Teenagers may become obsessed with social media and refuse real social interaction, or girls can develop eating disorders from unrealistic beauty standards on platforms like Instagram. Overall social media are useful for communication if used correctly while avoiding potential downsides like addiction or mental health issues.

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NAME: Mia Periš

DATE: December 17th, 2020

FIRST SCHOOL ASSIGNMENT

Some people say that social media like Facebook are replacing proper social life. Others
say they enrich social communication.

In today's century, social media have become almost a must for every person that
owns a smartphone. They are a new way of communicating with people. The popularity of
social media grew so much because they are easy to use and carry information fast unlike
before. But social media have some negative sides to them, too.
Firstly, social media are a great way of reconnecting with some old friends who now
live far away, or you just lost touch with them. Because of the simplicity of social media, like
Facebook, people can very easily find those old friends and reconnect with them. As already
stated, some friends may live far away, and getting to hang out with them is much harder.
That is where social media become very handy. Communication is easy and fast, options like
regular and video calls are also available which can help in having a great time with your
long-distance friends. Also, meeting new friends is much easier now. Social media like
Instagram and Snapchat can even recommend new people who have mutual friends or
interests like you. It also helps some people who have social anxiety so meeting new people in
the real world can cause a great amount of stress. 
In addition to this, meeting new people can be very risky because anyone can create a
fake profile on social media and fool young, naive children. That is mostly how child
predators can even kidnap children thanks to their fake profiles. Safety is not guaranteed
anywhere on the internet. Furthermore, teenagers and even children can become obsessed
with the internet and be so emersed that they refuse to go outside and live in the real world.
Therefore, social media can influence teenagers in a way that they no longer want to make
real friends and hang out with them, but instead, they have online friends whom they do not
even know. Besides these negative aspects, a new one appeared on the social media platform,
Instagram. On Instagram, thanks to models who usually photoshop their photographs, a high
and unrealistic standard of beauty caused young teenagers, mostly girls, to hate their bodies
because they are not Instagram perfect. As a result, eating disorders like bulimia and
anorexia, unfortunately, became very popular amongst young women. 
Social media are definitely a great help to today's society. Communication experienced
great development because of it. Personally, social media also help me in many ways, just like
for other people. I find that they are very beneficial if used correctly to avoid risks like
developing an addiction or mental illness as already stated. I hope social media will improve,
and using them will become a safe, welcoming place to all.

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