You know the saying, “It’s too good to be true.”? Well, it seems almost impossible nowadays to find someone without them being attached to social media in one way or another. Especially with phones having mobile applications left and right, it’s as if the millions of users of social media are completely captivated by what their friends, family, celebrities, or colleagues are doing every second of the day. As the number of users continue to increase, could social media pose a problem that is silently creeping its way to the normality of everyday life? The popularity of social media has cause negative effects on children and teens, such as, an invasion of one’s privacy, a continual rise of online bullying, and the most recent of them all, “FOMO”
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In 2010, an eighteen-year-old boy named Tyler Clementi jumped off the George Washington bridge to his death in Piscataway, New Jersey (Albin, 2010). Clementi’s death stood out in the case where he was bullied for recently coming out as gay, Clementi’s roommate and friend used a webcam in their dorm to record Tyler with another student and post the videos to social media. Cyberbullying not only happens to children, it can unfortunately continue to burden after high school, possibly into the workplace with other adults. In a research of cyberbullying in the workplace, studies showed, “Of the 320 people who responded to the survey, around eight out of ten had experienced listed cyberbullying behaviors on at least one occasion in the previous six months.” (M2 Presswire, 2002). Professor Danielle Citron from the University of Maryland is also an author is helping to resolve cyberbullying for children and adults, “A cyber civil rights legal agenda is essential to shift our cultural attributes.” (Citron, 2014). The damage of cyberbullying for people worldwide stretches out much farther than the screens we stare at every day, but with dedicated activists as Citron and many other individuals, there will be a voice for the victims who cannot speak for …show more content…
It’s pretty remarkable just how dependent the lives of the millions of online users are with these sites and seems like a problem that won’t go away anytime soon. Though social media has changed the world we live in today with some noteworthy accomplishments, it would be a nice change of pace if people were to put away their phones, close their laptops and enjoy life through their own personal experiences. Humans are social creatures, we only live once and life is always moving forward, but if we keep stopping our present lives to type down what we’re doing instead of enjoying the current moment, we might just get left
In 2010, an eighteen-year-old boy named Tyler Clementi jumped off the George Washington bridge to his death in Piscataway, New Jersey (Albin, 2010). Clementi’s death stood out in the case where he was bullied for recently coming out as gay, Clementi’s roommate and friend used a webcam in their dorm to record Tyler with another student and post the videos to social media. Cyberbullying not only happens to children, it can unfortunately continue to burden after high school, possibly into the workplace with other adults. In a research of cyberbullying in the workplace, studies showed, “Of the 320 people who responded to the survey, around eight out of ten had experienced listed cyberbullying behaviors on at least one occasion in the previous six months.” (M2 Presswire, 2002). Professor Danielle Citron from the University of Maryland is also an author is helping to resolve cyberbullying for children and adults, “A cyber civil rights legal agenda is essential to shift our cultural attributes.” (Citron, 2014). The damage of cyberbullying for people worldwide stretches out much farther than the screens we stare at every day, but with dedicated activists as Citron and many other individuals, there will be a voice for the victims who cannot speak for …show more content…
It’s pretty remarkable just how dependent the lives of the millions of online users are with these sites and seems like a problem that won’t go away anytime soon. Though social media has changed the world we live in today with some noteworthy accomplishments, it would be a nice change of pace if people were to put away their phones, close their laptops and enjoy life through their own personal experiences. Humans are social creatures, we only live once and life is always moving forward, but if we keep stopping our present lives to type down what we’re doing instead of enjoying the current moment, we might just get left