Over Relying on Social Media

Over Relying on Social Media Have you ever spent more than 2 hours checking your social media? Nowadays, a majority of people, especially teenagers use social media almost all the time. Thus, social media in today’s world has become a part of people’s daily lives and people use them to update their lives, find new friends or maintain the relationships with their old friends and family. However, the overreliance on social media is having a negative effect on the way people socialize because it makes people waste their time, it affects relationships between people in the real world, and it causes people to have a problem with their writing skills. First of all, people who over rely on social media waste almost all of their time on their computers or smartphones. It is easy to go online and check our social media, especially on smartphones, which gives us a very easy function that takes less than 1 minute to go online and they improve it to be easier and more convenient all the time. Because of its ease and convenience, people go online and check their social media very often. Even though it takes less time to go online, it takes more time to explore in the online world. When you start, it is hard to stop because you cannot control your curiousity. In the article, “Confessions of an Instant Messenger,” Conor Boyland claims that instant messaging is like a snowball, it will become bigger and bigger, and when you notice, you are not able to stop. This seems to be undamaging, but it makes you have no time to study, work or do other things. For example, I am addicted to social media. I always check my social media on my iPhone before doing my homework, going to shower and going to sleep and it always makes me go to bed late because I spend more than 2 hours on it. It seems like it is not hard to stop this habit, but when it really happens, you are unconscious of it. Second, over using social media affects the relationships between people in the real world. When

References: 1. Boyland, Conor. “Confessions of an Instant Messenger.” 2. Silverblatt, Art. “Twitter as Newspeak.” 3. Thompsom, Clive. “I’m so Totally, Digitally Close to You.”