The bad news on social media
The Bad News of Social Media
According to the Huffington post Facebook users share 2.5 bits of content daily, including personal information. Social media has had many advantages for this generation. Such as helping people stay up to date with current news happening in the world. With many advances unfortunately many downsides come along with social media. Many health risks have been proven in scientific studies. Privacy is something that has become very limited online. Violence has also become a trend associating with social media. Social media has been morphed into something humanity was never intended to encounter
Young adults who appear to have a strong Facebook appearance are proven to show more signs of psychological disorders such as, anxiety and depression. People who are on social media sites more frequently are known to isolate themselves, productivity in young adults also has been shown to decrease. Teens who use Facebook while in class show to have lower test scores than the other students in the class. (“Social media bad” 1) Not only has social media sites brought many health & physiological disorders but also many security threats that has devastated people around the world.
With so much information that is put on social sites many people fall victim to identity theft and is effecting the credit of citizens. Twenty seven million Americans have been victims of identity theft in the last five years, (Claudia Bourne Farrell 1). Even when setting your privacy settings to private, hackers can easily break through the sites security. Once something is released on to the public it is no longer private. Identity theft on social media is a target that leads to many crimes.
Burglars can utilize the simplest information people post against them. “Fifty four percent of burglars say that posting your status on social media is a victim 's biggest mistake. By broadcasting to people that you are away from home, you are advertising that you are leaving your home
According to the Huffington post Facebook users share 2.5 bits of content daily, including personal information. Social media has had many advantages for this generation. Such as helping people stay up to date with current news happening in the world. With many advances unfortunately many downsides come along with social media. Many health risks have been proven in scientific studies. Privacy is something that has become very limited online. Violence has also become a trend associating with social media. Social media has been morphed into something humanity was never intended to encounter
Young adults who appear to have a strong Facebook appearance are proven to show more signs of psychological disorders such as, anxiety and depression. People who are on social media sites more frequently are known to isolate themselves, productivity in young adults also has been shown to decrease. Teens who use Facebook while in class show to have lower test scores than the other students in the class. (“Social media bad” 1) Not only has social media sites brought many health & physiological disorders but also many security threats that has devastated people around the world.
With so much information that is put on social sites many people fall victim to identity theft and is effecting the credit of citizens. Twenty seven million Americans have been victims of identity theft in the last five years, (Claudia Bourne Farrell 1). Even when setting your privacy settings to private, hackers can easily break through the sites security. Once something is released on to the public it is no longer private. Identity theft on social media is a target that leads to many crimes.
Burglars can utilize the simplest information people post against them. “Fifty four percent of burglars say that posting your status on social media is a victim 's biggest mistake. By broadcasting to people that you are away from home, you are advertising that you are leaving your home
Cited: Avila Jim, Online Love Triangle, Deception End in Murder. ABC News, August. 27, 2011 Lee Jihan, Social Media and crimes. Business to community, September 12, 2013 Rosen Larry, Social Networking’s Good and Bad Impacts on Kids. The American Psychological Association, August 6, 2011 Scott, Mark, 5 Surprising Social Media Statistics for 2013 Social media today, October 12, 2013