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Andres Pollon Ramos

Jennifer Rodrick

ENGL (115)

November 6, 2018

Social Media Impact on Identities

When people think about technology, it comes to the mind all the modern machines and

social media that everybody use. However, this new progress brings many obstacles that society

must be aware because it could be dangerous. Going in detail, when people use social media there

are several types of problems in which over the past several years, society has viewed it in a

negative way. Social media takes most of a person’s time, there are people who use social media

to extort, social media can make a person behavior change. Also, the purpose of social media is

for us to communicate by online. For instance, Gmail is use to send important emails to people,

Gmail offers the chance to communicate with people that we want to contact. This means that we

can contact professors, jobs, and any events that we would like to attend, Gmail provides the

opportunity to write about what we’re looking for and we can put our ideas and details that we

wish to express.

To mentioning the positive and negative aspects from people’s time when they use social

media. For example, a person that use the time of social media in a positive way can find the social

media as something that is useful, this person can find the way how to communicate with his/her

family in the foreign especially if his/her family is too far away from them. Now, in a negative

way about social media can be when people lost their time on social media, texting with other

people, looking videos approximately by around 1-4 hours per day, I can refer to the article of
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Sofia Bratu when she wrote “top online activities individuals engage in at least once a day, % of

teens who count certain platforms as one of the three most common ways they talk with their

closest friend, how often U.S. Internet users unplug, and the impact of technology on relationships,

by cell phone, social media, and online dating status.” And another quote can be “the three most

common ways they talk with their closest friend, how often U.S. Internet users unplug, and the

impact of technology on relationships, by cell phone, social media, and online dating status.”

This article explains the evidence of how people prefer waste their time on social media

than do something productive. In contrast, people don’t look at any problem in social media but

although there are many things that people should consider on social media. Social media could

be danger especially for adolescents. In other words, in social media people pretend to be someone

else only to be able to extort for money and even to meet with the victim and kidnap the victim so,

all the adolescents must be more careful when they are

texting with these people in their social media. This is

relating to the Sharon’s article when she gave an

evidence, “Their comments related to how cute the

children were, and were not demeaning in any way, and

they were sharing with friends, so how could it be

wrong? Since then I have seen examples of colleagues posting derogatory and profane comments

regarding their on-call experiences on their Facebook pages and One example lamented the

inability of the medical profession to keep the female cervix closed in the middle of the night (in

language I cannot repeat).” Other evidence in her article “Another alluded to repeated Caesarean

sections in a 3-hour period and then the birth of a tiny preterm baby in the early hours of the

morning in a named suburb. Imagine if a patient or a patient's family member read these postings.”
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The problem with people on social media is their behavior when they use social media as

an addiction. With this intention, people’s reaction commonly is: they get very angry when they’re

on the phone watching their social media because they didn’t like to be interrupted by someone

else. This means, these people get angry or upset because they’re watching videos, photos, or even

when they’re in a conversation that they feel is important. To put it another words, other people

who spend their time on social media only think about spending hours and hours texting with their

friends or people who sometimes they don’t know and people tend to forgot things to do such as

throwing out trash or when they have to do the cleaning they’re reluctant. This applies to

adolescents in other cases when they broke up any relationship adolescents get sad other fall into

depression and feel so bad that

they do not talk to other friends

and also to the rest of the people,

they decide to have the behavior

of feeling alone or sometimes

just spend time crying on their

rooms many people react

differently when they are using social media, some of them don’t do anything they just want to be

there on the phone watching their social media and now this became a routine in people as well as

adults to adolescents. This can refer to the Milena, Garcia, and Luciano article when they say “In

recent years, there has been a huge increase in the number of bots online, varying from Web

crawlers for search engines, to chatbots for online customer service, spambots on social media,

and content-editing bots in online collaboration communities. The online world has turned into an

ecosystem of bots. However, our knowledge of how these automated agents are interacting with
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each other is rather poor. Bots are predictable automatons that do not have the capacity for

emotions, meaning-making, creativity, and sociality and it is hence natural to expect interactions

between bots to be relatively predictable and uneventful.”

Social media have been affecting the human beings with their identities after many

generations and will continue to be, because it’s part of technology and when we see social

media/technology is going to take an even more important role in our lives and in everyday things

than the human being does today. Moreover, people should be more careful with the use of social

media because as we could see there are negative and positive aspects that I discussed earlier in

the paragraphs before. In addition, how social media makes people change in the way we behave

or in the way how we react sometimes when we are interrupted if we find ourselves watching

social media we must be careful with adolescents because there is a variety of people in social

media. This means, we must have precaution whit who we are texting in any social media also we

must choose with who we decided to communicate because in many cases people for not check all

this information they get victim from kidnappings, exertions, and other things that are dangerous.

To end with this, people should know how to control their time on social media and be careful

with all the things that all the application of social media contained because we don’t know how

those applications monitor whit all our information that we put on these application those can be

Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and the rest of them we don’t know that they do with all our

information but at this point there are many people that don’t care read the conditions of those

social medias they just download and then enjoy them as something normal and I am this kind of

person but now I am learning a little how to know about all these application.
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Works Cited Page

Kling, Sharon. “Danger at the Frontier: Social Media and Ethics: Ethics.” Vol. 27, no. 3, 2014, pp.

275–199.

Bratu, Sofia. “Fear of Missing out, Improper Behavior, and Distressing Patterns of use. An

Empirical Investigation.” Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, vol. 17, 2018, pp. 130–140.

Tsvetkova, Milena, et al. “Even Good Bots Fight: The Case of Wikipedia.” ArXiv.org, vol. 12, no.

2, 2017.