Media has effected us in both a negative and positive way. Though it has made things easier for us such as checking results from the doctor, to quick paying money to your little brother so he can buy lunch. It has made the world a lot smaller. But everything comes with pros and cons. Just as American academy of Pediatrics states, negative comments, being judged, and racial slurs is now a regular thing to see in social media. Depending on the person, it can cause depression or push someone to even having suicidal thoughts. Being away from physical interactions with people in reality other than in media can cause someone to be anti-social and also depressed, “Facebook depression.”
It truly, I believe, depends on each person and how much self control one has, and how someone uses media. Media can be very positive in a way that it helps people connect better, communicate, and also network to help start off a hobby to something bigger like your career. If you utilize media properly it can be a great thing, people blame media for being what it is, they should blame their self for letting it control them.
Media can have a great impact on people, Greg Marra, a Facebook engineer, and his team designs Facebook News Feed. It’s a source of news to people, a new and improved way to keep people up to date with what’s going on in the world around them. I see this as a positive effect of media, human beings get so consumed with the unimportant abilities of social media such as likes on Instagram, views on a video on YouTube, and being “popular” that they forget that there is most important things going on in our society. Use media to promote posititivity, creativity; look up news, utilize the Internet in a smarter way. Make a difference.
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Looks good, but please add some commentary about the readings in your posts!