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The Question: Social media brings more harm than good?

Social media is often considered as a two-edged sword. The pros and cons are numerous, and they could make for a strong debate. While it does provide a way for people to connect and communicate, too much social media can also diminish real-life relationships as people focus on their virtual connections. There is also the issue of data gathering and privacy encroachments, which are real concerns for many people.

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Social Media is great for people that realize that most of the time it isn't real. Usually what happens is, people will start comparing themselves to that person (whether it be looks, or money) and then doubt themselves because they aren't there or they don't look like them. Social Media has more cons than pros, and everybody should take a break from it once in a while.

Social Media is harmful because a hacker could hack into your information, cyber bullying, and an increased risk of depression.

Social Media has some uses, although the uses won't matter to most. Sometimes artists use social media to spread their work, spread their name or just give themselves some confidence in art, although some people use it to get a dose of dopamine, which then makes social media more of a drug than the platform, it doesn't help that many of the platforms reinforces people using social media like a drug. While social media should be limited to a degree, to some people, social media is a way for people to communicate to either friends from real life or from some random server or game. Too much social media could be harmful, yet most of us use it to stay updated to current events or news, so it would also be our way of staying in touch, as you stated, it is a "double edged sword."

Social Media is a good way to keep up with whats going on with the world and a good way to keep in touch with a friend. Although, there is some cons to this it all depends on how you take it

social media can be harmful for those that don't know how to use it because if you don't know how to use it it can become an addiction which can lead to you staying up all night obsessed with other peoples lives. but it can also be useful for news, trends, etc.

Social media is good for people who control how much information they give out and for people who don't compare themselves to others. outside of that it is harmful in of how it lets people develop envy over others and start to feel insecure as they aren't like that person they see. on top of that, many people give out too much personal information leading to a higher risk of hacking or something else equally bad happening to them.

I agree, some people don't know how to act when they see somebody else flashing their money or looks and get all jealous.

I think social media is a good thing and a bad thing because it helps you reconnect to other and find funny videos or something that you like, and its also bad because people can harass and you and cyberbully you if they see something that they didn't like that you posted or did.

I believe that social media brings both harm and good to us. Some ways it could be a harm is that it can be too addictive and it can draw away of person to person socializing. It can also affect maybe your vision i think. Some good ways it can help is contacting people from far laces instead of communicating with them personally so it's easier to send a text message to that person.

I believe social media has a lot of goods and a lot of bads. Cyber bullying is on of the worse things on social media that can cause serious harm to people and there needs to be a end to it. Social media wasn't invented for someone to call another person names it was meant to bring people closer together and share their life with everyone. I do think that social media can be a toxic place but can also be a great and relaxing thing to do.

Social media is great because it helps you stay connected with friends and family. I for example have a Facebook (god help me) for keeping in contact with my uncle. The downside is that if you're not careful with your account, people could steal your information

Social media can lead to decreased self-esteem. Many people choose to make their lives seem very glamorous on social media and only put their best foot forward. While this may not be the reality, this leaves others to feel their lives aren’t good enough.Social media is a big outlet for cyberbullying among teenagers. Cyberbullies can use the mask of the Internet to taunt others with no real interaction. This leaves those on the other side of the screen to feel the same effects as a real-life event with less effort put in by the bully.

I think that social media brings more harm than good. Yes, yes there are good things like cat videos and puppies but things you say and do can come back to bite you many years later. I think that life was much better before everyone had social media and stuff, 8 and 9-year-olds are on these platforms dancing and acting like they’re 17, 18 years old. When my sibling and I were younger all we had to do to have the time of our lives was little things like seeing how far we could jump and building forts. Now we have cyberbullying, deepweb, darkweb, vulgar content, and scams. On that note, with social media, you really never know who you’re talking to. That pretty girl you think your gonna marry someday could be a male murderer. anything you say today could affect how you get a job in your 40’s. There is little good that can come from social media, in my opinion.

Social media has caused people to be more dependent on checking their phones. Additionally, a person could take a break from social media for a period of time. This would provide a vacation to the toxicity of the platforms. While not all social media is negative, its influence is harmful to many people.

I think social media brings harm to people, especially to teenagers. Being so much time on social media does not allow them to do their daily tasks.

Social media is so bittersweet. It's such a great way to influence and get in touch with people. It should be able to give a positive impact. The bad side of this platform is mostly from people being so dependent or attention craving that they'll do anything to get out there on each platform. Then, you have a hypothetical sea, where there are the sharks(the people with destroy and use it for the wrong reasons), and the fishes(the regular people posting and browsing), but like the sea, you'll never know what's in there unless you look. The radical can be effective, but influencing it make people accustom to chaos, and people feel hate is a better trend than positivity.

I hate social media.

I think social media is a good and bad thing. It is a good way to connect with your friends, but can also be used as a platform for cyberbullying, which. obviously, is a bad thing. There are certain things that can help in that situation, like reporting or blocking, but the problem will always be there, and there isn't much we can do about it, other than deleting social media.

I would say social media is a very toxic and hostile environment in many cases especially on twitter, it may be good in some cases but in my opinion the bad out-weighs the good.

I believe that social media is a good thing. It allows people to stay connected with friends and family, it also helps to get to know new people and its a good alternative to meeting in person when covid is going around.

I think social media is good because you can communicate with friends or family and also meet new people. Social media is also bad because it can be addictive for teenagers and they won't do the things they're suppose to do.

Personally, I see social media as something good, as of right now. Like was said before, It has it's cons. But I like to see it as with every pro, it's likely to come a con. If there wasn't a bad, we wouldn't truly be able to be able to feel, and understand or appreciate the good within. I think it's good for many reason, one being it helps spread awareness, in many way, on issues that people tend to block out, or just would never know about. Also, It helps people make money easier, in there own and unique way. Talents become know, people are heard, and we can be happy.

social media is great its just how people handle it. like it could be good but also bad becuase some people out here are psycopaths and so sum dumb stuff on here but for school wise its good

mack - I love your form of words. In today's society we indubitably see people choosing to write one short sentence with no meaning when asked to pour out their heart and soul onto a page. I cannot lie and say I haven't done the same in text. Alas, I am too swamped with schoolwork to respond to a text, I may. But enough about me, you are giving off strong poetic signals and I can tell you have an effulgent future ahead of you

I will admit, as someone who is scrolling through social media or playing communitive games social media is one of the most dangerous places for anyone. What I mean by that is you will often get exposed to vulgar topics or content, content that even you didn't mean to see just because the pure curiosity of others. Though there's very many pros to the internet even if you are not on big social media sites a lot, instance being you can search up information for a project, or plan ahead of time for a vacation. There's also being able to communicate with your friends from long distances so you two could always continue to talk. Conclusion being to to just be careful on the internet being firs introduced to it.

Social Media is very dangerous and even though I will sit and be on social media for a unnecessary amount of time I still think social media is not a good place for anyone especially if your very young or something. Social media is very toxic also. It's so many dangers and creeps and bullies on there it's crazy. Sometimes you'll need a good break from social media. Being off social media I will say it definitely lifts a weight off your shoulder. I think i might just take a break from it myself.

I think that social media is dangerous and can be very detrimental to your life. Firstly as stated above social media is a kind of drug but many people don't know that when you use social media like that you become less patient and cant hold on to ideas for very long.

I agree that it got for school and for family purposes. It can help people stay in touch with one another. Businesses get free promotion through their self-represented pages. News flowing everywhere on social media before every click you take. The good can out weight that bad when you look at it in a positive aspect.

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I believe that social media brings more harm than good. On social media, people like to paint a picture of themselves for their audience. When in real life, that's not really them. So many people pretend to be something they're not to please the folks that are watching. This can lead to drama, violence, and even worse. The internet is where people feel to be able to do or say whatever they want, some things are acceptable while others are not. Social media takes people away from reality and it will not take long before most of us become "social media praised".

Social Media has some uses, although the uses won't matter to most people. Sometimes artists use social media to spread their work, spread their name or just give themselves some confidence in art, although some people use it bully or mentally harm a person. While social media should be limited to a degree, to some people, social media is a way for people to communicate to either friends from real life or from some random server or game.

I agree with the metaphor that social media is a double-edged sword. A con of social media is that it would decrease people's communication skills. Another con would be that it negatively affects a person's social behavior. A pro would be that social media helps people reach each other faster when in need of help, advice, information, etc. So socially is something that you have to know how to use and acknowledge that it is not a need in our daily lives.

I also agree with that the social media can have some pros and cons. communication skills will decrease at some point but it is also convenient and faster as well. It would feel weird not talking through your friends in some type of texting app or social media.

Social Media can be used for entertainment, talking to other people, and many more things. But sometimes social media can turn into a dangerous website or app where people can rob you of personal information or get your location of where you live. Including, that people don't do anything productive in their lives because they would rather be on social media than focus on something important.

But there exist essential advantages, social networks can also offer platforms for bullying and exclusion, unrealistic expectations about body image and sources of popularity, normalization of risk-taking behaviors, and might be detrimental to mental health. Using social media more often, though, increases FOMO and feelings of inadequacy, dissatisfaction, and isolation. In turn, these feelings negatively affect your mood and worsen symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress.

I think social medias good for the environment. You can do a lot with social media like keep in contact with your family and friends or play video games

Social media is beneficial as it has advanced us to be able to send messages and videos to people who could be several hundred miles away. It's also good for learning breaking news when it happens or checking the weather.

Social Media is good because you can talk with people around the world and hear about other views, but it can exaggerate things more than needed, I believe social media has more pros than cons, just imagine there was no way to talk to a family member across the world because there's no social media.

I think that social media brings more danger/harm than good. Social media is good when communicating with others or when getting information or other necessary stuff, but apart from that, I think that social media is a bad thing. There's so much bad stuff over social media. There's also cyberbullying and much drama and other bad stuff. It can lead to many other things like hospitals or even death.

Social media can be helpful to get information out, share your ideas, and even expanding your business. But it can also give u a fake image, everything u see on Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, etc, most of the time it's not even real or staged they just lie for views and clout.

Social media can be good and all that But there exist fundamental benefits, social networks can also provide platforms for bullying and exclusion, unrealistic expectations about body image and sources of popularity, normalization of risk-taking behaviors, and may be detrimental to mental health. So media is harmful in so many ways like bullying, addiction, and so many more things.

Social media has brought its impact on people like a storm and some make it thier entire way of living. Social media does promote positivity but the negatives severely outweigh the positives.

i think social media is a bad thing because its a lot of drama and photoshopped pictures. making people insecure and starting fights

social media can help us communicate us with people we know like family members in another country. we can communicate with our friends.

although there are important pros to social media, some platforms provide spaces for bullying causing others to be harmed mentally, even turning to physically,it can also cause people to be drawn away from the outside world and forget whats real or not.

although social media is helpful in ways t is also harmful because alot of drama and cyberbullying can happen

Social medias are absolutely horrible. They trick young minds into falling for others with a cartoon profile picture and then who knows what horrible things could happen next! I wish we were back in the old days when we knew exactly who everyone was!! People read BOOKS! Not silly eye-burning scribbles on a screen! Kids these days..

I do believe social media causes more harm then good because it can ruin relationships, people get bullied, people can compare themselves to unrealistic images.

I think social media has more cons than pros. Social media can be an amazing asset to someone's life but also can be someone's worst asset. Although social media can help someone's life by helping businesses, fame, news, etc. Social media can also brainwash and make something so irregular become the new normal. I think social media has really brainwashed people, especially young, impressional kids. I think social media is good but there definitely needs to be a limit on how much screentime people get.

Social media is considered to be one of the most popular platforms on the whole internet (well, I mean- with all the funny animal videos, who could blame them?). It claims to bring people together from faraway places, it's a place to make online friends, and it makes people famous, sounds great, right? Well, for starters, addiction. People become obsessed with their devices, craving for each little view, comment, or like on their video, desperately following nonsensical trends, or doing idiotic challenges so they possibly get a chance at stardom. Not only that but facades. People like models, streamers, or influencers make it easy for younger people to compare themselves to an unrealistic standard, leading to depression or unhealthy habits, when in reality, the influencers use a filter to make themself look younger and prettier. My final argument is attention span. There are 8 billion people on Earth, and 2.35 billion people are active monthly users on Instagram. Crazy, right? What if I told you that's the number of people who watch Instagram reels for hours a day? That is the number of people who mindlessly scroll on their phones, watching these 30-second videos, and sometimes not having the patience to even finish that, just scrolling, and scrolling, and scrolling. As a result of these Reels, attention spans among younger generations have hit an all-time low.

social media can be good and bad, it can let people know wats going on around the world but can case problem there are scams and cyber bullies. as long as your smart with what you do scial media can be good

Social media causes more harm then good because people like to make fun of people.

Social media is bad when people try to bring each other down.

to some degree yes as in it wastes peoples time and they get sucked into it and scroll it for hours and hours and some people hear things that they dont exactly want to hear about themselves on the other hand it is the source of some peoples happiness and joy mabey even the only source of it that they have in their whole life

I dont believe that video games and social media is bad because you get to meet people and friends from all over the world and if they're being rude you can just kick them from the party

A lot of people use social media as a source of income and some people use social media as intertanment.

I agree with this statement cause social media is a great way to stay in contact with your friends that you don't get to see every day.

I agree with this statement cause social media is a great way to stay in contact with your friends that you don't get to see every day.

Social media is a very difficult topic for our generation today to discus. I grew up with social media so I've never experienced a time were it wasn't needed but when my mom tell me stories before the internet existed i never understood how older people now survived then.

social media is stupid because of all the hate in all of them it make people doubt themselves and sometimes cause people to bring death upon themselves.

I agree because you always see it around but a lot of people never notice because of ow normalized it is now.

honestly social media does do more harm then good but social media is probadly the only thing that can keep you calm even going though a hard time, if it had to come down to having social media or no social media I rather have social media because i don't wanna listen to the civil war or world war 1 and 2 on a radio

social media is definitely more harmful than helpful or educational. i say this because, many people on social media aren't honest about their lives and so people start to compare their lives, to others on social media, and those lives on social media, aren't even their real lives. people are also very susceptible to the internet.

it really depends on how you use it and how much you use it you can have good outcomes and some bad outcomes but i think social media is bad if you use it for more than half of the day and use it to harm others with it because allthough it may not affect you it will affect others

social media is an amazing way to keep up with what's going on but the cons are if people can take the things they see without getting hurt

i beilve social media is not good cause kids now day are just on there phone 247 they cause be exploring the world instean of being on social media you can learing thing if your out there in the world

I think social media brings more good than ham. I know there are some downs about it, but I feel like there are more ups to it. Like sometimes you come across nice people on there, people who could ending being your friends, making you laugh, and encourage you to keep going. Social media good and bad.

Social Media is a good way to keep up with whats going on with the world and a good way to keep in touch with a friend. There is also some cons to this it all depends on how you take it

Social Media is harmful because a hacker could hack into your information, cyber bullying, and an increased risk of depression.

I agree that it's more how you use social media and how much you use it, there is a way to get educational values from social media but with every good comes a bad. Even though there is a lot of bad social media there is a way to avoid it and get to see your interest and likes.

Social Media is good but it becomes a problem depending on the person who uses it can be good and does not make it harmful or the opposite or both. it really just depends on who and what it is being used for and who is using it and why.