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Social media has created a self obsessed society where people can portray their life as being “more interesting, exciting, and more mysterious than it is” (Simanowski 3).
individual effects on
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With hundreds of millions of users, its hard to say how social media affects us, but many studies have been made to show its impact on different populations.
Sources say it can cause depression, but everyone is different.
– Addiction is a real thing,
– “Social media could play a part in the ‘safety plans’ that teenagers make to handle suicidal feelings, if they come” (NY Times).
– Many problems lie in parental control over usage
– Celebrities clickbaiting and drawing in consumers on sites
Find out what famous YouTuber Casey Neistat has to say on the topic of social media and how it affects us