The Big Social Debate

Many people use social media to connect with other people through apps like, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat. People use these services to connect with other people and post about their daily lives and their hobbies. While social media looks safe and fun it has recently turned into a hub of media and advertisements flooding every service. Twitter has always been bad for people to find a way to connect with people. Recently it has been filled by hatred caused from political and moral differences with users on the platform. Instagram is filled with bots that post inappropriate images and posts that are not safe for users on the platform. Facebook is filled with angry moms and dads who sit on it all day to start arguments about politics, where they should be working and making a difference in this world. Snapchat is filled with people wanting to talk uncomfortably to people and lots of known illegal stuff going on. Every year Snapchat has caught a new scandal about drug use, or sexual harassment and is just shown to not be a safe and reliable service. Snapchat is a bad environment for people to use and should stay clear away from it.

The benefits people argue is that social media is a way to help people and stay friends when apart from each other. People argue that Social media is a good way to receive news and stay up to date on the world. People also argue that social media is not all bad and promotes good more than bad. This has not been the case for platforms like Twitter and Instagram where it is getting overrun by controversy. There was a time when Social media had a common goal to connect people together, but from what has been going on these past years it seems that goal is long gone and is now just a place of hatred and controversy. Social media is a distraction and waste of energy to engage and it is better off to just leave and find another hobby. Look at the screen time per day you waste on social media and add that up to a week, a month, a year and see how much time you truly waste on social media.

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