Social Media Saturated Society
We live in a world of drones preoccupied by checking notifications on Facebook and responding to their next text message. Social media is described as electronic devices that enable communication of media, news and conversation between people. With a mounting 1.6 billion active Facebook members as of 2013, aside from Google Facebook is the most popular website in America (Smith, 2013). Online communities such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are not the only thing distracting the populous. Cell phones, mobile applications and interactive gaming are just a few examples of social media in the 21st century. One can 't help but wonder what kind of effects relentless participation in social media will have on our body and our mind. Our future generations are being conditioned to wake up and text until they fall back asleep. Children are spending more hours a day interacting with electronics than spending time with their family or engaging in physical activities (Hutton, 2013). Studies are proving kids growing up spending this amount of time engulfed in social-media results in less participation in the classroom and lowered grades (Hutton, 2013). Teenagers are more likely to become involved with dangerous activities such as drug abuse, drinking and sexual activity (Frank, 2010). Many may not know the negative impact social media can have on one 's health and the astonishing new findings actually state it may be altering the way our genes work (“Online networking 'harms health, '” 2009). Studies are proving that spending too much time sucked into social networking is hazardous to the well-being and growth of adolescents; therefore parents need to limit how much time their children are hypnotized by social media.It would seem, with hundreds of Facebook friends, people would have an abundant social life, but surprisingly it is the exact opposite. Dr Sigman, who has a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology, a Master of Science degree in The Neurophysiological Basis of
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