Hello everybody, I am Dimal Amodya Wijesinghe. Our team debate is about
“Social media brings more positive things than negatives”. Well.
In my point of view, social media forms unrealistic expectations of life and
friendships in our mind. Most of the social media sites have a serve lack of online
authenticity. People use Snapchat to share their exciting adventures, post about
how much they love their significant other on Facebook, and load up their
Instagram page with heavily staged photos.
But in reality, you have no way of knowing whether this is all a farce. While it
looks great on the surface, that person could be in massive debt, on bad terms
with their significant other, and just desperate for Instagram like as a form of
validation.
One simple way out of this mess is for everyone to quit lying on social media.
But in the era of Instagram influences and youtubers who earn millions from
being inauthentic, that isn’t going to happen anytime soon.
Speaking of Instagram celebrities, if you look at popular Instagram accounts,
you’ll find unbelievably beautiful people wearing expensive clothes on their
perfectly shaped bodies.
Now a days, body is an issue for everyone. Of course, seeing so many people
who are supposedly perfect on a daily basis makes you conscious about how
different you look from those pictures. And not everyone comes to healthy
conclusions in this situation.
It’s really important to remember that everybody is human. No one wakes up
everyday looking like a supermodel, and while many people have gone to great
lengths to train their bodies, that’s not the case for everyone who looks fit. Many
people, in search of social media fame, have definitely taken unhealthily routes
to appear more attractive.
#how it affects for students
Students who are using technology including social networking sites on a regular
basis tend to have more stomach aches, besides sleeping problems as well as
anxiety and depression. Such students also display more of narcissistic
tendencies besides many other psychological disorders, including various
antisocial behaviours as well as aggressive tendencies.
Daily overuse of these social networking sites tends to have a negative effect on
the health of all the students as it makes them more susceptible to various
health problems in the future. This is where peers, teachers and parents need
to play a major role by making the students aware of what they are missing out
while spending too much time on these sites.
The other negative effect on students is that they are spending too much time
on social sites, and much lesser tome on socializing in person. In fact, there is a
lack of body signals besides other nonverbal cues, including tome and inflection
in case of social networking sites. Thus, they cannot be considered as an
adequate replacement for any face–to-face communication. Not only this,
students who are spending a great deal of time on these social networking sites
are not able to communicate in person in effective manner.
These social media sites have become so popular in such a short time because
the information gets published in a fast way. This has actually created a lax
attitude for using proper spelling as well as grammar. In fact, the students are
