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The more social network less

social connection.

Name: Carolina Quintero Rojas

Subject: Culture

Teacher: Juan Jara

Date: 14/12/2018
Argumentative Essay:

When people starts to talk about social networks the words isolation or loneliness comes to
their mind immediately but there are different words, isolation means lack of contact with
people while loneliness is sadness because one has no friends or company; it’s happened
for the use of social medias, for maintain the head down watching the cellphone.

During the last years social networks take the internet but people aren’t pay attention in the
problems that it’s can cause. As we know Facebook, Twitter and now Instagram are the
most popular social network in the world, but all there isn’t real, many people try to show
something that isn’t true or try to create another person with happiness. Jennifer Garam
(2011) argues that “reading Facebook and Twitter streams can destroy the self-esteem”,
there are many reasons behind it, like see the perfect life of others, and people starts to
dispute about their life. It’s create a feeling of disappointed and frustration, but people are
blinded about what is going on outside of the cellphone, so they don’t raise their heads and
see the world and the reality.

Secondly, not away from the false happiness in the social networks if people use the social
networks right, it’s can’t be a problem but people doesn’t know how to use social networks,
today people use social network to everything, even some people visit a social network
over 58 times a week and with it people leave their reality for something false in some
cases and they can’t see it because they are so blind for the consume of social media. In
reference of Hosie (2017) “We are inherently social creatures, but modern life tends to
compartmentalize us instead of bringing us together,” So if we use social networks to
communicate easily, and not for create something that we aren’t, everything could be more
easy. Normally a clear example about it is social media is used in the table at lunch or
dinner, and it makes the people in the reality don’t talk as before. People ignore what is
going on in the world when they have a cellphone.

Finally, is important to mentioned that young people or teenagers are the most vulnerable
with the internet and it’s true, people from other generations used to an easy
communication with their family notice the different, and it’s normal for the young people,
where they use a lot smartphones, where they communicate con their friends but in a
superficial way. As we know today a child of 11 years has social media and maybe more
than one, it’s can be a distractor in the life of the children because they just see the
superficial and not important things of the internet, but in the really they aren’t worried
about what’s going on outside, or they don’t play as a children and they want to grow up
fast. That’s a big mistake. Well, in other hand social networks create a feeling of isolated
and jealous, why? It’s simple children see the life of many people, and they are so
influenced so they treat to imitate everything. Normally the people on social networks
create a superficial life where the people that see, imagine other reality. Even people thinks
while you show more things, and most expensive thing you’re better and children grown up
with it, and they feel insufficient as Mandal (2018) agues that “people can significantly
impact feeling lonely and isolated because teens are not engaging with different viewpoints
or different thoughts or feelings, which narrows their point of view. Teens that are not
looking to enhance their world view will find themselves feeling isolated like no one hears
them or can help them with their problems.”

To conclude people are really addicted to social networks so, they can’t see the reality and
it’s can cause a lot of problems in a long term, because they reduce their capacity to express
them-selves to the world and they decreased the skills of communication, also the capacity
of attention is decreased, as you see the people are looking their cellphone all day and
ignore the people around. Social media are good but if the use is right a reason of this is
losing the interaction with the family and friends that are close to us.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jennifer Garam ( 2011, Sept 26) Reading Facebook and Twitter streams can destroy my
self-esteem. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/progress-not-
perfection/201109/social-media-makes-me-feel-bad-about-myself

Rachel Hosie (2017, March 6) People who used social media a lot are isolated, study says.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/social-media-high-usage-more-isolated-lonely-
people-study-university-pittsburgh-a7614226.html
Tamajeed Mandal (2018, May 22) Does social media make people feel lonely?
https://www.quora.com/Does-social-media-make-people-feel-lonely

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