Dylaine Jean

Eng 101
June 14, 2019
Social Medias Impacts on Individuals
Social Media can be both good and bad. It can be good with safe and proper use, and bad if
abused. Kids use it to watch videos and play games. Whereas, teens and adults have other uses
for it. Example of the uses for adults and teenagers are Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram,
YouTube, checking emails and other websites. The reason for writing this paper is to explain the
impacts that social media has on individuals. It will explain the effects that it has on people of all
ages. It will also talk about the good side and the bad side of social media. Let’s get started with
the good sides of social media.

Here are some of the good impacts that social media have on individuals.
Communication is one of the first impacts that social media has on individuals. It is
handy to be able to know how to communicate on social media. An example of communication
through social media is when you move away from family and you start to miss them, so you
communicate with them through social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
etc., it is also a way to express yourself through social media. Many people often take to social
media to express themselves and communicate with people who agree with what they said.
Another good impact from social media is how it can help small businesses get their
name out there and their products. As for big businesses, they expand their products and help
them advertise what they are about and sell their products online because online shopping is a
way of advertising and attracting people who live across the country to buy something from this
business. This is another way that social media can impact individuals by starting up a small
business and by expanding a business that is not quite there yet.
The last impact that social media has on individuals is building relationships through
social media. For example, a girl graduates high school and leaves her home town to go to school
but, she has never been to this city, so she goes on Facebook and joins this group chat that shows
her around the city and around campus. She meets new people and has friends, so she does not
have to be alone in the city. That is another way that social media is good for individuals.

Moving on to the bad sides of social media, here are some examples of bad impacts that social
media has on individuals. Lack of sleep and insecurity are some examples of the bad side of
social media. Lack of sleep means losing sleep because you are on your phone during the late
hours of the night. By doing so, the person who stayed up all night on their phone scrolling
through social media cannot function properly throughout the day. Which has the same effect
from caffeine and have the person feel social media high.
Another bad impact is insecurity. When scrolling through posts on Instagram, Facebook,
and Snapchat there is always someone who makes the person who is scrolling feel like they are
not pretty enough or that something about them is imperfect compared to the person who posted
the picture. Insecurity can lead to issues like body shaming and making them feel some kind of
sadness. For example, a celebrity posts a selfie and a girl happens to scroll past it and give it a
like, she starts to read the comments and sees that they are saying she is pretty and has over 1
thousand likes which makes the person scrolling feel insecure about themselves because their
pictures do not get as many likes as that.
 In conclusion, social media is both good and bad depending on the way the person uses it
and for what reasons. It can be good if used the right way and bad the wrong way. Social media
grows every day and is everywhere. the impacts listed above are just some of the examples of
how social media impacts individuals in both good ways and bad.