write an articles / description paragraph ( person / place / event / diary entry ) in about 100-150 words based on visual or verbal cues on internet / social media - friend and foe?
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The question is, would these fights cause such huge rifts between friends if they occurred face to face rather than online? The same study suggests that most of these quarrels are sparked by an offensive picture, comment or status update, things that don't exist in the real world. Social media is making us such ineffective communicators that we are not capable of retaining friendships.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Instantly upon hearing those two small, simple words, your mind probably jumps to your twitter feed in need of desperate attention, the Instagram picture you need to post from last night, or a cute cat video you’ve recently seen on Facebook. This phrase and all it entails has become a crucial part of society today for everyone from newborn babies (whose pictures are plastered on facebook by proud parents) all the way up to “tech savvy” grandparents. It seems that everyone has become caught in the web of social media. It has affected life as we know it, but not necessarily in a positive way; social media has negatively altered the way we communicate, and ruined relationships, increased greed, and poor social skills are all results of this phenomenon.
Ever since the first caveman uttered the first word to his fellow hairy friends, humans have been talking. Talking about weather, their favorite TV shows, what they had for dinner last night, etc. At this point in the twenty first century, however, this physical speech has changed platforms. Now, a vast majority of people prefer talking with their thumbs rather than their mouths, and are becoming more offended than ever before at what people have to say.
Being a sixteen year old girl with a twitter, snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook, I am no exception to the billions using social media worldwide (According to a study by Statistica, Twitter has 305 million monthly users), and while it may come across as hypocritical to criticize something I find myself on at least 100 times a day, I am not blind to what social media causes. At least weekly, you can find arguments among people you know, which are often started on twitter because of a ‘subtweet,’ when a person directs an offensive tweet towards someone without mentioning a name. These online quarrels, while petty, can cause real life friendships to end, and I've witnessed this first hand. A recent study conducted by Pew Research shows that 15% of adults and 22% of teenagers had an experience on facebook that ended a friendship.