Social Media Addiction Social Effects By Sarah Couillard

Social Media Addiction & Social Effects By: Sarah Couillard, Carly Lottman, Alexis Mayers

Table of Contents: 1. What is Social Media? 2. Statistics 3. Interesting Facts 4. Legal and Ethical Consequences 5. Restrictions to prevent the abuse of power 6. Positive and Negative Effects 7. Current News Story 8. Opinion on this Issue 9. How to Stop the Addiction

Alexis Mayers What is Social Media Addiction? Social media addiction is an expression sometimes used to refer to someone spending too much time using social media, so much so that it interferes with other aspects of daily life.

Alexis Mayers Statistics About Social Media

Alexis Mayers Interesting Facts about Social Media - 25% of social media users don’t bother with privacy settings - 23% of social media users check their accounts 5 x or more every day - 72% of all internet users are now active on social media - 1. 15 billion people use Facebook

Carly Lottman Legal and ethical consequences Inappropriate behavior can result in: ● Fired from job (due to distraction from work) ● Unwanted exploitation due to children using apps such as snapchat to post pictures of other students ● Teachers removing a students personal technology from classrooms ● Banning technology entirely from classrooms in a school due to students constantly being on their cell phones, computers, tablets, etc. Cyberbullying can result in: ● Being legally charged (amount depending on how severe) ● People being hurt and/or offended

Carly Lottman Restrictions that should be put in Place to Prevent Abuse of Power ● Inappropriate language restrictions (comments, chatting) ● Teachers collecting cell phones, computers tablets, etc. at the beginning of class to prevent children from being on them during class too much ● Schools banning technology from classrooms (due to children not using the technology for educational purposes) ● Deactivating accounts such as facebook, instagram, twitter, tumblr, linked in, snapchat, buzzfeed, etc. ● Logging out of the social media network every time you shut your computer off

Carly Lottman Positive and Negative Effects Positive: ● Ability to easily interact with friends ● Ability for students to send each other work for school ● Skyping with a classmate for educational purposes ● Communicating with work associates for business Negative: ● Stalking ● Using up time that could be used towards work rather than being on facebook, instagram, twitter, tumblr, etc. ● Skyping with classmates causes distractions

Sarah Couillard Current News Story - Many people these days have an addiction to keeping up with all of their social medias and making sure that they never miss out on a status update or photo that is posted. Some people have a disorder where they constantly think that they have received a message or someone has updated their status. This leads to them constantly checking their phones to make sure. Some examples of issues that have occurred from the issue: ● A 34 year old woman was hospitalized after she spent excessive hours holding her phone and sending out a mass amount of messages. ● A 14 year old girl was killed when she went to collect her cell phone after dropping it onto train tracks and got hit by the train. ● A working man lost his job and his wife due to his twitter addiction and when he was forced to chose between twitter and his job, he chose twitter. ● There have been multiple cases of suicide due to people being unsatisfied with their selfies.

Sarah Couillard Opinion on this issue ● ● ● I think that this is a very serious issue because people have become addicted to being a part of everyone elses life instead of focusing on their own. People do not live for in the moment anymore, instead of just enjoying a moment they are taking pictures so that they can post them on instagram, facebook and twitter. INstead of thinking about how much fun the event that they are going to is going to be they busy focusing on how to pose for their photos. I think that we need to change the way that our generation works, obviously we arent going to cut social media out of our lives but people need to learn when enough is enough and when it could be harmful to themselves.

Sarah Couillard How to stop the addiction ● In this day and age with our generation being so attached and active with social media, the only way to stop the addictions and make sure that they will not continue is if we make the choice to choose what’s best for us and learn our limits so that we can keep ourselves healthy, sane and safe. ● It is clear that we can’t fully detach from our society and social media but we do need to learn what is safe and what is putting your health and life in danger. In order to do this we need to educated people on the risks and how to stay safe.

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