Analysis Of How Teens: How Social Media Affects Your Brain

Teens: This is how Social Media Affects Your Brain

The analysis I am writing about is a web article titled “Teens: This is how Social Media Affects Your Brain” by Susie East. The purpose of this analysis is to determine whether the article is persuasive in its efforts to convince the reader that social media has positive influences on teens. The article is about the effects that social media has on teenagers between the ages of 13 -17. (East), a writer for CNN news, writes about how social media has become a lifestyle for the teenagers and it’s safe. The article explains that this is also their preferred way to communicate. More importantly, it shows that the effects it has on the teens socially are positive ones. The writer uses the test

The book centers on studies of teenagers and the effect of so much time spent on social media. The Mapping Center studies nothing but the brain and the effect that different social and physical situations have on its ability to function properly. Social media and its effects on socialization is the topic of this experiment and the book. Teenager were the only people used in this study. There’s not much information about people of other ages but the book supports the article “Teens: This is how Social Media Affects Your Brain” and its findings. There are also other forms of professional input in this article such as a color coded brain map and other outside sources. The credibility and the professionalism featured in this article makes it believable and persuades us to agree with the authors

Knowing that social media itself has no negative affect on teenagers or their social well-being give the caregiver a feeling of relief. The quoted opinions of professionals doing the testing and experimenting on the teenagers that the author provided does prove as much logic as possible. One problem I found was that never was there mention of the teenagers who may already have negativity issues before their introduction to social media. Nor was there mention of other age groups or backgrounds of people. These teens were seemingly well to do, Caucasian teens from middleclass background. There were also a few sections included in the book that contradicted some of what East wrote in the article. She used what she needed to lend credibility to the story but left out some of the negative information. Although the article does its job of persuading the reader to believe what’s written, I still feel that there is no way that 6-8 hours a day doing anything could be healthy. The statistics show that this activity is safe, but I’m sure there are professionals who will beg to