Controversy On Social Media

Courtney Van Winkle
October 20, 2014
12:40-1:40
Social Media Essay
Word Count: 974 Online identities are detrimental to psychological health. There is a lot of controversy on if social media is beneficial or damaging to the lives of people. There are many atrocious things that go along with social media. There are some major reasons why social media is damaging to mental health such as it makes people afraid of being alone, it makes people become scared about talking to people in person, and also it can put a damper on how productive people are. Owen states that “Related to FOMO, excessive technology use can lead to feelings of isolation or the eventual isolation of a person due to so much time spent with technology as opposed to making

Everyone is obsessed with checking on Facebook or Twitter instead of focusing on the task at hand. Social media has made many people become multitaskers rather than being able to do one thing at a time. Before social media came to be everyone was a lot more productive then they are now. Many people look at multi-tasking as getting more done all at once but when your brain has to switch back and forth between tasks and finding out where they were in that project actually makes it harder to concentrate and in the end people get less done. “Researchers now know our brains cannot focus attention on two things at once,” says Dr. Cantor. Therefore we are trying to do more than one thing but your brain just switches back and forth therefore making everyone less productive in the tasks at hand. Social media being everywhere now a days is the biggest distraction of all. For example there has been so many times I have been trying to get homework done but get a notification on Facebook; therefore, I get on to check it out and next thing I know I haven’t gotten any homework done. Without social media there to be a distraction it would cut down on so much multi-tasking and everyone would be a lot more productive then they are now a