Is Technology Killing Our Friendships

Introduction
Social interactions take up over a fourth of the day. Teens are on social media so often that it takes away time for other more positive things. Social media makes room for mistakes and then puts them out for everybody to see. Social media can have positive outcomes, but these outcomes are rare. Teens are on social media constantly and therefore causing more room for mistakes, even though there could be benefits.
Teens on Social Media
Social media takes up time that could be used for more positive activities. According to the article Is Technology Killing Our Friendships?, “A typical teen sends 2,000 texts a month and spends more than 44 hours per week in front of a screen. Much of this time is spent on social media platforms...” This shows that teens spend too much time on social media because they spend 44 hours a week on a screen, this would be 6 hours 18 minutes a day. That would give 4-6 hours a day on social media. That would leave only 4 hours for outside of school, extra

activities or a job. A picture graph that is in Is Technology Killing Our Friendships showed that, 76 percent of teens use social media, and of this 76, 71 percent use Facebook, 52 percent use Instagram, and 41 percent use Snapchat. This proves that teens are on social media too much because the average teen with social media has 2 or more so they are on social media twice as long. Once again, this time could be used for more practical/positive activities. In conclusion, teens are on social media way too much and it is taking up valuable time.

The Mistakes
Social media brings out your mistakes, and then publicizes them.

If teens are on social media over 4 hours per day then they have the chance to make many mistakes. According to Be smart about it: How to use social media to your advantage in a picture graph, [It shows us] 44 percent of employers find good things that influence them to hire while 54 percent of employers found negative things on social media. The repercussions of these social media mistakes has led to 10 percent more employers finding hopeful applicants unfortunately unemployable. Another example of a mistake is in the article Is Technology killing our friendships?”Some kids might mistake the “friends” on their social media for true friends.” This is the mistake of their virtual friends being their real friends while the virtual friends might not be who they think they are. Teens make lots of mistakes while spending so much time on social media, and the mistakes are then there for everyone to see

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Technology's positive influences
Social media helps with making friends and gives us chances for a job’s or into a collage. Some people believe that social media helps with making friendships but, it is just the opposite it makes us friends with our phone instead of people. Evidence from Child experts: Just say “no” to Facebook’s kids app, “Messenger kids [the Facebook kids app] is not responding to a need-its creating one”.This shows that Facebook kids apps aren’t good for children so Facebook probably isn’t good for teen’s either. Other evidence from Is Technology Killing Our Friendships? shows,”Often, even when kids are together, they are interacting with their phones instead of each other.

Conclusion
Teens are on social media constantly causing more room for mistakes, even though there could be benefits. In this world, where we all have social media and are on phones constantly we need to step back and ask ourselves, “Is connecting and keeping up with hundreds of friends at once every day a benefit big enough to risk the disadvantages such as hurting ourselves or others?”