Name: Sama Majed Grade: 8D

Persuasive Essay on Social Media

I think that social media is the best invention in the world Because In today’s society, billions of
people across the world are accessing the internet multiple times a day. Why wouldn’t they?
Phones nowadays don’t hold meaning without the internet, many people have it on their smart
phones, and at the touch of a button can check their email and social media accounts. However,
one of these things, usually consumes more of the user’s time than the others. Any social
networking site or application whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or something similar,
seems to easily suck up hours of a person’s day. Young children and teens are accessing these sites
while at school, and as soon as they get home from school.
Furthermore, while people are looking through these sites, they’re probably munching on
something and snacking away. Social networking is bad because it encourages people to lounge
around and become physically inactive. The second reason that social networking is bad for society
is that it makes people less productive at school and work. First, let’s take children and teens. Some
of them may not be allowed to log on to these sites at school, but many of them do it from their
phones secretly during lunch or break. However, as soon as school is over, many of them log on all
the way from the walk home to the time they do their homework. Many students even go on these
sites while they are doing their homework.

Another thing is that some person becomes lonelier after using social media. Most people might
think that because social media have a benefit that give more opportunity to people to have more
interactions through social network, people can strengthen relationship with their friends by
chatting and leaving comments on each other’s wall and even people could make new friends by
online meeting. Opposed to their thoughts, it is not. According to Dr. John Cacioppo, who is a
professor in neuroscience at the University of Chicago, suggests that “You can end up online so
much that you end up sacrificing face-to-face contact. Having 4000 friends on Facebook might
make you feel that you have lots of friends, but you have no face-to-face contact. In that case,
loneliness INCREASES (Johnson).”
It is not possible to make real relationship if people do not meet face to face. The people who
were not talkative and social would be worse. One of my friends could example of this. She was
poor at interacting with friends, she could not participate in our conversation and if we initiated a
conversation, she stepped behind and went to her place. After she started using social media, the
number of interactions with friends decreased. And she didn’t even make new friends through
social media and she became less social. It led her to feel more loneness and seriously she tried
to suicide once. It was one of the happening events around me that results of using social media.
It is a really serious problem that is related to us as humans in this society.

In conclusion, I think that social media is the best invention that has ever been created. although
social media has lots of benefits that are productive and helpful to us, it usually gives more
harmful influences than good effects. Like an addiction and fraud advertising, it is not anymore,
a small problem that can be ignored. To make better future, it is important to use social media
carefully. All things are depended on you.