Article posted by Ya Ting Chang (488338)
The article "Social Media Addiction Can Ruin Your Health" by Jonathan Benson appeared in Natural News on September 28, 2010. The article asserts that social media addiction like constantly using Facebook or Twitter can damage students’ healthiness and social relationship. The arguments made by Jonathan are summarized below.
In the first part, the author explains that nowadays many people are easily addicted to social media like Facebook. The behaviour of continually sticking in front of computer monitors for checking their friends, relatives, and co-worker’s Facebook status may cause some problems of health and personal social relationships. For example, stress, anxiety, sleeplessness, and interpersonal communication.Then, the author describes a research by experts to examine the influences of social media addiction. The result shows that the degree of students’ addiction to social media is just like the drug addiction because they have similar symptoms.
Next, the author gives the examples to prove the drawbacks of students’ addiction on social media. Some students cannot stop playing Facebook after class and some keep checking updating things on their phones. They are indulged in it for 21 hours a day, so they only have a few hours for sleep. In addition, they don’t have real time on face-to face interaction with their friends and families. That makes the problem of their interpersonal relationships.
Finally, after the experiment made by researchers, some students start to realize the problems they have got and try to make changes in their bad habits on playing Facebook.
In the end, the author emphasises that students need to be notified and taught that they should use social media properly and pay attention on what and how they do on it, or it can ruin their lives.
My Opinions:
ReplyDeleteI think students are addicted to the social media like Facebook, Twitter, MSN, MySpace, and so on. It gradually becomes a more and more serious problem in the whole world.
Firstly, it hurts students’ health because they spend too much time on social media, especially on Facebook. There are many defects. (1) It damages their eyes health. (2) They don’t have enough sleep. (3) They will get neck and shoulders pain easily.
Secondly, many teenagers and students just don’t have enough maturity to realize the seriousness troubles that they have made on internet. For example, some improper words or pictures shouldn’t be posted. Sometimes, it would influence a youth’s life just because of unsuitable comments or opinions.
Moreover, by playing with social media, students get fewer chances of real communication with other people. It decreases young people’s ability on social personal relationships. It also reduces their time spending on other good activities or sports.
By the degree of addiction on social media, I think students have less power as consumers. They are at a weak side because they don’t have the consciousness and judgements on using social media properly and suitably.