Monday, October 26, 2015

How has social media impacted your life?






Negative Effects of Social Media 

While reading this article, I found two of the negative impacts to be really true: 

  • It might make you spend money.
  • It alters your appetite. 
Both of these have impacted my life. As a huge online shopper, I tend to follow multiple boutiques and makeup websites for deals. Every time I see new clothing in stock or there's a huge sale somewhere, I tend to browse around online and ultimately buy something new. Do I really need what I put in the shopping cart? Most of the time, no. It has turned me into an impulse buyer and I don't need that stress in my life. On Instagram, people post almost everything. Especially FOOD! It drives me insane to see so much food late at night. It turns into eating junk food and baking cooks with my friend Jamie at 2 am. ALWAYS! Eating so late has caused so much weight gain, but I just don't have time to work out. In order to stop this from happening, I only log on one day a week at most. That way I'm not running to Wal-Mart to get cookie dough late at night. 




Social Media has displayed impacts on different people all over the world. Everyone is affected by it. Whether its blogger, YouTube, Facebook, or Pinterest, you take part in at least one social media website. Pinterest is my favorite. There's no negative effects that this article talks about, such as cyber bullying, sexual harassment, impact on privacy, or even politics. Most people tend to use social media to stay in contact with distant family, friends, or they may have it for their job. You never tend to think about how teenagers act on social media; nor do they think about the consequences it could have on their future. I said Pinterest is my favorite for a reason. You don't have to post, nothing negative pops up (at least not on mine), and you can take a peek into other people's interest as they can yours. With that being said, we should be followers of each other on there. :)

1 comment:

  1. Hi, I'm pretty sure we both picked the article "Negative Effects on Social Media" lol. That was an interesting article. Not many people understand the difference between want and need; or they do but just ignore it and say they need everything.

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