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AsapSCIENCE is a YouTube channel that posts science videos with interesting and fun
graphics to help deliver their information. In this video, they are informing their viewers
of the five ways social media effects the brain. They call the addiction to social media
psychological rather than a substance addiction. The use of social media stimulates the
brains release of dopamine. I used this source to display on my website following points
made by Meshi.
relationship between the dependency on social network and social skills of private school
students. This article addresses that the addiction to social networks puts traditional
adapt to new technology and have become the main users, which has led to their addiction.
They concluded that the higher the addiction to social networking, the less social skills the
students had. This is useful because it will allow me to demonstrate a particular target
audience is suffering by preferring socializing online rather than in person. Those who rely
on socializing online are more prone to have low self-esteem and shyness.
Ehmke, Rachel. How Using Social Media Affects Teenagers. Child Mind Institute,
childmind.org/article/how-using-social-media-affects-teenagers/.
This articles purpose is to inform parents about how social media is negatively affecting
their teenagers. The reason teens are being more anxious and have low self-esteem is
because their excessive use of social media. Ehmke links the obsession of using social
media is causing teens to miss developing their social skills. She also talks about the risks
of teens potentially experiencing bullying or being stalk because of social media. I used
this source to support my point of social media putting a strain on the communication skills
of teens. They are moving towards the indirect communication social media provides,
Green, Tom, et al. "Social Anxiety, Attributes of Online Communication and Self-Disclosure
across Private and Public Facebook Communication." Computers in Human Behavior, vol.
This main idea of this article is how social anxiety is related to the use of Facebook.
However, they specifically prefer for their usage to be private rather than public. The
private online communication is more appealing to people with social anxiety. I used this
source to expand on my point on how people are able to behave different during an online
conversation.
Meshi, Dar, et al. "The Emerging Neuroscience of Social Media." Trends in Cognitive Sciences,
This reviews purpose is to inform and outline what makes social media a desire in people
on a neurological level. The primary reasons for the use of social media was concluded to
being able to connect with other users and managing an impression on others. It is a way
for people to satisfy their social needs without having to engage in face-to-face
communication. I used this source to demonstrate how this addiction is psychological and
Noor Al-Deen, Hana S. and John Allen Hendricks. Social Media. [Electronic Resource]: Usage
In this source, the author discusses the benefits of the usage of social media and taking
acknowledges how the use of social media can be useful to those who are introverted and
shy. Overall, college students are more likely to be positively impacted based on their
ability to effectively adapt to social trends. This can be applied to the real world by
improving their communication and writing skills when they experience the positive
Raju, Nevil Johnson, et al. "Online Social Networking: Usage in Adolescents." Journal of
Education and Practice, vol. 6, no. 22, 01 Jan. 2015, pp. 80-84.
In this article, the relationship between social networking and college students is analyzed
for the importance of technology in their life. Raju demonstrates that they have a high
dependency on social networking sites since they are the most users. He conducted a
questionnaire to track the student's usage of social media. This source would be very
communication is important and the skill is becoming lost. Adolescents socialize best
www.journalism.org/2017/09/07/news-use-across-social-media-platforms-2017/.
This is an analysis of the increase in social media use. The platforms that experienced
significant increases of users are Twitter, YouTube, and Snapchat. However, Facebook is
the leading site as a news source followed by twitter. I used the graphs form this article to
demonstrate how we can transform how we use social networking. It can be a news outlet
and spread what is happening in the world to the many users using the platform. Most news
stories that are posted are retweeted and reposted, which brings more attention to news