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Research Outline I. Introduction: In the introduction paragraph, I will give a brief explanation about social media addiction with some background information. Thesis statement: Getting addicted to social media has a bad influence on people especially the young one. II. Body paragraphs: a. In the first body paragraph, I will be explaining the bad effect of social media on children, and how the biggest foundation of social media limit or prevent them children from using it. I will cite the article “The Argument kay Ada by Alter. b. The second body paragraph will be about the over use or the unnecessary use of social media, and how people can be addicted to it. I will cite the article WESLAME enton Golbeck. c. In the third body paragraph, I will be explaining how social media can lead to teen suicide, and how it can be affect our health. I will cite the article “New Study Suggests Link Between Teen Suicide and Social Use” by Newseta Staff d. In the fourth body Paragraph, I will explain how social media can affect on users socially. I will cite the article “We're Not Addicted to Smartphones, We're Addicted to Social Interaction" by Space Daily. Also, I will cite the article Defining Addiction And Hts Many Forms” by Farai Chitova. III. Conclusion: I will restate my thesis sentences. Also, I will give my opinion. 2k m THE ARGUMENT By Adam Alter have shared similar perspectives with me. Several video game designers told me they avoided the notoriously ad- dictive game World of Warcraft; an exercise addiction psychologist called fitness watches dangerous - "the dumbest things in the world" - and swore she'd never buy one; and the founder of an internet addiction clinic told me she avoids gadgets newer than three years old. Her favorite computer game is Myst, released in 1993 when computers were still too clunky to handle video graphics. Greg Hochmuth, one of Instagram's first software engineers, realized he was building an engine for addiction. "There's always another hashtag to click on," Hochmuth said. "Then it takes on its own life, like an organism, and people can become obsessive." Instagram, like so many other social media platforms, is bottomless. Face- book has an endless feed; Netflix auto- IRRESISTIBLE matically moves on to the next episode The business of technology is the business of addiction in a series; Tinder encourages users to keep swiping in search of a better op- tan Apple event in January his home, “because we have seen the tion. Users benefit from these apps and 2010, Steve Jobs unveiled dangers of technology firsthand." His websites but also struggle to use them the iPad: five children were never allowed to use in moderation. According to Tristan "What this device does screens in their bedrooms. Evan Wil- Harris, a "design ethicist," the problem is extraordinary... It is the best brows- liams, a founder of Blogger, Twitter, isn't that people lack willpower; it's ing experience you've ever had ... way and Medium, bought hun- that "there are a thou- better than a laptop, way better than a dreds of books for his two Tech isn't sand people on the other smartphone. It's an incredible expe- young sons but refused to morally good side of the screen whose rience. ... Phenomenal for mail. ... It's a give them an iPad. Walter dream to type on." or bad until it's job it is to break down Isaacson, who ate dinner the self-regulation you For 90 minutes, Jobs explained why with the Jobs family while wielded by the have." the iPad was the best way to look at researching his biography corporations These tech experts photos, listen to music, take classes of Steve Jobs, told Bilton that fashion have good reason to be on iTunes U, browse Facebook, play that "No one ever pulled it for mass concerned. Working at games, and navigate thousands of out an iPad or computer. the far edge of possibil- apps. He believed everyone should The kids did not seem ad- consumption. ity, they discovered two own an iPad. dicted at all to devices." It things. First, that our But he refused to let his kids use the seemed as if the people producing tech understanding of addiction is too nar- device. products were following the cardinal row. We tend to think of addiction as In late 2010, Jobs told New York rule of drug dealing: never get high on something inherent in certain people Times journalist Nick Bilton that his your own supply. - those we label as addicts. The label children had never used the iPad. This is unsettling. Why are the implies that they're different from the We limit how much technology our world's greatest public technocrats kids use in the home." Bilton discov- rest of humanity. They may rise above also its greatest private technophobes? their addictions one day, but for now ered that other tech giants imposed Can you imagine the outcry if religious they belong to their own category. In similar restrictions. Chris Anderson, leaders refused to let their children the former editor of Wired, enforced truth, addiction is produced largely practice religion? Many experts both strict time limits on every device in by environment and circumstance. within and beyond the world of tech These entrepreneurs know this. They 12 Saturdayeveningpost.com July/August 2017 FROM IRRESISTIBLE BY ADAM ALTER, PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN PRESS, AN IMPRINT OF PENGUIN PUBLISHING GROUP, A DIVISION OF PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC. COPYRIGHTO 2017 BY ADAM ALTER: SHUTTERSTOCK EWSELA THE ARGUMENT recognize that the tools they promote once, twice, a hundred times, or not professional careers, earning six - engineered to be irresistible - will at all. When the benefits overwhelm figures, but deeply hobbled by their ensnare users indiscriminately. There the costs, it's hard not to perform the addictions. "One woman has two mas- isn't a bright line between addicts and act over and over again, particularly ter's degrees and she's a teacher. But the rest of us. We're all one product or when it strikes just the right neuro- she's addicted to online shopping, and experience away from developing our logical notes. she's managed to accumulate $80,000 own addictions A like on Facebook and Instagram in debt. She's managed to hide her Bilton's tech experts also discov- strikes one of those notes, as does addiction from almost everyone she ered that the environment and cir- the reward of completing a World of knows." This compartmentalization cumstance of the digital age are far Warcraft mission, or seeing one of was a common theme. “It's very easy more conducive to addiction than your tweets shared by hundreds of to hide behavioral addictions - much anything humans have experienced Twitter users. The people who create more so than for substance abuse. This in our history. In the 1960s, we swam and refine tech, games, and interac- makes them dangerous, because they through waters with only a few hooks: tive experiences are very good at what go unnoticed for years." A second pa- cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs that were they do. They run thousands of tests tient, just as accomplished at work, expensive and generally inaccessible. with millions of users to learn which "went through a horrible breakup, and In the 2010s, those same waters are tweaks work and which ones don't. As then stalked her ex-boyfriend online littered with hooks. There's the Face- an experience evolves, it becomes an for years. With Facebook, it's far more book hook. The Instagram hook. The irresistible, weaponized version of the difficult to make a clean break when porn hook. The email hook. The online experience it once was. In 2004, Face- relationships end." shopping hook. And so on. The list is book was fun; in 2016, it's addictive. "The impact of social media has long - far longer than it's ever been I spoke to several clinical psycholo- been huge," a second psychologist in human history, and we're only just gists who described the magnitude told me. “Social media has complete- learning the power of these hooks. of the problem. "Every single person ly shaped the brains of the younger Tech offers convenience, speed, and I work with has at least one behav- people I work with. I could be five or automation, but it also brings large ioral addiction," one psychologist told ten minutes into a conversation with costs. Human behavior is driven in me. "I have patients who fit into every a young person about the argument part by a succession of reflexive cost- area: gambling, shopping, social me- they have had with their friend or benefit calculations that determine dia, email, and so on." She described girlfriend, when I remember to ask whether an act will be performed several patients, all with high-powered whether this happened by text, phone, on social media, or face-to-face. More often the answer is, 'text or social me- dia.' Yet in their telling of the story, this isn't apparent to me. It sounds like what I would consider a real,' face-to- face conversation. I always stop in my tracks and reflect. This person doesn't differentiate various modes of com- munication the way I do... the result is a landscape filled with disconnection and addiction." Technology is not inherently bad. When my brother and I moved with my parents to Australia in 1988, we left our grandparents in South Africa. We spoke to them once a week on expen- sive landline calls and sent letters that arrived a week later. When I moved to the United States in 2004, I emailed my parents and brother almost every day. We talked on the phone often, and waved to each other via webcam as often as we could. Technology shrank the distance be- "Ease up on the lighter fluid, and let me know when the grill lands." tween us. Continued on page 88 14 Saturday eveningpost.com July/August 2017 PRODUCE Rist THE ARGUMENT Continued from page 14 Tech isn't morally good or bad until school, and the goals that drive people it's wielded by the corporations that to exercise addictively might also drive fashion it for mass consumption. Apps them to save money for retirement. and platforms can be designed to pro- Addictions are damaging because mote rich social connections, or, like they crowd out other essential pur- cigarettes, they can be designed to ad- suits, from work and play to basic hy- dict. In many respects, substance ad- giene and social interaction. The good als dictions and behavioral addictions are news is that our relationships with be- very similar. They activate the same havioral addiction aren't fixed. There's brain regions, and they're fueled by much we can do to restore the balance some of the same basic human needs: that existed before the age of smart- social engagement and social support phones, emails, wearable tech, social mental stimulation, and a sense of networking, and on-demand viewing. effectiveness. The key is to understand why behavior- Behavioral addiction consists of six al addictions are so rampant, how they ingredients: compelling goals that are capitalize on human psychology, and just beyond reach, irresistible and un- how to defeat the addictions that hurt WOT predictable positive feedback, a sense us and harness the ones that help us. of incremental progress and improve- A decade ago, who could have "Forget the nutritious superfoods. We ment, tasks that become slowly more imagined that Facebook would attract can't afford to live that long." difficult over time, unresolved tensions 1.5 billion users, many of whom say that demand resolution, and strong they wished they spent less time on between midnight and five the next social connections. Despite their di- the site? Or that millions of Instagram morning. Games, like books with versity, today's behavioral addictions users would spend hours uploading chapters, can be built with natural embody at least one of those six in- and liking the 60 million new photos stopping points. Social media plat- gredients. Instagram is addictive, for the app hosts every day? Or that more forms can "demetricate," removing the example, because some photos attract than 20 million people would count numerical feedback that makes them many likes, while others fall short. Us- and monitor their every step with a vehicles for damaging social compari- ers chase the next big hit of likes by small wrist-bound device? son and chronic goal-setting. Children posting one photo after another, and These are remarkable statistics, but can be introduced to screens slowly return to the site regularly to support they represent an early waypoint on and with supervision, rather than their friends. Gamers play certain a long climb. Behavioral addiction is all at once. If app designers can coax games for days on end because they're still in its infancy, and there's a good people to spend more time and money driven to complete missions and be- chance we're still at base camp, far on a smartphone game, perhaps policy cause they've formed strong social ties below the peak. Truly immersive ex- experts can also encourage people to that bind them to other gamers. periences, like virtual reality devices, save more for retirement or donate to So what are the solutions? How do have not yet gone mainstream. In 10 more charities. we coexist with addictive experiences years, when all of us own a pair of Our attitude to addictive experienc- that play such a central role in our virtual reality goggles, what's to keep es is largely cultural, and if our culture lives? Millions of recovering alcohol- us tethered to the real world? If hu- makes space for work-free, game-free, ics manage to avoid bars altogether, man relationships suffer in the face of screen-free downtime, we and our but you can't apply for a travel visa or smartphones and tablets, how are they children will find it easier to resist a job without an email address. Hardly going to withstand the tide of immer- the lure of behavioral addiction. In its any modern jobs allow you to avoid us- sive virtual reality experiences? place, we'll communicate with one ing computers. Abstinence isn't an op- We can't abandon technology, nor another directly rather than through tion, but there are other alternatives. should we. Some technological ad- devices, and the glow of these social You can confine addictive experiences vances fuel behavioral addiction, but bonds will leave us richer and happier to one corner of your life while court- they are also miraculous and life en- than the glow of screens ever could. ing good habits that promote healthy riching. And with careful engineering behaviors. Meanwhile, once you un- they don't need to be addictive. It's Adam Alter has written for The derstand how behavioral addictions possible to create a product or experi- New York Times, New Yorker, work, you can mitigate their harm, or ence that is indispensable but not ad- Atlantic, and WIRED, among other even harness them for good. The same dictive. Workplaces, for example, can publications, and is author of The principles that drive children to play shut down at six - and with them, New York Times best-seller Drunk games might drive them to learn at work email accounts can be disabled Tank Pink (Penguin, 2013). 88 saturday eveningpost.com July/August 2017
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Social Media Addiction
Young people have proved too quick learners on matters relating to the use of technology.
Social media usage rises every day. However, the use of social media has proved detrimental to
the society in several ways. Social media comes out as a significant cause of suicide and lack of
values among children and the youth. The current addiction to social media has bad effects
peoples’ lives especially the youth.
Social media has proved dangerous in the way it affects the development of kids. One
cannot fail to notice that children learn hate speech mainly on social media platforms. Children
that belong to minority groups and discriminated communities easily indulge in hate speech during
online interactions. Social media has also created an ideal place for cyberbullying. Many children
admit that at some point they have received threats and other forms of intimidation mainly through
Facebook. Cyberbullying easily accounts for a significant percentage of suicides that occur in kids.
Social media also leads to loss of sleep in children. Currently, children sleep late and wake up in
between the night to check on social media leading to ill health.
Nonetheless, social media comes out as a leading time waster in people across all ages.
Social media gets into peoples’ minds to the extent that many fail to realize the time they spend

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scrolling digital feeds, photos and walls. Several research works show that users spend at least
two hours on social media. If one could spend the two hours on physical fitness exercises, several
good health effects follow. The ever-increasing number of social media users brings out the
addictive nature of social media. Through the fear of missing out, people spend time trying to catch
up leading to a strong addiction. In addition, people have entered into overuse of social media
because they use it as a source of news.
Data observed from the federal center for disease control and prevention show that teenage
suicides have increased between 2010 and 2015.

During the period social media had started

gaining high levels of popularity among the young adults. Several teenage suicides have resulted
from cyberbullying. Teenagers also fall victims to self-rejection after viewing posts that depict
“perfect ” life in social ...


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