Albert einstein once said, “I fear the day that technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” Social media is used in so many ways for good, with things like communicating with people all around the world, easily sharing pictures with people anywhere. Social media has also brought many negatives with things like cyber bullying,posting nasty pictures without consent There are many benefits to the growing technology, there are also many downsides, one great downside is social media. Social media can be used for so much good but also so much pain. Social media plays a large role in the lives of people today, however it has come to society’s attention that it may not be good for people, not only mentally but behaviorally, for the reasons of it can influence bad decisions and or behavior,it has had an increase in bullying as well as becoming addictive to people of our society.
Steubenville Rape Case
In the small town of Steubenville,Ohio Big Red football is the main event. One August 11, YEAR, Ma’lik Richmond and Trent Mays are preparing for a night of partying after a Big Red Scrimmage, so is the unnamed girl. The anonymous girl is …show more content…
Michael Martin, the host, says, “‘ And all of this made us wonder how social media may or may not factor into the way teens behave. And we wonder whether it’s encouraging bad and sometime violent behavior that might not otherwise occur.”’ (4) This idea is now coming to more and more people attention. Dani Tucker, is a mother she is an office administrator and fitness instructor, she believes that social media does not influence bad behavior, people are always doing bad behavior social media just provides an outlet for them to post everything. She believes that teens have been doing this for a long time and commenting for a long time but now they feel that is okay for them to comment on everything for everyone to