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“The Good and the Bad: How Social Media Affected Me as a Gen Z Individual”

The Generation Z is a diverse and an influential generation. We always say that this generation would lead us to innovation, this generation would lead us to change. But the thing I see is that we are actually the one changing, and this change is caused by social media. Social media provides us benefits, rewards and also consequences towards communication, knowledge, health and human interaction. Social media has a huge impact on individuals and this can be positive and negative.

With social media, communication has improved significantly throughout the years. With social media, communication became much easier, you can communicate with people abroad, send fast messages and emails, and now it became a way for online classes. Social media also had become a big help towards businesses and that includes my business, in which I can now advertise online, shop online, and open a business online. Customers can actually get the things they need online, hassle-free and also faster. Basically, social media made any thing much easier.

But no action is without its side effects, even with benefits and these positive feed backs, social media also comes with negative effects on Generation Z. This harm lies in their change of behavior, Generation Z is addicted to this drug called social media. Our generation or generation Z is glued to technology, iPhone and computers are almost everywhere. A lot of people thought that generation Z would actually be a “tech” generation but no one expected that this generation will actually get hooked to these gadgets and social media websites and cause everyday life to change. This addiction may not cause physical harms like alcohol, drugs and smoking but it can potentially cause long-term damage towards behavior and relationships of the generation Z. Statista released a data regarding with social media addiction in teens in which 40 percent of U.S. online users aged 18 to 22 years reported feeling addicted to social media. Millennial or the generation Z where I am also part of, we already embraced social media as part of our lives, it became our source of relaxation and it became a big deal to us. The problem is that we lack self-reflection, we have the ability to reflect on our thinking, feeling and behavior but we failed to do so. We need to realize that this addiction on social media won’t give us liver, lung or heart damage but it can be damaging nonetheless. @blogcoversandpagesworld

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“The Value of Being Media and Information Literate Individual”

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