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

Social media affects me as a generation z individual in both negative and positive way. Considering that I spend almost the whole day on the internet and almost forgot to do my usual stuff to do at home but I do recommend staying active on one's health than spending all your hours behind a screen which would be unhealthy. Plus this generation is full of people who compete in social media for likes and attention. It influences me by depending on the internet, highly engaged to social media to the point that it makes me lazy, the different side of me begins to appear as the result of playing too much online games and it affects my relationship with my family and friends by not giving them enough time. Additionally, social media changes our attitude and the way we think, it is because of what we read and see online.

But on the brighter side, it helps me to understand more about how technology works and makes my life more convenient somehow particularly when I need to seek an information because there are some words that I'm lacking at and whether if it's accurate or not, and other many things that I've experienced by the use of it. Also, its good or positive side is that we Gen Z individuals, sees social media as a way to connect both to our friends and to a more diverse group of people. Eighty-nine percent of Gen Z teens surveyed said that social media helped them interact with people from different backgrounds and experience; it helped them gain access to different points of view and helps them show their support for causes and issues that are important to them, which is mostly true to our part. Let us all control ourselves in using these platforms to avoid addiction and health problems, caused by too much usage.

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

   In today’s generation the generation Z, we are largely reliant on social media. As part of the current generation, social media is as a way to connect and create valuable relationships with both friends and more diverse group of people and helped us gain access to different point of views. Using social media is also a way of comfort. It also can be very influential on society in both positive and negative ways. It has the power of opening up the entire world in front of you, thereby making it a considerably smaller place than what it used to be. Along with these advantage that social media provides us, it also increases risk for depression, anxiety, loneliness, self-harm, and even suicidal thoughts. In the world of social media, physical distance is not important anymore. The more you prioritize social media interaction over in-person relationships, the more you’re at risk for developing or exacerbating mood disorders such as anxiety and depression.

    We are more on using the social media which has a good major impact on how this helps us in our everyday lives. We have learned to multitask. This helps us to communicate and share our opinions easily regarding to any situations that had happened today. This affects us since as a gen z individual, we tend to relieve our stress and make ourselves happy in social media. Gen z like us are more comfortable in technologies which makes our life easier. Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and more are giving people a chance to connect with each other across distances. All this makes you wonder that something so powerful and with such a massive reach cannot be all good. social manipulate us in our daily living. It changes, how we think and who we are They modify someone’s behavior such as they take this action, scrolling keep the fingers pull down and then refresh then it’s going to be a new thing at the top then it consumes much time. They change our behaviors that should be not the right thing to do, like we often respond our mom in a bad way. We should resist the attention extraction model that makes social media seem friendly and reinforcing. It's important for people to understand that their privacy is not out of their control, and they can limit what they share by being specific about what kind of apps they interact with.

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

When we think about social network platforms we can see that more and more people dive into these types of media , we cannot deny the fact that social media has become a huge part of our lives in which it allows us to communicate with others and share interests. Social media platforms also helps us to promote the works of those who like to write , draw and other interest in life but as much as the possibility that the social media can provide, there are also some bad sides to it some people who cannot resist from using it. There are also a lot of scammers or trolls in social media because you don't know the person behind the screen. Some people may lack or have difficulties in socializing in real life and social media has helped them to build their social lives. Social networking platforms serves as a rendezvous in working and promoting one’s self. However, these types of media bring negative effects in some aspects of life for Gen Z users.

While social media has great advantages, it also carries many disadvantages, particularly for the youth. As a Gen Z individual, social media is negatively affecting my behavior, mental health, and physical health. In terms of behavior, I sometimes have a difficult time interacting with others face to face which might lead to unsociable behavior. With social media it has become impossible to avoid bad news and the negative influences on our lives. It turns out, I sometimes feel unhappy with the current circumstances leading to mental health problems with self-esteem, depression and many more. In terms of physical health, I already experienced some side effects of excessive use of social media. One of the them is the eye strain especially that we are attending virtual classes. Lastly, the lack of sleep and stress which can cause a negative impact on our health. There are a lot of pros and cons of social media but do not forget to live the real life and don't spend all your free time scrolling through your feed before it consumes the whole out of you.

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

The 21st century is compose of the generation Z or Gen Z for short. These generation primarily strive on using new and upgraded technology and devices as part of their daily lives. It is often highlighted that we cannot separate technology from this generation. As decades have past since the first invention of these technology, humankind’s main objective is to innovate and upgrade them more to the point where they will make our daily lives much more easier. Which basically summarizes what’s happening around the globe. Together with our technology, social media was born and continued to grow. According to a website Forbes, “Social media has risen as an option for people to build influence and opportunity.” which greatly describes our social world today, especially for the millennials or the Gen Z. Most of the teenagers and above often have their own devices and social media accounts, there are so many that the companies who made these social media platforms are said to be one of the most riches companies all over the business world. Yet as all things are, there are certain effects that social media bring to us, both the good and the bad.

As part of the Gen Z, I and my fellow generation have noticed some of these said effects. There are tons of good or advantages that the social media have brought to us. This is certain as there is a good reason why social media was created, a dream and certain goals the creators hoped they would achieve, which some came true. One of it, as noticed by many if not all, is that social media helps us to connect with people. Not just those who are near us, but definitely those who are far from us. It also let us make more connections with other people whom we have not yet met thus widening our capacity to make friends and relationships. Social media also allows as to know the current trends, events, happenings, and important news that are occurring not just in our country, but all over the world without even getting of our  seats. It has helped our world to be more connected with each other and be able to learn from it. But as all have their own disadvantages, the antagonistic effects of social media is also rampant in our society today. As social media feed us information, it is common among Gen Z individuals to just accept accept what they have seen and learned in the internet, to not even fact-check them and referring to other sources if these are true at all. That is why many share this information, thus creating a spread of false information, which might lead to misunderstandings and confusion among us. As we are indulged in using social media, it even influences the way we act, feel, and view things that sometimes deviate from the truth, clouding our judgement. One result of it is Cyber-bullying, where as you let people know things about, there will always be individuals who will criticize you thus often making us anxious and trigger our fears regarding what these people think of us. As we go further our lives here on Earth, we will always be interconnected with social media and even furtherly deepen the connection between both of us, which will have greater impact for both humanity and social media. Who knows, we might even have to name another generation much more compelled by social media than the current reigning one, the Gen Z.

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

There is a good effect of Social media to the generation z or what we call it millennials. Some of the millennials like us are using social media to express our feelings and share our ideas and gets encouragements from others and that’s the way we gain our self-confidence and those introverts individuals would also express their ideas without worrying so much. We millennials also found friends on social media where we can communicate with and share our own thoughts. Generation Z interacted with social media and technology and how it influences their online and social relationships. The purpose of social media is to connect with friends and family and also other people to make friends with them to share information and to communicate each other. But  as most of us inhabit a fluid digital and physical world in which the demarcation between them is less clear and teens are not the only ones negotiating their balance.

Generation Z is more interacted with technologies especially in social media where we can communicate, posting pictures, posting our what we feel now, etc. Social Media affected me as Generation Z individual where we easily communicate with our friends, looking for latest updates and learning through technology.  As a generation Z Individual social media affects me in good in various aspects on my daily life. Social media is very beneficial in communicating and interacting with friends. Also there bad effects of social media, it distracts myself from sleeping early cause social media entertains me without having a track about the time. Social media also show unrealistic views of other people's lives and peer pressure.

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

As a student the impact of social media in me is that it helps me in my academic needs as a student to gather information that I need and using social media also a distraction on our studies and not everything we see or read is not good for us because some students nowadays are more on social media and they are busy sharing information that is not factual and credible. Social media helps us to communicate with other people and it is easy for us to access everything we need in our daily lives. We should always remember that we need to know our limitations when we use social media and we need to be careful on everything we post or share in social media. in this time of pandemic, We students have many realizations that social media is slowly consuming our time and it  is not normal anymore because i often neglected things that my parents task me to do. social media has its power to control, influence my mind and the way i think. As one of gen Z, the social media has affects my daily life. every morning when i woke up the first thing i hold is my phone then i check my social media immediately scrolling through my facebook, instagram and checking my pubg mobile . sometimes i skip the task that my parents has gave me to do. all of these things are not healthy  for our mental health it leads us to suicidal which is not good for us. Let us keep in mind that we must maintain balance and give time ourselves instead of social media.

As a Gen Z individual, The impact of social media  has it's positive and negative effect as a student and also as a netizen. Being a student who is in need to use online platforms to help me in my studies is already a big help in gathering information, yet distractions come along the way by simply scrolling through the screen will lead you to open other apps and forget what was your original goal in using the internet. Another thing is that Social Media became an everyday routine from communication, learning , and entertainment. With only one click away social media kept things easy and accessible. It also affected me in a way that netizens will attack , judge, talk and spread false information. It dawned to me that people like that will be there, and one must be careful. Social Media has affected me in so many ways and as a person born in Generation Z, I can say that social media  has good and bad effects on every Gen Z’s individual. Social media is very addicting, it implies that I spends so much time and effort on social media which can lead me to anxiety, depression, and even exposured. But  I only know one thing about social media, this social media has never felt me to be alone rather it helps me to unlock and discover this wonderful world. And also it helps me to improve my self-confidence, influence my thoughts and through social media I can hereby express my opinions and connected with many people. Connecting people is a good way in social media but let us not abuse ourselves and expose to it

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

Social media has a huge impact on me as a Gen Z individual. It greatly affects my life because media has the power to influence my thoughts. This influence is sometimes positive and sometimes negative. Through social media I can express my opinions, I am able to create new friendships, and connect with my old friends or relatives. Social Media can also lead me to people who had the same interests as mine. However, social media is very addicting, the more time we spent on social media can lead to depression, cyber bullying, anxiety, and exposure to content that is not age appropriate.Today’s teens and children are part of the first generation to grow up overwhelmed by technology, and more specifically, social media. There are social media sites used to connect on a personal level (Facebook, Twitter), share photos (Instagram), and even network, find jobs and compare careers. We’ll explore some of the consequences both good and bad of this level of exposure to social media’s constant connectedness and how to address some of these consequences with the young people in your life. How social media affected me as a Gen Z Individual? The pros and cons of social media are clear. On the positive side, social media gives everyone in society access to information and collaboration that has never been possible before. On the negative side, sometimes constant access and collaboration can be abused. Especially if it’s used to falsely accuse or destroy someone’s reputation.

Social Media greatly affected me on how I spend my time on a daily basis. A big part of my time is used up in using social media, productivity has decreased. It influenced on how I deal with my task as an individual. The only good thing for me was I can connect and converse with my family and friends wherever they are and catch up on things.Social media affected me as an Gen Z individual by gathering information through to any social media platforms. It has a big advantage as a young individual like me because I can use this to communicate and socialize to other people even though we're not hung out together. Although, we can't control if there's a bad effect to us. We can watch or get information that were not applicable to our innocence , just like scandals. Also we can gather so much fake news, so were we can used this to share to everybody without knowing if it is legit or not and it cause trouble and misunderstanding to each of us.

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

Social Media is the most used invention in this current era. It is usually utilized by expressing oneself to others through stories, posts, or comments; communicating with other people despite the distance and time, and gathering information, may it be educational related questions and answers or a simple gossip. Also, social media has taken over the majority of the people and became a part of our daily lives because we rely on it even for the simplest matter. It created an impact on people to the extent that it can influence how a person thinks or acts. As time passes by, technology including social media has been continuously developing to fulfill and satisfy our wants and needs. It aims to bring comfort and entertainment to everyone, but some downsides affect us all. This is where the most FAQs and debatable question enters, “How did social media affect us, the Generation Z individuals?” 

In my case, which can also be relatable for others, social media helped me in so many ways such as expressing myself to others and honing my thinking skills to bond and create a connection with other people. However, I also went through a phase wherein I was intoxicated by it due to the social media “standards” or shall we say ''unrealistic beauty standards'' set up by the people. I overshared in social media, my emotions depended on it, and I became numb enough not to think rationally and critically which is a big disadvantage for me. In social media, a person must be wise enough to decipher real intentions behind the screens. These are the negative effects that I got from social media. To make everything shorter, social media affects the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health of a person. There is no such thing as a haven in this world. There will always be flaws, imperfections, and bad experiences, but these effects that we got from social media could be an advantage if we are going to use it for good. As for me, I turned these negative effects into a realization that will surely be helpful for me in my future endeavors. As you can see, if we reflect on our actions and knowledge regarding social media, we'll come to apprehend that we have the power to help ourselves in times like this. Social media is a product of a human being’s mind and we, Generation Z individuals, are humans who are capable of thinking. If we learn to discipline ourselves to prevent these negative effects to leave a mark on us, then social media would be a better place, not just for Generation Z individuals, but also for people from other Generations.

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

In recent years the growing success of social media has led to being the source of information on major events. It has improved from the very original purpose of it. The emergence of social media way back in the early 2000s was mainly to connect and for communications during this period that Gen Z was born. They may not be the first one to use social media, but it grew with the availability of social media, so the bond of social media to Gen Z was strong and will get stronger in the future. Social media has helped Gen Z in a lot of ways. One thing why teens generally had a more positive view of social media is that they see it as a way to connect with their family and friends and a more diverse group of people. Social Media has been part of every millennial's life, especially when in terms of education. It has a great contribution to us as living individuals nowadays. As time passes by the existence of Social Media has made considerable changes in society. However, it has a major effect on people in the modern era. Somehow social media consumes a lot of time when we are using it, and in result instead of doing tasks, homework, assignments we forget that we have a lot of work to do.

The rise of Social Media is a beneficiary event to us mankind, our current and future generations will be more inclined to technology so as to social media, because of how it caught our attention and interests. These certain inventions entertained us as to the extent that we got addicted to it.  Social Media made our lives easier, the communication and sharing of information is more faster and accessible than the traditional ways, and that's why social media became popular because of the advantages of its functions. Social Media became more prominent with our lives as this helps us communicate easier,  specially during this pandemic, we are prohibited to communicate personally with our friends and loved ones, social media has its uses to make those tasks possible. Through social media, we are able to communicate and interact with people we know and people we love. But despite its uses, there are certain bad effects to the usage of social media. 

The rise of social media means that there are various people joining the community. People that are insensitive, negative and manipulative. With the various people out there, it is uncertain whether they are a good person or not. Chances of being manipulated by their information is high. It is more preferable to have enough knowledge about the contents and the users of social media to execute our chance of being a victim by those. Using social media has cognitive effects on us mankind, the anxiety caused by the information we get or the stress feeling from a specific post or message of a person can cause us harm. There are many cases of mental health issues caused by consuming social media, certain traumas being experienced by several users are happening. Using too much social media is not a good idea, too much exposure of information and communication could lead us to addiction and information overload which is a very risky psychological issue for us.

In using social media it got to the point where it manipulated the users where every decision they make is predicted by an algorithm. Social media has also caused chaos towards individuals where they are divided for the reason of different opinions and beliefs brainwashed by false information creating conflict and making a gap to citizens when  it comes to politics. Some even took it too far by believing that the corona virus is not real and the government is just making it as a diversion to take our attention away from the real problem. It caused depression and anxiety to teens due to cyberbullying and also creating impossible standards towards beauty where they think that they need to meet the expectations of others to be cool. It caused mental problems and even physical problems due to high exposure of radiation for the reason that they have been staring at their phones for a long time. The good effect of social media to me as a Gen z individual is I am able to access the latest news and information that I want. I can make friends and talk to them easily. It enables me to connect and communicate to different sides of the world. It helps Me to communicate with loved ones wherever they are. I can gather news and information faster than before. Hence all things are good but with moderation.

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

Due to the rapid development of technology, we can see individuals that are using social media everywhere, may it be in the streets or inside a vehicle. As a generation Z individual, social media have a great impact of our lives. Facebook is one of the most popular social media platform where we can interact, play, watch videos, and share information to other people. We treat social media as part of our lives since it made us possible to communicate with our friends and other people and to share and acquire various information. Social media help us to improve our communication skills by interacting with other users across the globe and help us be updated about the happenings in our lives. It can also help us to think critically about getting various information for our research papers and can motivate us that we can accomplish great things in our lives. In this situation that we are in and as a student, social media enables us to form study groups and to share notes with our classmates virtually.

           Although social media can benefit us, we can’t deny that it can also bring negative effects to us. It can cause misunderstandings due to false information that is being spread throughout social media. It’s not just the Corona Virus that is rapidly spreading in this time, but also false information that sometimes, we unconsciously shared it to our friends. Spending too much on social media can cause unhealthy sleeping patterns and blurry eyesight. Social media causes us to make unrealistic beauty standards that makes us use applications that can hide our flaws. Spending time on using social media can affect our relationship with our family because instead that we will talk with them in person, our attention is on our phone browsing through our newsfeed. However, we cannot really blame social media for this, we should blame ourselves too for not having self-control in using social media and not having enough discipline for ourselves.

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

As a Gen Z, my life evolves in social media. Through social media, I can access information, entertainment, and interact with other people. The first thing I do when I wake up is to grab my phone and scroll through social media sites, and it has affected me in a lot of ways. Having social media is a great help to communicate with other individuals. As a part of Generation Z, social media is our main medium to share or express our opinion about a certain issue, it may be about celebrities, politics, government, and a lot more, and because of this, it’s easier for us to have knowledge and wisdom of what is happening, not just in our country but the whole world. Social media is also our source of entertainment, and that is a big help for us. It’s our way of comforting ourselves, to lessen the pressure and the problems that we encounter. 

However, we all know that all things have pros and cons. Social media is addictive. Sometimes, I can rather lie on my bed and scroll through social media sites than doing household chores and interact with other people in person. Social media can also be time-consuming. It is one of the reasons why students procrastinate, specifically Gen Z procrastinate. Also, one of the biggest problems of Social media is cyberbullying; a lot of these cases cause mental health problems, such as anxiety, depression and may lead to suicide. Too much usage of social media may also have a negative effect not just mentally but also physically, such as being overweight, develop seizure and vision problems. Not being able to access social media is sometimes frustrating; it can cause our behavior to change, in particular being hot-headed and irritable. To avoid these negative effects, let us know our limitations, priorities, and let us use social media moderately.

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"The Good and Bad"; "How Social Media Affected me as a Gen Z Individual"

How social media affect me as a individual person ?, well the good one, first of all social helps me or even you or us, all the people in this planet technology or social media helps us to connect to each other. also social media help us to get information and we can know also on what is happening in our society through social media sites like facebook, instagram, twitter, tumblr, etc.., and by the help of these we can also post or blog our dialy life and thats they social media's good side. well move on the bad or disadvantage of social media, in social media we can manipulate, bully, or even humiliating people in social media we can do what ever we want by just posting or create something that might someone will be hurt thats why our goverment make a law about the cybercrime that people do online. and also there are law that stops the bullying in online and its called anti bullying law or cyberbullying law thats why before we hurt someone intentionaly we need to think of what will happen to us if we do such things. "Think before you click". Most negative effect of social media in generation z is the depression, anxiety, loneliness self-harm and can also cause suicidal thoughts because we are lack of attention of our family and friend because we're spending too much in social media and some is they're the recipient of cyberbullying and they are harrased by others which damages thier self-esteem and reputation and Most good effect in media is that we can make a Friends in online through virtual we can create a friendship just like nowadays because of kpop all the fans are gathering through online because of thier Idol so we must know the limitations in using media in this new generation.

In this generations, a lot of teenagers are addicted to technology especially on social media. where they post some info, or share ideas or thoughts, sharing a picture or a meme anything that can be post. and a bad on it is that we are using too much social media, we even abuse it, we make some fun on other's blackmailing other's and we all know what social media can do to us that it can make cause a trouble a problem. but the good side in it is that social media is also a big help to us, especially when it's needed to school problem or studies, or communicate with your family abroad thru video call or skype. But one thing for sure we should be responsible by using the social media, we must be sensitive and don't abuse too much social media. explore yourself anywhere not just in social media, make time to your family, friends also in yourself. There is a good and bad effect of the media for me because as i see even 1-2 years old baby know how to use a gadget and thier parents tolerating them and thats a bad effect for thier child and some of the other family they don't have a time to bounding or gather because of the internet or gadgets and for me the goods effect is the techonology or internet it helps for our education and easily get information through social media. We all know that social media has a big impact into our life our daily life, like we can't live without social media, the good in this is that we can communicate with our families who are in abroad, we can catch up them talk to them virtually, its benefit also because its help the students or all of us to search or gain some information, meeting new people. and the bad on it is that we overused social media, we forgot that we have life's, we getting addict to use it. so it's better that we need to lessen to use social media surrounds yourself with nature, or read a book. amd don't abuse using social media.

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

In this modern world, a huge sum of people has access through social media especially in today's generation such as the gen z. Social media has a huge influence on us people in terms of communication in our daily lives, it makes it easy to communicate through social media, even if we are far away from other people the social media makes it easy to interact with people. The purpose of social media is to communicate, share information and gather information wherein it makes it easy for us people especially students to perform a designated task or research. This era revolves around the social platforms such as facebook, twitter, instagram and many others wherein people spend most of their time. It is not all about how much time we spend in the social media it is about how you would use the social media platforms effectively and efficiently in this era.

Social media has become part of our daily lives. It is where we share thoughts, build a relationship to other people, and many others that are in line to the things that they want to do also the social media gave gen z almost unlimited source of information because of this they are aware of the events that happening around the globe, but this is also a dangerous thing since information can be altered from source to another. A wise decision you help people to their journey of social media because the effects are not that merely small but it has a huge impact on people in terms of their life status and image that they portray. Indeed social media is powerful and this gives the gen z more power in terms of knowledge. We cannot remove the fact that social media is now a part of our daily lives. We can even have the idea that some of us cannot live without social media. Well, this is not a really bad thing if we all know what are the proper ways and etiquette that we should perform to become a media literate person. The most important thing is that we should put in mind to evaluate critically all the information we acquire from social media.

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

In today's generation billions of people are accessing the internet multiple times a day. Social media has been proven to have a major influence on a person's way of life but the main functions of social media alongside communication is making the private become public. Through Social media we are able to connect with anyone despite the location, we can easily look for information regarding on what is happening in our society. As an individual we can't deny the fact that this social media reduce our communicating skills as we are not able to communicate well and effectively in person with the others. The more time we spend on these social media, the less time we spend socializing in person with the other. This also affect our learning and research capabilities as we only take the information exactly from the social media without learning the topic by heart. Social media is also one of the reason why some of us students choose to lay in bed and focused on scrolling in social media sites instead of doing schoolworks and household chores.

Social media has become a part of our lives. It has been continuously improve as years passed by. As a individual who is born in the present of technology, it's convenient for us to use social media and it makes our lives more easier. But despite of the positive side of technology and social media, there are also negative impact of it which affects us as Generation Z individual. Social media helps us to connect with people in terms of communicating. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, chat groups, LinkedIn, and countless other social networking sites help people build on existing relationships, make new friends, and restore relationships that have lapsed over time. The advancement of technology has made our life easier for gathering information, getting news and etc. But because of this, we are getting addicted into social networking sites which would affect our mind and behavior. The amount of human interaction has been decreased by intense social media use. Interaction with other people has become effortless because of social networks and individuals have isolated their lives behind their online identities. Social media has good and bad side, we must be mindful of utilizing it in order to avoid internet addiction.

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

      In this, we would know and learn how social media affected every individual, especially in this generation. It enables us to understand how media has been part of daily life, how it affects our daily living. It enables us to think, analyze, and realize how it impacts us through these years and the effects of media platforms. With this, we would able to determine and identify the bad and good effects of media platforms in our society, community, environment, and many more to mention. We would able to expand our knowledge and our critical skills in terms of how it has affected us what are the pros and cons, in socializing in certain media platforms we would able to identify where we could determine how helpful and how bad media platforms had, so meaning to say that there’s a possibility that we are affected on this its either positively or negatively.

     In terms of recent years until today the internet and social media have been helpful and a big impact on our generation especially it helps us in our daily living in terms of communication, as entertainment, and gathering information. It made the life of people easier to access to talk and communicate with others. It also helps in school purposes, news, etc. It delivers a good impact on our lives, yet it doesn't mean it has no negative impacts. It affected a lot of people in their health, mentally and emotionally.It harms people such as the rate increases the depression and isolation or lack of communication with others physically. It also had an issue wherein some people died increases death rate because of cyber bullying in social media, affects mental health, addiction, manipulation, etc. Tho as a part of this generation education has expanded our knowledge about social media platforms, it enables us to think critically and being aware of any platforms.

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“The Good and the bad: How social media affected me as a Gen Z individual.”

Social media gives entertainment, and it is my way to self-expression. I have made a lot of friends through it and communicate with them easily, and through social media I can connect to the world full of this happiness that it brings. But I was blind, the things that bring me happiness did also bring bad impacts to me. The Internet at my age was already born, I can't escape it. Everyone uses the internet for communication, also for studies. Like everywhere I go, the internet is a trend, it makes people find their life. But today I notice that because of social media addiction it gives a hard time to both parents and children. We don't know that having this convenient thing could also be convenient in taking life. There are lots of issue about increase FOMO, anxiety, depression, stress and even suicide. These are causes of more often using social media, such terrifying things. I admit I was into social media and I don’t know how to end it, because I can’t avoid seeing things in social media. That is how badly it affects me. But that's not how I see things today. I can’t let it ruin me. Social media is such a cruel world, and we should control and budget our time on screen time. Generation z individuals, we grew up shaped by technology, so generation z is considered or also called natives digital, and the internet is an integral aspect of their daily life. Social media has evolved from a platform to connect people into one where they can engage in something on social media. Gen Z people are most likely to watch video in social media, teenagers gen Z spend most of their time watching video on YouTube. Many Gen Z individuals are addicted to social media, some are spending a lot of time checking their social media.

Social Media made a huge part of our modern generation in this period. As a generation Z individual, it is more on technologies and social media helps us to communicate, share information and express our opinions and thoughts. The good thing about social media is that it helps us to communicate to our family around the world. There is also a bad thing about it: one that is getting addicted to it, social media can also be addictive and it can affect your health especially when you use too much since social media can only be used in certain gadgets just like cellphones, computers and many more. Social Media is very important for us nowadays. It is the only thing that connects us to other people and especially to our family that’s far from us. You can find most of everything on social media platforms. You can buy things, share information, make friends with other people, find news, and especially learn. You can also learn on social media by watching educational videos and by looking for educational information. Generation Z born into an increasingly digital age, this generation has been using the internet from a very young age, and it has become quite adept at it. Since they have been born and raised in the age of the internet. They are quick at learning how to operate the latest tools and gadgets. Getting addicted to social media and cellphone. The advancement in technology has not only made our lives easier, but it has also affected our thinking skills and social behaviors. As one of generation Z what the best thing we can do is to educate ourselves on how to deal social media in this era don't let your mistakes actions ruin your life in the future so be a media and information literate person.