Social Media was used for about a decade and a half. Only 5% of adults in the United States used social media in 2005 but now about 70% of the adults use social media now. The growth in the percentage of people using social media for example, snapchat, instagram, twitter, and facebook increased by a lot and people are worried how adults like teachers and policymakers are getting impacted with social media.  One of the reasons why social media is bad and it affects people is because it affects teens from a recent study from Jean Twenge. 

High school seniors that are graduating in 2016 spent an “hour less a day engaging in in-person social interaction” such as going to parties, movies, and doing different kinds of stuff. The study also found that the students are doing more social media than meeting people in person and face-to-face. But, one of the studies say that the only problem of social media is not only because of face-to-face problems but also one of the problem is that people are using social media to talk about arguments. 

Citation: American Psychological Association. (n.d.). Social Media’s growing impact on our lives. American Psychological Association. https://www.apa.org/members/content/social-media-research

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