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Why students under the age of 18 should not be allowed to use or be on Social Media
ENRO: You see it every you go, those brightly glowing screens shining up at their faces. Those young people kids, teens, and young adultswho are missing out on the world because of a app that lets you chat to your friends. It lets you chat to people you have never even met, and it is all on your phone. Social media affects your chances of getting into colleges, spreads false information and lowers your grades.
A young boy went on a camping trip with his mom and two younger siblings. They decided to go on a hike through the woods. The young boy takes his phone out to take a picture then he posted it on Snapchat, and he has no idea that anyone can see his photo. Right now about ½ million teens that are doing the exact same thing. Right now at least 10 colleges in the US are declining students that apply to their school, because of what they posted up to 10 years ago. This is all because of a group of apps that are considered as Social Media.
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Intro to topic 1: Every single day there are people scouting media posts, watching students that post unreliable, unresponsible, and illegal pictures, comments, even “private” information like a social security number, address, or credit card numbers. Just because you post it so only your friends can see it, they can still re-post the information without your permission, and this can be watched by college.
College administrators scan Facebook profiles daily for evidence of illegal, immature, or inappropriate behavior by students before they are accepted into the school. If there is even one “bad” post, your chance of being admitted into that school lowers, and the worst part is you don’t even know they are doing it! Another example is in a 2016 Kaplan test preparation survey found out that 35% of all college admissions officers in the US, checked a college applicant’s social media posts, to learn more about the applicant and what kind of things they do outside of school. 42% of these admissions officers discovered information that had a negative impact on prospective students admission chances based solely on what they were posting; In 2014, only 3% of students who surveyed, believed the content of their social media presence could not hurt their prospects of admission to a college.
Of the 3 percentage of people, 87% of them were denied to attend ½ of the colleges they applied to. Using this information I can conclude that when a student posts on social media, anyone can see it, and it can hurt your future courier.
Intro to topic 2: Social media can spread information faster than any other means, but most of that information is false, and the worst thing is, you never know when information is false or true. When you post, or read posts you believe that the post is true before you really know just because everybody re-sended it or liked it.
For example 40% of all Twitter users said that they have encountered some information they later discovers was not true, and 16% of those people re-tweeted the post before they learned that the information was false, therefore spreading false information that is sometimes called ‘Fake News’, but it was too late many people had already seen their re-post and re-tweeted it or re-posted it. Another example took place in a study that took place that had results that stated that “Fake News” or untrue information spreads six times faster than true or reliable information does.
The “Fake News” is also created to sway or change social media users opinion mainly in government judgement and elections. Using six sites that include fact-check.com, hoax-slayer.com, politifact.com, snopes.org, truthorfiction.com, and urbanlegends.about.com reachers agreed on which reports were true about 95 percent of the time, they said, for the report, they examined 126,000 stories tweeted by about 3 million people, and re-tweeted more than 4.5 million times.
They found that false news stories were 70% more likely to be retweeted than true stories were, untrue stories also had more staying power, carrying onto more ‘cascades,’ or unbroken re-tweet chains, that were spreading faster than it could be stopped. Social media is a chalkboard were there are many more untrue comments than true comments were the lies are spread 6 times faster than ture information, and one social media app can change what the entire country believes to be true.
Counter Argument, Rebuttal
Intro to topic 3: Social media lowers your average grade, when teens use it their long term grade plummets, college students grades dropped, and students at The Royal Melbourne Institutes of technology scores dropped 20 points! A study of more than 12,000 15-year-old’s found there was the equivalent of several GCSE tests or reading, math’s, and science results of students who were heavy users of social media and those who were not.
The research by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology found that the maths performance of those who accessed social networks on a daily basis was 20 points lower than students who never went online to chat. Kirschnera told the Daily Mail that his team studied 219 U.S. university students between the ages 19 and 54, and found that social media users had a typical grade point average of 3.06 points, while ‘non-users’ had an average grade point average arround of 3.82 graded on a 0-4 grading system.
College students grades dropped 0.12 point average (4-3.5 advanst,3.4-2.75 average, 2.7 and below fail) for every 93 minutes above the average 106 minutes or 1 hour and 46 minutes spent on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and/or Snatch per day.
Final closinging
- Social media lowers your chances of getting into a good collage.
- Most information spread on social media is false.
- Teens who use social media have lower grades.
- Sum it all up stand and stuff! Woohoo! Oh yeah, oh yeah! Ha! I got a plan! I’m so smart.
Websites
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180219103217.htm
- https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/08/08/teenagers-regularly-using-social-media-do-less-well-at-school-ne/
- http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39038581/ns/technology_and_science-back_to_school/t/facebook-use-can-lower-grades-percent-study-says/#.XE9Dtkt9600
- http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39038581/ns/technology_and_science-back_to_school/t/facebook-use-can-lower-grades-percent-study-says/#.XE9Dtkt9600
- https://socialnetworking.procon.org/
