Tell if it's pro, con, or both.

Summary

This text talks about the cons and pros of using social media and telling us if it's making us less social.

Riley alvarez

The writer talks about how people think they are hyper social

It also tells us how it contributes to loneliness. It's causing a phenomenon known as social Isolation. It also talks about how it is not making us less social if people use it to communicate by making online groups to chat and talk about sobjects

CON

This website is saying Is Social Media is making us less social but it also says that it she is guilty about all the electronics like for example, its saying we become "anti social" and it says you can become lonely if we use it to much and it also says if you can lose your ability to detect things

Con

It talks about how millennials are spending a lot of time on their phones

Social media IS making us less social. Social media is creating loneliness and physical consequences. Social media is harming us and we were spending way too much time on it. The average person spends 2 hours and 31 minutes on social media daily.

Elle. Ulsaker

(CON)

This website is saying that Social Media is making us less social. It said that a lot of people don't respond when their on there phone and you are trying to talk to them. Another example is it says that when kids are on social media they can get anxiety easily. It is making bad feelings like loneliness, sickness, confusion and more. Social Media is making us less social.

This article shows to cons of social media.

In this article, it talks about how to control your social media time so it doesn't affect your mental health. They also talk about an experiment they did at Harvard. Which contributes to how social media is bad.

-Con

This article is talking about the cons of being on your phone, This article talks about body language, feeling separated, uninterrupted attention, loneliness, and even sickness.

CON

This website talks about how technology is making us less social. The article states that middle schoolers and high schoolers are answering their texts in the middle of the night, which means they are not getting the proper sleep that they should get. Social media makes us feel lonely, which can make us ignore others and can make us have anxiety. Also, the text says "I did a case study of a young woman who has 2,000 followers on Instagram. She'll ask about a problem at 9:00 at night, and at 2:00 in the morning she's getting responses, and she's awake to get those responses. This is 2:00 in the morning for a lot of kids." This means kids use social media to talk about their feelings, not having face-to-face conversations. This is why social media is making us less social.

This article talks about how social media affects your mental health and how social media can hurt feelings create loneliness and cause health issues. This article just shows that social media is really not good for you.

Elle.Ulsaker

(PRO & CON)

One half of the article talks about how social media is bad, whilst the other talks about how it is good. The first half talks about how people are spending too much time on social media and not spending time with family and friends. It also talks about how social media does not make meaningful relationships and how it gives people social anxiety due to not having face to face conversations. The other half talks about how it is possible for people to stay in touch with old friends and people can contact people in different regions.

Maddox

-Con

In this article it says, from recent Harvard study it shows that 36% of all Americans (including 61% of young adults and 51% of mothers with young children) feel serious loneliness. Also it says the average person spends 2 hours and 31 minutes on social media daily.

Riley

In this text it has a graph to show what people do the most on their phone. The graph showed that many people use their phone for texting and calling/facetiming their loved ones/friend family.

The article talks about the cons of social media.

The article talks about how social media cause loneliness and other affects on people. It also talks about how it causes isolation.

Nate

This Article is about the pros and cons of teens using social media.

Con

This article talks about Disrupted sleep, lower life satisfaction and poor self-esteem are just a few of the negative mental health consequences that researchers have linked to social media.

Riley

"Michelle Obama stated, “We have to get off the phone and knock on doors and talk to each other face to face…. We can’t rely on the internet to tell us about the world.”

This article talks about the cons of social media.

The article talks about how social media makes us lonely and causes depression. It also shows that they did an experiment. People limited screen time and the effect was “Using less social media than you normally would leads to significant decreases in both depression".

CON

This site talks about the cons of social media.

Social media makes us have loneliness, anxiety, and depression because when we see an edited post, it makes us feel like there is something we are missing out on.

CON

This article talks about the cons. It explains that we are distancing ourselves from other people, and not being social. It also says that we are endlessly scrolling, and admiring other people's life. They also state that people get depression and feel isolated because they don't get any social interaction. And when people don't get any interaction, they rely on social media to stay connected which is not good.

CON

This article talks about the cons of social media. It also says how it's making us lonely, depressed, and more