The most interesting and surprising detail i found from this site was that teens from lower-income households use Facebook more than teens from higher-income households. It’s interesting because I didn’t know that was a thing, I just thought anybody used it and that there wasn’t really a comparison to be made. In the article, they also said that Facebook was no longer a ‘dominant’ social media platform. It is not Facebook, nor SnapChat, nor Instagram, nor Twitter. It is YouTube. It makes sense to me though that it’s Youtube because a lot of teens are making and uploading videos now that they know there is money involved. This generation has got to be the most lazy so when they hear that you can make money simply by posting quality videos, obviously they are going to try to achieve that because it is easy.
There is also a majority of teens who say that social media has a positive effect on their lives. 45% neither agree or disagree that it is positive or negative, and 24% say it has a negative impact. This day and age, social media is prone to some sort of cyberbullying. The 31% who said social media has a positive effect are most likely the popular, high-income household teens who may do some cyberbullying or spend all of their time on social media. The 24% of teens who say it is negative to our lives are most likely the teens who don’t explore social media a lot or are cyberbullied themselves. I’ve seen it happen. And I believe the 45% who say it has no effect just go about their lives without social media really effecting any aspect of them.
I really enjoyed this article and I think it was an eye-opener.
Article by Monica Anderson and Jingjing Jiang posted May 31, 2018
Date accessed October 12, 2018
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