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There has been hundreds of articles about Social Media and its dangers, but in this article, we didn’t wanted to focus on the dangers that other people may have in you (Identity Steal, Stalk, Dangerous People Disguised, Cyber Bullying) but not so many about the dangers that Social Media can have on yourself, in how it damage your self-value and makes you try to act as something you aren’t. So we decide to write this little article to help you identify 3 of the major dangers and problems that come from Social Media. In Social Media, we see advertisements, celebrities and pages that impose how you should look, feel and live. These kinds of messages affect all kind of people, but especially, the teenagers. Because teenage years are so confused and make you feel so insecure, it is when you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and trying to follow certain style, person or ideas that don’t match with your believes just to feel better with yourself. But you won’t feel any better, in fact you will feel worst, because your identity have been rip off from you and instead, put a fake one, one that doesn’t belong to you. On Social Media, you don’t share your true self; you share a persona, someone who you aren’t, just to trick people into believing that you are cooler than you actually are, to appear your life is perfect and that you live by the standards and stereotypes that society has raise upon people, especially teenagers. Also, the creation of a persona can make you feel frustrated because your life isn’t like the one you are trying to promote and convince everyone that you have; I drawn your energy and will eventually destroy you. When you see people on the Internet living the life that you want (or pretending in all case) with the perfect body, with more followers, with more “friends” with more likes, you can’t help but to feel diminish, to feel like you are nothing compare to them, a person that you don’t even known and that makes you feel bad with yourself and does a tremendous damage to your self-esteem. Social Media is designed so you spend more time on them, and the more time you spend on them, the worse you will feel about you. You can’t allow internet to destroy your confidence, you need to win confidence from other places, from yourself. But the thing you need to do for not feeling bad with yourself and start feeling the negative side is getting away from them. Spend less time on them and more time in your life, in your actual life, not the life you are pretending you have. Don’t let the Internet affect you. You are better than that..