Social media and culture

Written by Chloé

We know that since social media appeared, our whole culture and our relation with it completely changed. Indeed, we are aware that there’s a complete difference between young people of the 90’s and young people of nowadays.

Why ? Because social media changed everything, teenagers are now more interested by their social media than gain new knowledge.

Even though there’s some positive points , we can say that social media has influenced our culture in negative ways.

In fact, people can share whatever they want, whenever they want and about whoever they want on social media and some of them might be inappropriate pictures or informations.

That’s why today, young people has become much more conservative about each other’s point of view, because they know that if they share something which is a little out of the way followed by all, they will be criticized and even maybe harassed. So we can see that culture is not even accepted, everyone’s point of view is restricted. That's why people started to argue about each other’s perspective related to political view, religion, social rights , beliefs and culture. But the fact is that social media has negative effects on youth. It reduced their physical activities, because they spend most of their time on social media. People prefer to sit all day in front of computers and chat, play, watch videos or anything else which is related to computers. Moreover social media has influenced youth in negative ways, because young people (and especially the youngest of us) might be affected and manipulated by some sites in which there is inappropriate information for their age. The worst part of social media is that there is tons and tons of unnecessary information shared by people from everywhere. Also bullying and cyberbullying thanks to social media has been increased. People can make brutal and negative comments about anything and anyone.

And lastly, we can add that social media has a very negative impact on culture because teenagers prefer to spend time on social media instead of reading or learning new things, or even spending time with their parents

So we can therefore conclude by saying that social media has good, bad and ugly impacts on our culture.