Persuasive Essay On Social Media Snapchat

“Social media is about sociology and psychology more than technology” says technology analyst and award-winning author Brian Solis. This quote is the basis of Snapchat and the exact reason to why it is the perfect app for teenagers.

In this paper I am going to be discussing the use of snapchat in my life and its policies. Snapchat as an app is very widely used and was created in 2011. With its ability to have messages in picture form that disappeared quickly, it was and still is very appealing; especially to adolescents such as myself. The thing I find so many people fail to look past with this app is its privacy policies and how much information they are giving to snapchat. One of my major focuses will be on the surveillance tactics used by Snapchat.

In the modern world of today, social media has become apart of the average person's life. Scrolling through countless images of people with perfect lives. It creates jealousy and depression. This needs to stop. While some believe that social media is a fun way to express yourself, it actually portrays a false image of life because these profiles only show the good in life and often look perfect every day.

Social media has become one of the most dominate things in the lives of today’s youth. Millennials use social media for many reasons, to stay connected and as a source of entertainment. Among all the social media sites, one that is particularly popular is Snap chat. Most college and high school students check this app before twitter, Instagram, Facebook. Instagram noticed this trend early and tried to buy out snapchat, but their attempt failed and now snapchat has not only influenced its opens to copy its stories idea but also almost copy the format exactly. In my paper I will discuss two different articles that both focus on the topic of snap chat usage. I will also contrast these two articles and reveal how they have similar findings but different approaches.

First of all, social media can unintentionally be used in a mentally harmful way. We live in a society today where people get offended too easily. Just by simply not liking someone’s picture could make them upset. Even comments that are “just a joke” are taken seriously and cause distress. We come to the point where we're in a constant comparison between someone else and their adventures, how many followers they have, and their happy family. Social media has become a place not only where we judge others, but also

Social media can also lead to an unrealistic idea of life. Many people like to show off on social media, for example, showing off money or a new expensive car. When it comes to unrealistic ideas of living it could make people feel envious and jealous. Some people can become obsessed with taking selfies or overly “perfect” pictures, whether it be editing out imperfections or spending an hour trying to get the perfect picture. People can get anxiety from the fear of missing out. When people post about going put every weekend or about how perfect” their lives are, it can make people feel depressed. It can also show unrealistic body standards and lead to eating disorders. A website called National Eating Disorders (2016) has said, “Numerous correlational and experimental studies have linked exposure to the thin ideal in mass media to body dissatisfaction, internalization of the thin ideal, and disordered eating among women”. For example, the social media website

Whether they realize it or not, social media effects everyone that is involved with it. It is an outlet that almost every person uses on a day to day basis. They put their life on a screen for everyone to look at and silently judge. It may seem as if everyone has their life together, but that is just the side they want you to see. When people put their lives on the internet, in most cases, they need a sort of affirmation from the people who view it. They crave a comment, a like or even a share. When their post doesn't attract that attention, it's seems like a let down. Everyone wants approval from their friends and family, even if they resort to posting it online to make their life seem "perfect". It's common for people to see other posts and compare their lives to them. Social Media can be a place that targets people and tears them down. It can be a place that puts an unrealistic view of what others are going through and, in turn, makes you question your own happiness.

With thousands of selfies taken every day, it isn’t a surprise that brands are catching on popular way to capture the moment. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) wanted to generate awareness among 18-25 year olds about endangered species so they created a marketing campaign entitled #LastSelfie. WWF used the popular app, Snapchat, encouraging users to share, adopt an animal or donate money for the endangered species. The campaign was successful in targeting millennials as they are some of Snapchat's most consistent users. The campaign grabs the user’s attention because of the colorful and bright images and the creative hashtag. Although the campaign did pretty well in terms of a successful campaign; Snapchat is still considered emerging and its

Have you ever tried to download a new game on your phone but got a message saying "not enough storage available"? Now you're going through your photos deleting every other picture and that’s still not enough. Check your apps. Do you have any apps that are unnecessary or worse, just alike? Deleting apps that are common to each other will give you that space you need to download the game you want.

In our project, we decided to shift our audience from mostly middle-aged men in our discussion board to families with young children on Facebook. This shift in who we chose as our audience really affected our project the most, because it changed our perspective to overall gun control to gun safety, and more importantly gun safety around children. Narrowing our viewpoint like this really helped our argument, because it allowed us to be more concise in what we said, and the way in which we presented our argument. For example, we know that a lot of our parents use Facebook, and so we decided to use Facebook as our platform, because it reaches a lot of parents, which was our target audience. In doing this, I think that we were successful in our arguments and how we presented them.

In the beginning, there was Myspace; then there was Facebook; then there was Twitter; then there was Instagram; then there was Snapchat, and there will be many more. Social media has become so prevalent in society that we consider it strange when people do not have any social media accounts, and we choose to use said accounts to judge a person and their life. The average man or woman uses social media for entertainment, and some may use it to keep up with current events. But, primarily, social media is used for personal pleasure. Advertising companies use social media in an entirely different manner. Advertising companies, and their research teams, use social media to survey the users and their preferences, so they can “pop-up” appropriately. Do you feel like this invades your privacy? Good; because it does. Companies are able to scan through our search history and likes so quickly and efficiently because of that privacy agreement that nobody bothers to read. But, what if we could take this privacy invasion and reform it into something that could save thousands of Americans each year. If we allowed a service to monitor your search history in real time for depression and suicidal warning signs, would you let them? I would be willing to say that the family members of the 44,000 people who committed suicide last year would have wanted that if it would have saved their family members.

Posting on various social media outlets such as Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram are outlets that the recent generations are prone to using. Being able to post online about yourself and showing the world who you are is the new thing to do. This also comes along with pretending who you are online getting caught in an unrealistic fantasy world. Be able to get away from your real life and going to your online fantasy life is what everyone seems to be doing. Many of these people will hide the ugly truths about what is actually going on in their lives, trying to prove to the world that their lives and who they are are perfect. Doing so, no one really sees the dangerous side to how social media and technology has been affecting our everyday lives. Between editing a picture of yourself to make you look skinnier or to fix your acne to try and fish for compliments from others they don’t even know seems to be okay. Behind the scenes, social media has been an ongoing issue for teens for decades because of one major issue called cyberbullying.

Privacy is dead. We post our personal lives online without actually knowing the consequences. Viewing other people’s lifestyles online and how they can make it look very adventurous, makes one seem like they haven 't accomplished anything in life. This type of feeling makes it very tempting to put our personal lives online because everyone simply does it. The social sites that are used more often, due to a study that was done by Statista, are Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter. Surprisingly, Instagram is a bit further down the list. This place called social media is an information grabber. “Social media is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration,”(Whats), according to Whats.com. Once our information is on these sites, it becomes public information. Anyone that has access to the world wide web can easily become a reporter to your lifestyle. Having your information online can be a risk or a good thing, many people out there can use ones information to harm someone or to look after them. For example, athletes and other people are monitored in order to to see if they are maintaining the right image. In addition, there has also been many cases where people have commented crimes based on information found online. Some crimes have also found its way to social media, making it a great source for law enforcement to fine evidence. Privacy can also be lost online through any website that contains

For those interested in getting some kind of social media, say ‘goodbye’ to having peace in your life. Everything you put on social media cannot be deleted permanently. Have you ever stopped and wondered who all looks at your social media posts? In today's society, social media has given people the ability to share and stay caught up on recent events. People have even met their relatives that they didn’t even know they had. However, over time people have abused social media. Therefore, it’s very easy to mislead, misinform and misrepresent yourself or others. People should be more aware of what they put on social media.Virtually anyone who has social media can be tracked down. Currently, eighty-one percent of U.S. Americans have a social media.

The original definition of social media is, “Websites and other online means of communication that are used by large groups of people to share information and to develop social and professional contacts” (Social media). Social media is supposed to be used to make it easier to access information and to stay in touch with loved ones. However, the rapidly growing trend is sharing one’s suicide, murder, or location. Posting on social media can cause harm to one’s self or others, even going as far as death. When one is posting on social media, he or she does not think of the dangers it might cause. This is a major problem in society today, therefore, social media should be taken down.