Social media
Produced by Maaike Buis and Dairah Castricum 3Va.
Preface project 5:
Hello everybody and welcome to the 5th project of year three.
This project we (Maaike and Dairah) are gonna write and talk about the influence of social media in your daily life. Below you can see everything we are gonna deal with.
• A chosen subject. For this project we had to choose a subject about social media. We had the choices: online footprint, online safety, cyber bullying, self image/identity, screen time, mental wellness, social media addiction. Our focus is on social media addiction but we also can handle other subjects in between.
• Ted talks. It is possible that you recognize the ted talks from other project that are on our websites but this project we both watched 2 videos about social media.
• Articles. We aren’t gonna do our research without the ted talks and articles so we read each 2 articles (4 total).
• Statements. For this part we made a type of questionnaire with statements and those statements we posted on social media itself. The results we’re going to share during the project.
• Research. After we got some information from the videos, articles and statements we are going to write everything down in this part of the project.
• Documentary. To practice our speaking skills we made a script at first and then we’re prepared to speak in a documentary. This is about everything we have done this project do far.
• E-mails. This is the last part of the 5th project and you can see this part as a sort of summary of the project. In the e-mails we write to classmates we tell them of what we learned and what we did this project in 150 words.
So this project is about to get very interesting. We think we are more clever after this project and we hope you too. Have fun reading!
Research:
Social media is a collective term for platforms that takes care of online interaction. For example Instagram, Snapchat but also Facebook etc. Every platform is different.
So is YouTube a video channel and Facebook the place to post pictures, likes and comments.
This sounds maybe as a world full of super high technical channels but in reality has every platform advantages and disadvantages. Social media is not only used for entertainment, social interaction or information acquisition, but are often also used to develop a personal identity or to exert influence or power on others. That personal identity can be build by followers or other people you see in the media.
Most social media channels work with a feed. This is based on an algorithm. When a channel is used more and more, the algorithm is basically trained. At some point, the channel notices what the user likes based on likes, comments, and shares. Therefore, the algorithm is different for every user.
The algorithm is very important for our subject, social media addiction.
Because in facts is the algorithm the cause of the addiction.
Imagine that you are bored one day, you are checking your socials and you see something that you like or something that inspires you. What should you do then? Indeed you are looking further and you keep looking at that thing that the media is giving to you and what you like.
If you see something you like very often you build an addiction and let this how you build a social media addiction.
Just as the algorithm has the social media addiction also consequences.
If you look into the media very often it can be that you’re gonna feel insecure because you see people with more followers, likes of comments it’s not crazy that you have a moment we’re you become jealous or insecure in the media. So it also can have a big impact in your life.
And something that the whole situation is making vworse is that you barely can do something about it. Actually you are something like a victim. So please do not compare yourself with others!
Video’s and articles
Addiction to social media not yet too little: making a diagnosis is difficult. (article)
Young people who score high on social media use loss and impulsivity. An association has also been made between obsessive use of social media and ADHD characteristics. There are many people who are busy with social media, there can be a loss of control. It’s not about how much time young people spend on social media, but how they use it. If you control it can be ten costs of activities, for example hobbies and school. Young people also like to be much more often and prefer to play games. Many children have an addiction job. Gaming often comes at the expense of hobbies. Many young people go through their addiction but addiction clinics. A gaming addiction is better than a social media addiction. Many young people are often on their mobile phones, which is different from playing games all night and not going outside anymore.
how to choose your news? (Video)
In the past, the choice of news was very limited. There were a few general magazines, a newspaper, and three or four TV channels. To get reliable news, reliable newsreaders had to watch the daily news at the same time. Also, a number of scandals have been reported to democratic governments to mislead viewers, often by the media. The breach of trust in media gatekeepers caused other newspapers and radio. The report was made from different perspectives. To avoid fake news, it’s best to hear original news without the interference of other media. This can change the weather. Try forming your own opinion by following reporters on social media. By consulting multiple sources you can get a better picture. You also need to make a good distinction between facts and opinions.
Your social media “likes” expose more than you think. (video)
Social media has changed a lot in recent years. First, you could view online pages posted by organizations. But with the growth of social media and social networks in the early 2000s, things have changed a lot. Most of the Internet’s content is provided by users. YouTube videos are being made, and it’s becoming one more interactive place. Facebook and Instagram are not the only places for this, but also: Twitter, TikTok and Snapchat. Facebook is the largest of all, with 1.2 billion users per month. By putting a lot of personal data online, the result is that they know the behavior, preferences and demographics of hundreds of millions of people. If you provide personal information, companies can sell your information to other companies, but you can also get a lot of advertising of products you like if you share them. For example, if you liked a post of football on Instagram, Instagram will know this and they will show you more football posts. This happens to everyone. But you often don’t get it.
Is social media doing us more harm than good? (Article)
Social media has beautiful sides and can also have a negative influence on us. It helps us communicate. Distance is no longer a problem as we are connected to each other online through Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook. You can discuss, make friends and find a partner. Research from America shows that 35% of couples who married each other between 2005 and 2013 have found each other through social media. Online dating can create dangers, you can send sexually explicit photos to each other and this can create risks. For example, that other people also see your photos. The companies behind social media such as Instagram use your personal data, such as place of residence, interests, income and so on. Instagram can then sell this to other companies. On social media you can usually see content that confirms your continent. The biggest goal of Instagram, among other things, is to continue to interest as many visitors as possible. To earn money.
Social media addiction:
We all use our smartphones to be connected with the world around you. But after the internet developed itself we are using our smartphones more and more. The social media platforms have made a wide range people use them a lot.
And today the day there come more and more accounts that come in the media.
In between the development they find a way to make us looking at there platform. Unfortunately we all deal with a high screen time and we found it important to make ourselves aware of the impact from social media and that is why we choose to focus on the social media addiction.
Later this project we will zoom in on this subject.
Ted talks:
The first talk we watched is one about choosing your news and the influence of social media to the news. Here is the link: https://www.ted.com/talks/damon_brown_how_to_choose_your_news
What we learned from this video is that social media can be good as bad if it’s on spreading the news. Social media takes care of that u can spread the news faster (which is good) as spreading fake information (not good). So if you want to get the truth you must be careful with your sources and what you spread on the internet.
The following video tells us more about that social media likes us too. Here is the link: https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_golbeck_your_social_media_likes_expose_more_than_you_think
This video makes clear that social media is interactive because we use social media a lot and we take i very serious. And the information that is shared from the big platforms helps people to change there online interaction. And that the big clever platforms make that you not only use them but also that you share information of them without knowing.
Articles:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180104-is-social-media-bad-for-you-the-evidence-and-the-unknowns
This is the link to the first article.
This article is about to tell us more about the consequences of social media and the question in this article is: is social media bad for you?
The answer that I see in this article is a 100% no. They only write about the bad consequences of social media. They name for example that social media brings you stress, anxiety, maybe depression and it has a big influence on your daily mood. Sleep and addiction is the topic that we researched so that information you can find here below.
This was a very interesting article and we learned a lot from it.
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-07-20/social-media-is-a-public-health-crisis
The second article tells us more about social media as a public health crisis.
We already new that social media can bring struggles in you life, this article says that the media platforms have a other level in the society. There must be a way to live a heathy life with social media. We know if something is wrong but how will you change that?
We need to think clear and use our healthy minds. Then everything will be fine.
5 statements
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ZXsBNEiHkvxhO_4oASY9-fX0_b1s99DRQTWvbCdpjrc/edit
Emails:
Dear Megan,
Dairah and I maked a project about social media. We chose to focus mainly on Instagram. We also
had to choose 2 topics, we chose self image/identity and social media addiction.
Dairah en I also made 5 statements about social media:
- Instagram influences your daily life.
- News on social media can be fake and requires constant monitoring.
- Social media can be addictive.
- Popularity brings acceptance.
- You feel obligated to use social media.
For the rest, we also did research about social media and we made a documentary. Because we
couldn’t meet during the holidays to film the documentary, we had to come up with a solution. That
is why we filmed both a part separately at home and later glued it together.
Kind regards,
Dairah and Maaike
–
Dear Emma,
Dairah and I maked a project about social media. We chose to focus mainly on Instagram. We also
had to choose 2 topics, we chose self image/identity and social media addiction.
In this email I am gonna tell you more about the video’s and articles we have watched for this
project. We have each watched 2 video’s and read 2 articles.
the articles were about social media addiction, if social media has a bad or good influence on us,
consequences of social media and social media as a public health crisis. The things we learned from
the articles are: social media has beautiful sides and can also have a negative influence on us. Also
that many people have a addiction on social media. Social media can also bring you stress, anxiety or
depression.
The Ted talks we have watched were about how you chose your news, how many instagram knows about you and the influence of social media.
Kind regards,
Dairah and Maaike
–
Dear Rosalie,
For English class I made a project together with Maaike.
This project contains different parts.
At first we had to choose a topic. We could choose between online footprint, online safety, cyber bullying, self image/identity, screen time, mental wellness and social media addiction. Our focus is on social media addiction and I’m gonna tell you something about that topic.
Social media is just a collective name for big platforms like instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
Every platform work with a feed and based on their feed they create an algorithm. This is taking care of the content you have on you screen. The platforms only gives the content you like so that you keep watching, that’s how you build the addiction for social media.
The addiction is a big problem for the young people because they get distracted by their phones.
The consequence is that the socials have impact on your daily life.
This was a summary of the research about social media addiction.
If you like to see the whole project you can find them on our websites.
Kind regards,
Maaike and Dairah
Dear Vince,
Together with my friend Maaike I made a project about social media.
For the English lessons we learn a lot of skills in combination with those projects.
In this project we did a lot and we were very busy with the skill speaking.
In this email I’m gonna tell you about our documentary.
For this project we had to watch ted talks, read articles, made statements and we had to film a documentary with all that information.
In the documentary we spoke about our topic social media addiction and how everything works in the media.
Maaike and I both spoke 3 minutes, so 6 minutes total.
So that they make, based on a feed an algorithm that certain what you’re looking at. If you’re addicted to the media you are basically lost in the world with algorithms and feeds.
So this is in short what we talked about in the documentary and if you’re interested in the rest of the project you can look further to our website.
Kind regards,
Maaike and Dairah
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Dear Lana,
For school I made a project with Maaike about social media.
This project (consisting of different parts) we had to handle different things around our topic social media addiction.
In this email I’m gonna tell you everything we did this project.
So the biggest part of this project was the research. For the research we needed a lot information about social media platforms.
To find information we also watched 4 ted talks (2 both) and the most important thing we remembered was that you must me careful with what you post and what you believe.
From the 4 articles we read we learned the reasons why social media is bad for you’re mental health. One of those reasons was that social media brings you to an other world what brings that you look different in real life. So If you’re in two different worlds you get tangled.
We also made a documentary and we did a research. If you’re interested in that parts can you take a look at our website.
There you also can find the links to the video’s and articles.
Thanks for reading and have a nice day!
Kind regards,
Maaike and Dairah
Below you can see what kind of tips and tops we received.
Tips:
- Use different more difficult words
- Try to focus on one part so that that’s completely clear
- Mind the grammer
Tops: - Good explanation of the project and what we did
- Despite the big mails, it is easy to follow
- We did a good research about our topic
Script
Hello everybody my name is Maaike and I’m gonna talk 3 minutes about social media.
- Instagram influences your daily life.
- News on social media can be fake and requires constant monitoring.
- Social media can be addictive.
- Popularity brings acceptance.
- You feel obligated to use social media.
Social media has become increasingly popular in recent years. As a result, many young people have developed an addiction through the use of social media. A few examples of social media are: Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Because young people are often on social media, they can suffer from loss of concentration at school, among other things. Social media can also ruin the self-image of young people. Addiction also affects hobbies and activities. The advantages of social media are that it does help us communicate and make new friends. But dangers can also arise online, for example bullying or the distribution of nude photos. Social media used to be very limited. You only had a newspaper, magazine, TV channels through a radio. It has now become much bigger. This was some general information about social media. Dairah and I chose this project to focus on Instagram. Instagram has 500 million users, of which 300 million are active daily. On average, about 4.2 billion Posts are liked on Instagram per day. Dairah and I also made 5 statements about social media. I put it on my instagram story and about 60 people have responded to it. The statements were:
- Instagram influences your daily life.
- News on social media can be fake and requires constant monitoring.
- Social media can be addictive.
- Popularity brings acceptance.
- You feel obligated to use social media. At the first statement: Instagram influences your daily life. 43% agreed and 57% disagreed. I think this is different for everyone. At the second statement: News on social media can be fake and requires constant monitoring. 96% agreed and 4% disagreed. A lot of news is spread on social media and this is changed a bit each time, so that it is no longer correct. Or fake news is spread around, for example, about celebrities. At the third statement: social media can be addictive. 87% agreed and 13% disagreed. This also differs for everyone, but I do think that most people get easily distracted by the use of social media. At the fourth statement: Popularity brings acceptance. 77% agreed and 23% disagreed. Popular celebrities can give you confidence, but they can also make you insecure. At the fifth Statement: You feel obligated to use social media. 63% agree and 37% disagree. I think many people feel obliged to use social media to communicate with each other.
Hello everybody and welcome to our 5th project
This project we did a lot so we can’t wait to tell you everything about this subject.
Fist of all we need to choose a subject. We could choose from online footprint, online safety, cyber bullying, self image/identity, screen time, mental wellness, social media addiction. Our focus is on social media addiction but we also can handle other subjects in between.
Ted talks. It is possible that you recognize the ted talks from other project that are on our websites but this project we both watched 2 videos about social media.
One was about how you choose your news.
Social media takes care of that u can spread the news faster (which is good) as spreading fake information (not good). So if you want to get the truth you must be careful with your sources and what you spread on the internet.
I also watched a video about the likes on socials that are forming you.
This video makes clear that social media is interactive because we use social media a lot and we take i very serious. And the information that is shared from the big platforms helps people to change there online interaction. And that the big clever platforms make that you not only use them but also that you share information of them without knowing.
The links to our videos can you find on our website
Articles. We aren’t gonna do our research without the ted talks and articles so we read each 2 articles (4 total).
The articles were about why the media is bad for you and the influence on your mental health. This information we used for our research.
The links to the articles are on our website so there you can find the whole project as well.
We also made a questionnaire with statements. The links with the results can you find on our website. Below you see our statements:
• Instagram influences your daily life
• News on social media can be fake and requires constant monitoring.
• Social media can be addictive
• Popularity brings acceptance- so that you less insecure about your rang in the media.
• You feel obligated to use social media.
In the research we learned a lot from our topic social media addiction
Social media is a collective term for platforms that takes care of online interaction. For example Instagram, Snapchat but also Facebook etc. Every platform is different.
So is YouTube a video channel and Facebook the place to post pictures, likes and comments.
This sounds maybe as a world full of super high technical channels but in reality has every platform advantages and disadvantages. Social media is not only used for entertainment, social interaction or information acquisition, but are often also used to develop a personal identity or to exert influence or power on others. That personal identity can be build by followers or other people you see in the media.
Most social media channels work with a feed. This is based on an algorithm. When a channel is used more and more, the algorithm is basically trained. At some point, the channel notices what the user likes based on likes, comments, and shares. Therefore, the algorithm is different for every user.
The algorithm is very important for our subject, social media addiction.
Because in facts is the algorithm the cause of the addiction.
Imagine that you are bored one day, you are checking your socials and you see something that you like or something that inspires you. What should you do then? Indeed you are looking further and you keep looking at that thing that the media is giving to you and what you like.
If you see something you like very often you build an addiction and let this how you build a social media addiction.
Just as the algorithm has the social media addiction also consequences.
And then you have a high screen time and if you see populair people that made you insecure
But those are things for other topics.
So this was our project about social media. We both learned a lot from it and we hope you too.
Thanks for your attention and have a very nice day.
See you next project!
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