What are some social media problems???

One problem is that it puts people into bubbles that they don’t even realize that they’re in. These bubbles are sometimes called echo chambers, and they lead people to incorrect beliefs about the world.

For example, I was recently having a discussion with my oldest daughter. She’s 21 and in college and sometimes we have these deep parent-to-young-adult-child discussions, particularly when I’m driving her somewhere. We were discussing politics, as we sometimes do, and I was probably saying something really cynical, as I often do, and she went off on a tangent about how last summer’s BLM protests were a world-changing event and marked a major positive shift in race relations in the United States and the world and had a positive impact on policing in the United States. She put them on the same pedestal as anti-Vietnam, Civil Rights, or women’s suffrage protests of the 1900s.

She believed that, because that’s the social media bubble she’s in. I imagine that the majority of people in her social media circle… mostly college-aged people… were either supportive of, or directly involved in, those protests, posted about them on social media, and were absolutely convinced that everyone else was, too. In her social media bubble, everyone had a strong opinion on the matter, and those opinions were either supportive, or suspiciously silent. But not having a strong opinion wasn’t really an option.

Meanwhile, in my social media bubble… mostly people over the age of 25… the only mentions of the protests came from our news feeds and a handful of people who posted vaguely supportive things about them, and an even smaller number of people who participated in the protests when there was one close to their neighborhood at a convenient time for them, like on a Saturday afternoon between soccer practice and dinner. But, for the most part, it was a small wave of stories that came and went and didn’t have much of an impact on anything.

What seemed like a societal tidal wave to one social media bubble was a just a ripple to people in other social media bubbles. In my bubble, the main impact of the protests was a bunch of early retirements of police officers, trouble for cities trying to recruit new police officers, and the protests provided cover for people who wanted to do some looting. But that’s not how she saw it at all.

The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. The protests were more important than you’d think from my social media circle, but not as important as you’d think from her social media circle. Not a ripple, not a tidal wave… maybe like the wake of a medium-sized ship passing by.

But it takes effort to step out of your social media bubble and see what’s happening in other people’s bubbles. A lot of people don’t know that they need to do that to be well informed, or don’t have any desire to do it. And that’s one of the major problems with social media: it makes it very, very easy to live in an information bubble.

Cyberbullying and addiction.

Explanation:

Cyberbullying: basically online hate

Addiction: Obsession to a point where it interferes with your day-to-day life

1. drag the central argument paine presents and its two claims to complete the chart. argument claims america may have flourished more had it not been under the power of any european country. america may have flourished under britain in the past, but there is no guarantee that it will continue to flourish in the future. america will continue to flourish as long as the essential food products it sells are bought and eaten in europe. the american colonies will no longer flourish when britain makes war against them. britain's king has shown himself to be prejudiced against the colonies, rather than wanting them to flourish.

2.select the sentence in this passage that can be classified as a false statement.

although few humans per year are attacked by polar bears, any individual attack can be terrifying and even fatal. the warming of arctic regions has allowed the intrusion of humans into the polar bears’ habitat, increasing the danger of harmful contacts. remaining alert and using precautions can humans avoid a negative encounter with a polar bear. traveling together and staying close to the group can humans avoid bear attacks. certain weapons, including nonlethal ones such as pepper spray, are effective against polar bears. once a bear has decided to attack, however, nothing can be done.

3.select the sentence in this passage that demonstrates the fallacy of making an extreme either-or claim.

the civil war was the bloodiest conflict in the history of the united states. more than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives. the fighting took place in many different cities and throughout the countryside. the wounded often suffered acute pain while in the field hospitals. they all should have asked for better care. william hammond, the surgeon general of the union army, created a new system of sanitary field care. if people do not accept hammond as the most important person from the civil war, they have no understanding of the war.

journalism is the gathering, organizing, and distribution of news -- to include feature stories and commentary -- through the wide variety of print and non-print media outlets. it is not a recent phenomenon, by any means; the earliest reference to a journalistic product comes from rome circa 59 b.c., when news was recorded in a circular called the acta diurna. it enjoyed daily publication and was hung strategically throughout the city for all to read, or for those who were able to read.