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Barbara GonzalezVeronika OleynikFreddie TerzoDigital LiteracyDOCUMENTARY SCRIPTNarrator: You’ve seen them. You use them. And in this new digital age, using social media is a given.Over the last ten years, the adoption and use of social media sites and applications have rapidly grown all over the world. In the United States alone, roughly 70% of the population uses at least once social media networking service. Moreover, teenage kids and young adults, often called “Millennials”, consume, create, and obsess over content on social media the most out of all other age brackets. While the benefits of social media seem to outweigh the negatives, all users should be aware of the potential habits and addictions that constant social media creates.The definition of social media is very broad, so let’s take a look at it:According to Merriam Webster, Social Media is a form of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as pictures or videos).There are three main social media platforms that Millennials use. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Facebook is the most widely used platform among social media users touting a massive 1.7 billion active user baseAround 82% of users in the U.S. are 18-29 years old, and 88% of its Millennial based users get their news from the site. Twitter prides itself on connecting users to up-to-date information and events from some of the world’s biggest people and groups, as well as a place to interact with those you spend every day with. Even though it began on desktop computers, along with pretty much every other social media site, Twitter is mostly used on mobile phones. Some statistics regarding Twitter and Millennials include:80% of Millennials access Twitter through their mobile phones60% of Millennials Tweet at least once a dayAnd out of all adults online that use Twitter, 36% are 18-27 years oldInstagram is the youngest social media platform of the three, and has quickly jumped to one of the internet’s most used since 2010, boasting an impressive 600 million person global community. 95 million pictures are uploaded to Instagram every day, and 49% of young adults in the United States use Instagram at least once daily. It seems like the internet has got the “social” aspect of social media down pretty well…SoAfter hearing all of these statistics, you might think that the adoption of social media into everyday life has been a seamless endeavor… well, that not entirely the case. Since its inception, social media has also been the focal point of many issues surrounding the cultivation of self-esteem issues and decreased social interaction. It also takes a toll on academic performance. When Millennials look at Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, they subject themselves to mostly all of the good things that their friends and those that they’re following post. An article posted on mentions a 28-year-old woman named L’Oreal Payton recalls crying in the shower after learning her friend got engaged before she did through her Facebook feed. In 2015, Sarayu Chityala hosted a TEDx Talk about her personal struggle with Social Media Addiction:[TEDx VIDEO]This phenomenon is actually quite common among Millennials and young adults.According to a study in Computers in Human Behavior, the uneasy and sometimes all-consuming feeling that you’re missing out and that your peers are doing, in the know about, or in possession of more or something better than you is called FOMO, or, the Fear Of Missing Out.Simon Sinek, an author and the subject of a viral video on Millennials in the workplace, outlined how social media and constant connectedness could affect these young people in a biological sense:[SINEK VIDEO]Constantly checking social media sites even affects face-to-face interactions! Have you ever been out in public, maybe grabbing a coffee, shopping, or spending time with friends and seen this? This? This? Or even this?Rather than having a personal and intimate conversation, social media addicts would rather see what other people are up to, rather than what’s right in front of them!Have you ever been studying for an important exam and heard…Or… According to the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, high school kids and young adults that are heavy social media users receive lower grades, lack quality researching habits, and allow proper grammar and spelling to take a back seat.We went out and interviewed some Millennials and asked them about their Social Media habits. [INSERT INTERVIEWS]There is no doubt that the use of Social Media is shaping the way our communities operate. Most of the teens, young adults, and maybe even some Millennials today don’t even remember a time where there wasn’t an internet. This brings forth new forms of adaption. It’s important to know that although there are sometimes more important things to do instead of logging on. ................
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