Wikipedia User:Tanner7710/sandbox/Negative Impact of Social Media on Americans

New article name goes here new article content ... '''Social Media and the Effects on America Social Media are websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. Social media is bad because it controls how people act and live. Social media is a terrible influence for people and never shows them both sides too every story. “As a species we are very highly attuned to reading social cues,” says Dr. Catherine Steiner-Adair, a clinical psychologist and author of The Big Disconnect. “There’s no question kids are missing out on very critical social skills. In a way, texting and online communicating—it’s not like it creates a nonverbal learning disability, but it puts everybody in a nonverbal disabled context, where body language, facial expression, and even the smallest kinds of vocal reactions are rendered invisible.” This is from https://childmind.org/article/how-using-social-media-affects-teenagers/ to where it's a great page that makes many great points on why social media is destroying our society and brainwashing the kids. "People use social media to vent about everything from customer service to politics, but the downside to this is that our feeds often resemble an endless stream of stress. In 2015, researchers at the Pew Research Center based in Washington DC sought to find out if social media induces more stress than it relieves. In the survey of 1,800 people, women reported being more stressed than men. Twitter was found to be a “significant contributor” because it increased their awareness of other people’s stress. But Twitter also acted as a coping mechanism – and the more women used it, the less stressed they were. The same effect wasn’t found for men, whom the researchers said had a more distant relationship with social media. Overall, the researchers concluded that social media use was linked to “modestly lower levels” of stress",https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180104-is-social-media-bad-for-you-the-evidence-and-the-unknowns. Social media is so bad that it is showing kids who to vote for, what to eat, what to watch and controlling their lives like they are the character on the video games the media is playing with them. When I talk about something with my phone an ad pops up for what I as talking about on Instagram and that just shows that your phone is listening to all your conversations. "About two-thirds of Americans (64%) say social media have a mostly negative effect on the way things are going in the country today, according to a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults conducted July 13-19, 2020. Just one-in-ten Americans say social media sites have a mostly positive effect on the way things are going, and one-quarter say these platforms have a neither positive nor negative effect". https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/10/15/64-of-americans-say-social-media-have-a-mostly-negative-effect-on-the-way-things-are-going-in-the-u-s-today/.