Society has switched over to using social gathering websites
as their primary way of showing themselves to the world. This is a great thing
that not many people have noticed if you ask me. The problem with these
websites is that people do not look more in depth to what people say or bring
up in their conversation. My point kind of runs off of a tragic accident that
happened on October 10th, 2012 where Amanda Todd, a 15-year-old
Canadian girl who committed suicide after suffering torment that led to
depression and anxiety.
With this story hitting the mainstream, everyone had their opinions and, well, all hell kind of broke lose. There were massive anti-bullying movements going on all around the world to show their support for Amanda and others who are being cyber bullied. Others however went the opposite direction and opposed what Amanda did claiming she did it to herself. Whatever the case may be something is definitely for sure.
Signs of depression, anxiety, and mental disorders and
becoming more easily identifiable with the different methods we can approach a scenario.
With social networking, it is even easier to point out signs of depression or
anxiety even more. Though these social networking websites are not 100% “true material”,
it is still a good concept that others should look more into. People are
beginning to use social networking not only as a hobby or something they come
home to check and update their status on. It is becoming a part of life where
people cannot leave their homes without their new smartphones because of all
the new social networking applications they can use on their phone or keep off Facebook
at work or school. It is something where people can definitely blow steam at
and is considered a comfort zone for some. One thing that strikes me as the
main problem is that we hear about all these suicides and acts of cyber
bullying, yet it as not hit the mainstream to take action, more or less, use
this as an advantage for helping those in need. All the data is there, all of
it, people need to start noticing that these social networking media websites
are huge advantages overall.
Social networking has taken over some people’s lives just
like all of social media is corrupting the role models and themes we all loved
and supported. It is looked downed upon to talk about your life on social
networking sites and people believe it should be considered as if you are
talking to the world in real life. But people have found that they can talk
about who they truly are where ever they please on the internet. Though everyone
seems to look down upon this there are massive advantages to this. People can
spot out problems that a person might have based on evidence they could support
themselves with on the status’s people post on their social networking
accounts, it allows others to see how the real world thinks and opens up new
thought processes for young people to become attuned with, and my most
important point of this blog entry, it allows us to identify possible signs of
depression and anxiety accurately.
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