How Social Media Can Affect Your Brain

Social Media can affect your life in different ways; physically, you might change something about yourself based on someone’s opinion or popular trends. Mentally, you might want to start doing something that is not correct, you can feel sad, unloved, or useless. Maybe you haven’t gone through this but other people have. 

Social media can change how you act every day. This change can be good or bad. A good change: an influencer can actually encourage you to start a new hobby or habit like learning a new language online or learning an instrument. A bad change: some influencer does something that's wrong but trendy and you want to be like them because they have many fans.

Sometimes, small children get access to overaged content and can get traumatized. This could be caused by friends that will start talking about inappropriate things and you might look for them. It can also be caused by a lack of supervision from adults.   

In conclusion, I think this is a very big problem because it affects many people regardless of their age or country, and it’s sad to see how it has been growing throughout time. I think if we create awareness and make an effort to build real connections with people and the world around us we won’t be affected by what social media has to offer.

Samantha Aquino

5th Grader