Wedad Mourtada, Portion of Research paper

The power social media holds on teenagers is unbelievable; our whole lives revolve around these meaningless apps. We seem to keep going back to the same things that are hurting us. Why do we spend so much time on social media apps if it hurts us? Competition. We want to be better than these influencers. So, we think being so involved with their lives would teach us how to be the same. Once you start scrolling through an interesting influencers page you really can’t stop. Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University found that “Only three participants (8.4%) indicated they visited social media sites less than daily. Ten participants (27.8%) reported visiting social media sites daily and 19 (52.8%) reported accessing social media multiple times a day” (4). The majority of the participants check their social media apps more than once a day. This is normalized in society, and no one really thinks about how harmful it is for people to keep visiting their social media apps multiple times a day. It’s so available to everyone and extremely easy to use. Not only is it easy, but it’s also entertaining. With just a few clicks, you can find anything you’re thinking about.