What exactly is social media? What is the significance of social media to us?

And what
is the current benefit that this has for us? Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Joanna
Paula A. Pareñas, and I am a grade 11 student at NDKC – IBED. I'm here to tell you
about the benefits and drawbacks of social media and how it affects our mental health.
The specific objective of my speech is to discuss how social media and technology benefit us,
how it affects our social lives, and how technology helps students with their studies nowadays.
The use of technology or gadgets or social media has both positive and negative
consequences.

When we consider the good aspects of social media, we find tons of benefits.
The most significant feature is that it is an excellent educational tool. Education is a
valuable instrument that is beneficial in everyone's life. Education is what distinguishes
us from other living beings on the planet. The beneficial consequence is that the kids
can study through the use of technology, and they can also acquire some news or
information about what is going on in other countries or other areas, such as how many
people died and how many people are affected by the epidemic. The negative impact of
utilizing technology or social media is that we are harming someone who we were
completely unaware of. In other words, we bully or damage someone's sentiments by
utilizing the power of technology or social media.

The youth are the most active users; they utilize social media platforms such as
Facebook and Twitter to rant whether they are happy, excited, sad, and when they are
angry. The particular reason for the circumstance is that internet raving is a means for
people to vent their rage. We all know that technology helps us to make our life easier
but there are some cause-and-effects of it. Including social networking addiction, cyber-
bullying, cyberstalking, peer pressure online, and cyber blackmail.

Bullying is described as an aggressive, purposeful act or behavior committed

frequently and over time by a group or an individual against a victim who cannot readily
protect himself or herself. In recent years, a new kind of aggressiveness or bullying is
known as cyberbullying has evolved, in which hostility happens through contemporary
technical gadgets, notably mobile phones or the internet. Bullies frequently engage in
peer pressure bullying, in which they bully their victims in groups or with friends as a
destructive social club.

How long do you spend time using social media? Some of us spent two or more
hours a day on social media and yes this affects our mental health. Did you experience
being insecure? Because me Yes, I experience being insecure about myself; along the
lines of it is that I am lack of confidence in myself I always compare myself to others, for
example, is that I found myself fat and ugly and I keep downing myself and I saw
someone posted online that she is thin and pretty. I get jealous all the time and I also
saw some photos of my friends online that the photos they post are edited only and they
make themselves thin or tall and my friends on Facebook or Twitter saw it and let us
say that they lied to others using the power of the technology or social media.

So for me, it is nice if you will be true to yourself and also to others because we all know
that lying is already a big sin. And that is my speech about the technology and social
media and thank you for listening to my speech what a wonderful day with you all. Have
a great day everyone.