The Effects of

Social Media
 Social Media
• The Cambridge dictionary provides the following
definition of this term, “social media means the
possibility to share information and to communicate
with people via internet” (Cambridge dictionary).

Negative Effects of Social Media

• Distorted image of beauty
• Cyber-bullying
• Arguments and conflicts within social networks and
beyond them
 Conflicts
• There are two types of conflicts that normally
occur under the influence of social media:

-Arguments within social networks with

strangers

-Conflicts within families, couples and other

people that surround us.
Distorted image of beauty and cyber-bullying

1) According to Russell (2017), “Cyberbullying is easily

seen and more accessible on social media sites just
because of the social freedoms that the sites allow
us to have.”

2) The distorted image of beauty damage teenagers

and young people in the most horrific way.
 References
• Cambridge online dictionary
• Russel, B. (2017). Cyber bullying and Social
Media. Retrieved from
https://www.hastac.org/blogs/bahatiakili/201
7/12/02/cyber-bullying-and-social-media