The Negative Effects of Social Media - Speech Essay Sample

Outlining Worksheet for Communication Issues Speech

I want to tell my audience about the negative effects of social media has affected teenagers. Also, I will be mentioning how social media has affected communication and interaction between people in the current generation. These two topics will be my point of discussion and I will clearly bring out the negative effects of social media in both aspects. With that in mind, you will all understand that despite the fact that social media helps us to pass information quickly, it also has some negativity in our lives, especially for the teenagers.

Introduction

Attention Getter: Have you ever wondered why someone gets too addicted to social media once they start engaging their selves in them? This is a very crucial question one has to ask themselves so that they can understand what I will be discussing. Social media might have brought so much positivity in our day to day life, but also it has so many negatives, especially to teenagers and how they are interacting and communicating.

Credibility Statement:  I have done deep research about the effects of Social media, both the positive and the negative. I got so much fascinated by how social media is negatively affecting the teenagers and how they communicate and interact.

2.    I hope you will all enjoy listening to me as I give you the detailed research I came across about the negative effects of the social media.

Preview Statement:

1.    First, I will discuss how social media affects the teenagers negatively

2.    Secondly, I will discuss how social media affect communication and interaction negatively.

Body

Main point 1: Negative effects of social media on teenagers.

Treyvaud, Robyn. "The Negative Effects Of Social Media On Teens." Family Insights (2017).

1.    Brain development. Social media affect the teenagers’ brain development by slowing their activities. Too much use of social media impacts teenagers’ brains how they react to situations, process events and also how they remember events. They tend to multitask in activities which takes away their concentration from each activity.

2.    Self-image and self-esteem. Most of the models who are beautiful with soft skin, long hair, and white teeth always display their pictures on social media. Due to this, they affect those teenagers who see their body as if it’s not in good shape, they think they are not like those beautiful models. That affects them such that, they lower their self-esteem and see their image as if it is not worth it.

3.    Sleep. Most of the teenagers are always on their phones or computers till late at night just to get updates from social media since they do not want to be left behind. Due to this, they sleep fewer hours, which affects their body functioning. They get difficult learning and concentration, always feeling anxious and stressed due to lack of enough sleep.

Main point 2: Effects of social media in communication and interaction

Corcoran, Dr. Mary. “THE IMPACT OF NEW SOCIAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES.” SO303H Electronic Culture and Social Change (2012).

Main point 2.    Decreases the amount of face-to-face interaction. Social media have negatively affected communication and interaction. Most people are always on their gadgets to get updates and socialize online. This decreases the one on one interaction between people, thus, making it hard for them to communicate well and interact intensively.

2.    Decreases amount of personal relationships. These days, most relationships have been based on online platforms. You find members of the family are in the same house, but they are sending each other messages and comments through social media instead of talking to each other one on one. This has led to family break-up since they cannot solve their issues face-to-face.

3.    Social media addiction. Too much focus on social media leads to addiction. Most people who are always on social media is because they don’t want to be left behind with what is happening out there. Due to that, they find themselves, they cannot stay even a minute without checking what stranding on social media. This has negatively affected communication and interaction because these people are so poor at personal communication since they are not interacting with others.

Conclusion

As you have seen how deep I did my research, it is clear, now to all of you that social media does not only bring positive impact to our lives but also negative impacts.

1.    Social media damages our brain developing

2.    It reduces our self-image and self-esteem

3.    Lack of sleep due to always wanting to get updates from social media

4.    It makes us get addicted

5.    It decreases our personal relationships

6.    Lowers the time of face-to-face interactions.

Strong ending: My fellow brothers and sisters, it is my hope that the speech was benefitable to you. Thank you all 

Work cited

Corcoran, Dr. Mary. "THE IMPACT OF NEW SOCIAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES." SO303H Electronic Culture and Social Change (2012).

Treyvaud, Robyn. "The Negative Effects Of Social Media On Teens." Family Insights (2017).