Editorial: Social Media is a Nightmare – El Paisano

Illustration by Alessandra Soria. 12 year old feeling exhausted after being on her phone the entire day. Social Media has been around for only 24 years. Those with phones and computers brought to light Six Degree, a social media platform common in the late 1900s.  Platforms like Snapchat, Instagram, and Twitter have taken over the media industry since the early 2000s. While they have done much good to the world, they have brought just as much terror.  Social media apps on different mobile devices have set an age limit to who can purchase the app; for Snapchat and Instagram, it is 12 years and older. Twitter has it set at 17 years and older. In reality, these are just filler numbers; children, adolescents, and teenagers find social media extremely easy to access even from a young age. According to CNN, “the average age for a person to open their first social media account is at the age of 12, and 23% by the ages of 8-12”. These are children who are vulnerable and have no prudence while being online. The internet, social media, websites, and anything that has to do with media has a presence of developing teenagers and a…
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