SOCIAL MEDIA ( It can be your heads' worst enemy.)

In Rimu for the past five weeks our class and the school wrote speeches.

I wrote about social media and why we should spend less time on it. I chose this topic because I thought It was messege that people should hear.

I hope you enjoy.

Hi guys, oooh Logan Paul is eating two marshmallows at once I should do it two and post it on Instagram. Well I'm not one of those guys. Here I am today to say why we should stop spending so much time on time on social media.

It’s ok that we can post something once a day or share something with your friends but we don’t have to do it that much . Here is the average time people go on social media sites per day.

1 Youtube for 40 minutes per day.

2 Facebook for 35 minutes per day.

3 Snap chat for 25 minutes per day.

Wow,  if I was using social media, my maximum would be 10 or 15 minutes.

Now this is for the kids in my age group let's say 12- 17 year olds.

13/17 year olds go on social media for longer than two hours most days. Seriously why is it so important to you? Think to yourself, is it really that important in your life? Well it's not important at all! There are lots of other things to do and which are way more important.

Scientists have found out teens are influenced by likes on their posts and the brain uses its rewards system to make them feel happy. That is also why they get hooked on it and become addicted. Is that great ?, No.

This is another reason you shouldn’t go on social media sites that much.

4500 kids do suicide every year because of cyber bullying and also it is crime if you do it. Cyber bullying mostly happens through social media. People often put up photos or comments which others see as the opportunity to be mean and put people down in order to feel powerful. While these people can be traced and stopped, the damage to a person's self esteem and self worth sticks with them and makes them feel pretty insecure.

I’ll tell you this. I used to be addicted to Youtube. I was so addicted that, I would go on it for two hours usually every day. For example I would get a little angry if I was told to do something when I was in the middle of watching something on youtube. This caused problems in the family and communication break downs. If you are like that stop watching youtube untill you will be fine with watching it for a little bit.

This  is better than going on social media all the time, for an example read a book, go outside and be fit, spend time with your family. The first part of making the change is to admit when there is a problem.

I hope you agree with my message, if you are like this, go cold turkey and stop doing it.