Social Media | Persuasive Speech: Student Example — Public Speaking — Transcript

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1. 0:00thank you
2. 0:01[Applause]
3. 0:01[Music]
4. 0:04so social media is defined as people can
5. 0:07communicating with others through
6. 0:09electronic communication you may think
7. 0:11this sounds positive right well you are
8. 0:14right social media has impacted our
9. 0:16society in many great ways and is a
10. 0:18platform for connection like no other
11. 0:20these apps allow you to communicate with
12. 0:23friends and family and talk with people
13. 0:24who may be far away it can even be a
14. 0:27creative outlet for people who may want
15. 0:30a career as content creators or
16. 0:32influencers
17. 0:34but despite all these positive aspects
18. 0:36of social media the rise of these
19. 0:38platforms has been detrimental to teens
20. 0:40mental health and overall Wellness
21. 0:42social media produces more negative
22. 0:44impacts on teens because it can be the
23. 0:47source of increased anxiety and lessen
24. 0:49self-esteem impaired social interactions
25. 0:51and worsen school performance
26. 0:55first social media can negatively impact
27. 0:57Us by lowering or increasing our anxiety
28. 1:00and lowering our self-esteems several
29. 1:02developmental psychology studies
30. 1:04conducted by the National Institute for
31. 1:06mental health have found that
32. 1:08adolescents Place increased importance
33. 1:10on interacting with peers and what their
34. 1:12peers think of them as they enter this
35. 1:14new stage of life and so
36. 1:17social media goes hand in hand with this
37. 1:19but in a more negative sense if um it
38. 1:23provides new ways for adolescents to
39. 1:25quantify their social approval such as
40. 1:27through the number of likes that their
41. 1:29posts get or how long they wait for
42. 1:30feedback from friends and followers this
43. 1:33constant feedback can create anxiety
44. 1:35about self-worth and magnify the impact
45. 1:37of pure judgment
46. 1:40um
47. 1:40also
48. 1:42um sorry
49. 1:44about pure judgment
50. 1:47um we become enthralled in this constant
51. 1:49cycle of posting and waiting for the
52. 1:52opinions of others to evaluate our
53. 1:53self-esteem which is not where we should
54. 1:55be placing our worth
55. 1:56and this lower self-confidence can be
56. 1:58eliminated with better or decreased use
57. 2:00of social media
58. 2:02um
59. 2:02now as well as a perspective shift of
60. 2:04where you're placing your worth
61. 2:06also a journal article about how teens
62. 2:08construct their identities in social
63. 2:10media and mention the term fomo which
64. 2:13stands for the fear of missing out and
65. 2:15this term was created because of the
66. 2:17false Lifestyles being portrayed online
67. 2:20when we're on social media we only post
68. 2:22really when we're feeling happy or
69. 2:23having fun and so we may look at our
70. 2:26friends feeds and may feel left out or
71. 2:28as if they're having more fun than we
72. 2:30are when in reality we just don't share
73. 2:32all the hard parts of life that we
74. 2:34experience online this can lead to
75. 2:36isolation and loneliness and even
76. 2:38comparison which all lower our
77. 2:40self-esteems
78. 2:42additionally according to two behavioral
79. 2:44researchers another risk associated with
80. 2:47increased social media use is the
81. 2:50difficulty for teens to communicate and
82. 2:52participate in live conversations
83. 2:55teens have lost their skills for real
84. 2:58face-to-face interactions and is because
85. 3:00we spend so much time on social media
86. 3:02communicating through these carefully
87. 3:04crafted messages that we form behind a
88. 3:07screen
89. 3:08um this lack of social skills not only
90. 3:10impacts teens now but it does not set us
91. 3:13up well for our future endeavors
92. 3:15communication is a vital skill for
93. 3:17professional development and so it is
94. 3:20only gained through practice and so if
95. 3:21we do not practice the skill without the
96. 3:24removal of the social media barrier and
97. 3:26we will not be well prepared for job
98. 3:27interviews or work environments in the
99. 3:29future
100. 3:31we're only adding more challenges to
101. 3:33this new young adult life in the real
102. 3:34world all because of social media
103. 3:36something went to connect us yet it
104. 3:38divides Us in the environment that we
105. 3:40need to be well-versed in the most our
106. 3:42interpersonal reality
107. 3:44further social media negatively impacts
108. 3:47us through worsen's school performance
109. 3:48as it causes distractions and hinders
110. 3:51our time management
111. 3:53um neurobiology researchers found that
112. 3:55teens who use social media may be able
113. 3:57to multitask with it but this constant
114. 3:59influx of information and can lead to
115. 4:02the inability to focus which can
116. 4:04increase stress this can be evident in
117. 4:07um less focus on school work increased
118. 4:09procrastination and distractions in the
119. 4:11classroom which are all detrimental to
120. 4:13school performance
121. 4:15also a study conducted and published in
122. 4:18the Journal of pediatric nursing found
123. 4:20that students could not concentrate on
124. 4:22their homework assignment for more than
125. 4:24two minutes without their attention
126. 4:26being diverted to their devices and with
127. 4:29notifications coming from Mostly social
128. 4:31media apps
129. 4:32this shows that social media distracts
130. 4:35us from our tests at hand it further
131. 4:37emphasizes the cycle we're stuck in of
132. 4:39waiting for that next notification this
133. 4:41consumes our minds and occupies space
134. 4:43that our work should hold instead
135. 4:46by lessening our social media use we can
136. 4:49earn the grades that we want and attain
137. 4:51better study attention spans
138. 4:53which could all contribute to a better
139. 4:55school experience
140. 4:57so therefore social media is here to
141. 4:59stay but you can redirect those impacts
142. 5:01to be more positive if you make changes
143. 5:04um you can evaluate who you follow on
144. 5:06social media and think about how that
145. 5:08truly affects you also I know that all
146. 5:10of you have probably checked your screen
147. 5:11time before and maybe you've seen a
148. 5:14scary number and sat in shock but then
149. 5:16you just exit out of that and continue
150. 5:17to use those apps anyways one way we can
151. 5:20help this is to set limits on your phone
152. 5:23and settings on those social media apps
153. 5:25and so that way you can evaluate if you
154. 5:27need to spend your valuable time
155. 5:28consuming all that media
156. 5:31um so I'm not telling you to get rid of
157. 5:33social media entirely as I know I would
158. 5:35have a hard time doing that myself but I
159. 5:37hope that you reconsider how you are
160. 5:39using these platforms
161. 5:40I encourage you to imagine how much
162. 5:42better your Mental Health social
163. 5:44interactions school performance and
164. 5:47overall future would be with less use of
165. 5:49social media now take that vision and
166. 5:52make it a reality by making tangible
167. 5:54changes today thank you
168. 5:55[Applause]
169. 6:01foreign