Ricardo Ledesma

Professor Ben Forsberg

FDENG 101

November 26, 2018

PART III: SOCIAL MEDIA: Analyzing Its Pros and Cons

By living in a time particularly full of technology, Social Media is a means of

communication that has globalized the world because it has allowed us to communicate with

people from other countries with family members that we did not see long ago, it has also

allowed us to meet new people and also apart, from being a great invention to communicate, it

has also been a medium that has created great problems in the world such as those that have

already been analyzed, but in reality, is the use of Social media bad?

Before expressing my opinion regarding social media, I would like to establish the role

technology plays in our day from a Latter-day Saint viewpoint. Brother Randall L. Ridd

described this role with the following words "The divine purpose of technology is to have the

work of salvation ... The Lord expects you to use these great tools to take His work to the next

level, to share the gospel in ways that are beyond my generation's wildest imagination. Where

they are past, their neighbors and their town, you have the power through the Internet and social

media to reach beyond borders and influence the whole world. "(Randall, 2014). Being Social

Media the tool par excellence to communicate and spread messages and knowledge, it is not

surprising that the leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have urged their

members to use social media sharing with the whole world your beliefs about Jesus Christ
 Today we are facing a paradigm shift regarding the concept of communication, in which

the use and abuse of social media generate positive and / or negative impacts on cognitive,

affective, social and identity development in society. the constant and systematic supervision that

guides, educates, modulates and controls access to all the technological tools that are occupying

much of the time and the "intrapsychic" and "real" space of people in training and development.

It is essential that adults self-educate and that they are constantly acquiring knowledge to

supervise their children in these areas, along with being an example of good use. The guidance

and education that adults can make, both in the generation of computer filters and in the

development of the self-control and self-management capacity on the web, are indispensable

aspects that can determine how these new technologies are used and how they are used. this, the

positive or negative impact they have.

Knowledge of the personality traits of people and adolescents provides a large amount of

information about the likelihood that they will overuse social media and the internet. This can be

a very important element in the planning of an intervention at school and family level. The

controlled and supervised use of social media has shown important benefits in patients with brain

trauma who receive rehabilitation. It also appears associated with the development of feelings of

competence, the generation of educational elements, the strengthening of relationships created

offline, sex education, health promotion and prevention (tobacco, alcohol, drugs, eating habits,

sexual behavior) and to support in academic areas, among others.

The benefits and risks involved in the use of new technologies as communication entities and the

importance of multidisciplinary management (family, school, health professionals) in the

guidance and supervision of adolescents and young people in this area.

 I think that social media is a great invention that bad users have called an evil, but in

reality the bad thing is people who misuse them and do not measure the consequences of their

actions or obsess in such a way the social media that their world only revolves around them and

they lock themselves in their little world of social media, leaving their real life their social life

aside.

It's my opinion that social media is a wonderful invention that has helped many people

but we must use it in moderation not to exaggerate its use and thus allow us to be more users but

we have good results using them and we do not believe a bad for society through them, because

social media have achieved reunions between families have managed to create new friendships

have managed to socialize more but as I said before everything should be with moderation

because it is the only way you can enjoy one hundred percent all activity.

In conclusion, social media is an invention that has revolutionized the world that has

created a new generation that is of great help and has become necessary in our lives allows us to

know, explore and inform us. For this reason, we must use it with moderation very carefully in

order to avoid inconveniences that affect our lives we must use them if we exceed them.

Work Cited

 Ridd, Randall L. “The Choice Generation.” General Conference, Apr. 2014,

www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/04/the-choice-generation?lang=eng.

 Arab, L. Elías, and G. Alejandra Díaz. “Impact of Social Networks and Internet in

Adolescence: Strengths and Weaknesses.” Revista Médica Clínica Las Condes, vol. 26,

no. 1, 2015, pp. 7–13., doi:10.1016/j.rmclc.2014.12.001.