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Assignment: Making a Claim

English III

Alba Valverde Delgado

If you look around you right now, it will be hard for you to find someone who is not using

their cellphone. According to Paul Booth, there has been a change referring to

communication, since we rather email or text than meet face-to-face. Experts claim that

social media can also link to depression, social isolation, feelings of envy, insecurity, and

poor self-esteem. Social media has positive effects such as communicating with people from

other countries, however, it also has negative effects that affect negatively interpersonal

relationships, such as self-image issues and cyberbullying.

Sources:

Ultius. “The Effects of Social Media on Interpersonal Relationships.” Ultius,

www.ultius.com/ultius-blog/entry/the-effects-of-social-media-on-interpersonal-

relationships.html.

Great Valley Publishing Company, Inc. Social Media and Interpersonal

Communication, www.socialworktoday.com/archive/051313p10.shtml.

SUPPORTING PARAGRAPHS:

Humans use social media for many purposes, such as to search for information or to

share their thoughts. However, there are some studies that support that it has a huge

impact on our behavior. According to Nicholas David Bowman, an assistant professor

in college at West Virginia University social media allows for more contact, more

communication, and in a more public manner. For instance, if someone is bullied at

school, it is not as hard to deal with, however, if you are being cyberbullied, when you

get home it does not get any better, because cyberbullying is still there. It has been

linked with an increased risk of depression, which also proves that it has a negative

effect on interpersonal relationships. This evidence supports my claim owing to the fact

that it states that social media can lead to a negative behavior even more than

communicating face-to-face can.

Some individuals spend more time online than communicating with the people around

them, and that also affects negatively interpersonal relationships. According to Nicolas

Bowman, teens have been closing their accounts because it’s too much for them to

handle. ‘’It may be the parent checking his or her email during a family dinner or the

young college student updating Twitter while on a first date’’ says Bowman. ‘’For these

people, they likely feel such a strong sense of identity online that they have some

difficulty separating their virtual actions from their actual ones.’’ All this evidence

supports my claim regarding the fact that these sources believe that social media

negatively affects interpersonal relationships in many ways, and I agree with them.

Sources:

Great Valley Publishing Company, Inc. Social Media and Interpersonal

Communication, www.socialworktoday.com/archive/051313p10.shtml.

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7927&context=etd
Burch, Kelly. “How Social Media Affects Relationships, from Partners to Friends.”

Insider, Insider, 16 Mar. 2020, www.insider.com/how-social-media-affects-

relationships.

Sources:

Ultius. “The Effects of Social Media on Interpersonal Relationships.” Ultius,

www.ultius.com/ultius-blog/entry/the-effects-of-social-media-on-interpersonal-

relationships.html.

Great Valley Publishing Company, Inc. Social Media and Interpersonal

Communication, www.socialworktoday.com/archive/051313p10.shtml.