How Does the Media Influence Teens?

How Does the Media Influence Teens?

“Why use social media? Marketing is no longer about the stuff you make, but the stories you tell.” The media includes Instagram, snapchat, Twitter, and others. We look on these social medias and look up people such as Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, and Kendall Jenner. When we do we look at these prominent models, we see them and say, “I wish I could be like them.” However not only is it Social Media, it is computers and phones as well. We look things up hoping to find something to help us change our selves however, all we find in the end is nothing, and you realize that you don’t need to try to hard to be beautiful.

Take a minute to take a good look at yourself in a mirror. Look at your eyes, hair, eyebrow, and facial features. Now look you Kim Kardashian on instagram. You notice her plastic surgery on her chest and face, how do you feel? Most likely, you feel a bit annoyed by this. This is one example of Exemplification, in how the media influences not only teens, however adults as well. I asked around and one person said, “ Teenagers have not found who they are, and use social media incorrectly by posting photos and getting likes to make them feel better about themselves.” People mostly post pictures to look good, and they want people to know they look good. When down inside they already as alluring as can be.

Social media is not the only thing that can influence teenagers; computers and phones can as well. Whenever we look something up on YouTube or Google such as “How to lose weight in 10 minutes,” or “How to apply eye shadow” we are hoping to find something to change ourselves. Compare a student who is looking up “ How what is the element of gold,” to a student who looks up ”How to lose weight in 15 minutes!” One student is using the media to learn, while the other student just wants to lose weight at the age of 13.

We all may want to change ourselves to be like Kim Kardashian, however in the end the only person you can be is yourself. We don't have control of the time we use social media or media in general. You look at one photo, you press the profile, and you look through all the photos of that person. Albert Einstein was able to do extraordinary thing, without a computer or phone, imagine what our generation could do! We have laptops, apple, phone, we have everything we need right in front of us we just need to learn to use and manage our time. Let the influence of media not be the one like the person who did nothing in their life, let it be like the person who could do it all in their life.