If social media has yet to negatively impact your life in some way, trust me it will eventually. Whether its because your ex posted a picture with their new boyfriend/girlfriend, your best friend uploads that embarrassing video of you at a party last weekend, or someone you dislikes post something rude about you on twitter for everyone to see, it is bound to happen. There are issues from social media that may not be as severe, but can still be just as hurtful and embarrassing to someone which causes greater issues. This topic is very interesting to me, because it is having the greatest impact on my generation, which is something the older generations cannot relate to. The fact that someone's reputation and life could be ruined by one post is absolutely crazy, but once something is out there on the Internet it is there forever. This topic affects my personal values because I believe that although social media may have its benefits it has done more damage than good. I have had experiences with instagram, twitter, and snapchat that were not terrible but left me wishing social media just was not a thing for people to constantly be able to access. I am qualified to write about this because I have gone through negative experiences with social media as well as most of my friends and people my age. I have always been intrigued with this issue, and want to research more about how others have been negatively affected as well. 

This first article focuses on how social media is harmful in the process of self-development for mainly adolescents. Social media requires people to document and advertise everything that one does in their life, instead of just simply living. When people post all about their lives and document the things they do this causes an increase of other people to judge and criticize the person's post. More problems than expected arise from the use of social media, such as sexting, cyber bulling, and inappropriate pictures that are posted by others and cannot be removed. This article contains multiple argumentative articles in which the use of social media is being shown to cause more harm than good. Adolescents in today's generation are almost expected to post every breathing moment of their lives, which is how the younger generations are being raised as well. This article is biased because the author is stating his opinion on the situation of social media instead of just stating facts. He acknowledges the problem and choses to inform his readers about his views on the issue, which makes the article biased because it is one person's opinion. The author has great credibility and experience, which makes this source valid, the author Fleur Gabriel, is a doctor of philosophy, has a bachelor of arts in honors and communications. 

The next article is more informative about the different aspects of social media, and how it is a great source of advertisement, but is in no way private. Once something is posted online it is there for whomever to screen shot and do as they wish with your post. The amount of adults who have joined social media sites in the past year has increased by ten percent, which shows how it is continuously growing even for adults. Businesses thrive off of social media, but not everything needs to be published for the world to see. The article is an informative article, so it contains more facts and statistics about social media and up to date important facts. It is less bias sense it is informative, and allows the reader to gain information that can be researched. Although his article is short, it focuses more on the business aspect than anything, which could be used to take a different approach while researching. Social media is intended to be used for promoting businesses and to be something positive, but it ends up doing more harm than good. The author of this article is John Iwanski, and he is credible on this topic because he has 20 years of experience in the social industry of business. 

Lastly the third source looks at how social media is affecting kids and adolescents today in negative ways. There have been studies done that are relating depression to social media and how it could be partially responsible. The statistics of adolescents who have felt depressed or suicidal because of social media is scary, but we can only blame ourselves. This article gives helpful tips to parents in order to try and help their kids from being sucked into the social media world. The author of this article Potarazu Sreedhar is a credible source because he is a well-known advocate for health care and appears frequently on television to talk about issues. People do not have to agree with his thoughts on social media, but his knowledge and article is definitely credible. 

This research question can be arguable because some people may disagree that social media is not destroying our society, but instead the people using it are. Also people could argue that social media is completely positive and only does positive things for our society. So far in the sources I have viewed I have yet to find anything too different, because I am only researching topics that would support my argument. The different perspectives of my sources affect my own, because they help support my claim, add to the credibility of my argument. One of my articles is informative which allows my research to contain facts and statistics from an unbiased author. It is beneficial to have both informative and argumentative sources that way the audience can see unbiased and biased information. I do not really know what changes I need to make yet to my argument or if I even need to yet, but I may need to change how I word the title and overall question.

