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- 1. CONFRONTING SOCIAL MEDIA By Jaylin Mills Meghan Serna Michele Noel Sharon Howell Ted Durham
- 2. FROM QUILL PEN… TO TELEGRAPH… FROM TV… TO IPHONE
- 3. WHAT WILL THIS PRESENTATION COVER? •Identify societal issues surrounding social media and gaming •Discuss risks involved in uncontrolled media use •Submit important solutions
- 4. AREAS OF CONCERN • Behavioral Concerns (Isolation) •Addictions (Impulse Control) •Interpersonal Relationships •Distorted Realities
- 6. Media Addiction •Connectedness, empathy and compassion • are diminished. • New acronym: IAD (Internet Addiction Disorder) •The brain becomes addicted to the dopamine and adrenalin surges.
- 7. Distorted Realities •Indirect Experiences •Lacks Human Intimacy •No boundaries, consequences or accountability
- 8. •SOLUTION •Societal Education •Public education campaigns •School and Family service professionals •Boundaries •Society helping society
- 10. Apostolic Warning Elder David A. Bednar, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, CES Fireside May 3, 2009
- 11. SOLUTION Parental Education and Involvement •Use safety features offered •Become educated •Teach privacy •Teach about predators •Watch for addictions
- 12. Conclusion
Editor's Notes
- Slide 1: Confronting Social Media by Jaylin Mills, Meghan Serna, Michele Noel, Sharon Howell and Ted Durham
- Slide #2:As mankind has progressed, advancement in communication has brought with it new and exciting opportunities. Since the 1830’s, man’s ability to communicate has evolved from the quill pen to the telegraph machine and on to television and cell phones with internet capability. We have moved from handwritten letters delivered by foot to instant messages sent around the world in the blink of an eye. Despite these wonderful advancements which have expanded our knowledge and broadened our ability to communicate, our basic human needs for meaningful personal relationships, to obtain knowledge, to learn who we are and where we fit in society remain the same. The power of the internet has put many new faces on these challenges.
- Slide #3:This presentation will identify issues surrounding social media and gaming, discuss risks involved in uncontrolled media use which can lead to addictions and then submit important solutions. The internet, specifically, social media, has many positive uses such as health education, wonderful resources for the sciences, spreading the good word of God and expanding the economics of the business world. Yet, there are real dangers lurking. The Internet creates a digital footprint for individuals that those with bad intentions can track and exploit. Like it or not, this new efficient communication venue is teaching us new ways to isolate ourselves, withdraw from important familial ties and even to prefer the virtual world of individual avatars. Rapid and vigorous education regarding this threat to our families will be the saving grace for this and future generations.
- Slide #4Areas of concern are Behavioral concerns such as Isolation, Addiction which and lead to problems such as impulse control and problems with interpersonal relationships. Preferring the unreal or distorted realities is a very real risk as internet use becomes more and more uncontrolled.
- Slide #5In the world of cyber space, where we can make our own reality, the temptation to withdraw from the more demanding, real-life, relationships with family and friends can become overwhelming. Isolation becomes a real risk. There are many youth and young adults today who are “social junkies”, “basement dwellers”, whose only motivation in life is to put on their virtual life to escape the reality of this world. In an online publication for The University of Haifa called The Internet and Youth Culture, Professor Gustavo Mesch explains that “It is a zone of freedom, fluidity, and experimentation insulated from the mundane realities of the material world.” The risks teenagers face in regards to social media are very closely related to those that they face with any Internet use. Ellen Vanderhoven’s piece published in the Media Education Research Journal in 2014recognizes that “since research indicates that exposure to online risks causes harm and negative experiences in a significant amount of cases…some theories predict that young teenagers are less likely to recognize the risks and future consequences of their decisions… they have a harder time controlling their impulses… This could increase risk taking in teens, especially since posting pictures and interests helps in building and revealing one’s identity.” Internet addictions also add to the risk of impulse control problems by altering the growth and function of the prefrontal lobe of the brain. Teens are especially vulnerable to this effect.
- Slide #6Social media sites and on-line gaming can take over our lives mentally and physically. The uncontrolled use of these can lead to addictions in people that lead to brain dysfunction and the destruction of interpersonal relationships. Many of the symptoms that apply to drug and alcohol addiction are the same for internet addiction. Cosette Rae, a psychotherapist and cofounder of reSTART, a center for those who struggle to manage virtual/media and digital use, explains that there are several titles for this new age problem. It is called “technology addiction, compulsive Internet use or, most commonly known as Internet addiction disorder (IAD).” The brains of individuals who show an addiction pattern with social media have judgement influencing processes that become less able to process normal interpersonal emotions such as empathy, feelings of connectedness and compassion. Recent research has shown that the brain centers which control the decision, behavior and judgment influencing processes become less able to process normal interpersonal emotions, such as, empathy, feelings of connectedness and compassion.In “He Restoreth My Soul”, Dr. Donald L. Hilton explains “Studies of individuals struggling with addictions (including behavioral addictions) show reduced cellular activity in the orbitofrontal cortex, a brain area where we rely on to make strategic rather than impulsive decisions….addiction actually causes visible shrinkage in these frontal areas, not unlike traumatic brain injury.”
- Slide #7:Many youth are creating anonymous identities to act out lives that they would like to live, but do not necessarily live in the physical world. Christine Rosen informs us that it is easy to set up an account in a social network in her Journal publication “Virtural Friendship and the New Narcissism. (quote)“you provide your name, address, email address and a few other pieces of information and you are up and running.” (end quote) We would ask, Just who are we when we are up and running? Does a “virtual” life ultimately ever have the chance to teach our youth the reality of why we exist? The mistaken idea that the internet offers more meaningful relationships is promoted by some. Mesch states “virtual relationships are seen as more intimate, richer, and more liberating than offline relationships because they are based on genuine mutual interest rather than the coincidence of physical proximity.” The truth is that because of the anonymity factor, the internet offers a distorted reality which as not boundaries, consequences or accountability. As explained in Yasuko Minoura’s 2001 article for Intermedia, “Media and the Brain”, “Media can only offer a world of indirect experiences, a world without physicality, and a world that lacks human intimacy….It is from experience of this sort (interpersonal interaction) that children learn appropriate interpersonal behavior, learn to respect themselves and other, and learn compassion.” If an individual has the new feelings they are exploring online acknowledged and approved by others, they can and do come to accept their thoughts and feelings as acceptable. When we have no barriers in our thoughts and no repercussions to them, we tend to make our reality anything we want it to be. The world of virtual games adds dangerous fuel to this risk.
- Slide# 8 Efforts such as public education campaigns, school and family service professionals’ implementation of helpful educational processes and counseling will help. Boundaries need to be drawn and limits imposed on the use of social media and internet access. We need to help each other; society helping society. We also need to get our youth more physically active and encourage them to participate in outdoor activities. Media itself must take more responsibility for the education of families. Those who are becoming wealthy on the backs of those unaware of the addictive dangers would do well to take some social responsibility and help with the funds needed to promote a social awareness. Editors of popular newspapers and magazines could run more articles online and in print to help educate parents and teachers. Also, teachers unions could promote training in these values.
- Slide #9:If we are not watchful and proactive as a society, this virtual world will become greater than even faith in God. We have been given a gift in the world of technology and we need to act accordingly. In 2014 Elder Bednar comments in his address To Sweep the Earth as With a Flood: “A technology known as social media is evolving in our day and playing an increasingly important role in hastening the work of salvation.”In another address given at a CES fireside in 2009 Elder Bednar issued an apostolic warning; The next slide will play a short portion of that warning.
- Slide 11: Parents all to often underestimate the value of their involvement. Parents have the responsibility to become educated and then to educate their children. The best practice is to talk with them about it just as we would about sex, relationships, the gospel, and many other daily issues within the lives of teenagers. In the Article Keep teens safe while they’re online; Social Networking tips for teen’s author Kim Linton gives many suggestion for parents who are trying to keep their teens safe on social media sites. She first suggests that parents take advantage of Safety features on social networking sites. As parents we need to take on the responsibility of educating ourselves on these different features and make sure that our children are using them. Second, teach teens to keep certain information private. Just as adults should teens need to be certain information private such as phone numbers, addresses, school, age and their real name. Third, join a social networking site yourself. Parents who grew up with social networking will undoubtedly have the upper hand on this. However if you did not, it is a necessity that you learn how social networking sites work yourself, what is a post, a like, a hashtag, etc., you have to learn it to know what to watch out for in regards to your teens use. Fourth, educate your teens on the reality of sexual predators (Linton, 2014). The above solutions are dependent upon parental intervention. In some cases, youth will need to attend an addiction recovery program.
- Slide # 12 Parents who are uneducated in these things, either by choice or circumstance, contribute to the sorrows of society as a whole. However, involved parents, those with open minds who use proper resources surely promote solid familial relationships and protect their children from the scary consequences listed above. Efforts such as, public education campaigns, school and family services professionals’ implementation of helpful educational processes and counseling will help a great deal. With the hard work and courage of a concerned, educated society and parents, our children can grow up blessed by the internet instead of condemned to learning about the world and life from virtual influences that seek to destroy our agency.