analysis of anti social media the article

Andrew W. Brabo

Analysis of anti-social media

            There is much more to life than ignoring it by looking at yours and others past on a phone when you can get together with those same real people and relate life through conversations of text. It’s better to have a room of people trying to catch up than to think about what to do and instead look at your phone to see what others do. The author of the article “Why I’m Anti-social Media” Ms. Carrie Kirk, brings great views on how she used to be a heavy social media user, when she stops and starts focusing on the real things around here in life and put down the social media. The article aims primarily at the users of, mainly those how really on it heavily, due to the fact that the author was getting depressed, anti-social, and distracted her from life.

            What Kirk first states in her paper is how the first reaction to the sentence right below the title saying “Fun fact: I hate social media” would be “I can’t live without my Twitter/Facebook/Instagram”. This is exactly how her audience of social media users would react and she brings up great points on why the same people should start the withdrawal of over social media use. She states how many times you have been with groups of friends talking about the likes on your status or pictures when you could actually do something with the opportunity and friends you have right next to you. When you use social-media too often it also leads to depression while you’re not doing anything and see how people are doing fun things, going out, have great adventures makes you reflect like you’re not as well of as the people you know. When it’s really the fact author Kirk brings up that most people don’t post every little bad thing that goes wrong and make a profile seem more biased to having this great life everybody gets to see. So in all the way she is pertaining to the audience that she used to be a part of and explaining how each way you see social media can influence your life when you use it too often. She knows exactly her audience and how they are influenced like her but she also gives ways on how to stop the social media way of thinking and using by just her own accounts and it is more knowledge than the reader could take from and apply to their life.

            Leading me to the fact that Ms. Kirk shows the audience how they miss life and the present when your viewing others life on a screen. When your with a group of friends or family she brings up how the audience looks at the phone instead of creating an opportunity just how she used to not do. This appeals heavily due to the fact she knows what a user of social-media does when they compare life and are sucked into their phone, they want to make an opportunity. She goes through a process that most of us do when we look into the facebook, and twitter and how we all can make moments instead of viewing others moments.  That in which is a huge draw toward the reader making them reflect while seeing her views clearly because the author and audience both have an exact account what she is talking about. I’m not even a good user of social-media and yet I see so many examples of this in places it makes you wonder why they don’t realize the life in front of them and that’s more of what Author Carrie Kirk shows in her writing.

            If the author had a better idea of the target reader she couldn’t have been the author because she so well describes what social media does to those used and drawn to the sites. She does, in vivid detail, point out flaws of over use from depression, low self-worth from always comparing your lives to the fake one’s online and how the audience misses the world. The experience of her readers and how they can change she incorporates it all. She aims right at the hard hitting facts that would make a user delete there account recollecting her anti-socialness due to social-media through personal stories that are relatable to the audience. How the audience was missing out on the world like she did now can see there’s a better way just to ignore the phone. Without her experience and ways she views life without social media it exactly replicates the feelings and life patterns the audience goes through and shows why social media does this to us and how to stop and enjoy real world physical time and in essence is a perfect paper directing at her audience getting so much across her audience and drawing, appealing, and giving solutions to them fitting a paper perfectly.

           

Works Cited

Kirk, Carrie. “Why I’m Anti-Social Media” HuffPost College. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Posted online article: 10/09/2014 4:15 pm. Accessed 11/05/14