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A persuasive speech outline on from Round 3 of Individual Persuasive Speech. ...

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Round 3 - Individual Persuasive Speech Outline INTRODUCTION I. II.

Showing a short video on Social Media Depression by Edward Huang. What if Edward didn’t get the likes and the validation that he wanted? What effect will that have on his self-esteem? We can already see from that video and all around us how negative the impacts social media websites can have on us. A. I can completely understand this predicament because I’ve had a similar moment so many times throughout my life, and the research I’ve done has proved the same. 1. A study conducted by the University of Copenhagen found that many people suffer from “Facebook envy”, with those who abstained from using the popular site reporting that they felt more satisfied with their lives.

III.

Today, I will show you how social media can ruin some aspects of our lives.

IV.

Since social media surrounds us everywhere, it is nearly impossible to avoid interacting with it, so I am hoping to bring light and awareness to the detrimental effects social media has on us.

V.

Social media can hurt us in many ways, but I will be focusing on 3 major aspects: How it gets us addicted, how it compromises our self-esteem, and how it adds stress to our relationships and friendships.

Let’s start with its effect on our brain. BODY

I.

Social media is highly addicting on a physiological level. A. Dopamine is a feel good chemical that we get whenever we receive a text, some likes on our insta/Facebook post. We also get dopamine whenever we gamble, drink, smoke, and to get that constant reward is addicting for us. 1. Dopamine can provide “feel good” or numbing effects in response to stress, hence why we will always use it to cope with tough situations in real life.

Secondly, let’s talk about how it can affect the way we see ourselves. II. Social media makes us self-conscious about our bodies, our personalities and our lives. A. As we scroll through our facebook feeds, everything you see online is people’s high-light reels. 1. They look so happy with such interesting lives that it’s almost impossible to not compare our lives to theirs. B. This makes us desperate for validation, our need to be convinced that our life is just as interesting as theirs. 1. In a survey of 227 female university students, women reported that they tend to compare their own appearance negatively with their peer group and with celebrities. 2. When we see a photo of an attractive person at the beach with thousands of likes and attention, we assume that they have the perfect life and that the only way we can live the life they’re living is if we’re just as attractive.

3. Our desperation for validation is a dangerous mindset to have because we outsource our happiness to the masses. Last but not least, how does it affect our personal connection with other people? III. Social media can add so much stress to our existing relationships and prevent us from making meaningful ones. A. The stress it puts on our current relationships and friendships happens when our undivided attention is given to the social media websites on our devices that offer temporary relief instead of the person right there, next to us. 1. Whenever people need advice, or someone that can provide comfort, they rely on social media as a coping mechanism during times of distress instead of asking their friends for advice and developing a more meaningful bond that way. B. Our connections to people online can’t compare to the ones we have in real life. 1. Saying something via text with all of the sprinkled emojis may be fun, but it does not provoke the same level of emotional attachment as you would feel when it is said in real life. Now, to wrap it up. CONCLUSION I.

To preview, I’ve explained the 3 reasons why social media is ruining our lives: Its major role in making us addicted and reliant to it, how it makes us self-conscious about every aspect of ourselves, and how it prevents us from forming meaningful relationships.

II.

I want to remind you that the take out from this isn’t to stop social media, since it is all around us and extremely hard to avoid.

A. The take out is to do what you think is the best choice for you knowing all of the ugly risks it could bring and modifying it along the way. Anything can be addicting and impact our lives badly, but what matters is to be in control of it. III.

Here’s a quote by Sean Parker, the former Facebook president, “It’s a social-validation feedback loop… exactly the kind of thing that a hacker like myself would come up with, because you’re exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology.”...