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Title of the Video: Young people discuss how phones and social media create connection and self-doubt: “Compared to them, I am a nobody”
This video I watched shows an interview with 6 different kids, all different ages, and all different races or ethnicity. The video does interviews with all the kids and asks them all the same questions to see how they all answer the questions. The video shows how some are negatively affected by having phones and social media, while others have a positive effect from phones and social media.
I really enjoyed the video and it really put some things into perspective for me. Some of the kids felt pressured from others around them to get a phone or to use certain apps. I had not thought about the pressure they would feel, but I thought back to my own kids getting phones and now I think they were pressured too. All their friends had the newest iPhone and Facebook and snapchat, so they had to get all of that too to feel good about their friends' group. I feel so bad for kids that feel like they always have to keep up with the other kids, but they really do not need to do that.
I chose this video after watching it because it really hit home with me. In the video the kids talked about how others on social media make their lives look like they are perfect, even though they are not. They make it look like they have money and they do not have money. But on social media you can make it look like you are perfect, rich and have the perfect life. I liked how the kids in this video caught onto that and realized that these people are not better than them. They are all the same, no matter what.
I think after watching this video and seeing how the kids reacted to all the questions, they will be great leaders when they get older. They understood that they were pressured to get new phones and all the different apps, and they accepted it.
After watching the video, I think I have a better understanding of the kids and how they are affected by phones and social media and the pressure that kids are under nowadays. I am hoping when someone comes into the library and needs help with these issues, I would be able to help them.
Beautiful reflection.
ReplyDeleteThis shows that not all social media is negatively impacting children, that peer pressure has just changed or grown to include social media. I think by making videos like this and keeping an ongoing dialog with children about peer expectations verses reality is vital.