Social media is a fun source of entertainment for teens, but there are potential side effects.
“I have had social media accounts since I was 11,” freshman Kendall Parsons said. She spends around seven hours a day on social media for enjoyment.
“I don’t do anything or feel any different from when I was on social media to when I didn’t have it,” Parsons said.
“I started getting social media at nine years old,” freshman Alexis Burke said. She got social media for entertainment during COVID; now she realizes it is making her lazy when she spends about nine hours a day on her phone.
“I get lost scrolling on TikTok, I don’t even realize that I have been doing it for two hours sometimes,” Burke said.
“I started making social media accounts at 13 years old,” Baker Estes, junior, said. He is roughly on social media like TikTok and Instagram for around half his day, which he uses for entertainment and as a learning source to learn Chinese. “Social media videos might be making my brain into mush,” Estes said, “but they’re funny.”
“I got social media at the age of nine years old,” freshman Damari Jones said. He spends about seven hours a day using social media for entertainment to watch edits, believing that it affects people when they give it too much power. “It’s just a phone; you shouldn’t give it too much power,” Jones said.
“I made my first social media account at 12,” Junior Nathan Gatewood said. He deems social media a waste of his time, so he’s only on social media for roughly four to five hours. “Social media is such a big waste of my time,” Gatewood said.
I got the normal social media at 10 years old,” freshman Jaiden Witcher said. He spends roughly nine to 11 hours on social media for entertainment and being able to talk to his friends. “Just have fun on social media,” Witcher said.
