Why should we care?

The question that my opinion editorial is going to focus on is what problems exist with social media, specifically Pinterest.  It’s going to answer this question by listing off certain facts about how diminishing Pinterest is to people’s confidence and how it makes it easier to put on a mask of lying and deceitfulness. It’s easier to pretend that you’re someone you’re not and to come across better, cooler, or more attractive.  It also promotes a sense of procrastination.  It’s easier to put off something difficult and to waste time looking at pointless pictures.  Pinterest isn’t always bad. It can be used as a tool for clever ideas to make home life better, but there’s everything in moderation.

If we go back to the question, the points above are how I am going to express how this problem exists. I chose this topic to answer this question because people are aware of the issue and the problem that social media has in their self worth. It doesn’t just hurt their confidence in their appearance and how exciting their life is, but it also hurts them mentally. Social media can be an addiction, especially Pinterest. There are always new ideas out there to see and new things to become aware of. It’s about time society put down the time wasting, life-draining technology and go do something productive.  We were put here on this earth to help each other in the ultimate goal of reaching eternal life. There’s only so much you can do sitting in front of a computer screen and, in the long run, it doesn’t do very well with reaching that goal. It’s appropriate to try and spread things about the gospel through social media, but the screen restricts some of the raw emotion felt when speaking one-on-one. I chose this topic to answer this question because interaction with our fellow children of God is essential to becoming who we want to become at the end of this life.

There are statistics of how social media ruins the confidence of people who spend too much time on it because of how polished everyone looks on social media. I plan to use those statistics to give me authority to be able convince my audience that I know what I’m talking about. I’ll also give personal experiences about how social media has affected my life and my perception of myself. This will allow the audience to connect with me at an emotional level.  Hopefully, that’ll cause them to feel emotional about the issue as well and to want to change and do something different about the way they participate online.