Social media plays a very important role in my life. I spend hours a day scrolling through Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, VSCO, Facebook, etc. I also use snapchat as one of my main ways of communicating with my friends. I could not imagine my life without social media. I feel as if it keeps me connected with people from that I have met from all over. I have friends from many different parts of my life and to be able to see how they are doing is very beneficial to me. For example, I met a few girls on a cruise ship a few years ago from Alabama and I am still able to communicate with them through social media and I think that is the amazing part of social media. I do think social media takes up too much of my life right now. I sometimes focus too much on trying to look good on Instagram or have the perfect profile picture. I think it is sometimes toxic to my mental health to look at all the “perfect” lives on these websites and compare to them when in reality they do not even look like that in real life. That is the scary part about social media today. So many people feel the need to have the best account or funniest videos and when they don’t, they become insecure about themselves and it may lead to mental illnesses. I believe social media has impacted me for the better because of the communication it allows me to have but I could definitely see some of the negatives it has on my life as well. It takes away a lot of my time I could be spending on homework or out with my friends. We don’t even realize how much time we spend on social media because everyone nowadays is doing the same things it just seems right. I sometimes wish I could go back to when social media did not exist to see how much different the world would be.
Carly Kosciolek 
