4 ways Social Media is Making you Dumb!!!!!!

                             Social Media is really making us dumber day by day

    As all of us know that being online on social media isn't really being productive and is neither being physically active.According to an article posted on the American express small business 4 Ways Social Media Is Making You Dumber by Mike Periu,the President of Proximo International,LLC.This is a trusted website and so are the results.The article focuses on the negative effects of being online for a long.Four points made in this article are truly supported by studies and research done by professors.
 The four points made in this article are :-

1. Social Media hurts your short-term memory.
2. Social media makes you more susceptible to peer pressure.
3. Social Media hurts your confidence and self-esteem.
4. Social Media subverts critical thinking.

   This article is targeted for small-business owners as this website gives them essential business skills to help them in their business.Although business owners are the main audience for this website this article has very good points about this topic.

  We as the youths spend a lot of time on social media and reading this article would bring forward the negative effects of using social media after a certain amount of time per day.

Point #2 is very relatable to us.It states,"The study they devised showed that users tended to change their opinion about a given item after it was revealed that a certain number of people actually “liked” the opposite of their choice." I am sure that it has happened to some of us especially when you're doing an online quiz and you know that most people choose B just because you don't want to be different from everyone you choose B even though you wanted to choose A.

  The points made in this article are worth thinking over and applying some of the techniques mentioned in the article and reduce your screen time.