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Project Proposal Outline

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Preliminary Thesis

There are different positive and negative impacts on a person’s social and personal behavior due to engaging in social media, web sharing, and other similar trends.

Issue Summary

People are a product of the environment where they live in. There are situations in life that are circumstantial and that have a direct bearing on an individual’s behavior. Under this category is the social media. The number of things that are harbored in the social media can be both desirable as well as undesirable. According to Campbell et al. (2013), the media exists due to the positive energy and good that is spread. Some of the good that is spread by media online includes love, information, altruism, etc. However, the bad also spreads like unhappiness, sadness, anger emotions that influence people negatively, and internet addiction disorders. Clearly, it would be plain ignorant to claim that the social media did not have an influence on people’s social and personal behavior.

Preliminary Essay Outline

There have been claims in the past that social media, movies, televisions and other social media are impacting on social behavior of mankind. The interesting development and introduction of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technology has helped shed more light into these claims (Kanai et al., 2012). It has been discovered that these media are affecting mankind’s behavior and the brain too. Recent studies indicate that Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) is a real issue. Sadly, it is now being classified together with other psychological diseases like gambling. However, there are some good aspects and behavioral changes that are associated with internet and (Mazurek and Wenstrup, 2013).

For those people that use the social media for their emotional and mental treatment avenues, they get to become addicts. Such people are connected and mind trapped on their screens. They do so for hours...