The United States is a growing world, full of new innovations, experiences, and technology. Apart of the new technology includes social media and it includes positive and negative outcomes. Unfortunately, the negative results are affecting people’s psychological health, especially in teenagers and women. About 73% of teenagers in the U.S. and about 73% of women in the U.S. use social media. In the teenager group, one of the highest negative effects of social media, affecting about 70% of teens, is cyber bullying. For young women, however, about 67% been affected through a more severe kind of cyber bullying known as online harassment. By viewing these percentages, it shows how dangerous social media is to teenagers and women. Mentally,
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The Church is presently involved in this issue because of Pope Francis and his own active social media account; just like everyone else, he too has been cyberbullied because of what he and his communications team have said online. Because of this real experience, it is no wonder that verbal violence on social media is something that the pope worries about. In Pope Francis’ 2015 Encyclical Letter called, “LAUDATO SI’,” it states, “Today’s media do enable us to communicate and to share our knowledge and affection… they also shield us from direct contact with the pain, the fears and the joys of others and the complexity of their personal experiences… we should be concerned that… a deep and melancholic dissatisfaction with interpersonal relations, or a harmful sense of isolation, can also arise.” Even though the Church wants to promote the use of social media, they also recognize all of the negative outcomes that too can come from this new technology. The Church being able to say that they see these effects and have had a firsthand experience with social media abuse shows that they are not just involved in the issue but are taking actions to make a change. One of the Church’s hope of the use of social media is said by Pope Francis in “LAUDATO SI’,” stating, “Efforts need to be made to help these media become sources of new cultural progress for humanity and not a threat to our deepest
The Church is presently involved in this issue because of Pope Francis and his own active social media account; just like everyone else, he too has been cyberbullied because of what he and his communications team have said online. Because of this real experience, it is no wonder that verbal violence on social media is something that the pope worries about. In Pope Francis’ 2015 Encyclical Letter called, “LAUDATO SI’,” it states, “Today’s media do enable us to communicate and to share our knowledge and affection… they also shield us from direct contact with the pain, the fears and the joys of others and the complexity of their personal experiences… we should be concerned that… a deep and melancholic dissatisfaction with interpersonal relations, or a harmful sense of isolation, can also arise.” Even though the Church wants to promote the use of social media, they also recognize all of the negative outcomes that too can come from this new technology. The Church being able to say that they see these effects and have had a firsthand experience with social media abuse shows that they are not just involved in the issue but are taking actions to make a change. One of the Church’s hope of the use of social media is said by Pope Francis in “LAUDATO SI’,” stating, “Efforts need to be made to help these media become sources of new cultural progress for humanity and not a threat to our deepest