Talk:Social media and the effects on American adolescents

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This article unfortunately contains biases and is also very vague and broad statements that throws off a sense of neutrality that Wikipedia aims for. Statements like “We are so dependent on social media to the point where it is affecting the way we even solve our problems. We run to social media to look for updates and to share our feelings, therefore it is jeopardizing the way we interact with others” need to be re worded because everyone uses social media differently. The word “we” is also used, but who is we? Adolescents? Adults? Americans? And whose to say an entire group of people run to social media for the same reason.Ft0594a (talk) 01:39, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Could there be a way to make this less bias and more specific? It has good information but needs critical elements. Addisonmmccormick (talk) 14:37, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

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Merger proposal
I agree with the tags that this feels like a personal essay. Even if well written, the style of writing is un-encyclopedic, so the article feels out of place on Wikipedia. I also found the neutrality questionable; for example, a health insurance company and a website about social media were cited in this article, but those sources are not definitively neutral. I also noticed that some statements made in this article are direct contradictions to statements about social media in other articles (which don't link here).

I propose that the best points from this article be merged into some other article. Perhaps the natural candidate would be the article on social media in general, but the problem with merging this into the social media article is that this information is so specific that it would feel out of place in an article about the entire concept. I would prefer therefore to see it merged into an article about the effects of social media in its own right. (I am hoping to work on getting that started at some point.)

Because of the issues with this article, I originally planned on suggesting it for deletion, but I am hoping that proposing a merger into a future article is the better way forward. The issues I encountered included the following: These issues were pervasive, but instead of throwing all the hard work away, I am hoping that we can move the best of it to a better home.
 * Un-encyclopedic tone, style, and structure
 * Information that contradicts other Wikipedia articles
 * Information unrelated to the subject at hand
 * Many individual researchers being named (as if the article were a secondary source, not tertiary)
 * Frequent use of non-notable direct quotations (as above, this is odd for a tertiary source)
 * Hyperbolic language (e.g. teens "brutally victimize other teens")
 * Potential opinion statements
 * Non-neutral sources

Any thoughts or guidance?

As somewhat of an aside, I am concerned about the title of article, which says "American adolescents". My understanding is that, on the global stage, "American" generally refers to the Americas. When people in the US use the word "American" though, they usually mean to say that they are talking only about people from the United States and not any other part of the Americas. I like to see any confusion removed by adopting a more neutral terminology ("adolescents in the United States") rather than something with a country-specific meaning ("American adolescents").

Romhilde (talk) 05:13, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

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Request for feedback - March 17 2024
I recently published a Wikipedia article on Snapchat dysmorphia and noticed this concept was mentioned within this article under the "negative impacts" section, so I have linked the new article! I would appreciate any feedback on the Snapchat dysmorphia article. Please reach out if you have any questions/concerns. Thank you! - Jinnyjin123 (talk) 04:57, 17 March 2024 (UTC)