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Throughout my research, I have come to find that it is actually fairly easy to side with the fact that the use of social media is more harmful than beneficial to its users. I was able to find demographics of social media users, which helps prove the point that many people have begun to use social media, and that it is rapidly growing. I found this source that was given by the Pew Research Center, which broke down the demographics by the different social media sites that are being used. I was also able to find a source that tied in science and how social media has affected that aspect of society (PLOS biology). After finding these, I had all of the basic statistics I needed to introduce the topic and to give readers knowledge on its importance. I then found another pdf file created by Pew Research Center, but this one give more detail about the actually affects of social media on teens as well as adults, which helps to prove my point. It gives more statistics by age, and how the use of social media has changed throughout the past few years. Since I had decided to write a position paper, siding with the negative effects of social media, I researched articles that show just that, and found one written by CBS showing the negative psychological affects that are created when becoming involved with social media websites. One of the most beneficial websites I’ve come across is ProCon.org, which gives all of the pros and all of the cons of using social media, like “Students who are heavy social media users tend to have lower grades” or that social media could ever “harm job stability.” Each one of these websites are useful in different ways and in different parts of my paper. I feel that if I put all of these statistics together, as well as my own opinion, I will be able to write a paper siding with the fact that social media is more harmful then beneficial.