I’m taking the Cambridge C2 exam in 4 days, what do you think of this essay?
The main topic of the two texts is social media and their effect on our lives.
The first text mainly focuses on the benefits that social media may have on students’ performances. A teacher, Elizabeth Delmatoff, in just a year, managed to increase not only the grades of the students but also the total number of hours they attended classes. Those outstanding results lead many to hypothesize that the stigma around social media and the belief that such tools are inherently detrimental to education are unmotivated.
On the other hand, the second text reminds us of the downsides of social media. It comes as no surprise that more than half of the sampled social media users considered social media to be affecting negatively their lives. Nevertheless, that’s not the only downside of social media: a considerable part of Americans admitted that they put the goal of capturing moments for social media before living the moment themselves.
Social media is among the many topics that are usually considered to be either black or white: that’s definitely not the case and there should not be any room for generalization when discussing such a complex matter. I strongly believe that social media can and will be used in education, nevertheless, the risk social media represent for younger generations is widely overlooked.
Social media are a great resource and they will help us progress in many fields but we should never underestimate the destructive power these new means of communication hold, furthermore, we, as a society, should start investing more in mental health in order to overcome the challenges our interconnected world poses.