In today’s society, social media is a huge part of human culture. This especially applies to teenagers. Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram are apps that are used everyday by teenagers as a way to communicate with peers and to share pictures/videos with each other.

“I’m on Instagram at school all the time,” sophomore Azura Martinez said. “I have a group chat with my 2 best friends on Instagram going so whenever any of us see something funny or weird we share it with each other.”

Social media trends are happening all around us all the time. They can be hard to notice because they are constantly going in and out of style.

“Damn Daniel just went out of style recently,” Martinez said. “I think it’s because it was blown way out of proportion and people talked about it all the time so everyone was just annoyed by it after a few days. I never thought it was funny or anything special at all, I just thought the guy in the video was cute.”                       

These trendy videos, pictures, and memes are constantly being shared and exchanged between students all over Biwie.

“If I’m gonna share something with my friends, it has to be shocking or funny,” sophomore Micayla Thompson said. “If the comments or the caption of the picture or video is funny I’ll share it as well.”

Teenagers are a “major key” in things going viral on the internet. Because they are always on their phones, it makes the spreading of things that go viral way easier.

“DJ Khaled quotes and references were being made at school for more than a month,” Thompson said. “Everyone added Khaled on Snapchat and constantly referenced him in regular conversations. One of my friends even bought a ringtone for her phone that made it said ’another one’ every time she got a text message and ‘bless up’ when she was receiving a call.”

These trends may be funny at first but with all of the attention and hype they get, people get annoyed with them and drop them after an extremely short amount of time.

“When it comes down to it, I’ll only share a video or a picture with my friends if it’s funny,” sophomore Justine Voglmeyer said. “I share things with my friends all the time because I find something funny and I know that they will too. Me and my friends are always referencing videos that we’ve shared with each other and sharing cat memes with one another.”

Since 92% of teenagers have social media accounts, it’s no wonder all of these trends get spread like wildfire. Teenagers are continuously on their mobile devices looking at accounts full of things that make them laugh and sharing posts with one another.

“The only thing I think is bad about social media for us teenagers is the amount of time we spend on it during school,” Voglmeyer said. “It’s also bad how much we overdo trends and how much we blow them out of proportion but other than that I see no harm in forwarding something funny to my friends so that we can all enjoy it. I hope that we continue to begin and end trends.”