Social Media Influence on Culture & CommunicationStudent NameInstitutional AffiliationMay 4, 2015IntroductionSocial media and media depiction of celebrities, in addition to technological advancementare two of the aspects known to have to the most influence amongst the young people (teens). Social media is known to have a significant influence on communication in general. Despite having turned the entire world into a village, connected distant friends and relatives, and helped other people overcome their shyness, it has had a significant negative effect on face-to-face communication.This paper evaluates the effect of social media on the American culture and face-to-face communication, as well as the effect of media depiction of celebrities on the society in general.A role model, by definition, could be described as anindividual who others admire as an instance to be emulated. Celebrities have anattitude that life is all about having fun and teens usually look at these individuals for the hotteststyles and fashion tips, albums or movies, and worse still,for their bodies or appearance. This usually occursas it is easy to behave like somebody else instead of trying to reallycreate something out of one’s self (Driessens, 2014). The primary issue is that this