A New Perspective Towards Social Media

Unlike Violet, who couldn’t get her Feed removed, I have had the chance to break my modern tendencies, and leave my technological dependency in the past. Like all of my friends and most people my age, I too had AIM, then Myspace, then Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. This is how I communicated with people and socialized, it’s all I ever knew. When I wanted to have fun and play games with my friends I would go on Club Penguin, RuinScape, or Minecraft. My entire reality was built around my technology. When I began to realize the consequences of this, I withdrew myself from participating in the culling of personal information and lack of interpersonal relationships our technology serves. One incident that led me to this realization was when I started to notice a pattern in advertisements on my Facebook page. I noticed that the ads were eerily similar to whatever I had been searching online that particular day. Much like when Violet tested her Feed by asking to see random items in the mall, I used this same technique online. I searched for clothing and jewelry that a women would wear for a short amount of time, then like magic my advertisements on Facebook were mostly for women’s clothing stores. This correlation disturbed me, then, through further investigation, I found that the truth about how Facebook works this magic is even more disturbing. I found that Facebook uses everything that you post and like on Facebook

In October of 2013, computer scientist Jennifer Golbeck did a Ted Talk titled: The Curly Fry Conundrum: Why Social Media "Likes" Say More than You Might Think. Jennifer Goldbeck 's Ted Talk is a very appropriate choice for this assignment in a class pertaining to social media. As social media users, we "like" different posts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram every day. This Ted Talk tells us exactly what people can tell about us through those likes, and how different companies, advertisers, and computer scientists use our liked posts to give us relevant content, provide specific products and services that consumers will want to buy, and study how specific people 's viewing habits and interests on the internet have changed over time, respectively.

So many users of the internet blindly browse and post on these sites without any thought to the online identity they are creating for themselves. Shares, tweets, hashtags, likes, and comments all combine to make up an amalgamation of marketable information. In November of 2016, an average of six thousand tweets were made per second, and ninety-five million Instagram posts were made per day (Sayce; Parker). Facebook “has become the largest database of personal information ever collected,” says Richard, and Facebook takes advantage of this. With almost two billion users, Facebook has no shortage of information to gather (Sparks). They do this mainly for targeted advertising. There is no small profit to be made in this. In 2011 Lori Andrews wrote, “Facebook made $3.2 billion in advertising revenue last year, 85% of it's total revenue.” However, Facebook and other internet corporations also relay data gathered on users to the

it of envy and depression. It begins explaining how Facebook works and how some options in it can affect our society in a negative way, but end the introduction saying that is up to us the purpose for which we use Facebook, but the main purpose of the author in this article refers to Instagram, which the author thinks is worst than Facebook because it only gathers the bad aspects about Facebook which the author says are “loitering around others’ photos, perfunctory like-ing, and “broadcasting” to a relatively amorphous group” an example will be that the photos on Instagram promote self-promote because when people look at one beautiful picture one way

social media is a big invasion of privacy. He states that social media includes “non-permissive

“Our community now has more than 1.55 billion people, including more than 1 billion people active every day,” says Mark Zukerburg, the creator of Facebook, on his own Facebook page last year. As one of the most popular social media sites in the world, Facebook has been adopted by an increasing amount of people over the past decade. The number of users on Facebook indicates how Facebook plays an important role of socializing and communicating in modern age life. Since Facebook allows users to see their friends’ updates and access Facebook on a mobile device, it has a tremendous impact on its users in several aspects. People may ask, “how does Facebook impact its users?” Some people suggest that Facebook creates negative consequences, such as distracting students in class. However, do all users experience these negative consequences? Sociologist Everett M. Rogers argues that the consequences of innovations, whether they are anticipated or not, can be perceived as positive or negative. Since Facebook does not differ from user to user, rather that it is the users that are different from one another, Facebook’s consequences vary from individuals. Even though some criticize how Facebook influences people negatively, depending on how the individual uses it, Facebook can positively impact users through sparking creativity, providing convenience, and creating change.

Having recently read Janet Street-Porter’s article, Why I Hate Facebook, I could not help but respond, for I could not disagree more with the sanctimonious ideas presented. Within around a mere two thousand words, Porter manages to explain to the reader exactly how she acquires friends; aims numerous statistics, insults and examples of hypocrisy towards the reader; as well as expressing her blatant hate towards any social networking, and, more specifically: Facebook.

A huge group of people is against the Internet which was born in the 1900s and has grown up too fast. Sue Halpern in her article “Mind Control and the Internet” mentions to the paradox of personalization and the self-expression promoted by the Internet through Twitter and Facebook. People on the Internet write comments for many blog posts that are disrespectful. This problem is not just about controversial subject same as sports or politics, but for almost anything. The next point that Sue explains is about marketing that means corporations use people to advertise their product on Facebook’s pages. When someone click on the “like” button on a Facebook’s page for a product, may an ad for that product appears on the pages of their friends. Twitanalyzer

Everyday Facebook is used by millions around the world, the social media platform is said to be used for connecting and sharing with people in our lives. After watching “Generation Like” a bigger use for Facebook and many other similar social media websites is brought to the viewers attention. After watching this documentary I felt scammed, how could I have been sucked into this vacuum of marketing? I wanted to go to every profile I had ever made and edit each one. After being shown what to look at I agree that most people don't know how much liking things on Facebook can alter their ads, suggested friends, and even celebrities they follow. It definitely has made me change my mind on the pages i'm going to like and pay attention to. In a way

Social media has changed how we view each other. Today we base our lives off “likes.”

With the advent of widespread technology and increasing use of social media platforms globally, social media is becoming one of the most influential and inevitable contemporary communication tool. Some even consider it to be the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution. There is a real shift in communicating with consumers. Consumers are becoming marketers. When kids like something online, it becomes part of the identity that they broadcast to the world. Today, we have, as what is termed in the video - A generation of ‘likes’. Teens are telling the world what they

In today’s society you can keep up to date with current information, due to social media. While also keeping in touch with family and friends around the world. Going through their updates, and generating likes. These likes could be the individual’s post about their life events, vacation, or simply just their opinions. It’s these post that are structuring the way we think, as we read their post, and press that like button. Even if we do not agree with their post, we could feel obligated to press like, and then we are influenced. In this paper, I will argue that our thoughts, and morality are highly influenced by social media from adults to even kids.

I never thought in terms of “likes” until I joined facebook 5 years ago. This simple word “like” has reframed my perspective. I have a love/hate relationship with it. Although I appreciate how important likability is for positive human relationships, I don’t want how we view each other and the world to be in the buckets of like or not.

“Social networks are successful because they offer widespread participation, but at the same time, they open their users up to unnecessarily dangerous exposure.” (Herring, Mark Y.. Social Media and the Good Life: Do They Connect? Jefferson NC: McFarland, 2015. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 10 September 2016.). Social media (sometimes defined as social network/networks) can be used to promote your ideas. Promoting your ideas through social media is a great way your voice to be heard by millions of other users using the same social media you use every day. Promoting may get you discovered by celebrities/authors/people who are looking for good marketing. However, some ideas/opinions you choose to express may cause an uproar of cyberbullying and may cause negative attention to be directed towards you, which nobody wants to deal with. Communication is also a great advantage that social media

My generation has grown up with technology in our hands since we were toddlers. We are dependent on technology, from Iphones, Laptops,tablets, ipods, even watches that keep us connected to a never ending supply of distant connection. Social media is the source of many problems in our society. One of the problems is the lack of communication in a relationship. One misconception about social media is that it has the ability to strengthen a relationship because you have another avenue of communication when in fact it is detrimental, due to lack of intimate interaction between two people. Social media not only takes away face to face interactions, but it leads to trust issues, cheating and a lack of confrontation.