Argumentative Essay On Social Media

Society’s dependence on a vast array of information and communication technology has not only changed the way we communicate but has also reinvented social activism. Social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook and forum websites like Reddit has given digital activism more potential than ever before to create real change. Whether the activism pertains to political, social or economic changes–digital technology allows individuals working collectively to achieve a common purpose with more ease in their pursuit of change.

Social media is a very big deal in today's society, teenagers use it to socialize, find information and for entertainment. The first thing we could find on social media is really nice comments on teens photos. The second thing we could find is teens speaking out and being heard. Social media is helpful to teens because it boosts their confidence and lets teens have a voice. Despite this, some people say social media leads to cyberbullying, but only a small percent of teens said it made them feel less.

Getting attention by social media can cause action-absent society. One of great advantage of social media is faster and wider spread of information. However,

Nowadays, a lot of people are using social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler and so on. Since the Internet has propagated rapidly, social media have progressed a lot. The generalization of the internet makes us to live conveniently and fast. People are almost using smart phones, i-phones or comfortable devices which can access to internet. These equipments make us to do social network easily. It helps contact friends, family, and other people even though they live far away. It could be, however, abused, if you don’t use properly. Especially, it is important that we understand and regulate the use of social media by young children.

There is a transformation happening today that is completely changing the way that we do things. The ways that we are communicating are shifting from face to face interactions to short, interactive messages. Technology seems to be making it easier to stay connected, but it is restricting our interactions with others and leading to isolation.

Our society has become heavily reliant on social media, and today’s younger generation cannot avoid using it in their everyday lives. As time has progressed, social media has advanced significantly, becoming easier to access with a touch of a button. These advancements provide both positive and negative consequences to youths’ relationships. Due to the rapid advancement of social media, youths’ real-life relationships with their peers have been affected both positively and negatively.

Social media has been dominating people’s lives for years now. It is a way for people to stay connected with their family, friends, and even see what their favorite celebrities are doing. Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram are just a few of the social media sites that people love to use. These sites are used mostly by young adults. I believe social media can be a positive thing, but it can also have some negative effects. Young adults have become dependent on social media likes, retweets, followers and friends to determine validation and self-worth; these elements of social media are important to teenagers. Young adults need to take a step back from social media and focus more on reality, because they can become dependent on it, take it too seriously, and it can affect their mental health.

Social media can provide many benefits that, for the most of us, could not live without. For instance, could you imagine not being able to see your Aunt Karen’s recipe for homemade pecan pie? What about not being able to see your friend Lindsey’s acai bowl she had for breakfast on her instagram? We would not experience those things without social media, that’s one of the reasons we value it so much. Now days, everyone has social media accounts from the president to even dogs. Certainly it is safe to say that social media has impacted our society.

Social media is constantly changing into new forms of communications that previously didn't exist. With social media, a user can meet someone from anywhere around the world and share life experiences and not have to worry about seeing each other every time they talk. Social media has connected peoples from all over the world and has made communities from peoples who have never met. People can lead a different life than they do in reality. Social media has enhanced people’s everyday lives by connecting one another lives. It’s evolving to becoming one of the standard ways of communication.

As a child is growing up everything they are exposed to affects their personality and shapes them into their own persona. The schools they attend, the television shows they watch, and the people they are around can influence their ideology of the world and their place in it. Some people view social media as a good way to distract their children and keep them entertained, but children should not be allowed to spend their majority of their time on social media accounts. Some parents may argue that they should not shield their children from the “real world” but it is important to reduce the amount of social media children are exposed to in order to reduce prejudice, avoid cyberbullying, and reduce the amount of inappropriate content they are exposed to.

    To begin, social media is intended for people to communicate with other people across the world through information, pictures, and posts. Even though this advancement in technology provides forms of new communication to the world's fingertips, it brought about many unintended consequences. The majority of people in the world use social

There are a lot things to do on social media for example communicate family who is far away or that you don’t see often, talk to your friends and just being informed. But people do not take in the consideration of social media not being for human relationship. Social networking is not always the answer. Social networking does have its downfalls. Downfalls meaning where is the eye contact where is the respect to one another and what about using the abbreviation for everything that social media allows. Why do individuals need approval from others rather than just being comfortable in our own skin; well that is just what social media does were looking for others approval on the way we dress, the way we look at others, and the way we should talk. In the road, it's very ordinary to see individuals utilizing their iPhones or cell phones, sending What’s Application or utilizing Facebook. You can see individuals doing that at the transport stop or on the underground, as well. Wouldn't it be ideal to peruse a book rather than this?

When social media became a popular marketing tool, I was hesitant to jump on the bandwagon. I thought that sitting at a computer and typing was too easy, and it was hard to believe that money could be made without face-face conversions with customers.

Many criticisms have been made on the validity of social media’s impact on activism because of its lack of the strong, personal bonds required in high-risk activism as in such prominent activist campaigns as the Civil Rights Movement. Social media is not as effective in creating a significant impact in social activism compared to actual riots and protests. It lacks the centralized,structured focus needed for effective social movements. Critics of social media and its growing impact would argue that the impersonal nature of social media does not promote action and personal sacrifice so much as it promotes participation in spreading the message of the cause and support of the values of the cause. The argument is made that “activists” on social media would rather “like a page on Facebook” or “follow a Twitter account” than risk their lives for the sake of their causes which is reflected in many statistics that show a low ratio between the amount of “likes” received on a page and the amount of action taken to aid in fixing the problem being presented; for example, the popular ALS Ice Bucket Challenge that became a world-wide internet phenomenon. According to the Charities Aid Foundation, only about 10 percent of UK participants involved in the challenge actually donated to the cause. Also, according to a study done by the business intelligence firm

While use of technology has contributed to a substantial part of one’s life, it has come with both good and bad ties. Technology has helped us create different forms of communicating with each other whether it’s through social media, text messages or phone calls. Social media has made it easier to connect with others whether they are close by or across the country. People use the internet for a variety of reasons including posting pictures of one’s life or to see how other’s are doing in their life. It is used to keep up with everyone’s life when one personally take part in it. A good use for technology is being able to use the internet to spread a movement and being virtually united with others. Malcolm Gladwell explains how the internet has been used toward activism and protests in his essay, “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted.” Gladwell defines the strong and weak ties about technology and social media being used for activism. He provides examples of how people are using social media to project their voice or spread their movement and how quickly it makes it’s way around the world. Although he makes an argument that social media may be useful to start a movement, he does feel that it doesn’t work as well for activism. Gladwell points out that social media has it’s weak ties when comparing the connection between two people through social media and the connection between two people that know each other personally. Sherry Turkle also makes the same