As One Who Has Not Utilized Social Media, I Recently Took

As years progress, technology makes it possible for individuals, organization and companies the capability to create mobile apps and dynamic websites from home. These mobile apps and dynamic websites in turn simplify our lives in ways we could never imagine before. One of the most commonly used inventions, which can still be considered fairly new, are social networks. Social networks give people around the world the ability to communicate, stay in touch and meet new people online at the convenience of their own time. Many social networks were developed within the past few years but few if any target professionals only. LinkedIn gives a twist to social networking by focusing only on people in professional occupations that would like to

World Connection Question: Would you risk your relationship with your best friend in order to further your own self interests? I would not risk my relationship with my best friend to further my own self interests because in a true friendship, I would care about my best friend’s interests no less than my own. Unlike in A Separate Peace, I would not purposefully hurt my relationship with my best friend in order to benefit myself. Gene says, “Finny had deliberately set out to wreck my studies”(Knowles 53).

Social media can be a form of communication. Social media refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share, and/or exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks. Social media is about conversations, community, connecting with the audience and building relationships. It is not just a broadcast channel or a sales and marketing tool. There blogs, blogs are platforms for casual dialogue and discussions on a specific topic or opinion. There is also Facebook, Facebook is The world’s largest social network, with more than 1.55 billion monthly active users. Users create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including status updates. There is also Twitter, Twitter is a social networking/micro-blogging platform that allows groups and individuals to stay connected through the exchange of short status messages. Finally there is also Instagram, Instagram is a free photo and video sharing app that allows users to apply digital filters, frames and special effects to their photos and then share them on a variety of social networking sites. There are many more social media apps but these are like the main ones.

She’d go to my house whenever we had ramen for supper, sometimes just to piss off her parents. We’ve been pretty close since. I opened the message with a spoonful of chocolaty goodness in my mouth. I reread it at least ten times. I don’t know if I was confused, or just shocked.

Mayana Zatz, professor of Genetic at University of Sao paulo, was there for looking Taxi stand, and I show her where taxi stands and there were no Cab that time, I told her to call cab, she said she only have international cell phone, i told her where she is going ? where she is coming from ? she said she is a one of the speaker at the event of Brazil Conference. I told her I am going to call a taxi just wait few minutes ? same time i asked her about talk between Dean Nohria, Warren Buffett and Lemann, she said it is so powerful to know their knowledge and experience and give a way insight is amazing, she told me that she is PHD from UC Berkeley and teaching since then in University Sao Paulo, also doing research in the side, she has Doctoral

When analyzing your professional image, you should ask yourself ‘does my tone project a friendly and positive image?’, ‘Does my style express who I am in a positive light?’, ‘Am I using positive wording?’, ‘Am I communicating in a conversational style as to not be too formal?’, ‘Did I get someone to proofread my work?’.

My Facebook friends include family members and peers. I share a condensed version of my political beliefs and pictures my friends tag me in. In regards to pictures, I tend to know which ones are acceptable and try to avoid pictures that are not acceptable, as I know that employers and professionals can check my Facebook. Some challenges that I face with Facebook are my lack of activity. Rarely do I post to Facebook, but my family tags me often. I accept their tagging of me, but I do not often post any family events. LinkedIn presents a similar issue. I am not as familiar with LinkedIn and thus, never post anything. At the moment, I am trying to grow my LinkedIn profile before I begin posting or sharing anything. I have added friends and family connections, but I aim for the profile to be professional. Thus, Facebook and LinkedIn create an image of me as a professional. Yet, Facebook tends to have a personal note to

I am still confused on how she got my information. But I guess being somewhat interested in my studies around here gets people’s attention.

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.” - Herman Melville. There are a lot of things that connect us as a species and some of us cannot live fully alone or just for us. We need each others whether it’s a relationship, friendship, or simply an acquaintance, we need to look out for each

Selke has already played a significant role in helping me already develop my LinkedIn profile, however, more actions can be taken to improve my account. She has already stressed the importance of making as many connections on it and updating my experience for future employers. However, after reading the article, I made sure to connect with individuals I had not previously thought to be crucial contacts in aims of further developing my network. The majority of my LinkedIn connections have been my high school or college friends, therefore I created a virtual echo chamber. I did not attempt to connect with the adults I have experience working with which I now understand their importance. I now understand that these people I forgot about can serve as brokers or provide me with expertise or private information. Some specific examples of this would be my high school club advisor, who now works on the city counselor board. I worked with him on developing a bill proposal for months, which created established trust. Because this occurred a few years ago I never thought to add him on LinkedIn, but this article helped me realize his value as a contact. There were about five other connections like this in which I realized their value and therefore added them to the online networking site. LinkedIn is a valuable tool because it helps maintain weak-ties and displays which individuals can serve as a broker when searching

This morning I received a request to connect on Linkedin from someone who dropped my friendship like a hot potato about three years ago. I have not heard from this person since then and now they want to connect via some stupid online social network? I think it takes a lot of gall to do this. You don't bother even sending me an email or any kind of personal message to, gee - I don't know, break the ice! But you want to connect via Linkedin? No, thank you! I have no desire at the present moment to take up a friendship with you. Sorry, but I took you dropping me, when I really needed a friend,

I believe in the importance of making connections. Throughout my life I have found we live in a world where hate is strong. There is a tendency for us to look away from people who are not similar to us. I have discovered by reaching out and making connections with a variety of people, I have grown in the ability to understand others who are not similar to me.

Despite the fact that we’re already in the 21st century, society continues to show signs of progress and development strongly leaning towards the direction of advancement, constantly evolving. This pattern is no different from the world of advertising, as it has also evolved through the years and quite recently an unexpected technological innovation took the world by storm. It made such a tremendous impact that eventually led to the transformation of traditional marketing, and it’s no other than social media that we all learned to love.

What can society do to change the effects social media has on people? Is there anything out there? Yes, rehab is the solution to the ever-rising problem in social media. Now, I know this may seem extreme, but just hear me out before the idea become brushed off. Some may be asking rehab is for addictions, and that is correct but social media is an addiction. According to the Meriam Webster Dictionary the definition of addiction is, “[a] compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance” (Dictionary). Social media fits into the definition of an addiction; so why not treat it like one. "How to get rid of your addiction.” written by the Hindustan Times shows the steps on how to get rid of an addiction:

As someone who has lived here all of my life, I feel I can confidently say, Florida is a strange place. No, not because extended family in other states think we visit Disney World every weekend or wrestle alligators in our spare time, but for other reasons. For the record, I have not been to Disney since I was about twelve and could not be paid enough to even touch an alligator, but I have seen firsthand just how many strange people are here. Thankfully, there are hundreds of other brilliant people such as famed author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, actor Wesley Snipes, and physicist George Smoot, just to name a few, call Florida home to balance out many of the crazies. You don’t believe me though when I say that there are some strange people who live here? Take a visit to the South Florida Sun Sentinel Newspaper’s “FloriDUH” blog on their website, and see for yourself. Here are two recent noteworthy cases: