How Has Social Media Impacted Society

Today’s young adults have a lack of communication with friends and family because of technology such as social media, video games or television. In our society, parlor walls can be seen as those commodities. The large flat screen tv’s or IPads are today’s enthusiast. “Social media in our country and the globalizing world has become the voice, eye, ear, heart, and memory of the individuals. It has aspects which strengthen, weaken and include communication between the individuals and also it provides convenience for time and place.” This, according to TNS Digital Life Research that carried out a study in 2011 and held 1.938.059.098 people that were online. Researchers were able to test how many people prefer to communicate through social media or rather be involved in some sort of social media instead of actually going out and interacting. These studies show and give a glimpse of how many people are more interested to spend time on social media instead of building new relationships. Bradbury’s society and our society and similar because of the lack of communication we have because of some aspects of technology that are similar, which are the parlor walls and social media, television and video games.

The impact social media has had on our society is staggering. A study from 2013 found that nearly two billion people around the world utilized social media. To put that into perspective, that 's one in every four person. Social media has spread from being a youth-oriented concept to one that even the elderly have accepted. People who couldn 't check their e-mail are suddenly connecting and sharing with friends and family around the world.

The 21st century is defined by its obsession and advancements in technology, the younger generation in particular. Technology plays as a key factor in most lives, social media especially. Among the most popular of social media are Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, all with the main purpose to share or view personal information and experiences, communicate with others and meet new people on social or professional grounds. There are several positives and negatives effects associated with social media, making it a topic of debate whether it is creating more good or harm for today’s society.

Barry Wellman, a sociologist at the University of Toronto who has analyzed social networks since the 1960s, says that today’s society believes the illusion that people spend their days interacting with a group of friends, engaging in community every day. This is not the case. The majority of people spend their free time sitting at home, alone, watching television (Jayson). Therefore, using social media actually brings the community closer together because people genuinely interact on these sites, as opposed to sitting at home watching television with no outside interaction. In fact, the writer from the Time magazine should be grateful that she even heard about her friend’s personal change, because if she and her so called friend were not close enough to call each other or meet face to face, the writer may have never heard about this change at all. This supports the evidence that social media does not break our community apart by limiting social interaction, but rather draws society closer together by providing a community centered activity where individuals can communicate.

People live in a world today where most communication takes place through a technological mediator. One of the most common forms of these mediators is social media. According to an article by Patricia Reaney, 62% of the population of 26 countries, including; the United States of America, Russia, Japan, Indonesia, and South Africa use social media. That means that more than half of everyone in some of the biggest countries in the world uses social media. The United States alone has over 300 million people, 62% of that being 186 million people. Anything that is part of the livelihood of that many people should be looked farther into for any hidden dangers or benefits. How does this much impersonal conversation affect what people’s real world interactions are? How does it change their mental thought processes? From message boards and private Skype calls to public posts and forums, how do all of these affect everyone? There is no inherent good or bad to social media’s affect on everyone, it is purely situational and what people themselves make it to be.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, our generation had prospered and became remarkably advanced in this world. Furthermore, the greatest journey of innovation would be to, our precious, advanced technology. First, we began with just cell phones, next smartphones, in which, then opened a door to all theses different types of upcoming apps. Few of these apps have become a major key in our society; such as Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat. These apps were as another form of social media. It had opened a whole new world for people twelve and older; enabling them to share and memories, stories, and updates of their lives to their “followers”. Moreover, this way of sharing your life with others had brought in keen, automatic listeners. Which inevitably had also spread awareness like wildfire; the good or bad news. Nonetheless, this form of social media had an immense effect on users’ lives. There were major consequences in social media that had affected our community and relationship. The children of our future were becoming illiterate, a there became a new standard of “love”, and a latest form of addiction. Within our generation of social media, this could be one of the most extensive downfall of the century yet.

The first form of social media that everyone can agree on, dates as far back as 1997, when Six Degrees was released. This form of social media allowed users to create a profile and friend other users. MySpace followed in 2003 along with LinkedIn, while Facebook and Twitter followed in 2004. Social media is continuing to take the world by storm and different forms of social media are constantly being created. Today, social media still has lasting effects on society such as cyber bullying, lack of privacy, and decreased productivity.

How does social media influence interaction in our society? Or how does social media reflects the manner in which individuals perceive certain things in our society? The scientific study of society is called sociology; it defines how humans relate and how they interact and come up with opinions that shape up the society. Humans interact by being social, therefore sociology analyses the changes in the social trend. Understanding the sociological perspective on the effects of social media, we find that the social aspect has changed. Comparing the past and present status of our society, it is obvious that there has been transformation which all points towards the evolution of social media. Social media has changed our culture and has impacted on the way people meet, interact and share ideas; it has changed the perception of how people should communicate in the society. Social interactions have been defined to be an exchange among individuals with the aim of strengthening the society. Social interaction is the building block in every society when people meet and interact; they define rules, systems, and institutions in which they will live by. Social media, on the other hand, is a platform that allows people to network and socialize through applications and websites that have been innovated. Though social media could be used as a useful tool to communicate with friends, family and even with people you do not know, however, researchers show that social media is absolutely harming

How does technology and social media have an impact on people, society, and communication? Technology has had an impact on people’s lives. Social networking has also become a popular way for people to communicate with each other. Undeniably, people all around the world are using social media and the number of users is constantly increasing every day. This plays an important role and has a profound effect on economic and communication development. Also, social media helps raise social skills for people. Therefore, social media has having an important role improving people skills and makes them become more diverse in communicating. So, people should learn to work with social media and use it to their advantage. However, social media has affected society and culture positively and negatively.

Social media is a new and upcoming part of technology. It is so state-of-the-art that researchers have only recently started noticing the effects and the true impact that it has on society. Unfortunately, social media has created a negative impact on society. Social media can truly impact one’s personal psychological thoughts, ability to perform work tasks, and capability to create relationships with others.

In the text “Not So Social Media,” Roxanne Henke gives her view on the way that social media is affecting behavior of people in real life social environments. It’s obvious that many people today use social media; Some would say that people use it too much. According to Manuel Castells in the article “The Impact of Internet on Society: A Global Perspective,” the number of social media users reached 1 billion by 2010, and has gone up drastically every year since. Henke uses personal experiences and

Social media has naturally become a huge role in modern day society. It is a simple way to outreach, communicate, share, or express personal opinions. The way to express these different features is functional through big name sites such as, Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. It is believed that nearly 2.5 billion people in the world will be using some form of social media in the year 2018, and 78% of the United States population has a social networking profile (Statistics and facts about Social Media, 2016). It is very apparent that a large number of people are using their personal accounts on their spare time, however, it does not only occur on their spare time. The only time social media can’t be accessed is when WIFI is unavailable, this meaning at a workplace, social media is very accessible. With the large amount of social media use, human resource managers must be aware of all the situations that could occur within their workplace. It is also important for HRM to understand the benefits and negatives of social media use.

Over 75% of all internet users use social media today. Eleven years ago, only 7% of American adults used social media sites. Social media is a type of online communication used to create, share, or exchange information available to anyone.Today, social media affects our lives in many ways; sometimes without us knowing. Social media sites affect education, society, relationships, advertising, job professions, etc. However, it’s not always for the best.

Social networking is a new and ever evolving phenomenon that has drastically transformed the manner in which individuals interact with one another on a day to day basis. We as a society have altered our narrow and limited ways of communication to an unchained worldwide social gathering through the use of the internet. This new wave of communication is based mostly within social media websites like Facebook, Myspace, and twitter. These websites allow the human race to instantly interact with anyone, at any time, living around the globe. It allows us to keep in contact with long lost relatives, friends, and to meet new people who we might have never met before. However Evgeny Morozov, Clive Thompson, and the Onion see social networking as a prominently negative but addictive plague on society. In their writings, they state how this social networking addiction divides us more than brings us together. How the fear of losing these online friends is greater than losing a friend in reality, and how online campaigns generally go unsuccessful due to the fact that they allow their followers to be lazy or slack off in their efforts to support the cause. It is easy to perceive the benefits that social networking has on unifying society, however its negativity is slowly gripping us in disturbing ways that are unnoticeable to the untrained mind.

Social media brought advancements to human communication, but the impact on how much it can reduce face-to-face communication is great. Through technological advancements, online communication, shopping, banking, and many more became easier to access. These are all advantages to humans because it allows them to process all they need through their mobile phones or laptops, however, social media brings some disadvantages to society. Although everyone wants the easier way of life, each improvement of technology reduces the amount of time people come out of their ways to meet with people.