How Social Media Affects Our Lives

There are so many things that go on in this world, with this in mind think about how everyone gets their information; Media. The world is surrounded by people walking in the streets on their phones, sitting at a restaurant on their phones, even at work on their phones, do you see the problem? There are so many things that happen on a daily basis, but there are only a few people that can go thought the day without their phones. Phones are the next generation baby sitters. With news at our fingertips the speed at which news gets around is so shocking. Social media is how people get their information and strive through the day, but when is it too much.

“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.

In “Faux Friendship,” associate professor William Deresiewics discusses the affect that social media has on our society. Deresiewics originally published this piece in The Chronicles of Higher Education in December 2009, but this piece has been published in The Nation, The American Scholar, The London Review of Books, and The New York Times. Deresiewics’ attempts to convince readers that social media take away our ability to build relationships in person. Despite Deresiewics’ appeal to ethos and this rebuttal to the opposition, “Faux Friendship” should not be considered for Culture Comment’s top prize for persuasive essays due to its attack on the reader and overpowering assumptions.

Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Instagram, and Flicker was invented to keep us in touch and keep us closer to our family and friends. But according to How Facebook ruins Friendships “we took our friendship online” (Bernstein). First we began communicating more by email than by phone and then switched to instant messaging or texting. By joining social Medias online

When you are suffering from a debilitating addiction, it 's easy to feel alone, isolated, and frightened during recovery. However, the emergence of social media has helped connect the world in a way never imagined. And you can tap into these brand new resource as a tool towards fueling our recovery and regaining a life of sobriety.

Most of society is familiar with social networking on a global scale. It has become a popular, trending and now common way of connecting with people, be it close to you or far. It has also become the topic of some serious debate over whether this new way of communication is hindering us from our daily lives. In Kerry Coppinger’s work, “Phone Fetish: How Snapchat Is Ruining Your Life And You’re To Blame,” Coppinger is suggesting that social networking is hurting our society as well as our economic stability by limiting face-to-face interactions with other people, breaking down our self-confidence and using it to slack off during work. What Coppinger often forgets to mention is the positive affects it is having on the people of the globe.

Privacy is dead. We post our personal lives online without actually knowing the consequences. Viewing other people’s lifestyles online and how they can make it look very adventurous, makes one seem like they haven 't accomplished anything in life. This type of feeling makes it very tempting to put our personal lives online because everyone simply does it. The social sites that are used more often, due to a study that was done by Statista, are Facebook, Youtube, and Twitter. Surprisingly, Instagram is a bit further down the list. This place called social media is an information grabber. “Social media is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration,”(Whats), according to Whats.com. Once our information is on these sites, it becomes public information. Anyone that has access to the world wide web can easily become a reporter to your lifestyle. Having your information online can be a risk or a good thing, many people out there can use ones information to harm someone or to look after them. For example, athletes and other people are monitored in order to to see if they are maintaining the right image. In addition, there has also been many cases where people have commented crimes based on information found online. Some crimes have also found its way to social media, making it a great source for law enforcement to fine evidence. Privacy can also be lost online through any website that contains

Social Media such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube are web-based activities that provide individuals access to build a public or a semi-public profile within a confined system, connect and find users that they share a connection with as well as view and navigate the list of connections that are made by other participants of the systems (Boyd & Ellison, 2007). Social media is widely used by young adults contributing to about 84% of the total usage (Smith, 2011). Some of the popular reasons for widespread use of social media are staying in touch with near and dear ones especially with friends and family, making new friends, following famous politicians and celebrities and also in search of potential relationships (Smith, 2011). However as the use of social media becomes more widespread, we cannot help but express concerns over the effects that social media usage may have on our behavior. Over the past couple of decades, research has strongly linked social media usage with negative behavioral outcomes and is known to affect one’s overall well-being. This essay will begin by discussing some of the behavioral issues that result from social media usage, followed by criticisms of this argument. The recommendation will then highlight some ways by which the behavioural problems could be dealt with, acknowledging that self-monitoring and self-regulation are the main ways to tackle the issue.

The definition of iconic is very famous, well known icon or a widely known symbol. Social media is famous and can be considered a widely known symbol of popularity. Social media are websites and applications that enable users to create and share content, or to participate in social networking. Social Media is affecting our lives immensely. Sometimes the effect is positive, sometimes it’s negative. Where would we be today if Social Media hadn’t have been created? Would we be more or less social? Would we remember birthday’s or events on our own? Would there be less car accidents? No one really knows the answers to these questions. Social media is affecting our lives whether we are personally using it or not.

In today 's society, there are a multiplicity of tools derived from modern technology which has facilitated the form of communication among individuals. An example of this tool is none other than social network, the most powerful form of communication. Essentially, the world constant evolution over the years has triggered a high demand in modern technology and also changed the way humans interact. Social network, being the most influential weapon of our generation, has a great impact to impact in our lives both positively and negatively. Social network can be described as a computerized network created by society by individuals, companies, government, and many others to share information or interests, and also create ideas. In addition to, it can be used to find long lost family members, online dating, latest fashion trends, and as well as up-to-date news around the world. Social networking has become the fastest and easier form of communication among individuals across the globe. Subsequently, the shift in the social communicative landscape has resulted in the ability to get easy access to any social network account via cell phones, tablets, smart watches, and computers around the world. Today, many different news stations use social media to inform the public masses who necessarily have time to watch television. As a direct result, numerous fake news outlets whom use social networking sites such as Facebook to report fake news based on made up evidence. We are in the era

Prior to tackling this topic, I had some predetermined thoughts about the media’s role in coverage of police shootings. This led me to researching the psychology of the people involved in these events. While I thought I would gather plenty of data to support a conclusion, I was surprised to find that was not the case. There was not enough data for this paper because fake news is a relatively new concept in our society with very little conclusive data.

Cancer. The dreaded word no one wants to hear. It brings us feeling of loss, hopelessness, pain, and anger. Almost everyone I know has been affected by cancer in one way or another, whether it being losing someone to it, suffering from, or overcoming. We see it all over television, social media, newspapers when they think they’ve found another treatment, they’re a little closer to what they think might be the cure, or someone we know has won or lost their battle. It does not discriminate who it affects, black or white, old or young, in perfect health or terrible shape, it does not care. It destroys families, young children’s hopes and dreams, and so many other aspects of life.

Social media has changed the lives of many people. Social media has especially been integral in the lives of many, as it is now possible for relatives and friends from all around the world to connect with each other through sites such as Facebook and twitter, allowing them to feel closer. “Another national study described the internet as “a catalyst for creating and maintaining friendships and family relationships”. The internet and social media allows for people to connect with people they may not connect with otherwise or even connect with people from their past that they otherwise would not have connected with. Social media also allows romantic couples to connect even when they are not with each other. Unfortunately, along with the positives of social media come negatives as well. The article Relational Quality and Media Use in Interpersonal Relationships states, The important interpersonal skills needed to have a good relationship with a person may be changing due to the use of technology (Baym 2007). While social media requires some interpersonal skills, it does not require as much as when people communicate face to face. While social media can positively affect different kinds of relationships, it can also impede them, especially romantic relationships. Romantic relationships require great interpersonal skills.

As technology progress, humans evolve to the advanced technology and enhance our lives via technology. We connect to our families, friends and others through social media such as Facebook. Social media takes up a huge part in our lives. Social media infest us with information that are relevant and irrelevant to us. Marry Marrow wrote, “It was Facebook that changed the face of e-communication; in fact, it was the first electronic social media” (para 1). She assumes that Facebook is playing a huge role in electronic communication. In the journalist Maria Konnikova, “How Facebook makes us unhappy?”, Konnikova divulges many aspects of people on social media through researching and experience, and finds how social makes us unhappy. I agree with Konnikova findings after reading her article. In addition, she concludes that if you are engaged, active, and creative you will not sorrowful on Social media, however if you are passively browsing and defuse to engage, you will be depressed.

Paul Watzwalak was not only a family therapist, but was the composer of 5 axioms. The number one axiom Watzwalak discusses is that as humankind “one cannot not communicate.” This includes nonverbal communication such as proxemics, chronemics, paralanguage and haptics. The way in which we use space, body language, tone and time do indeed, communicate something in one way or another. Communication is not only evolved by our words. Furthering this recognition, social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and more lack a majority of these communication components. On a deeper level, interpersonal communication also revolves around these same components. So, if these components are lost can we still consider online interactions interpersonal? While the answer is truly situational, the majority of the time we should not consider these interactions interpersonal.