Impact Of Social Media On Society

Most Think that social media doesn’t have any negative sides. When you think of social media what do you think of. People who use social media don 't think about how it can beneficial or not. how about this if you asked your self what would it be like to not have social media. would you benefit from it or would you need it. Most importantly this paper is to inform the reader whether or not it’s inserting. Let start with this question, What is social media? A form of electronic communication (as Web sites and social networking) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos). Social Media comes to a point on whether social media has a positive or negative out look on people in general. Social media effects both on privacy, theft, cyberbullying, advertising and much more on social media. If do don 't believe me go on to you computer and try and look up positive view of social media and you will see that there aren’t any good thing on social media. The importance of social media and not just the positive and negative views. The important details are the Face to Face connections, Time Wasting. Isolation and privacy are another of many in the two main drawbacks of social media that you should be worried about when using it.

In 2008 Joel Garreau conducted interviews and wrote a piece titled "Friends Indeed" for the Washington Post. Garreau brings up possible dangers, minor inconveniences, and what truly defines a friend in the new media world we live in. I felt Garreau came across as jaded by most of the interviews he conducted. He did not seem to speak with a wide array of people that gave positive impacts social media can have, but rather focused on the negatives of the subject. Garreau did bring up valid points, however, from personal safety to the aspect of different people in your life seeing your different personalities. For instance your Grandma that you go to church with on Sunday 's is now seeing the pictures of you partying with your friends on Saturday night.

In this article, Malcolm Gladwell argues that in a network were loose ties are prevalent and Hierarchy is just a word, social media could never give what social change will ask for. He starts off by recalling the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement, were groups of dedicated individuals challenged the status quo, with crucially, strategic activism that led to a true revolution. Mr. Gladwell illustrates that there are a few distinctions that show between traditional activism and social media. One being that social media is not a hierarchy, instead it is a network. Secondly, his more compelling argument that social media is built on “Weak –ties” which rarely will lead to the high-risk activism that is needed.

Personally, I have always been a little late to the social media game. By the time I get the most popular form of social media, a newer, better version has been released. The first form of social media that I ever encountered was a website in 2006 called Club Penguin, where people could create penguins to represent themselves and go chat with any other penguin online at the time. While this isn’t what we think of as a social media website today, it had some similar aspects, especially in terms of the online connections. Club Penguin actually had a requirement at the time in order to protect the privacy of its younger users that involved your parent signing a form allowing you to use the website. They also had a safe chat for younger participants to use. After I got a little older and decided to move on from Club Penguin, my parents had me delete my account in order to prevent any potential privacy issues when I no longer used the website. I joined Facebook in December of 2009, and was once again a little later on the boat than everyone else. While I used it for a time, I found it rather boring after a couple years of use. Currently, I use it a lot more because I am in a sorority and Facebook is one of its main forms of communication. I also like that it connects me to friends and family from home. I don’t usually make the conscious decision to stop using social media, it just happens when I get bored. One of the only times I have ever intentionally stopped using a social

At the dawn of the millennium, a new social issue began to surface. As the internet rapidly gained international popularity, new branches of it were created. Currently, Social media dominates the internet world. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines social media as, ¨forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos)” (www.merriam-webster.com). The sudden rise of social media’s popularity sparked countless debates on how it affects our society. According to statistics, one out of four people in the world today use some type of social media, whether it be instagram, facebook, twitter, or more (Whiteman). Numerous studies were released on how social media is impacting the lives of people worldwide. The overwhelming evidence proves that social media, overall, affects people in a negative way.

Whether you are a child fresh out of the womb or a grandparent in the final stages of life, there is something for everyone in social media. It is convenient and allows us to easily keep in contact with our family and friends. As its use has increased, however, so has its power to mould our minds and damage our beings. We trust and rely so heavily on social media that we become oblivious as to how it might be affecting us. The dangers of social media have never been more apparent, so why do we continue to thrive on it?

Since we as a society are currently living in the age known as the Technological Revolution, chances are that in some form or fashion you are aware of and have been exposed to social media. Well, imagine a world where the use of social media became more structured and used to improve education as opposed to just being used for keeping in touch with friends and family, sharing pictures, and seeing how many likes you can get per post. According to the Business Insider Intelligence Report of 2014, social media is now the top Internet activity in the world, Americans’ specifically “spend more time on social media than any other major Internet activity, including email” (Business Insider). Considering this information, it is obvious that social media plays a vital role and impacts the lives of our nation on a daily basis. Some argue that its impact can be negative and a distraction to the educational experience of the younger generation. Regardless of your personal opinion, what if educators were to work with the use of social media for educational purposes. Since it is highly used, it would not only gain the learner’s interest but also would reach more people at large. Therefore, we should learn to better utilize social media in a more constructive educational manner.

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 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.

The internet has revolutionized the way in which people communicate. The proliferation of this medium of communication and data transfer has made it difficult to believe that only a few decades back, people had to wait for days and sometimes weeks for a letter to reach them. Today communication is a very quick process and it is the internet that has made it possible. The latest byproduct of the internet is what is called social networking. There are numerous websites like Orkut, Facebook and Myspace that are used by individuals to find their friends and stay in contact with them. It is impossible to ignore the impact that social networking has had on human society. This paper will study the different ways by which social networking sites have influenced society. The positive and negative effects of this cyber phenomenon will also be delved upon.

One of the most prominent areas of information technology present in today’s society is that of social media. Facebook users make up 62% of the entire adult population and Twitter users compose 20% of the population (Mobile Messaging and Social Media, 2015). Sites like these allow users to transfer information, in the form of social content, to the Internet community with no limitations. These sites also ease communication across great distances, allowing for a diverse audience for any information posted on such a site. Such a tool for information transfer is incredibly powerful in the hands of those who know how to use it.

In a few years our generation will be looking back on our youth saying “Social media is one of the biggest leaps made in our culture”. Social media has advanced the way communication is achieved through the way society shares knowledge. We are able to talk to anyone anytime just through a simple text or a Facebook message. We are able to communicate through technology in fast, simple ways knowing what everyone is up too through their never-ending tweets and posts. Though all the things may be true there is a bigger issue at hand, and this is causing great travesty. Social media is destroying communication and intamicy on a face-to-face level.

Traditionally, people used the Internet to simply expend content: they read it, they watched it, and they used it to buy products and services. Increasingly, however, people are now utilizing platforms–—such as content sharing sites, blogs, social networking, and wikis–—to create, modify, share, and discuss Internet content. This represents the social media phenomenon, which can now significantly impact how an entire movement is viewed worldwide. It’s difficult to comprehend in this day and age that social media could actually produce something positive and worthwhile, considering so much of the discussions are filled with arguments revolving around race relations, political ideologies, and violence. The social media phenomenon has people “plugged in” to twitter wars between celebrities, the latest political sound bites, and hashtags to use against one another (i.e #BlackLivesMatter vs. #PoliceLivesMatter). Yet, through the issues, there are social media platforms that promote positive expressiveness of one’s self worth and love. In relation to the body, the hashtag #EffYourBeautyStandards has created its own phenomenon within the realm of the internet. In times of body shaming, scrutiny, and being judged based off of a size on the back of a tag, or the color of your skin, or the lack of makeup one refuses to where, this hashtag promotes beauty acceptances and embraces the differences of every person.

Just imagine how the world would be if each individual did not have the ability to communicate with anyone. Everyone continues to live their life, but without communication. Interactions would be hindered and information planning would come to a halt. Communication is essential to everyday living. This is how interactions happen. Without interaction, what benefits are there? Businesses and organizations need it to better their prestige. Most importantly governments need to communication skills the most. If governments cannot communicate well with their citizens, a mutual trust is not built. Communication occurs in an abundance of forms.