Media And Social Media

We live in an era ruled by social media, primarily when it comes to teenagers, social media is used for everything. From communicating with family and friends to being used as a news outlet, and even advertisement for business and companies. This article is titled “Social Media: What's Not to Like,” written by Alison Pearce Stevens. The topic of this essay is the effect social media can have on teenagers. Social media, on one hand, can be used as a great way to share with the world and boost teens’ self-esteem. On the other hand, social media can be used as a place for bullying, body shaming and can cause depression or even suicide in teens.

Older generations don’t realize how much technology has affected this generation of teenagers, along with the social media that comes along with the technology. As stated in “How Social Media Changed Teens’ Lives Forever”; “Negative posts or comments also can do great damage to a teen’s self-esteem.” (Ashley Black, Thomas Atseff and Colleen Kaveney) While many parents think social media is just a way to connect with others, many teenagers take it for granted. For example, “quitting social media because it made her miserable and obsessed with appearing perfect online”, is what a teenager felt about social media and what it has done to her. Though many think that social media is a great way to connect, teenagers take it to another level.

Social media influences a teenager's self-esteem because it can lower or boost their self-esteem. It can lower a teenager's self-esteem by having cyberbullies on the internet putting them down with their negative opinions of the teen which can also drive the teens to feel hurt, or discourgaed by letting others opinions get to them. Social media can boost a teenager’s self-esteem by having a lots of friends or followers, because they’ll feel cool and popular. It can also boost their self-esteem because if they post a selfie of themselves on social media and everybody is commenting on how pretty or how nice they look, they will feel

Social media in society today has an effect more than ever before. Many argue that social media platforms such as Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram, are crucial in self-representation among young adolescents. As Tettegah points out in her book Emotions, Technology and Social Media, “The site [Facebook] allows adolescents to formulate self-referential intentions as they engage in self-expression online”

Social media can be a great tool for utilizing modern communication techniques. Young people make up a large percentage of social media users. Teenagers frequently browse forum and imageboard websites to look at content they enjoy. Many different groups of people use these forms of communication to voice their opinion or advertise an important issue. Recently, the alt-right uses modern social media to spread their extremist ideals and opinions. The article explains that many young people are in danger of going down the extremist path, due to the alt-right's use of propaganda in the form of memes and other teen friendly media. While the alt-rights reach has extended to more young people, the actual effect of the propaganda is not as severe as some may believe.

The advertisement is successful in communicating to its targeted audience of social media users as it utilises symbolization of the Facebook ‘like’ feature (semiotic) in the form of thumbs-up gestures. This appeals to social media users as the audience is aware of social media philanthropy, which have enveloped first-world countries. However, in the ad, the thumbs-up is exaggerated ironically in contrast with the situation. This is constructed as to portray how minimal support from the audience is provided to such crises, contradicting the gestures presumed purpose. The rhetorical effect of the thumbs-up gesture is amplified by repetition, and the repeating elements expand the effect of the thumbs-up image. The numerous amounts of the thumbs-up icon indicate the many hands of a widespread audience on social media access information about the crises, but instead of taking action for the improvement of the crisis they perpetuate the leisurely pleasures in their own lives. This provokes a feeling of guilt (emotional appeal) in social media users as they are the ones who are virtually imitating this act; this advertisement is similar to a knife piercing through the hypocrisy of social media users of attempting to associate with a good, but not really making any effort towards the improvement. The amplification produced by the repetition of the thumbs-up icon also develops satire towards Facebook philanthropy, indicating that the audience publicising crises is not actually

Social networking sites create an unspoken competition between users which will cause them to experience low self-esteem. For instance, people compete for social capital: relationships with people among a society. Jacob Silverman stated, “If I don’t get ten faves in the first three minutes after tweeting something, I’ll probably just delete it, an amateur comedian told the wall street journal…What the comedian really fears is the loss of followers and social capital” (Silverman 25). When people post on social networking sites and their tweet, status, or picture doesn’t evoke a response within a certain amount of time the author will feel unnoticed by their peers. This “unnoticed” fear causes a decrease in self-esteem because the author

With the state in which our media has portrayed the definition of beauty and the wide spread of information through social platforms, we as a society have long begun to cast social pressure and shun those that does not fit the ideal image. The problem that comes with such pressure, especially within adolescents, a stage in psychology in which Erik Erikson describes as crisis during adolescence and the development of self identity (Angel Oswalt, 2010), the projection of a perfect body has lead many teenagers to develop eating disorder which according to Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD, 2012), around 95% percent with such disorders are in the ages of 12 and 25. Eating disorder is not the only problem that social media has an effect on body image, people go through extremes to achieve that ideal image, going through depression, body dysmorphic, and binge eating. Given the tremendous pressure by the society, many male and female alike feels the pressure to be at a certain shape to be part of the society. In a conducted survey of 185 students in a college setting, 58% felt pressure to be at a certain weight, 83% has dieted and 44% were at an average weight (ANAD, 2012). Bullying is a social behavior in which causes a person or group of people to harass, terrorize, intimidate or cause harm to a victim or group of victims by using superior strength and influence. With modern technology, such as computer and smartphones, being bullied are no longer confined

The internet has allowed for the creation of social media. Today, “69% of the public uses some type of social media” (Pew); and as we’ve seen, celebrities use social media, too. Social media has even been known to produce celebrities in its own right – in other words, individuals have become famous strictly through means of the internet. People may envy the lifestyles of the rich and famous; or they may feel a sense of connection. But, passive envy or interest in the lives of celebrities does not stop there for some. Sometimes individuals become fanatical and develop a rich adulation for one or more celebrities. In fact, in 2002 the Celebrity Worship Scale (CWS) was introduced by McCutcheon, Lange, and Houran (Sansone R. and L.). Findings reveal that celebrity worshipping individuals often display psychosocial characteristics such as sensation-seeking, cognitive rigidity, identity diffusion, and poor interpersonal boundaries (Sansone R. and L.). They have concerns about body image and are more prone to cosmetic surgery (Sansone R. and L.), which in countries like the United States may be influenced by an overwhelming obsession with beauty and appearance. “It is not surprising that a society that once used skin color to determine social status should continue to emphasize the superiority of specific physical traits and to encourage people to acquire these desired traits through plastic surgery” (Haviland et. al. 289). Intense celebrity worshippers also have a higher chance of

Everyone in this world is a part of their environment. Everything in their environment as an effect on their behaviors. The way people are using social sites like Facebook isn’t always good, that could be a reason on why some of these shootings are getting outrageous. Social media is the number one behavior changer. Social media has changed the way people shop, the way they eat, their appearance, their relationships, and the way they educate themselves. It isn’t bad in most ways but it’s the way people make it to be.

We are now living in the technological era of smart phones, Apple products, and social media. Throughout the Generation Like Social Media Documentary, frontline propose the perspective of social media as an evolving marketing method of likes, share, and retweets. Each like, share, or retweet ranging from their favorite brand, product, or celeb represent themselves creating their own unique identity which in term is used by companies as a marketing approach to reach teens and receive profit. Furthermore, with the advances of social media a digital revolution has begun in which frontline seek awareness on how children don’t understand how companies use technology and teens for their own gain.

With the discovery of technology, social media soon followed and became the next worldwide phenomenon, and the newfound freedom in posting whatever you want at any time of the day has changed social media to be a tool for multiple aspects of life. Through social media people are able to freely post their opinions about any topic at any time of the day. This freedom can be a bad thing when it is taken advantage of, but it can also be used as a tool for different people such as; businesses, authors, and politicians. Although people’s opinions may be irrelevant in some situations, it can be used as a tool to better the quality of customer service or other departments in a business that could be improved.

Social media has become one of the fastest ways to send an important message to the world. There has been many ways to send a political, social, or even economic message to the public. This generations practice with social networking has shaped how we send important messages. This message found in a Salvation Army advertisement from Adweek, shows a horrifying reality to the 2015 trend. This picture was a selection based on the message relating to all ages and its unique usage of social media. Important issues are often posted on sites that get frequent attention. Apps such as Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr are few that have constant controversies. The primary message of the image is to change society's view of domestic violence

The effects of mass media and social media have changed the way people have experienced presidential campaigns in many ways. With the development of new technologies through the last hundred years many different ways of experiencing the campaigns have taken place. Newspapers, radio, television, internet and social media websites have changed the ways we all have experienced elections.

There are now many social media companies around today, in which most are available for users and companies around the world 24/7. Some of the main ones being Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.