Media Impact On Social Media

Suicide rates have increased in teens over the past few years. Along with suicide rates increasing, mental health of teens in general has been a widely discussed topic. A huge contributor to these issues is social media. Over the past couple of years, teens have been diagnosed with mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression at a much higher rate. These issues are prevalent for teens all over the world. The increase in diagnosis of disorders is largely due to the rise in popularity of many social media platforms.

With the proliferation of technologies, especially the Internet, social networking has become ubiquitous in the modern world. Social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter, etc. are the impetus that is ever facilitating rapid creation and exchange of ideas to promote and aid communication. 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 a 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 with the society. Social interactions have been defined to be an exchange among individuals with the aim of strengthening the society. Social interaction is building block in every society when people meet and interact; they define rules, systems, and institutions in which they will live by. On the other hand, social media is known as 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 human's skills to have

Social media is everything. We have it everywhere, facebook, twitter, and instagram. We use it constantly, everywhere we go we are always using social media. Every product, person, and idea has a way to be connected to a social media website. Viral videos impact the industry and society because we utilize it for product placement. If you have internet connection you can see how viral videos impact the content in the media, from dance moves to random memes and videos. The media industry includes social media by using it to their favour. Media industry is getting wiped out ot by social media. People get their news in every way. Whether live streaming from apps like

Social media has become a very prominent part of everyone's life, irrespective of the age group. While social media is very helpful and it is a necessity in everyone's lives, whether it has a positive or negative effect is a debatable topic. Social media definitely plays a very influential role on the psychosocial development of children and youngsters today.

Nowadays, social media is a big part of the American culture with approximately eighty-one percent of the US population using it(Edison Research). On average, people spend two hours a day on social media meaning the average American spends five years of their life on it. This in part has to do with the variety of platforms which equals more time on them. (Asano) The rise of social media began in the early 2000s with the start of Myspace and continues to grow. Today, we have various platforms including: Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, and YouTube amongst the most popular. These platforms provide a new way for billions of people to connect, communicate , and inform themselves amongst others at any time of day. It’s a new form of interaction where now the most social person sits on their couch, smart phone in hand, all day. People tend to say being online is toxic because of cyber bullying, hackers, and fake news; however, due to the increased access of ties between people and information, social media has begun to influence social and political change in a positive way through its power of communication.

Social media has become a prominent part of life for many young people today. Most people engage with social media without stopping to think of its influence on our lives, whether positive or negative. What will the long term effects of today's social media use be for our youth? Social media has revolutionised how most of us communicate, especially regarding young people, even in the most remote Indigenous communities in Australia youth culture is being reshaped through digital technologies. Young people are provided with a range of positive opportunities to maintain social connections and support via online social networks as well as learning and participating with a multitude of interests. Along with these opportunities there are also risks associated with social media such as social isolation or loss of privacy as well as cyberbullying and self-esteem pressures. We need to develop the opportunities offered by digital and social media to promote learning and wellbeing for our youth that is inclusive of young people’s input and ideas.

Social Media is can be a viable tool in many settings around the world. The most important tool that it can offer is networking and creating connections. According to Desreaumaux (2015), “to stay in touch with friends, to stay up to date with current events, and to share details of our everyday life” (para. 3) were often the reason for use of social media. A variety of social platforms can lead to a variety of uses. For example, many classrooms use platforms, like YouTube, to teach students in another way and often in a real-life context. Even on the same platform there can be a different use. Influencers, people on the internet with a massive amount of following, can promote a product to their followers and make money off of business. Agrawal (2015, para. 2) calls this phenomenon “influencer marketing” and this trend is likely to only increase.

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Over the last three decades, rapid growth and development has occurred in the area of information and communication technologies. Within the last decade particularly, the growth in prominence of social media and Web 2.0 technologies has had a dramatic impact globally on how people communicate. Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google_ and RenRen have the potential to become important disruptive technologies for building cutting-edge models of management education (Michael and Howard 2012). This rapid growth in technology had made the efforts to make things more challenging, dynamic and convenient as well. The impact is greater on the youth or particularly students. Students no more utilize or surf online they live their lives there. The ever-engaging behavior of students in social media had created various opportunities for different scientists to target them towards a thing.

Internet has permeated almost every aspect in the life of American adults (Thorson & Rodgers, 2006) and its adoption has grown significantly over the past decade. It is used for a wide range of activities which include shopping, keeping track of bank accounts, reading worldwide news and happenings and interacting with people through social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, among others (Cheong & Morrison, 2008). According to a report by Business Insider Intelligence (2016), social media accounted for nearly 20% of the total time spent on the internet and this has been growing consistently year-on-year.

Social media has become an essential part of life for many teens and young adults. With social media only getting bigger, it has grown to the point where it is effecting democracy. People have come to rely on social media as their source of news, which can be very one sided. If social media is the only source of news, it would dictate who the president would be every election. Twitter could have blocked Pro Trump tweets and only shown bad or misleading things if they wanted to. Some other things that could threaten 21st century American democracy are fake news articles, Trump’s tweets, and misleading “click bait” headlines.

Medium theory is concerned with the prevalent role that technology plays in a constantly changing society, shaping patterns of both culture and communication. Research conducted by the authors, compared how newspapers and blogs differ in terms of the characterization of social media, the framing of the Steubenville rape case, and the characterization of the perpetrators and the victim. The sample included newspaper articles and blog entries released December 2012 to June 2013, the period that corresponded with the nonjury trial of the accused rapists and the aftermath of the sentencing. Altogether, the sample included 44 newspaper articles and 34 blogs. The findings demonstrated there was no significant difference in how the two platforms characterized social media regarding the coverage of the case. Concerning the framing of the case, newspaper articles were 50/50 in their description of football players as American athletes with a positive or negative connotation. Personal blog entries were heavily leaning toward the negative connotation. In addition, blog entries also discussed victim blaming/slut-shaming as a societal concern and were more likely to mention rape cover-up by coaches, officials, friends of the suspect, etc. than newspaper articles.

The emergence of the smart phone, and the age of social media has been similarly disruptive in its effect on American political and social life as the television. Like the television, it too has increased social distance, but for decidedly different reasons. The great irony about Facebook, Twitter and other forms of social media is that the claim to bring the world “closer together” when in fact contributing to social isolation. This is because social media, created the concept of personalized news, which allows individuals to choose what information they receive. While at first this seems like a positive, and deserving of celebration, no more tyranny of the television owners, it actually is deeply problematic in that individuals tend to choose to receive all their information from like-minded individuals. As a collective, group tend to isolate themselves into their own echo chambers, because they do not want to be uncomfortable and have their ideas challenged. These polarized silos, occasionally referred to as safe spaces, limit public discourse and are very confining in nature, because people no longer confront others with different perspectives. It is in this modern world, of information bubbles, and confirmation biases understanding for those with different opinions has decreased. Rather than solving this system, thus actually contributes, to the oppression of religious, and racial minorities, as well as the economically disadvantaged because it is precisely this

Before social media, communication was limited to phone calls and letters. Then came multiple social media sites where the where the main purpose is communication. Social media has the ability to broaden our worldview and the ability to keep up to date on information. On the other hand, communication is now preferred by many people to be through social media sites and it’s affecting our interpersonal communication. Social media has changed the way we communicate with others and interact with the world around it, and it’s been both a negative and positive thing.

The media is a powerful tool in the twenty-first century. Media, the main means of communication, and the power of social media makes an impact on the world as a whole. In terms of the LGBT community, the individuals apart and not a part of this group can be greatly impacted by what people and the press say and do. Many of the stereotypes in this community are appreciable and promoted in the media. Through these, there is a great impetus at odds with everyone and anyone apart or leaning towards the LGBT community. In 2012, there were nine million people a part of this community, a number that has continued to rise (Gates). The number of people who are in this population group is hard to identify because the census currently does not ask about sexual orientation, thus it is hard to measure. Also since gay marriage was deemed legal in June 2015, there has been a great rise in the number of LGBT community members. The amount of bullying and harassment towards these people has also greatly raised which is where our problem begins. Since there is a persistent presence of this problem, the people who belong to this community, feel more and more threatened by the day. The ending to stereotyping of the LGBT community members in the press and from people, and the creation of laws and restrictions, would make people feel more comfortable being themselves in society, more willing to embrace who they are, and will improve the ethicality of stereotypes all over.