Persuasive Essay On Social Media

We now live in a world where social media has changed the way we interact with the world around us. At a young age we are programed to worry about how strangers view our lives and our decisions. People are worried about how many likes they get and social acceptance. Though these outlets individuals build their social foundations that will later become the building blocks of their careers. People tend to fall short excepting criticism, communication skills, and analyzing information.

Social media has been a topic of debate for years. Some people are strongly against any use of it while others like the instant connection it provides. A major concern over social media is the lasting effects it has on teenagers. Social media can affect teenagers through many ways including things like their self-esteem. Cyberbullying is a raging topic of discussion centered around teens social media use. It can also effect their people skills and create a lack of community involvement. Some parents think that watching what their children do on social media is an invasion of privacy but is your concern for their privacy greater than your concern for their safety? Social media poses a great danger to today’s children. It can affect many aspects of their lives.

Thesis: Stay in the present moment, don’t let yourself believe you’re going to forget a memory because you didn’t document it through social media.

Do you really have privacy when you send messages or post a picture on social media or is the government watching your every move? Social media has been around for over a decade and continues to grow. On social media people have the freedom to say what is on their mind, so why would the government need to overview everything said and done on the internet? The government wants control over its people. The first amendment gives us freedom of speech, but on social media the government overlooks every conversation you have. Although your privacy is being striped with the government breathing down your back, I do understand that sometimes it is necessary for them to check what people are doing online.

Guideline number two, for me, is kindness. It’s so unattractive to me when people tweet negatively about others in order to embarrass the victim. When someone does this, people think negatively about the poster of the content and most likely give positive affirmations to the victim. Not a good look.

Social media is a great outlet for sharing your personal pictures, ideas, views, thoughts and opinions. The ability to publicly express yourself gives other users two options: embrace and accept you, or to ridicule and ostracize you. As society continues to progress, it has proven that other people are much more like ourselves than we might think initially. Although social media can seem like the source of internet hatred and segregation, users have actually made great advances in the way they interact with one another, seemingly eliminating social division.

“The more social media we have, the more we think we’re connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.” -JR, a French artist. Social media and texting can decrease your social skills if all we do is spend time on social media and texting because if all we do is type and not talk we will slowly lose the ability to interact with each other. I challenge the decision to allow teenagers more access to social media and texting. Social media and texting can often cause distractions, lead to suicide, and loss of social skills amongst one another.

Over the past decade, social media has been a medium for people to communicate with friends and family, meeting new people, and letting others know what is going on in your life. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter allow you to dive into the world of those around you; allowing you to check up on what is going on in the lives of those you know. At first glance you’d imagine that there couldn’t be any flaws to these new ways of communication, at least that’s what we all thought when we first logged on.

Social media has become second nature to today’s younger generation, so why not teach it’s decorum in the classroom? Social Media is a very relevant and progressing entity. Studies have shown that teens log on to their favorite social media site more than ten times a day. The impact social media has on the adolescents of today is of great importance because they are developmentally vulnerable and are amongst those who use social media the most. According to Amanda Lenhart with Pew Research Center 71% of teens say they use more than one social media site and currently there are over 3 billion social media users worldwide. These number are higher than they were just a few years ago and there is a slim chance of them coming down. Social networking plays a great role in learning technical skills and expanding social connections, however there are also many dangers and things that teens should avoid. Teens will be teens, they will push boundaries and make mistakes but a simple mistake or bad judgement call can quickly ruin someone’s life where social media is concerned. Although not everyone agrees that social media etiquette should be taken to the classrooms and that it should be the parents obligation to teach their children proper social media skills, many believe schools should be required to teach a course on the dangers and etiquette of social media.

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram- social media sites were created for one sole purpose, the purpose of expression. Expression of one’s emotion, one’s appearance and one’s reality. In an article written by Peggy Orenstein, she writes about a problem we’re facing today; having the ability to post pictures and videos of anything, we are letting technology shape our lives. Constantly holding iPhones in our hands when hanging out with friends have changed our relationships among others. Are we slowly losing the grasp on reality and letting social media shape our appearances and emotions?

teenage girl decided it would be acceptable to send a provocative photo of her to a guy that she had a crush on in school. Since Snapchat photos merely last a few seconds, she would send it to him on there. Only he will see it, she thought as she clicked the send button. Minutes later, she received a notification stating that he had taken a screenshot of her photo. The guy convinced the girl that the photo would only be viewed by him. The following day at school, the girl began to be harassed, and it seemed like everyone knew something that she did not. A teacher pulled her aside and advised the girl that she had seen a provocative photo of her on a number of students’ cell phones. That photo she thought would be safe was now set out in the open for everyone to see. Social media will never completely ensure one’s privacy. Once a photo is made public to the internet, it is out there somewhere forever. Snapchat, the social media app, provides a false sense of security and privacy for its users. Temporary photography is utilized via this application to communicate with others. When a photo is sent on Snapchat, the user has the control of the amount of time that the receiver can view the photo, one to ten seconds. Then, the photo disappears on the smart device, but the other person is able to screenshot that photo and do what they wish with it. After a photo is sent out to another person, the sender has no control of what is done with the photo. Snapchat is a hazardous social

In the emerging age of technology, it is difficult to ignore the immense advantage that the Internet has to offer. It is thus without a doubt that social media is beneficial to activism due to its ability to spread information faster than ever before, and to a larger audience. A social media campaign is a beneficial resource for attracting activists to a cause because it is a useful mean for mass communication; it propagates global support (Starbird & Palen, 2012), and allows for recruit of marginal group members (Postmes & Brunsting, 2002). Specifically, social media facilitates the communication and connectivity of leaders to the grass root members, emphasizes group unity, and readily motivates the involvement of otherwise apathetic individuals (Gladwell, 2014). Although the legitimacy of this new form of activism has been doubted (Gladwell, 2014; McCafferty, 2011), it is difficult to ignore the overwhelming benefits that social networking has to offer. The valuable impact of the Internet can no longer be overlooked; instead, it should be embraced and implemented to its full potential to ensure the success activism campaigns.

I have chosen to write on the topic Media and Work because the press significantly affects our daily activity and is used by a large percentage of people. Social media makes one’s social life more visible to the world. Social media includes sites such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter and has been growing in popularity over the past years. The popularity has provided more opportunities for data collection by companies. The companies collecting the data require the critical focus on social media surveillance. Social media surveillance is surveillance of information in profiles from different social contexts. It has led to the exploitation of social media users and self-exploitation by the supervision as discussed below.

The Denver Broncos are one of the most successful teams in the NFL, with eight Super Bowl Appearances and three championships, to go along with 15 AFC West Division championships since their first Super Bowl appearance in 1977 and a Wild Card playoff appearance another seven times, and sellouts game after game. The Broncos also are known for being one of the most successful sports franchises in their sports marketing through the way they use social media. Other sports teams and someone seeking to promote a sports brand can learn from them.

The purpose of this memo is to inform the student body on local news throughout Clemson’s campus. Our intention is to provide accurate information to students and the public through social media platforms like Twitter, so we are able to relate more with our audience. Our goal is to provide the highest level of college news reporting for our readers at Clemson University. This news should represent Clemson University in a way that is honest and accurate for every member of the Clemson family.