Persuasive Essay On Social Media

Ever since I was little and did not know how to do basic things like walk, talk or solve an algebraic equation. Naturally I would get discouraged and would not try to do it again. However, my parents effortlessly raised me, had encourage me to keep going. That I would get what I wanted if I put my heart into it. I’m not spoiled like Simon sinek would say we were raised with bad parenting skills.; my parents did not argue with my teachers over a stupid grade or to force me intro honors class room.

Social medias have become a big part of our society now, they are being used in all aspects of our life. We are connected twenty-four hours a day, at work, school, home, shopping etc. There is a necessity, a need to be connected to these social media’s, to feel like you are a part of society. With these growing numbers in being connected to social media’s on the web, there comes a growing desire for privacy and safety. In this paper I will discuss and analyze the social media’s themselves, the dangers that arise from them, and how all these correlate to privacy.

Over the years’ social media has become increasingly popular. More people from different age groups have been taking part in accessing social media. I believe social media has become a big part of our culture today. I remember years ago when I was younger, social media wasn’t as popular as it is now. As the years have gone by, I see more and more people using social media for everything they do. It ranges from younger children who have internet access to older people such as parents and even grandparents. Social media has become a form of communication, a way to interact with friends and family, and an outlet for people to express themselves. Social Media has become so popular that future employers might even get the urge to search a possible candidate’s social media and look through personal information. In my opinion, it is an invasion of privacy and would develop a one sided opinion of the candidate.

Up until May of 2017, you could call me an addict, enthusiast, fanatic, fiend, follower, junkie, or even a devotee. My fixation: social media. This particular hobby is wildly popular among my peers; those older, those younger; and even my parents. I tasked myself with going cold turkey. I decided to quit this down right waste of time and try to discover what life is like when I stopped looking to my phone for comfort.

Over the course of many decades the technology the world once knew is now turned into a way of life that has taken over the country. Not only do people spend up to 50% of their day on social media, but it is taking away from the fundamentals of life itself. The society that our parents grew up in can not compare to the life kids are living in today. Instead of posting selfies on Instagram kids were outside playing at the park with their friends in person, rather than through a screen at home. Today's society is in a corrupt state due to the fact that people of all ages are spending at least half of their day consumed by a portable screen causing them to lose family time, connections with their friends, and sense of personal time.

When it comes to sharing photos on social media, most of us agree that it is a way to share your life with friends, family, and even strangers. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the on the question of which social media platform is best for sharing photos. Whereas some are convinced that Facebook or Instagram is the best way for sharing pictures, others believe that the handle Flickr has its benefits. Many do not know about Flickr, but the photo sharing site has all of the advantages of Facebook and Instagram; users are able to use hashtags, write captions, and share photos with friends, family, and even strangers. Unlike Facebook and Instagram, users of Flickr have the advantages of storing photos and videos for personal and professional use. The social media site, Flickr, has been easing storing and sharing since the early 2000’s.

History shows that BuzzFeed has consistently been popular across many of the most commonly-used social media platforms. In November of 2016, BuzzFeed’s Tasty (the popular cooking channel and one of BuzzFeed’s 4 main tabs on their homepage) partnered with RITZ Crackers to help increase store sales during the popular holiday shopping period. The videos featured Tasty’s unique aesthetic for step-by-step recipe videos, shot from above to show what someone would see when cooking. RITZ utilized Facebook’s advertising tools to reach a specific target audience (Facebook Business). According to Facebook Business the campaign achieved:

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

Instagram. Facebook. Snapchat. Admit it, you know you have one. Chances are you are probably logged on at this very moment, even as you read this paper. Social networking sites such as these have become such a regular part of daily life that they have probably become part of your daily routine: wake up, check Facebook. Shower, check Facebook. Drive to the store, write about it on Snapchat. While Facebook and Snapchat are easy ways to communicate with friends and family, few stop to consider the implications its usage may have for them in the future, or the hidden dangers of having an account. Besides the total loss of privacy that comes with these networks, they can also affect your eligibility for employment, allow unknown predators access to private information, and impair people's’ ability to handle real-life problems effectively. People should delete their Facebooks and their Snapchat, take a break from cyber life, and rejoin the land of the living. It is not so bad out here.

Not only is most of the world on social media, but many of the users are addicted to it. Checking social media has become a habit and part of many people’s daily routines, especially teens. Most studies are based around teens, because they are the most frequent users. In fact of the ninety-five percentage of teenagers that are on the internet, eighty-five percent of them are on social media (Marwick and Boyd 1). With the colossal amount of new and ignorant users, there is bound to be a plethora of issues to surface. This brings a large factor of immaturity to the table, increasing the intensity of all issues. Wray Herbert, a journalist of psychological science, writes in his blog about the teenage brain that adolescents “lack judgment and the ability to weigh future consequences” (1). This basically means that they perform actions based on impulsivity, without thinking how it will affect themselves and others involved. Teenagers have a hard time controlling this behavior because they are at a time in their lives where they make mistakes and have to learn from them. The easy fix would be to just delete all your accounts, right? That is the theory that many people think is the answer; however, they are wrong and it can be easily disproved.

How many times have you liked a picture about a cute puppy, but scrolled past the children in Romania, who are homeless? This simple question is not meant to make you feel bad. Thousands of Americans do this every day when they are scrolling through Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The real question, however, is why do we, as a society, tend to “like” the cute things, like the puppy, but ignore the real-life problems in the world, such as orphan children in Romania, a hot topic as of late. The answer is desensitization. Desensitization sits heavily in researcher’s stomachs when they see that most people like the happy family story, but cringe and don’t bother to click on the link to the War on ISIS. This is why social media is not a good outlet for people to display their lives. Social media gives an unrealistic expectation to how lives should be lived when all that is seen on Facebook is the “together” family, and not the “broken” family.

In 2003 the Sudan government enacted a genocide against Darfur people that so far has resulted in 300,000 murders and two million displaced people. The genocide started because of decades of neglect and oppression in the west region of darfur in sudan causing two rebel groups to rise up against sudan's government. The sudanese president, Omar Al-Bashir countered the rebellion by using an allied militia called Janjaweed in a movement to destroy civilians of the same ethnicity as the rebels the darfur crisis was officially considered a genocide by former U.S. president George W. Bush, but even with worldwide efforts the genocide never ended. Recently the violence has spread to other parts of sudan with its presence on social media growing to. The effectiveness of social media campaigns for Save Darfur through twitter and facebook never lived up to its possible potential no matter how important its cause is.

James Madison, the father of the constitution, created the first amendment to protect the rights of the citizens by allowing them to have their freedom of speech. People finally had a chance to express their thoughts on the government without having the fear of being arrested. But how has the use of this gift of freedom change over time? Before, freedom of speech has been used only by the press to get the news out in the world, informing everyone the truth of what is occurring around them. Now thanks to the invention of social media, anyone, anywhere could get their thoughts out on the internet where anybody could seen them. Social Media is the technology that has been growing rapidly since 1999. Starting out as a way for people to communicate with others, Social Media has become as an addiction for people as teens with their phones. People started expressing their views on this world in the name of freedom of speech, not knowing the limits to where they should stop. What many social media users don’t realize, is that they are allowed to share their thoughts and beliefs, but should be aware that they might be hurting others out there who don’t view something in a similar way. The article, “Social Media and Free Speech, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly,” states that, “when they express these more extreme views, or attack other people, that offense can be taken…”(2) Through social media people are starting to attack one another, cause their victims to go into a thick fog of

As young people looking to start a career in public relations or other communication fields, it's important to create an active social media presence that appears professional and still gives an idea of who you are. It can be hard to separate the personal and the professional on social media sites, so here are some tips to help you figure this out, before your next post.

Social media is a vast part of people's life in the 21st century. Social media allows us to connect with other parts of the world, obtain news, and see what celebrities are doing. One phenomenon about social media is how it saves life's. Also exposures to areas hit by natural disasters such as flooding, tornado, and earthquakes just to name a few. The use of social media has given people a new way to help in relief efforts. Their is some reason why social media can actually hurt relief efforts to. in times of natural disaster and other crisis social media is a major help to relief efforts. (Add more )