Persuasive Essay On Social Networking

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.

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.

“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.

“A Study released in July in the Journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking has included that the time spent on social networking can have psychological implications”(DNews 1). Therefore, even though social networks create a healthy impact on the way businesses are promoted, get news and also meet new people or reconnect with others, it also is an unsatisfactory influence in our lives since we isolate ourselves from those around us and predators steal our personal information.

Within our society, the internet has become the norm and is always present at the tips of our fingers. To present your ideas or share your thoughts on things around you, Twitter is the go-to app that is the most popular for these kinds of things. When you post something on Twitter, to announce to your followers/friends, you are tweeting. Tweeting lets you connect, express your feelings, thoughts, release information, and much more. We are so attached to our phones and twitter that we are more invested in others’ lives than our own. And tweeting usually leads to complaining, making us think our lives are miserable and sad. Since we are so invested in Twitter and social media, we are willing to give out information about ourselves to complete strangers, which can sometimes be a bit too much. However, Twitter has a character limit of 140. To what extent does tweeting, which consists of only 140 characters, have on how we communicate and our behaviors? When socializing on Twitter, it allows the individual to be whoever they want to be. Based off of their identity online, these individuals are able to express their feelings and reveal certain things about themselves, while excluding others. Being online, behind a screen, allows us to create a new identity, and what we say or tweet is usually catered a certain way to match what our audience wants to hear or would agree with. Due to the limit of 140 characters, this resulted in the change of grammatical sentences to the use of slang or abbreviations. To shorten up what we want to convey to our audience, we would use abbreviations so that there are fewer characters. This would sometimes result in the change of meaning and give off a more unfriendly tone. To communicate with others as well, we tend to use slang, which makes us sound cool and trendy. Twitter, which was an outlet for all these changes, affected our communication online and offline. Since social media is a big part of the youths’ lives, how we communicate online with our friends and our audience follows into the real world as well. For example, the slang for “going to” is “gonna,” and without realizing it, that is what we say to each other and sometimes, write in our English essays as well. Whatever

Internet started roughly about 30 years ago by the World Wide Web. However, the first social media came out circa 20 years ago. The name of it was Six Degrees and it was created by Andrew Weinreich in the 1900’s. Six degrees had the capabilities of uploading a profile, making friends, and sending messages with family and friends. Nevertheless on 2004, Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg, a 19-year-old who created the biggest social media that changed the world. Till this day, Facebook has reached up to 2 billion users and still counting. Nonetheless, most users are from their teens to mid-40s, that have the capability of spreading information across the globe setting a chain reaction that created and spread fake news. “Fake news is easily spread through social media to large numbers of people who are willing to believe and share the fictional material." (Brennen 169-172) According to Gretel, “In the midst of a “nationwide debate over the proliferation of fake news on social media sites – and, as one 2015 study by the Media Insight Project shows, at a time when nearly 9 in 10 Millennials regularly get news from Facebook – the numbers, at first glance, may point to a bleak, uninformed future.” Therefore, teens need to use social media to disintegrate some of the repercussions of news.

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.

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.

Social media: like, tweet, favorite, save, retweet, love, share, post, snap, comment, subscribe, follow, notify, blog, chat, hashtag, tag, troll, and poke. An entirely new vocabulary was created. Snapchat your grandma, pin a new recipe, tweet your celebrity crush. The possibilities are endless. But is it really that great? People lie about where they’ve been, what they’ve ate, and even who they are. Everyone should permanently abandon social media because it’s destructive to the user’s health, it fosters the use of screens as a crutch, and hinders productivity. Some us social media because it’s fun. But the fun factor should depreciate once the health risks are taken into consideration.

Each day a total of 1 million new active social media users are added into the virtual que, which can translate to about 12 new users joining each second. The use of the social media has only grown over the years since a website called Six Degrees became the first recognizable social media site to hit the web. This site allowed a user to create a profile and add friends, much like current applications such as Facebook and Instagram. In continuation with that statement, current applications beat its predecessors by adding in blog commentary, comments, likes, and shares to enhance the experience. These applications are what drives people to use social media sites. The reasoning behind this is to indulge and connect with people by the way of instant contact through a virtual interface. In today’s world, people should spend time in social media to stay connected with the others, to participate in one’s community, and to advance a career or hobby.

Although social media has made society more connected than ever, people are also more alone than ever. An article from Forbes states, “Surprisingly, those who report feeling most alone, are those you’d expect it from least: young people under 35 who are the most prolific social networkers of all” (WomensMedia). This is because the 35 and under age group is the generation with the most technology. The more technology, the more alone people feel. Social media makes it incredibly easy to stay in touch with people, while also keeping distance. Most people find this easier and start to rely on social media and lose their real-life friendships, while becoming more alone by the minute.

I am writing to inform you about the endless possibilities that could be obtained by, acquiring a computer, purchasing Internet services, and getting you connected to the web. Today, technology influences all aspects of life. With the many advances in computer software, you are able to do things right from home. You are able to stay in touch with long distance relatives via the web,able to program and view security surveillance over owned property from your smartphone. You are even able to work from home, which will save you a lot of money. No more will you have to live in this knowledge gap, unable to acquire information like the rest. You will become more proficient and more marketable.

Twitter is an online social platform that connects people from all over the world. It is one of the largest online platform alongside Facebook and Google. Twitter is a very flexible platform and it offers wide range of usage ranging quick news access to marketing and promotions to general communication medium. Thus, being able to interact on Twitter successfully can be a very useful skill. There are four steps in using and engaging on Twitter and these are access Twitter, create your Twitter Account, set up your Twitter account and finally, interact on Twitter.

Do something quick, think back to the last time you were on your cellphone. I bet it wasn’t very long ago, now was it? We use our cell phones all the time and to do just about anything. That doesn’t mean we’re obsessed with our phones, right? Well, maybe it does. On our phones we find different apps. Some apps we use all the time, others we only use when we are bored. By the end we will map out who uses social media platforms, what being obsessed means, and how these sites affect us.

" Did you observe what was on Facebook last night about the fight," yes it was such a cyclopean scandal I took screenshots," but were you able to complete the essay due today for English." oh no I totally forgot."