Snapchat's Impact On Elections

“Social media is about sociology and psychology more than technology” says technology analyst and award-winning author Brian Solis. This quote is the basis of Snapchat and the exact reason to why it is the perfect app for teenagers.

How presidential candidates present themselves in the media can be proven to impact election results dramatically. Political figure using social media did not start to become more common until after the 2008 election because Twitter and Facebook were just recently created, but by looking at data from the past two elections it shows that the news presidential candidates put on their social media can correlate with how people will decide to vote. After researching what topics political candidates post and how they present themselves in the media with election results it can be established that a candidate’s presence in social media can have an impact on how people might vote in an election. “By 2008 candidate websites were standard and campaigns

More and more people are getting their news from social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Tumbler and many more, and candidates are using this to their advantage. This election is probably one of the first were candidates have actually used social media sites as their direct communication line to potential voters. Social media today had gone from gossip and family pictures to a location for political strategy. Thanks largely to trumps regular social media first declarations and its actually working particularly with the younger voters. A study released last year from the Pew Research Center that Marissa Lang cited showed that “Among 18- to 29-year-olds, nearly two-thirds said social media is the most helpful means of learning new things about politics.” (Lang, 2016). Even if the candidate isn’t the one posting the video or message in the end it will still end up on social media. For example, Trump had announced his plan to ban all Muslims from entering the united states in South Carolina not on social media however it found its way there and spread like wild fire. This sent those who were outraged to respond in disgust and those who encouraged it to share it so that their friends could see and so on and so on. Even if those who shared it did it to

76% of teens use social media of these 71% use Facebook, 52% use Instagram, and 41% use snap-chat. This is about teens who are always on social media and not getting off their phone, and who do not make true friends offline. We should not not be on social media all the time because it could ruin your friendships.

Now, it’s easy to point to kids and teenagers and say, “you kids and those smartphones!” However, if you go back you’ll notice that I didn’t specify an age group. While kids and teens ages 8 to 18 spend 6-9 hours a day in front of some kind of screen, “… just over an hour of that time (1:11) is spent on social media,” Jordan Shapiro of Forbes said. What’s interesting is that 18 to 34 year olds spend 3.8 hours per

Apps like Instagram can be a fun apps that lets you texts, facetime, and make lives with your friends, but most of the time it is not always as it seems. Teens are getting more and more obsessed with apps like, Instagram, Snapchat, Oovoo, Twitter, and Facebook. 94% of the teens all over the world use apps everyday. Teenagers spend about 9-10 hours everyday on Social media, so in a week they spend about 45 hours just on Instagram, and Snapchat. Social media is not a great idea because of, depression (have a lower self of esteem), cyberbullying (cause to commit suicide), and accepting strangers (kidnapper, pervert).

A recent emphasis has been placed on the new version of Snapchat, a social media network that allows people to communicate by sending a ten-second picture or video to any of your friends that you have added to your account. According to this application’s new terms of services, Snapchat now has the right to use “any and all account-holders names, likeness, and voices in any and all media and distribution channels for any reason,” and may “review, screen, or delete any ones content they have sent or received through the application. Most people, especially teenagers who commonly use social media, do not pay attention to these terms and services and are granting rights to websites to basically track their

Along with political opinion, many people have different presidential candidates that they would like to be becoming the United States president while the other will not agree. The first amendment does allow free speech along with the others. Without it many filters of communication would not be available to us. Today’s youth is made up of social media, living, breathing, and sleeping alongside social media. It’s the base or a place we feel like we can truly belong to and to be with people we know or have mutual friends with. “In a day and age where teens are sending Snapchats instead of passing handwritten notes and "selfie" has become a regular part of our vocabulary, there 's no denying that social media are impacting the way teenagers view themselves” (Pyle Par. 4). Social media affect how teen see themselves and how they act. No one wants to be behind on what everyone into while a very small percent still enjoys being different than the others. Social media ruin the way to read actually paperback books or student doing their homework or studying with the technology now we are all are attached to the point where we cannot let go of it.

Social media has become an outlet for teenagers to communicate constantly, monitor each other’s lives, and control what they want others to see. As social media is becoming more and more popular, more teenage moral panics are occurring. A moral panic is defined as the “fear of a new technology’s or cultural form’s negative impact outside of parental control.” (Jackson) Throughout these past few years, there have been an endless amount of teenage moral panics. Snapchat is an application that has caused a great amount of controversy. With the Snapchat application, you get to control how long the person you send a photo to can view that photo before it disappears. The problem with this is that you can take a snapshot of the photo before it disappears. Snapchat has become to be a teenage moral panic; more specifically Snapchat “sexting”, which is “the act of sending sexual messages and pictures to another person through phones or the internet.”(Klower) On Snapchat parents cannot control what their teenagers are sending and to who their teenagers are sending pictures and videos to. Therefore, teenagers feel a sense of privacy, and use the application to sext, which can lead to various negative behaviors.

“Mom please, please, please can I have Snapchat!?!” Asked Harley. She was 14 and was in 8th grade at Aspen middle school. She was pretty much the only person in her grade that didn't have any sort of social media. She looked at her mom with her big blue puppy eyes. “For the 10th time today no Harley!” Said her mom in frustration.

Being a freshman on a small, residential college campus, I not only experience the effects of Snapchat, I quite literally live them. Since I was thirteen, I have moderately

One good thing about social media is that it also allows us to create our own media. I have worked alongside teenagers in my mentoring internship as they create powerful counter narratives in the form of media to fight back against these impossible standards. I love working with teenagers. I think they are mobilized, passionate, excited about little things, and they want to make a difference in the world. Sometimes, though, they inherit the trauma of generations of people who have been

Snapchat and facebook affects the lives of so many teenagers and their day to day life. Snapchat is an app that allows teens to take pictures, and share them with their friends and unknowingly the world . It also allows them take screen shots ,take videos, and send them with a limited amount of time. Like snapchat facebook is another effect on the lives of teens today. Facebook allows you to create your own profile/page where u can be whoever or whatever you  want. It also  allows you to send messages , watch videos ,and write status about  how their feeling or what their doing.

The social media sites that these kids have access to is ridiculous. They have twitter, snapchat and instagram and it's either one of them that a child would be on if they are on there phone. The only

Throughout the past two decades, social media has become a prevalent tool in one’s life for purposes such as social interaction from a distance, easy accessible information, and personal satisfaction from its entertainment. Facebook introduced photography in social media, Twitter’s purpose was to have a status consisting of short, written expressions, and Instagram introduced filters into sharing photos and videos. Due to technological advances, each of these companies have been able to change society’s use of social media overtime. However, one hot and new company has been able to technologically disrupt the social media industry by giving their user a tremendously different experience with digital interaction.