Social Media And Its Effects On Society

Social media has become deeply embedded as a part of today’s American culture and lifestyles, changing the way people interact and communicate with one another. Americans use social media every day; to not only communicate, but to express themselves. These online media sites and blogs serve as entertainment for its users and give them a sense of a social life if they do not already have one. Some users become so obsessed with their online lives that they lose the ability to successfully communicate with people in real life. Their craving for the use of social media becomes an addiction to where they can spend countless hours on their social sites. Facebook, a popular social media cite, has been proven to cause Facebook Depression, a sickness in which a person is emotionally depressed and in self denial. Studies have shown that sites such as Facebook, are a direct link to an individual’s physical and emotional well being.

In today’s day in age almost everyone has some form of social media. Many people have more than one. Whether it is Facebook, Twitter or some other form. We all use it to express and communicate our thoughts and feelings about ourselves and the world. Because of this many people do not know how to communicate face to face anymore and many times even hide behind their keyboard. Keller (2013), Quotes Paul Booth an assistant professor of media and cinema studies saying “There has been a shift in the way we communicate; rather than face-to-face interaction, we’re tending to prefer mediated communication,” he says. “We’d rather e-mail than meet; we’d rather text than talk on the phone”. Other people such as Qualman (2011), believes that using social media to communicate does not have to be such a bad thing. He says that if used properly it can be a very effect tool in the business world. Because social media touches pretty much everyone in some way it is a good strategy for overall success or an organization. There are both positive and negative communication effects on social media. The goal of this paper is to communicate the negative effect of how social media is effecting communication.

For many years, the world has heard stories about children and teens who have gone missing or taking their lives because of social media. Some think that social media should be restricted to only allow so much information. Others think that social media is a form of expression that can help teens and businesses grow. By adding restrictions, such as a limit to what information you can share on your profile, the government can help combat prevent identity theft, social media related kidnappings, and reduce cyberbullying even though the opposing side disputes these reasons and stance.

Romantic relationships have become super complicated in recent years. The movie He’s Just Not That into You portrays ten people’s perspectives on relationships and dating in the 21st century. This movie was written as interweaving stories that come together in different ways that make a point. People find the world of dating to be complicated and most times confusing. There is always a fear of cheating and falling in love with manipulative people. Social media has also become a huge part of modern dating. Everything from texting to dating websites can influence how people view potential mates. The Facebook status was invented expressly for discovering if someone was single within the first couple seconds of being on the page. You can practically advertise that you’re single to any of you friends in hopes of finding a date. Dating today can be fraught with conflict and miscommunication and is vastly different from the dating world fifty years ago as it now includes a “hookup” culture, a non marriage centered mentality, and the use of modern technology.

The use of social media is more prevalent than ever. People’s devices are an extension of themselves; they cannot go anywhere without them. People are consumed with the need to say connected to what is happening on social media. The first thing people do when they wake up and the last thing they do before they go to sleep is check their social media. It is nearly impossible to get away from. While many people do not see a need to get away from it, there may be more of a need than people realize. Although many different age groups are on social media, the main users are teenagers. Teenagers are more focused on maintaining their online persona instead of building quality relationships. Cyberbullying is a rising issue in today 's culture because of the use of social media. Cyberbullying can cause teenagers to be afraid to interact with one another. Since teenagers spend so much time online, they forget how to interact with each other outside of a screen. These issues can add up to teenagers committing suicide. Suicide rates are higher than ever among teenagers. The use of social media is having negative effects on the lives of young people. Parents need to limit their child 's use of technology in order to help avoid these issues.

High school is a mosh pit of youths, no longer teenagers, but not yet adults. When hundreds or thousands of them are grouped together under one roof, a breeding ground for both insecurity and narcissism is forged. Forced into a pressure cooker of judgement, harassment, and competition, they seek approval from various sources. Some look to trusted advisers, focusing on academics, sports, and extracurriculars. Others look to their peers, potentially falling into a vicious cycle of drugs, alcohol, partying, and other unhealthy behaviors. Left alone to identify themselves, teens rely on the confirmation of their environment. Whether they live in a small town or an urban city, social media has established a worldwide public platform for the scrutinization of this generation of emerging adults. During these tumultuous years, teenagers find themselves seeking the approval of others. While healthy sources of validification exist, the effects of unhealthy, attention-seeking actions are more damaging and longer lasting.

Over the years the view of marriage has changed. Society has constructed the views of what a marriage should look like and what roles should be played even who should be married. Today’s social media glorifies all aspects of marriage, from prenuptials to annulments as well as overdramatized weddings and divorces. Respect has been lost as there are more and more reports of infidelity and less privacy of family and home life. Marriage was something that was once significant and held in high regards has fallen victim to the social construction of a newly defined meaning. One aspect that has changed marriage is the cohabitation between two individuals. Cohabitation encourages premarital sex. Society accepts cohabitation and

In recent years, the world has changed by modern technological developments. People in these days are living real revolution and changes that affect in somehow their life. Social media has contributed to link parts of this wide world to each other, and paved the way for all people exchange views and ideas. In addition, social media sites are considered the most widespread on the Internet because of its characteristics that made it different from other websites. Because of social media, people has become living in small town. They do not need to travel in order to getting informations or news. Social media has created easier way to achieve communication between individuals and groups.Social media websites, such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace , High Five, Tagged and YouTube have allowed people to exchange video clips, photos, share files and perform immediate talks and direct communication and interaction between the audience. Despite of advantages of social media that offer to its users, there are some disadvantages that may overcome those advantages. There are a lot of severe criticisms that social media faced because of its negative impact on individuals, families and society. Steal information, break the personal privacy, wasting a lot of time and isolation from people are some of problems that people have faced because of social media. People have divided into two group toward this issue. Some people think that social media has contributed to make their life better.

Back in the day, if two people were to have a falling out most of the time the problem would be solved either by confrontation or they would stop talking to each other. As times have evolved, so has the way that we communicate our emotions to others. Over the last decade, social media has started to become more prominent and important in everyday life so that people can keep in contact with each other from many miles away. Unfortunately, will new ways of communication comes new ways of trying to hurt other people. Almost every single person in the 21st century is connected to the internet one way or another and has at least one social media account. Although it is true that being connected to the web can help people all over the world to

Social media in today’s society has some positive aspects but there are many negative aspects to living in such a social media world. Cyber bullying, hacking, cyber stalking, and other cybercrimes have taken off since social media became so popular. Job growth, e-commerce via social media, families staying connected, and information that is beneficial to society has made many things possible that was not available before social media became the norm. Social media in the last 10 years has become almost unstoppable. It keeps getting bigger and in some cases better than it was before it started but there has been trials and tribulations to social media where it is in today’s world. Social media is a way of life now for most people in the United States, there are many different forms of social media and different ways that it is used in everyday life.

Technology is rapidly advancing, and in today’s day in age, social media is integrated into the majority of people’s everyday lives. Individuals should take into consideration their professional persona when it comes to social media, due to the fact that it will be beneficial for them and any future companies they are involved with. Take for example the incident that occurred over Twitter with American Red Cross. The company recently tweeted out an inappropriate tweet saying, “Ryan found two more four bottle packs of Dogfish Head’s Midas Touch beer… when we drink we do it right #gettingslizzard.” (Huffington Post 2011). Now instead of dealing with the backlash and negativity that emerged from the tweet, the company was thankfully able to turn it around and even launched a blood for beer campaign that gave beer to people who donated blood. Not all companies are able to turn around and save their reputation like American Red Cross however, and it is important to make sure what you post on the internet will not get you in hot water.

Ninety-seven community college students in southern California were exposed to three recent psychology studies in one of two conditions: abstracts (n=43) or tweets (n=54). After reading the abstracts or tweets, all participants were asked to summarize the main finding of the studies to measure their comprehension. They were asked to do the same approximately 20 minutes later to test their retention. Responses were scored on a 0-3 point scale. Results indicate that comprehension of the studies were similar between the two groups t= 1.51, ρ= .13, r=15, though students in the “tweet” condition did retain significantly more information than students in the abstract condition, t=2.27, ρ=. 02, r= .23. This finding provides evidence to

Do you know anyone who isn’t using any kind of social network? These days social network such as Facebook and Instagram become one of the basic things in our lives. People are trying to share every moment in their life. But there is one thing that some people don’t know, the thing that social media uses our personal information to improve the website and also to sell it to advertisers. These websites are using special algorithms to collect our information also using these algorithms to predict what kind of things we do, such as shopping or contact with other people. In fact, people should know about the benefit and defects of the social network when they use our personal information, and if there are any defects what should they do to improve this problem.

Facebook now refers to the means of interaction from one person to another where they create, share, and exchange contents of their lives over the internet. Facebook has almost become part of our daily lives. It is like any other media such as newspaper, radio and television but it is far more than just about sharing information and ideas. Without watching the news or listening to the radio you can get online within seconds from almost anywhere and hear the latest about the world. Today’s modern media has somehow managed, by creating a completely new world particularly in social relations, to create considerable changes in human communications. However, like anything Facebook has it positive and negative aspects. Facebook affects relationships, productivity and allows one of the most prevalent things right now; cyber bullying and cyber predators.

Nowadays, Internet and social media plays an important role in our life. You just ask someone such as a child, a teenager, or a old person; you ask a question “Do you know or have facebook?”, and almost people say yes. Following statistic, Facebook has 845 million users at 21st century; Facebook has an appreciable attraction for almost people. Most people have a smartphone in the hand to access social media easily, and it easily helps contact with family, friends, colleagues, and another relatives in anywhere. Additionally, social media includes Facebook, Twitter, or another social facitities that remarkably affect to life of everybody, especially young people. Somebody thinks that social media affects positive aspect to the life of