Social Media And Its Impact On Society

As we all know, social media has a tremendous impact on society and has affected in some way our daily life, relationships, and/or business. Every day, people around the world access famous social media network sites such as facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and so on to find out about other people, others might use social networking to reconnect with old friends, make new friends, or even meet their spouse. The excessive use of social media websites might bring negative effects; while for other people, it might bring satisfaction or positive effects. Technological advancements such as the internet, have given us the opportunity to connect with other people anytime and anywhere in the world. Pretty much all around the world, everyone has access to the World Wide Web via a desktop computer or smart phones. The fact is that no matter our current location or destination we might go, social media will always be following us as long as we have that direct connection. The main focus of this paper is to identify the good and bad of social media, and the current and future problems it will bring.

In 2008 Joel Garreau conducted interviews and wrote a piece titled "Friends Indeed" for the Washington Post. Garreau brings up possible dangers, minor inconveniences, and what truly defines a friend in the new media world we live in. I felt Garreau came across as jaded by most of the interviews he conducted. He did not seem to speak with a wide array of people that gave positive impacts social media can have, but rather focused on the negatives of the subject. Garreau did bring up valid points, however, from personal safety to the aspect of different people in your life seeing your different personalities. For instance your Grandma that you go to church with on Sunday 's is now seeing the pictures of you partying with your friends on Saturday night.

College students have a great interest in social media; many may ask what the purpose that is student utilizing social networking is? If teachers were to engage social media into their way of teaching many students can succeed. YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram are very popular sites students can view videos. Many students learn a great deal of information from those sites along. This would encourage the student to engage in formal and informal ways of learning. In the twenty-first century, we have to find ways to excite individuals about education (Ajjan et al. 2013, p. 583). Social media is completely adopted in different ways from all faculty members at universities across the nation. Faculty members who are younger would adapt

While many people put off and ignore the issue of social media and its downfalls, others say that people should think about how our lives are being affected by this advancement in technology, including, lack of human contact and precious time being lost due to consumption with social media. Social media is currently a highly controversial topic in which numerous people have mixed feelings. Society has typically viewed new advancements in technology as beneficial and a sign of success within their country. But, has it solely caused successful outcomes, or are there downfalls to these advancements?

Since we as a society are currently living in the age known as the Technological Revolution, chances are that in some form or fashion you are aware of and have been exposed to social media. Well, imagine a world where the use of social media became more structured and used to improve education as opposed to just being used for keeping in touch with friends and family, sharing pictures, and seeing how many likes you can get per post. According to the Business Insider Intelligence Report of 2014, social media is now the top Internet activity in the world, Americans’ specifically “spend more time on social media than any other major Internet activity, including email” (Business Insider). Considering this information, it is obvious that social media plays a vital role and impacts the lives of our nation on a daily basis. Some argue that its impact can be negative and a distraction to the educational experience of the younger generation. Regardless of your personal opinion, what if educators were to work with the use of social media for educational purposes. Since it is highly used, it would not only gain the learner’s interest but also would reach more people at large. Therefore, we should learn to better utilize social media in a more constructive educational manner.

A single person views so many images daily, whether it’s on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, etc.), on TV, music videos or even the news, that give us out view of people. People don’t tend to notice that social media tends to form an opinion for us especially when it comes to Black people, more specifically Black women. American schools have showed Black women as inferior at all aspects in history, in recent years Black women have been hyper sexualized for their bodies and exploited for their beauty. Black bodies especially that of Black women’s, are the most degraded, attacked, disrespected and devalued of all the races.

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

Social media provides an outlet that reflects our lives online. It is changing the way we relate to others and how we think about ourselves. Users of social media have created for themselves a social footprint. This footprint marks where they are and where they have been online. Their lifestream is now recorded in the timeline of their social networks. Participants in social media now have a digital identity, which shows their activity with a time and date stamp in reverse chronological order. The users social brand is created by any online interactions that have been created by leaving information (Solomon, 2015).

The term ‘social media’ has become a broad-term to describe a large number of online systems that serve as a platform for the generation, and distribution of user-generated content. Social media creates a virtual social space, where a large number of users come together and interact with one another. These interactions can be either structured, such as responses that are moderated on blogs, semi-structured, such as a discussion between an extended network on Facebook, or unstructured, such as the anarchial functioning of Twitter.

Social media is said to be the cornerstone for communications between everyone in the world. Social media refers to the interaction among individuals in which they create, share, and/or exchange information and ideas in cyber communities and networks. Social media sites negatively affect society by destroying an individual’s ability for independent thinking; consequently, these sites should be banned. There are many psychological effects, constant distraction social media provides for people, and the risk of sexual harassment/ cyber bullying.

popularity of the internet has brought about social interaction to a level that was never witnessed before. The emergence of social networks has been increasingly popular. Social media network comprises of individuals from varied gender, religious, racial and ethnic affiliations. Primarily, social media networking is meant to foster interaction and sharing of various issues that people encounter in society. Following the functionalist sociological perspective, social media networks are characterized by each individual following another and thus encouraging coaction between individuals through the power of the internet infrastructure.

In the contemporary society, social media have become essential in people’s daily life. They provide entertainments, news, and educational information to the public at any time. Therefore, the claim that only teenagers obsess with social media is no longer valid. In fact, the trend is transforming as social networks are highly promoted in recent years. The population of adults who fully engage in the social networking has increased tremendously. In the article “Virtual Popularity Isn’t Cool- It’s Pathetic”, Ian Daly presents the statistic that there are sixty-four million Facebook users are over the ages of twenty-five and one hundred and ten million MySpace users are over thirty-five (par.1). For the people who born in the 1980s or earlier, they are already working for years to pay their bills and develop their careers. Therefore, these demographics on social network are shocking. Young adults are stills acting like kids to shirk their responsibilities. Due to the fact, the shallows values from the social network are negatively affect people’s behaviors and gradually lead to an unhealthy and immature society.

We are in an era and time where people do not have time to go out and socialize. Thereby using social media as a means of communicating and connecting with friends and loved ones through social networks. Social networking sites connect people whether home or away in the twinkle of an eye. Social media such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram can be used to bring or draw connection between product and individual which leads to large viral advertising opportunities and create an audience that becomes brand ambassadors. Blogs is also a social media app where companies can post daily reports about what is happening in the company, what events took place and what events are to come and unveiling of new product and promotional

Nowadays people are depending on social media for their daily activities. No matter what the event is social media somehow becomes the topic of discussion. Social media for many businesses can be a great tool, but it’s very important to put some restrictions and procedures in place and be very consistent with enforcement. Most employers and employees are probably not covered by a General Liability policy. The laws that are governing social media continue to change rapidly. Employers must speak with their attorney’s to completely understand the social media liability issues facing their business. The liability facing employers is very important and everyone in the business needs to understand what the governing acts consist of and have clear social media policies in placed in order.

In today’s society, social networking has become such a significant part within our daily lives. Social media allows access to friend of the present and past, along with the ability to connect with strangers, and the ability to research topics, share music, share videos, share pictures, share links and much more. Since the rise of social networking, information is spread much quicker through the use of the Internet in comparison to any other source used by individuals. According to ProCon.org, “Forty-seven percent of American adults used social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Classmates.com in 2011, up from twenty-six percent in 2008.” It is also reported that, “Social networking sites spread information