Social Media And Its Impact On The Nation

Social Media is a form of communication in which a person shares information, personal ideas, and thoughts online. The foundation of social media began in 1997 when the first social media site Six Degrees was developed. Since 1997, social media has become an iconic name and has become part of this generation's conversation. There are over 100 million people using social media to gain access to the digital world, with over 20 social media sites including Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram (Milanovic 1). Roughly 80 percent of teens and 20 percent of adults use social media daily and almost half of the users were bullied or criticized for a single comment. Comments that include discrimination, sexism, or political beliefs can be retweeted to thousands in a matter of hours. “Accusations go viral, globally, within hours, and instead of having dozens of angry voices baying for your blood, you have tens of thousands” (Haley 1). Although social media has made it easier to communicate these sites, make it easier to be critical or prejudiced to others online instead of face-to-face.

The First Amendment doesn’t give U.S citizens the right to say anything about anyone at any time using any medium. Social media misuse can lead to potential

In the present culture of the United States, social media has had a major impact in American society. It has a profound influence and intertwined itself in almost every aspect of the average American’s life. It ranges from providing updates of location of a person(s), events, and sharing personal moments. Even different industries are utilizing social media as a platform for communication, information, and sales mediums. One industry, the health care field has seen a rise in the utilization of social media. For instance, an emerging population of physicians are using social media apps such as Snap Chat, Facebook, and YouTube to educate, display surgical, and medical procedures while being performed. In contrast, as there are positive aspects of utilizing social media, a negative trait of social media is invading and exposing individual’s privacy. As of recent, a New York licensed nurse had to surrender her nursing license and sentenced to 3 years of probation for “moral unfitness in the practice (Bowerman, 2016).” She took photos with her phone of two unconscious male patient’s genitalia and shared them with coworkers. This has become an increasing issue and as the utilization of social media in healthcare is increasing, many ethical issues are developing. For instance, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was passed for the adoption of a national standard for electronic health care transactions and code sets, unique health identifiers,

Social media has become huge on the internet. This is a place where people can speak openly about almost anything they want. Sometimes those posts are innocent and fun. Other times people post about illegal activity, hate towards others, or evil intents.

Social Media has become a huge part of our lives. It is a way to connect to those far away, or to share things that we find interesting or exciting and can be a very personal presentation of who we are. But in both positive and negative ways we can share our opinions and our view on certain events in the world. These can lead to rallies, protests, uprisings or in some cases revolution, the internet has become one of the most influential forces in this world and a large part of that is due to social media. In the case of the Michael Brown shooting, social media focused on the positive and negative relationships between minorities and cops in the United States of America. Sites such as Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Vine were all used to show

Nearly everyone has access to some form of social media. So when one group of people are singled out and criticized it can have a widespread effect and many

It is no secret that social media is seen as an “outlet,” where we can post our innermost thoughts and feelings, no matter how awful they are, and many times, without any consequence. The anonymity of social media bolsters some people to post rants, hate speech, and other offensive comments that they would almost certainly never say face to face. There have been multiple occasions throughout my life where I have witnessed people expressing such feelings on social media. However, there was one occasion in particular that has always, and will always, stick with me.

The internet has proven to be reliable throughout the years and since the internet has propagated rapidly, social media has progressed too.These applications helps contact friends, family, and even strangers. Today many people are using social media such as Facebook, Twitter and so on to publish racial slurs and express racist opinion of American citizens. According to

A very recent example for online hate are the racist posts against refugees all over the internet. It is one of the biggest controversies in Europe these days. And even though the people who are against them aren’t afraid to speak their mind in person, the statements they share online are even worse. From slightly racist to full Nazi, everything is represented. There is no line, even Aylan Kurdi, a dead toddler wasn’t safe from online hate. I think I can assume everyone has heard of him or at least seen his picture. The Syrian refugee-kid who drowned while trying to find a better life with his family and was found dead on a beach in Turkey. A picture of his lifeless body went viral and was on nearly every newspaper. It seemed as if the whole world would mourn his death but that wasn’t the case.

Words, opinions, solutions, biases, and verbal atrocities exploded on social media platforms around the world.

Social media is an example of hate. With one post, a friendship’s bridge could be burnt. With twenty-six characters, one may ruin their chance at a lifetime goal. People in this age of time take hate less seriously. It is a term that is tossed around like a frisbee in the summer. “I hate you.”

The largest voices in social language are coming from social media platforms. Currently, Twitter and Facebook have amassed an audience of millions and heavily influence culture and dialect in the U.S. Political speech, which uses propaganda, has become a tool for social media platforms. Recently, elections largely relied on media platforms to campaign and permeated social media language, because they were over publicized and indoctrinated into people’s mind. American political speech is unethical because it uses propaganda such as silencing, double speak and slanting, which has affected social media and has become a source of entertainment through pillory. There is an online culture that’s created a new relationship between companies and consumers. This has opened a communication channel that seems to have adopted speech patterns from politics. When people open apps such as Twitter, they frequently see companies degrading their customers for laughs. For the first time, companies such as Wendy's have the freedom to silence people without consequence, because of the wave of silencing that has been seen in our elections. On Wendy’s Twitter there have been instances of people commenting on their food negatively, and mocked using ad hominem. It gives the impression of small banter, but this is just one example where people have made a comment, been shut down, and some forced to take down their comments or accounts due to backlash. This was common in our recent elections, leading

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?

Like the medicine that can cure and kill depending upon its usage, social media at its worst is a weapon of mass distress and can amplify slander, reputation destruction, political dispute, bully, casual mistreatment of people, snarky comments and hate in general.

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.