Social Media Is A Big Deal

We now live in a world where social media has changed the way we interact with the world around us. At a young age we are programed to worry about how strangers view our lives and our decisions. People are worried about how many likes they get and social acceptance. Though these outlets individuals build their social foundations that will later become the building blocks of their careers. People tend to fall short excepting criticism, communication skills, and analyzing information.

Social media is categorized under corporate media in which websites are used to advertise new trends through social networking sites that have many insecure teenagers. By looking at these images of other people, women often compare themselves to them. Girls love to look at pictures on Instagram, Tumblr and even Facebook of their friends and often compare themselves with them. Social media does not always impact one to change their self-image alone, however, the need to belong relates to the people whom women hang out with because those are the people who they feel accept them for who they are. Friends and social groups of these women look into social media for the ‘ideal woman’ they want to be and of course these women do not want to be the odd one out so they change themselves to be like their friends. To feel accepted, you compare your body image, looks, likes, hobbies, eating habits and so on to those that your friends feel are at the “moment trend.” Friends who constantly know what is in or

I use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Snapchat, Tumblr, and Pinterest. Although all of the platforms listed have various purposes, they help to cure my boredom and keep me in touch with the world. On most accounts, my social media is a diary that I leave open to the world. Using social media for business and communications is a very useful and innovative resource. When handled by the right people it helps the greater good. For example, the news can now reach more people at faster rates than it could traditionally. You can talk to your relatives face to face over Skype. Social media helps people find jobs by assisting in making connections to others. It is a useful tool, but in most cases, it has fallen into the wrong hands in such a way that news is no longer true "news". It has become a race to popularity in the form of likes and retweets rather than driving interest on real

With social media, such as “Twitter” or “Instagram,” it keeps everyone informed and help them stay up to date with the events in the world they are living in. Some might suggest that we have other ways of keeping up to date, newspapers for example, but by the time the paper arrives at your doorsteps, the news is already dated. As Carr has mentioned “ The Net provides a high-speed system for delivering responses and rewards.” It keeps you informed with events that are currently happening at that exact moment. Looking up information is easier and more convenient as well.

Social media is something that has not always been around. It is something that is growing, and making a big impact on the younger generation. Social media has changed the way that many Americans live, and now some could not live without it. Even though social media has taken away many burdens in this life, it has brought many self problems along with it. Kids in school in this society no longer take the time to prepare for their tests, they just do whatever it takes to get by. I believe people want to make big money, but don't want to do the work that comes along with it. Many complain of having to do a little work, or complete a difficult task at their workplace or home. Things that seem so simple to us in this day and time where daydreams of people in the past. Most of all, work today is submitted electronically through technology and hardly never on paper. Jobs can be done straight from a cell phone, or laptop without even having to go to work. This has caused the generation today to loose face to face contact, and that is how people are becoming self-centered. Earlier generations did not have all these ways to communicate with people like today’s generation does. The Older Adults and Social Media (2010) states, “To look at the data another way, among the pool of adults ages 50 and older who use social networking sites, 44% used them on the day prior

Social media in modern times can be either positive or negative, depending how a person is using it. There are people that can make drastic changes in their lifestyles, which influence what they post on the internet. For example, someone can change from being a radical person to being more conservative but their past can/ or will be attached to them. The main reason people are trying to keep up with technology is be connected to social media. Social media is used for a various

Due to the increase in popularity of social media, today’s generation is bombarded with unrealistic standards when it comes to beauty. When young people today first turn on their cellphones, more often than not, they refer to a social media site. Whether it’s the ever-popular Instagram, where people can post pictures and followers can “like” to show their approval or post comments. Or, whether it’s Twitter, where people can post witty or inspiring or informational things for their followers to see and can be retweeted or favourited. Or they could click on the little blue Facebook icon, where all of the above can happen. These are some of the most popular social media outlets today because young people are

The effect that social media transmits through someone's way of thinking about themselves is more powerful than how you actually see yourself. It makes people self conscious about their body image and how they “should” look in order to be able to fit in the social group of theirs. Social media is toxic because it can bring anyone down by the way that they project the beauty standards and also by the pictures and comments of people who make them feel like they are way better than the person receiving the comments and making them want to be at their “level”, so they will do whatever it takes in order to feel just as good as them. When you post a picture on instagram, every minute that is passing you are always checking how many likes your getting from your followers.

A major aspect to all these types of social media is posting pictures and obtaining likes and comments. In turn of receiving these responses it is a form of “reassurance and validation regarding physical and social attractiveness” (Perloff, 2014). Once again females as well as men are generally sexualized and impressions are based on one’s appearance, resulting in altering the way a person perceives themselves.

Social media has changed the way people think and how they communicate.  It’s incredible to see how social media has become such a big part of our daily lives. Just to think social media as we know it was birthed less than ten years ago in August 2003 with MySpace and has become such an integral part of our daily lives. Synonymous with checking our email we go to our Facebook for not only our daily gossip, but for up to date news and events.

These social media types are taking control of deciding kids, teens, and even adults figures and thoughts. The internet is filled with many people with different ideals, it’s not hard to can onto these idealistic standards people set in stone because as human what we sticks with us even in the long-run. We are exposed to “Society's standards” so much that we blame society for making us into who we are today. Although it's just a bunch of expectations for ourselves like being skinny or wearing nice clothes and when we don't meet our own definition of “perfect” we tell ourselves that it's all in our heads. Society killed beauty not just for women but for males as well,but we are society we are judgemental cruel, and unfair to others whom would like to be

The social media is one of the most common ways of communication and pretty much of knowing anything and everything around the world these days, and it is growing very rapidly. It changes and affects each person in a different way, or ways. Some may argue that social media has a bad influence on children and young adults, and that it negatively effects their brains, character, or personalities, while most people see that the social media has a more positive effect on them than a negative one. Moreover, social media has helped many people around the world to connect, or re-connect, with each other, easily. Social media is basically the new way of keeping in touch with everything and everyone, and of even strengthening bonds between each

Today’s technology creates platforms that make accessing media, images, social groups and more, tremendously easy. While the efficiency that come with technology has many benefits, many psychologists are concerned about the impact it could have on adolescent and young adult’s body image and self-perception. There are immense amounts of studies on the impacts of the traditional media, television and magazines, however, the social media platform has vastly grown and research is limited to a few specific social media platforms. The traditional media enforces unrealistic body standards, that women feel obligated to follow, to fit in with society (Brown, Tiggemann, 2016). While it is known that traditional media has impacts on body image, there has not been as much research toward celebrity, peers and other effects on women from social media usage.

In today’s society, the public is exposed to technology at even younger ages than ever before. Everywhere you go these days you see kids even as little as three holding their parent’s phones or even their own, watching videos or playing games. But as said in the article Does Social media impact on body image by Philippa Roxby, as kids start becoming teenagers their technological uses advance and they start to rely on social media sites for new sources of communication, and their main channel to the outside world. Based on studies conducted by psychologists they have come up with a conclusion that social media has a direct relationship to body image concerns. I believe that in today’s society we should focus on promoting self-confidence as most of the adolescents have a very low assurance of their own bodies. Although a study conducted in the article The Upside of Selfies: Social media isn’t all bad for kids by Kelly Wallace says that a survey which resulted in 52% of the teens saying that social media positively influences them. Even though social media platforms have some beneficial aspects such as they make people want to go on diets, exercise, and eating healthy, the teenagers don’t really look/understand the negative aspects of it. The impacts that are carried with social media are mostly negative such as fancying teenagers to lose confidence in themselves and has become a toxic mirror to them. The visual platforms impact

Women lurk on a man’s page seeking for their materialistic items such as cars, money, and the way a man dresses. Instances such as these causes low self-esteem of individuals who do not portray these specific items or lifestyles on social media. USA Today asked 23 Chicago college students about social media and 20 out of 23 students believed social media caused anxiety or added stress to an individual’s life. One female college student believed that social media adds a lot of pressure to be the perfect person, because that’s how individuals can make themselves look online. A lot of women on social media with low self-esteem issues show their skin and wear revealing outfits to feel “better” about their own body by taking into account how many likes on Instagram or Facebook they receive. The college students have realized it was easy to portray a different version of them on the internet. Individuals believe the number of likes on Facebook/Instagram or retweets on Twitter is used as a tool for verification for acceptance within their group of peers. This can cause a domino effect of problems on an individual’s self-esteem. An individual will post photos that are outside their character just to seek approval through the likes from their peers. This may boost an individual’s self-esteem temporarily, but once he or she logs off social media their self-esteem really hasn’t improved. Valkenbur, P. M., Peter, J., & Shouted, A. P. (2006). Friend