Social Media Myths About Social Networking

Your daughter taps in her passcode on her phone, she immediately goes to instagram and scrolls through her feed. She's thirteen years old, young and growing. Models by the ocean in Monaco with perfect, skinny, tan bodies, million dollar clothes, and makeup done by professionals. Seven million followers, six hundred thousand likes, and five thousand comments. Your daughter locks her bedroom door and stands by the mirror and grasps her stomach and frowns, she touches her clothes and her hair and looks at her untouched face. As she scans her body she's disappointed in what she sees. She asks herself why she doesn't look like those girls by the pools and those girls laying on the sandy beach with curled blonde hair. Why doesn't she get as many

Social-networking sites have security vulnerabilities, which makes the use of them unsafe in health care organizations. Social-networking sites are designed for sharing information, and their security is “lax or confusing,” which makes it easy for unauthorized users to access people’s information. Keeping up with the updated security options is difficult because these sites change their security options on a “haphazard basis” (Ciampa, 2015, p.52).

The media can be a world of great convenience, but it can also become a world of hurt feelings. Sure, you could be alerted of an emergency within three minutes, but you could also find hurtful messages on Ask.fm in three minutes. This doesn’t only happen anonymously on Ask.fm, but on any social networking site such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. Social media is supposed to help people feel better socially, so how can it make them feel worse? The problem of cyber bullying can only grow worse when the targeted victim is obsessing over every little insult that is directed at them through social media. Even though the media can be convenient and helpful, it can cause cyber bullying, which can lead to depression but can be avoided by periodically disconnecting from social media.

Also, all successful businesses must know how to give the people what they need. Social networking is a great way of finding out what consumers need and what they are mostly looking for. It is also a great way to advertise products/services that they are offering and persuading the people to buy from them.

It is no secret that social media has taken over a lot of our time, and perception on society. It influences our day to day lives without us really knowing. Social media usually portrays one’s life to be perfect, or it makes us feel like one’s life needs to be perfect. For this reason being, social media can be a bad thing. In "The Social Networks" by Neal Gabler, he explains how media has taken away the meaning of friendship or anything 'real'. In the long run, social media makes things seem better than they actually are, it gives us unrealistic expectations for our friend and family interactions, which kills the chance of having actual friendships because our expectations are so high. So, here are the reasons elaborated on why social media

Today, the majority of potential customers have social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and more. This makes those the ideal places to advertise your business, especially since you can specifically target people who are interested.

Often times, many people believe that social media can have a positive effect on one’s body image. For instance, social media can be a place to connect, motivate, build self-esteem and boost one’s confidence level. There are social networking sites that allow people to share photos, special moments, and motivational quotes with everyone in their circle. This is conspicuous in the article, "Social Media and Body Image Concerns: Further Considerations and Broader Perspectives" when the authors point out, “…given that the Internet includes both realistic and unrealistic images, in the longer term some of them images may lead to less body concerns and provide a supportive and naturalistic environment for young girls.” (Williams and Ricciardelli

However, most small business owners are struggling to figure out ways to use social media EFFECTIVELY. Is it possible for my real estate agency, restaurant, hair salon, cosmetic sales company, law office, or insurance agency to gain thousands of followers, to get the likes and shares I deserve on my content? For the sake of transparency, I will admit that I have participated in on over a dozen webinars in the past couple weeks with experts who claim to have all of the answers to these questions. I sit...and I watch...for 30 - 60 minutes to get to the end where the “expert” says “for only $$$ a month, we will teach you how to use social media to scale your business to 6 or 7 figures.” What the expert fails to consider is the fact that most small businesses have budgetary and technical constraints that prevent them from subscribing because of the extremely high

The Social Media world is wide and more extensive than ever. It is a very strategic marketing platform that reaches different cultures, ages, religion,

The three keys to successful marketing are identifying, targeting, and connecting with the right audience. In today’s technological world, having a presence on social media is essential to marketing success. According to studies, more than half of the population of the United States has a profile on at least one social networking site. Marketers who do not take advantage of social media are missing out on a crucial opportunity to connect with customers, and those who do are ahead of the curve.

A few years ago, this is where the conversation would end. Social media was just that, a social tool. However, this is no longer the case. Not only are social media users interacting with their friends and favorite celebrities, but they are now also interacting with the businesses and products they choose to spend their money with.

Simply hearing that Twitter is a great marketing tool is nice, but like many business owners and entrepreneurs, you may be a

Just a few years ago, social media was considered a relatively new phenomenon yet present day would say something entirely different. Social media has now become a vital part of any modern marketing mix, so much so that managing your presence on what are considered the “big three” (Twitter, Facebook and Google+) is now a must. If you aren’t social media ready, then your business simply isn’t up to speed. For those who still find themselves sneering at the thought of supposedly reducing themselves to opening an account on these “childish” social media platforms, we ask you: how much more proof do you need than 665 million daily active users on Facebook and now well over 500 million registered accounts on it’s little sister Twitter? Social media marketing is indeed the way forward. Granted, lacking social profiles on the likes of Pinterest, LinkedIn or Tumblr may not do you any harm but if you’re looking to reach far greater exposure in the digital market place, then social media marketing is the way to do it.

The purpose of this report is to show that even though some state that Social Media has fallen short of their expectations, it is actually good for business, given that it enhances the visibility of their brand and helps businesses stay connected to potential customers.

The world as we know it has evolved into a melting pot of resources for communicating whatever information we have to convey; done whenever we chose to convey it. From having meetings in the board room to meeting via Skype, Periscope, Facebook Live, etc., the world has the option of the quality and quantity of time that they stay away from the things that they love doing on a daily basis. Businesses have opted to utilize social media as a vehicle to market various products and services. In times past, the printing of bulletins, flyers, post cards, business cards, you name it was the go to for a representation of your services. Now at the click of a button you have the ability to gain access to some of the most valuable information in the world.