Social Media Reflection Paper

In this modern age, the majority of society has adapted to social media and the newest technology to fit around our lives. Technology provides tools that are imperative to the making and the use of other tools. It is a tool in itself. Technology is changing rapidly; so rapidly, in fact, there can be cultural gaps between generations. The construction of social media has enabled access to innovative phenomenon, broken barriers, changed our perspectives on ideas, and has even opened doors to new opportunities.

Nowadays it is not uncommon that almost everyone has at least one profile on some sort of social networking site. The reason? To not feel left out. We post online to share what we are doing and how we are feeling. However, social media has influenced us in ways that were not initially planned. Our identities, the concept of what makes you, yourself. Identities are constantly evolving due to social media. We are posting online to make good impressions on the people who follow us. We snap photos and add filters to make ourselves look and feel better. Maybe someone will comment! What if nobody does? Do I delete it? These are constant questions and concerns that go through peoples’ minds during the time they post content. I know those questions run through my head each time I click the share button. It’s almost like we need validation from others for us to be ourselves. When I post, I wait to see the reaction of others, will they like it? When others post, I am constantly comparing myself to them. We are constantly comparing and evolving. Exactly like our identity. Our lives are increasingly more public now more than ever.

In actual fact, people have a certain view or conception about what somebody is. This view is quite different from what the individual himself has. But then the harm in all this is that this state of affairs has a great impact on what an individual is supposed to become in life especially when he doesn’t have a great sense of objectivity or when he is not determined to achieve his life goal regardless of the opposition or the influence exerted upon them by society. . . Often times, this conception of somebody makes him loose his self-confidence and try to comply with what others want him to be or think he is. In trying to reajust his nature in

With evolving technology comes new types of social media, people have begin to question the internet’s effect on our mentality. It is a bit difficult to compare the pros and cons of social media, it has more to do with an individual’s experience.  Some could be having a horrible time due to social media, but others could be thriving off of it.  The more negative implications of using social media could be the way that we share our personal lives and how much of it we give to the public, regardless of social relationships, to consume.  Along with this, we are deeply impacted by what we see from others based on our viewing of what they share because of the ability to create falsified identities and unrealistic interpretations of who we are

Today, nearly 250 million children -about 40% of the world’s children, can’t read a single sentence. This is mainly due to poverty and the inability of some families to pay for their child’s education. Cynthia Changyit Levin an activist living in Saint Louis, Missouri is one example of someone who is determined to help solve this problem. She recently became an activist after giving up her job revolving around engineering. She felt empowered one night after thinking about all of the people around the world living in poverty. From then on she has been an activist focused on anti-poverty, this topic branches into world hunger, women empowerment, global thirst, etc. Cynthia has a blog, website, facebook and

People don’t know the “true meaning of true self expression” (Reggy 311) because they are afraid they will be isolated if anyone senses that they are different. There is no self-confidence or self-determination to exceed expectations and to make an identity. Everyone just follows one another not willing to step out of their comfort zone. In perspective people don’t want to be excluded they want to fit in and individuality risks their chances at being the same as the others. People don’t understand that our individuality is the definition of our unique existence.

This paper helps determine the effectiveness of the current social media for four different car brands. This paper looks at the various social media accounts of the Honda Civic, Ford Focus, Hyundai Elantra, and the Nissan Altima. The different forms of social media that will be analyzed in this paper are Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, and Youtube. This paper takes the time to analyze the various posts these companies use to try and advertise their vehicles. Then using what was analyzed from the data collection period, recommendations were made on how to make better use of these social media accounts.

5.  Pages 443, 445, text, social movements. Write about Facebook, other social networking sites and their impact on society.(good and bad)

In today’s day and age, social media is popular more than ever. Now, just by clicking the “tweet” button, you can expose yourself and what you put out there for anyone throughout the whole world to see. Twitter, Instagram, etc have taken over the world, with millions and millions of users that range from super young to super old. Personally, I have three different platforms of social media. These include twitter, instagram and snapchat. I am interested to evaluate how I use it versus how I consider myself to be in real life and on a day to day basis. I believe the way that I represent myself on social media has some similarities and differences between my actual self on a day to day basis.

Since this project began, I have focused on maintaining strong personal and strategic relationships. I am preparing for the large American Society of Health-System Pharmacists - (ASHP) mid-year meeting. This is the largest annual meeting for pharmacy students to network and learn about residency positions across the country. To prepare for this meeting I have updated my social media sites, I have revamped my curriculum vitae and resume, as well as reach out to mentors and preceptors for letters of recommendations. In addition to maintaining my current network, I am also anticipating making several new connections next month at the mid-year meeting.

Main argument: There are many contributions brought by the easy access social media provides as different groups can keep in contact in just a matter of a click. Social media is available to anyone at any time and those who are the most influential (teenagers) fall victims to the propaganda and ideas the Iraqi group tell them. Social media give these groups easy access to spread their ideas and beliefs, contact people, trade goods, and plan within a group how to collaborate and expand. My main argument focus on the dangerousness of social media that we tend to ignore since we usually think technology is just a first world problem associated with the decrement of social interaction, but it is worst then that and these middle east groups are way more in advance then western countries, impacting in political matters and recruiting teenagers/young adults, contracting to

This paper entails the influence that social media has become an important aspect in our lives to such a point that is inedible not to be connected. Explaining the concepts as to why we use social media on both business and personal matter or both combined. Communication has gone severely digital and has increase business marketing to an extreme profitable level. The efficiency of data collection and cloud computing through social media providing business/companies with an upper hand advantage for marketing strategies. The opportunity for conveniency of digital application connections for each and every individual on the internet and to have the option as to what kind of information you want to receive. Whereas detailing the usage from an advantage

Social media has created and encouraged sociocultural standards of feminine beauty by portraying women in what social media calls the “ideal body type.” The concepts of an ideal body type are unrealistic and unattainable. Most models and actresses that are portrayed in magazines, and on television look to be below a healthy weight. Social media creates a mindset that says, a person can never be “too thin.” This just makes it difficult for any women to feel satisfied with their body. Most of the public who buy magazines and see a fashion show on T.V, are not aware of what the mass media is actually doing. They don’t realize the major negative effects of constantly seeing photoshopped actresses and size 0 models, and labeling these type of women beautiful, while shaming other women who don't fit the mass media’s qualification for “beauty”. The public is not paying enough attention to this problem, which is why it is Be-YOU-tiful’s goal to bring awareness to the public on why having an ideal body type is bad and hurting females

Despite the fact that we’re already in the 21st century, society continues to show signs of progress and development strongly leaning towards the direction of advancement, constantly evolving. This pattern is no different from the world of advertising, as it has also evolved through the years and quite recently an unexpected technological innovation took the world by storm. It made such a tremendous impact that eventually led to the transformation of traditional marketing, and it’s no other than social media that we all learned to love.

The project aim at teenagers, therefore sample group is between 13 to 19. I will set the sample sizes in 50 participants since it is easy to identity and more precision. If a sample sizes increase, it is very hard to estimate and become not accurate. Also, I’m worry about the extremes data can’t make a balance out, so the project prefers small sample sizes. It can take less effort to gain and maintain people, it is easy to produce significant results and comfortable to find a group of people. I will obtain samples from friends or friends’ sister and brother.