Social Media 's Impact On Society

Social media has a prominent role in everyone’s lives. It is one of many ways that people communicate. For example, Facebook, Instagram, twitter, texting, and email. Although some argue that social media eliminates an intimate face-to-face connection, social media has the power to create a progressive and important change in society.

Most Think that social media doesn’t have any negative sides. When you think of social media what do you think of. People who use social media don 't think about how it can beneficial or not. how about this if you asked your self what would it be like to not have social media. would you benefit from it or would you need it. Most importantly this paper is to inform the reader whether or not it’s inserting. Let start with this question, What is social media? A form of electronic communication (as Web sites and social networking) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos). Social Media comes to a point on whether social media has a positive or negative out look on people in general. Social media effects both on privacy, theft, cyberbullying, advertising and much more on social media. If do don 't believe me go on to you computer and try and look up positive view of social media and you will see that there aren’t any good thing on social media. The importance of social media and not just the positive and negative views. The important details are the Face to Face connections, Time Wasting. Isolation and privacy are another of many in the two main drawbacks of social media that you should be worried about when using it.

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.

In this article, Malcolm Gladwell argues that in a network were loose ties are prevalent and Hierarchy is just a word, social media could never give what social change will ask for. He starts off by recalling the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement, were groups of dedicated individuals challenged the status quo, with crucially, strategic activism that led to a true revolution. Mr. Gladwell illustrates that there are a few distinctions that show between traditional activism and social media. One being that social media is not a hierarchy, instead it is a network. Secondly, his more compelling argument that social media is built on “Weak –ties” which rarely will lead to the high-risk activism that is needed.

Today’s world is influenced by many factors. One of which is technology; many things have been created that have revolutionized society. Social Media is one of the newly invented platforms, which have come out as a result of technology. Social media is used on the web or via applications where users can view, share and learn about what others in their lives, communities and countries are doing. Social media has made communication very effective in today’s day and age and has helped many people in many ways; however, social media also has its downsides. Social media has made our lives less private and has allowed people to be able to find out confidential information about us. This topic is vital because all people using social media, from all different age groups, should be aware of the risks involved within social media because their privacy could be invaded by anyone. Social media can thus be seen as a threat as people can set out to harm you through invasion of your privacy. Social media is bad because it affects or privacy and communication skills.

Personally, I have always been a little late to the social media game. By the time I get the most popular form of social media, a newer, better version has been released. The first form of social media that I ever encountered was a website in 2006 called Club Penguin, where people could create penguins to represent themselves and go chat with any other penguin online at the time. While this isn’t what we think of as a social media website today, it had some similar aspects, especially in terms of the online connections. Club Penguin actually had a requirement at the time in order to protect the privacy of its younger users that involved your parent signing a form allowing you to use the website. They also had a safe chat for younger participants to use. After I got a little older and decided to move on from Club Penguin, my parents had me delete my account in order to prevent any potential privacy issues when I no longer used the website. I joined Facebook in December of 2009, and was once again a little later on the boat than everyone else. While I used it for a time, I found it rather boring after a couple years of use. Currently, I use it a lot more because I am in a sorority and Facebook is one of its main forms of communication. I also like that it connects me to friends and family from home. I don’t usually make the conscious decision to stop using social media, it just happens when I get bored. One of the only times I have ever intentionally stopped using a social

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.

The use of social media in the professional domain has increased exponentially. It’s not only an extremely effective marketing tool, but it’s also cost effective and time saving (Kappel & Spector, 2012). Once social media crossed into the professional realm it was only a matter of time before employers and employees began to face problems regarding its use. Employers are not only using social media to advertise and recruit for their businesses, but they are also using it as a means to terminate their employees. This has raised many questions regarding how much access, if any, employers should have to their employee’s personal social media sites, and how much an employee should reveal about themselves online. This becomes even trickier when social media is used in nursing. The public holds health care workers to a higher standard, which can make nurses who use social media more accountable for what they post and how they display themselves online. Despite the potential drawbacks, many in the nursing profession believe strongly that social media is a positive addition to the nursing world (NCBSN, 2012). However, it is important for nurses to utilize the ethical codes and principles that guide the profession in their daily social media usage.

Technology has developed into one of the most valuable assets to everyday life. The social media apps developed from technology have opened many doors to allow the impossible possible. Being able to buy things online with the click of a mouse, chatting with a friend who lives across the country, depositing a check through your smart phone, and the possibilities are continuously endless. With more and more incredible innovations happening on a daily basis. Much has been made of the growth of social media and its impact on society. This impact can vastly be seen as a positive through the eyes of the general public, a strong perception driven in part by the social media itself, but as social media in all its forms has grown, an argument can inevitably be made that there has been a corresponding diminishment of personal privacy. Many forget that there is a price attached to having free sharing of personal information.

For many of us, social media has become an important way to keep up with what is going on with our families as well as what is happening in the world around us. In the past ten years, social media has also become a major staple in marketing for businesses because there has been a whirlwind of development. In 2006, Facebook was opened to the public and Twitter was launched. Not long after, Facebook surpassed MySpace’s user count and Barack Obama became out first “Social Media” President. In 2010, Twitter launched the ability to post sponsored tweets, with Instagram following in 2013.

Communication is essential to our everyday life. There are various methods in which we can communicate with each other. With the new social media platforms we have developed since the 2000s, as well as the increased accessibility of cellphones, our pockets now contain dozens of social media platforms on which we can communicate with virtually anyone. What differs social media from other methods of communication is the ease and instantaneous associated with these actions. Social media has become an important institution to our contemporary society, for the reasons that will be discussed below.

As human beings, it is in our nature to surround ourselves with other people. We are constantly trying to broaden the circumference of our circle of friends. One of the most common ways we do this today is through social media, such as Facebook. Facebook is used as a popularity contest, where we add people just too have more friends on the list than our neighbor. However, true friends are not usually acquired on Facebook. According to the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle believes that a real friendship is for its own sake and Facebook friendship concentrate much on amusement and utility.

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.

It is clear that in the modern world, social media plays a pivotal role in communication amongst humanity. Social media serves a variety of purposes ranging from personal settings like keeping in touch with friends through Facebook and Twitter, as well as business environments through the use of LinkedIn. It has been proven in many scientific studies that among human’s basic needs is the necessity for a social connection with other human beings. Well, in the 21st century we have seen this need become very easy to attain through the introduction of social media. Social media has enabled humans to communicate in an advanced way just by using their fingertips. Although, social media is generally regarded as a positive device for humanity, it has sparked great controversy in its impact toward generating addictive and anti-social qualities within individuals. Americans should limit the time they spend on social media because it often causes rampant addiction that may result in mental disorders such as anxiety and depression that can lead to poor life decisions prompted by habitual anti-social behaviors.

Nowadays, a growing number of individuals interact on a larger societal level through social media. Social media, it is a combination of internet-based structures. There is statistic shown that more than 1.8 billion Internet users have accessed social media sites. This suggests a new form of infrastructure has successfully penetrated our everyday life, and influences individuals and communities since then. With social media platforms becoming more functional, users move their daily activities to online environments gradually. This phenomenon has raised a controversial debate on whether social media make users more or less social. In this essay, I will discuss both tendency of social media sociality allegedly with some practical