Social Networking And Its Effects On Society

Social media has become deeply embedded as a part of today’s American culture and lifestyles, changing the way people interact and communicate with one another. Americans use social media every day; to not only communicate, but to express themselves. These online media sites and blogs serve as entertainment for its users and give them a sense of a social life if they do not already have one. Some users become so obsessed with their online lives that they lose the ability to successfully communicate with people in real life. Their craving for the use of social media becomes an addiction to where they can spend countless hours on their social sites. Facebook, a popular social media cite, has been proven to cause Facebook Depression, a sickness in which a person is emotionally depressed and in self denial. Studies have shown that sites such as Facebook, are a direct link to an individual’s physical and emotional well being.

Technology has become very advanced and very important to our society. One thing that has become very big because of our technology is social networking. There are many positives to having easy access to social media, but there are also negative effects as well. The impact of all this social media has overall a negative effect on our daily lives in society. In “‘r u online?’: The Evolving Lexicon of Wired Teens”, by Kris Axtman, Kris talks about how instant messaging has affected the the communication of the younger people in our generation. In “Note To Selfie”, by John Dickerson, he writes about how people are pausing their lives to post about their happenings on social media. These two authors discuss some negative aspects to having social

In 2011, Snapchat grasped the attention of millions of smartphone users across the world. Consumers were ecstatic for the launch of the very first social networking application that would allow people to send pictures and short videos, to a controlled group of people, for a few seconds before they disappeared and never surfaced again. Snapchat was the first application that established the idea of impermanent content, which gave consumers a sense of security when sending content to others. This was until a group of hackers found a way to hack into Snapchat servers, leading to the company’s first breach by publically publishing user data on the Internet.

Social networking has turned the world into a small but global village. Now it’s easy to connect with people from all over the world, people from Far East like China can interact with others from the United States in real time virtually. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and many more are the mean of social networking; however social media developed an addiction and overuse that caused unwanted distraction from reality and social life with people. Once it was a healthy escape from life’s problem. Now it’s a problem to life itself, at least people life relationships. Social networking once was a great tool to establish and maintain relationships with friends, family and even strangers sharing similar interests. But unfortunately it can backfire

Society is constantly changing and will continue to change in the future. The change is predictable because people change their ideas, routines, and views frequently. One of the topics that is typically brought up when discussing the influences on how society is changing, is social networking. There are two sides to every story. One side of the effects of social networking is that it is beneficial to society by informing people on particular situations in the world and on current important events. The other side views social networking as dangerous and drama filled. While there are benefits and dangers to social networking's effects on society, I will argue that social networking has changed society more negatively than positively.

A social networking site refers to the dedicated internet or online based application or platform where individuals are enabled to communicate and interact with each other virtually. Social networking is characterized by a network of individual relationships and personal interaction based on common interests and goals such as the love for a particular game or music genre. Social networking websites allow people to create their public profiles of, search for friends and add them to their friends’ list and vice versa. There are various versions of social networking sites based on different topics or preferences, for example, LinkedIn is a social networking site used to connect professionals in related fields of competence and practice. The first website to manifest features of a social networking site was SixDegrees.com that was launched in 1997. This created a precedent that was emulated by other websites including Friendster in 2002, Myspace in 2003, and Facebook in 2007.

Within this essay I will discuss how social networking sites have both a beneficial and unbeneficial influence on our way of life and everyday interactions within society. Social networking sites have increased our overall social interactions as well as provided society with additional ways to build social connections. However, for these interactions and connections to be advantageous, individuals within society must be aware of and accept the decrease in privacy that arises with the increased social interaction, only then will it be a benefit. Although, if individuals within society forget or do not accept the decrease in privacy and therefore perform acts on social networking sites they may not be fond of society seeing, this can alter their everyday interactions by making the individuals less social. It is difficult to pinpoint how society and everyday life has changed until you view how different everyday interactions are from ten to closer to five years ago. Recent years have shown that more than anything else, social media has drastically impacted most of societies daily lives due to tools such as Facebook and Twitter. Social networking communication sites have significantly altered our way of life as well as the way we network via one another and the world around us. Here are a few areas that social networking has reshaped in societies everyday interactions.

In recent years, the world has changed by modern technological developments. People in these days are living real revolution and changes that affect in somehow their life. Social media has contributed to link parts of this wide world to each other, and paved the way for all people exchange views and ideas. In addition, social media sites are considered the most widespread on the Internet because of its characteristics that made it different from other websites. Because of social media, people has become living in small town. They do not need to travel in order to getting informations or news. Social media has created easier way to achieve communication between individuals and groups.Social media websites, such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace , High Five, Tagged and YouTube have allowed people to exchange video clips, photos, share files and perform immediate talks and direct communication and interaction between the audience. Despite of advantages of social media that offer to its users, there are some disadvantages that may overcome those advantages. There are a lot of severe criticisms that social media faced because of its negative impact on individuals, families and society. Steal information, break the personal privacy, wasting a lot of time and isolation from people are some of problems that people have faced because of social media. People have divided into two group toward this issue. Some people think that social media has contributed to make their life better.

“Have we all become so desperate to share everything that we 've stopped enjoying our lives?” Lucy Sykes, a fiction author states. Oxford Dictionary defines social media as “a variety of websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking” (Oxford Dictionary Online). In this technological age, it is apparent that social media has become the main gateway to connect and interact, not only with our friends and families but also with the world around us. Using social media, including social networking sites, is now an essential part of everyone’s life. Yet, what often begins as a harmless virtual habit can hasten into a damaging and intruding one. Along with the convenience social media has brought, it also negatively affects people’s lifestyle, relationships, and self-esteem to the extent that it has become too invasive.

Social media seems to have taken over. It seems every twelve to fifty-year-old I know is glued to their smartphone or tablet, Tweeting, checking in on Facebook, sending silly pictures via SnapChat, or posting their last meal on Instagram. Not to mention all of the people followed on Tumblr, Pinterest, and Untappd that aren’t known personally, they just have common interests and shared ideas. What does this mean for our developmentally vulnerable youth?

The users of social networking, increase the amount of social networking being used each and every day. From January 2008 to January 2014 “the use of online social networking sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest went up from twenty six percent to seventy four percent” (“Social Networking ProCon.org”). Spending too much time on social networking, causes some of the people to become distracted from their school, work, and their everyday lives. Social networking is a distraction, and it puts one’s life in danger. Social networking has negatively impacted society.

Nowadays, the Internet is considered as the most convenient, fastest and the cheapest means of communication between people around the world. Also, it can be an extremely easy way to access information. The number of the users of the Internet is increasing every day. Also, it might be considered as the most developed form of communication. Furthermore, the Internet provides a lot of websites online many of these websites associate in social interaction between users such as social networking sites. Social networking sites have been defined as “a web-based service” that permits users to create an account and put their personal information, pictures and videos and it allows users to make a list of friends, so people can communicate with other users (Boyd & Ellison, 2008). Also, other users on the same site can see and share their profiles (Boyd & Ellison, 2008). Social networking sites are the most popular between adults, children and teenagers (Papacharissi, 2011, p.39). The most prominent social networking sites around the world are Facebook, Twitter, Friendster, Hi5 and MySpace. Social networking sites are a new phenomenon and are highly controversial. Social networking sites are a phenomenon that interests many scientists and psychologists in the world, as it also concerns parents as well because of the impact on children and teenagers all over the world (Boyd & Ellison, 2008). These sites have

The internet have opened up more opportunities of communication and socializing at vast distances across the world. People are able to send and receive information at their convenience which made the internet the habitat of social communication. Millions of people are using various web-based social networking services such as Facebook, twitter, Instagram, My space, What’s app, Skype; just a few to mention, to communicate, stay connected and as a source of freedom of expression. The use of these systems emerges serious social and moral influences on people and their societies. In this article I would illustrate a few issues that I believed is a growing concern and needs to be reconsidered in the evolution of the social communication era.

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