Social Networking

Facebook has become just another way of provoking emotions without talking to someone. When you read the article, you laugh because of the examples she uses. Like when she talks about how one of her friends said she is “In a relationship with Chinese food.” We have all seen that, we might even be those people. So, you feel happy because you can relate to her at that moment. How many of us have seen someone give a “soliloquy” to people that we don’t even know? We can all relate to the feeling of giving a speech over Facebook because we are behind a screen and we do not think that people are reading it. But she also made you feel guilty when she tells you that we have changed the idea of interpersonal relationships. How many of our “Facebook friends” are really our friends?

When a tragic event happens, we are unsure in how to respond. In Elizabeth Stone’s “Grief in the Age of Facebook” she talks about a personal experience that ties in with social media. A student of hers had died, and the article takes you through the time that she found out to the time it had been posted on Facebook. Once Stone is told the news she is also told that the late student’s roommate “didn’t want anyone to learn of Casey’s death through Facebook.” (Stone) The reason the roommate did so, might have been because the news of someone passing is so upsetting for it just to be a simple post. The news should be delivered by mouth. Once everyone has heard the news, then something was posted on Facebook. With that post came a lot of confusion. People did not know when was the right time to post pictures with the late Casey. Would it be disrespectful if they wrote about the fun times they shared with her? When should they stop mourning and start remembering? They asked questions that no one has the correct answer to because, grief is different for everyone. Since our methods of mournings are not the same, a user remembering Casey through funny old pictures could be seen as being

In her article “ Why the debate over ‘real names’ matters — for drag queens on Facebook and everyone else, “ Caitlin Dewey descants on the topic of “Why does the real name debate matter?” Explaining that Facebook using real names is “an attempt to civilize, and thus, colonize the social web. She references to a situation where people want to use different names online because they want to separate their personal life from social media, and gives the example of a transitioning transgender activist that hasn’t come out to real life acquaintances but wants to discuss the process online, but because they have to use their real name on Facebook they aren’t able to do so. She also goes to say how using your real name online is more about personal identity so therefore makes you more held

The poster typically edits their pictures so they have the best lighting, do not look fat or unattractive, meanwhile their friends are having the times of their lives doing fun activities or trips. Remo even admits that she is insecure in pictures and often takes multiple pictures before she posts them, just to make sure that they do not appear “real”. The psychological effect on posting gives individuals a rush, a “Harvard study concluded that writing about ourselves on social media stimulates the same part of our brain we use when eat food, are given money … or have sex,” (Remo 5). Posting makes people feel like they are important, and important to those that like the picture. However, social media can be the cause of jealousy, especially when people your age are having more fun and experiences than you are. It makes the viewer wonder why they cannot have that lifestyle, or do the things their friends are doing. Remo recalls that a friend of hers became so upset with her life at graduate school, while Remo was going to bars, the beach, vacations in the summer. The girl cried because Remo’s life seemed better than hers, but Remo was the complete opposite. She posted those photos to make it seem like her life was better than it really was, emotionally, physically, and financially, but it was not what her life really was, “I don’t even remember that time in

We ignore the fact that so many users signed away their personality when they signed off on the swear of conformity hidden deep in terms and conditions. The second you log on you you conform to the standard and the unspoken but unbreakable rules. You want to look sexy, but too sexy and that’s an issue. Sharing your fun times on a fancy trip feels showy, but sharing too many party pictures feels fake. There are endless hidden rules that you must follow in order to ensure your popularity and those who break them either fall or are shunned. This rule book, guarded by every individual user, is the root of the social media issue. The moment the secret rule book is enforced, we create a standard, a standard that people must follow in order to keep appearances and sometimes even friends. Yet, having any kind of rule book or standard that forces some to repress their personalities is terrible because it removes the diverse individuality that makes the world so interesting. It makes users feel like it’s necessary to change themselves and become what others want and it causes individuals and the whole program to lose themselves, their authenticity, and their creativity as

We’ve all been trained to feel the need to let everyone know what we are doing all the time and make sure that we don’t look like we are boring people who don’t have anything to do with our lives. I think to be perfectly honest there has only been a couple times where I have been happy that someone posted something on their Snapchat story, but most of the time I just skip through them all because I hate to seeing the hundreds of stories. Going back to the concept of friends on social media if you think about it for long enough you start to realize that it is also a really weird concept, because I know that there’s plenty of people who I know went to Mexico or the Bahamas for March break because they posted something about it, but if I said hello to them in the hallway they would look at me like I was an alien who just came from another planet. There’s also all the unwritten rules of social media like not liking photos unless it was posted in the last 24 hour range and even after it’s been up for more than 15 hours it’s kind of risky, but if we are all being honest we have all been there when we are 138 weeks deep on someones Instagram praying that we won’t accidentally like

Finally, my last major guideline is the TMI. When I scroll through social media, there are two kinds of posts that irk me the most. The first but not the worst is the “poor me” post. Like saying “I’m so ugly in this” hoping for reciprocation from others flattering the poster. For example(this is a real post I viewed today.): A girl posts a ‘mirror pic’ sticking her butt out on Instagram with the caption “no matter how hard I try I will never be enough.” This is a cry for attention, particularly from guys, and everyone can see it. This repeated multiple times damages a reputation and gives a poor first impression to others that don’t know her

Society has turned social media into a place of status and recognition, no longer as a place to catch up with friends and let others know what events are taking place in our lives. We look at others’ profiles to see a picture of the ‘best of their lives’, wishing that we could have their hair, house, boyfriend, etc., putting

Forever. This factor is a large portion in one’s online identity that can possibly alter or change their personal identity. Author for Psych Central, Rick Nauert, explores this idea in detail and claims “…what an individual says and does online influences everyday relationships and behavior” (Nauert) in the real world. If what Nauert is implying reigns true, then the personal identity shift that takes place affects not only the individual whose identity is in question, but also those who are in close relation to

Social Media has become a fixture in society today. Whether you use Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook just to mention a few, I’ll bet most of you have one of these accounts. I myself am part of several “Mom Groups,” which are “private.” Some of the ladies online have made crude, vulgar, and nasty comments to me because they don’t agree with my views.

When I am online, there are various boundaries I need to maintain. The most important is being safe, as I never put my own intimate information out on the web. As well, the privacy of others is relevant, I have to first ask permission from the persons involved to post the certain picture or text. Considering this I do not say anything online that I would not say in person, as what I post will be there forever as my virtual footprint. I need to be authentic in the way God created me, by creating profiles and speaking to others in no manner different than what I would say to my closest friends and family. Not only is being safe on the internet important, but so is being

We are so focused on our social media image and how many people follow our lives on media, that we are becoming blind to the real aspects of life around us. When we are more involved with media and getting more "likes" we tend to lose interest in our friend`s true personal lives, we may see what they choose to let everyone know about their life, however, we have no real connection to them. "... the new Social-Networking Websites have falsified our understanding of intimacy itself…" (par. 17). We have formulated that idea that commenting or liking someone's post shows that we truly care or even acknowledge their lives, but is this really true? When you like someone's post do you really feel connected to them the way face to face connects you? Social media is growing at an extremely fast pace, and with that our media outreach grows. Many times we "friend" someone on Facebook or Instagram that may be from another state or county, that we have never even seen or met before. What is the definition of that friendship? Truthful there is none, there is no real investment of feeling in that relationship. Too often we allow ourselves to be shallow and only let ourselves care on a surface

If you have girls as your friends on Facebook its triple the points were if you have guys as friends its only one point. They are treating Facebook like a stock market. Wendy is Stan girlfriend and she was upset with the fact Stan doesn’t have their relationship stats as in a relationship on Facebook. In society relationships are very difficult to handle now days. Wendy was very upset and wants him to fix his stats on Facebook. Stan tries to delete his profile but couldn’t because once you sign up for an account they have it forever. Most people don’t know what they sign up for just because it’s free doesn’t mean it’s always a good thing. You can deactivate your profile, as many times as you want but it will always be there when you want to come back. I think its crazy that you can come back whenever you want to they make it imposable to leave and start over. When Stan try to delete his profile he got into the computer as a game on Facebook. Stan had to fight off the Facebook king by play a game of yahtzee, which was funny because it’s an easy game to play. Stan won and then was back to normal for Stan, he had 0 friends. Stan dad came in the room as ask if he delete him on Facebook. After Stan got 0 friends all of his friends went to the boy with clown face poster kip drordy. Kip drordy was very happy that he went from 0 friends to over a thousands friends over

There is no empirical research exploring impact of Facebook on user’s behaviour in disseminating the information of violence related to women, but there is a report evaluating the effectiveness of social media campaign (Facebook, YouTube and Blog) demonstrating that social media is an influential medium to help prevent VAW (Liou 2013). Rasmussen (n.d.) and DVV(2015) confirm that social media plays an essential role to contribute to the primary prevention of VAW because it allows public to access information for their understanding leading to behavioural change.

Marcy wants to be a model when she grows up. She is conscious of her fitness and tries to remain slender like the models she idolizes. She looks for tips online about how to stay thin. Marcy read about eating disorders and decided to become anorexic. A year