Spread Of Social Media

Social Media is a controversial topic. For this reason, many people have argued whether social media is positive or negative. Nevertheless, there is more evidence supporting the idea that social media has had positive implications on society. Reasons for this include that social media can help your career and that it can aid adolescents when it comes to socializing. However, there are several other individuals who hold on to a different view.

As much as social media has managed to ruin our society, it plays a positive role for the public as well. Social media allowed people to use their networks as a form of reaching out to old friends and family across the world. With America being known as the melting pot of the world, our society has several people with family on the other side of the Earth. With social media in effect, this permits people to stay in touch with long lost loved ones and keep ties tight. Not only has it sanctioned friends and family to keep in touches but has granted people to relocate birth parents and unknown family members as well. Yes, social media has failed our society greatly but there is always a rainbow somewhere after a rainy day. Social media can play a positive role by bringing people back together.

In Frank Rose’s essay “The Selfish Meme” one of the claims Rose make is that social media can strengthen society. I agree with this view of social media. Social Media can have a big say on the things that happen in society. I feel one of the reasons people use social media is because most people have an active social media account that they check daily. Social media can be used as a positive platform to display people's feelings toward things that happen in the world. Social media sites such as Instagram can include posts about things that affect our society. This can include terrorist acts, injustice acts, and community service acts. I believe that social media is used for good, to help raise awareness to the problems in society.

Current TV shows like Extra or The Wendy Williams Show or magazines like Cosmopolitan or US Weekly, contain all of the latest gossip about someone else's life. When in reality, we don't really know that person that all. Before all of these TV shows and magazines, word of mouth was the only form of communication we had. With new inventions, rumors can spread quicker and have become more specialized than ever before. If it's one thing these social platforms like BuzzFeed and cosmopolitan are misses is the truth.

Depending on its use, social media can either be a healthy or hurtful for society. One could argue about this for days, but there is one thing we can agree with about social media. It gets information out there. Sometimes that information is negative, but in this case, it's healthy. Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter have tons of users that use the site to promote their healthy lifestyle to the world.

Social media has exploded in American culture because it makes our lives easier and the world a better place. Hard to imagine there was no Facebook or Twitter just 12 years ago. Sure there’s some negatives associated with it, but overall social media has so many benefits. In fact, here’s seven reasons why we think social media rocks!

Social media as a whole has benefit our society in a number of different ways. In the essay Is Google Making Us Stupid?, author Nicholas Carr felt that technological is taking other our ability to function independently. Which is somewhat true but I for one disagree. I feel that the world of technology has had a positive impact on us, by allowing us to step out of our comfort zone and explore new world possibilities. Such as a new form of communication and the ability to work more efficiently as well as expressing our creativity.

Since the birth of social media people have argued whether it has a positive or negative effect on society. Social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram give people a chance to stay connected. Although, with the power of social media comes the possibility of cyber bullying. While there are some negatives associated with social media, the positives in communication all around, has made the world stronger and a better place to live in.

This way of thinking has only come to light because of the invention of the printing press. If there was no invention of the printing press it would be very hard for the world to communicate. Social Media is one of the biggest impacts in the world today because everything that is happening in the world is being posted on social media. If something in the world happens whether it is down the street from where you live or across the world, most people use social media to pass this information. Social Media will continue to be a major factor in how the world communicates for years to come. Whether this is Facebook or Twitter or just the internet in general there will be a decline in paper newspapers more focus on people using the internet to communicate and stay up to date on world events. Just like the printing press was a fast and accurate way to pass information, it would still take some time to get the information out to the world. Social Media can pass information the minute after an event has

A large number of people potentially get some of their news from social media and this is proven by a 2016 Pew Research Center survey, which states 69 percent of US adults use social media. This also makes a lot of people vulnerable to receiving and believing false information. The authors of “Campus politics, student societies and social media” said “The very ease of access and the potential rapid and widespread ‘viral’ dissemi-nation of content led to expressions of concern that social media could amplify misinformation. ‘Facts’, it was claimed, could be misconstrued, taken out of context

Recently, people are now discussing how social media changes our life, whether it is good or bad. Some of them think that social media is a kind of fad because of its rapid development. Others think that it is really useful and makes our life easier than before.

Paren (2008) gives an example of Virginia Tech shooting where by social media users provided a list of the victims even before an official list could be released. During a crisis, social media plays an important role in disseminating information where information breakers inform the public and the stakeholders of an event of interest. For example, a flooding may swipe away a bridge and an information breaker could use social media to inform other motorists of the crisis. It is however worth noting that social media as with other forms of communication has been used to spread rumors in times of crisis and it is important for the crisis management team to closely monitor social media and squash any rumors (TFCC, 2013).

As social media is becoming one of the most popular things in the world, businesses are taking advantage of it and are using it for reviews, advertising, and other marketing strategies. Through their social media accounts, business are able to read their reviews, and through this feedback they are able to better their company. Now everyone will have contradicting opinions about a business but that is because everyone is not getting the same service. For instance Bergstrom Automotive uses their Facebook to better their companies service to their guests. A guest by the name of Katie Brands posted “Have bought more than one car from them over the years and have serviced all cars here...Always an honest business with excellent customer Care love them.”’ (Bergstrom Automotive

Have you ever had a good or bad experience with social media? Have you ever been a part of a protest that was started on social media? I think that social media is a good thing because you can have so much fun on it and even make friends on in. Without that you would be limited to the kids in your neighborhood and in some places there are not a lot of kids that you can make friends with or they do not live close so you have to drive there. That is all fixed with social media. Like recently I have found some friends on social media that I play games with. They are super nice and without social media I would have never had that experience I would have to play be myself all the time and have no one to talk to. But now I have the chance to make friends and have fun with them even tho they live far away. Also colleges and most jobs look at your social media account to see what kind of person you are and if you are able to work so not only can you have fun but you can also potentially make money from it and you can make friends. Things like Facebook are so convenient to talk with friends or family without that we would need to call them and that is just so much harder to do then

According to Forbes, there are ten myths about social media: such as, “everyone is on social media,” “social media is solely a broadcast channel,” “social media can replace your website,” and