The Effects Of Cognitive Ability On Social Media Use

    People do not realize the immense impact social media has on their lives.  Social media first impacted people’s lives with the invention of the telephone in 1890.  Following this, the radio entered many homes in 1891; this was the beginning of social media.  During the twentieth century, computers and the Internet began the modern rise of today’s social media. UseNet, in 1979 was a virtual newsletter, which began what people think today of as modern social media.  When home computers became popular during the 1980s, such sites as relay chats took off.  Then, in 1997, the first true social media site , Six Degrees, came about: “It enabled users to upload a profile and make friends with other users. In 1999, the first blogging sites became popular, creating a social media sensation that’s still popular today” ( “Complete History of Social Media: Than and Now”). Although social media has some positive effects,  social media has changed the world for the worse because it negatively affects politics, privacy, and bullying.

Social media is being used today by Adults, Teens now even Children. Peggy Orenstein “Each twitter post seemed a tacit referendum on who I am, or at least who I believe myself to be” (Orenstein, 381). She does a wonderful job explaining the negativity and positivity about social media and internet.

Overall, the article is well organized. Despite the fact that the introduction, body and conclusion are merged, the author gives many examples, that epitomize what people as social media users are experiencing everyday, and details

For instance, methodologies used in this study, which were mainly surveys, implements the correlational method of research. Surveys examines a representative sample of participants who are asked to self assess and answer questions about their attitudes or behaviours. In addition, the concept of random selection is undoubtedly ignored within this study. Random selection is a procedure that verifies a sample of individuals to better represent a given population, and to provide everyone an equal chance of being chosen for the sample. Within this study, the majority of the participants were women (60%) and most of the participants had gone through post secondary education. Furthermore, the chosen participants were targeted via undergraduate classes or through the use of internet advertising. Low external validity is an issue in this case because the results of this study cannot be easily generalized to other scenarios and broader groups. In order to properly use the technique of random selection, they need to conduct a study where all eligible individuals have an equal chance of being chosen. For instance, the researchers could instead ask all members of the university, students and staff, to take the mind survey to get a more collective answer for their

Lack, in a study titled The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Social Media Use, Nihan Ozguven and Burcu Mucan-- quantitative social researchers at Dumlupinar and Dokuz Eylul University-- conducted a study that contradicted Towler’s interview with Dr. Lack. Ozguven and Mucan further analyzed the effects social media usage could render on personality types and the correlations between the two. According to their study relating to ages of 18 to 31, they discovered that “ 19% used them [social media] for 4 to 6 hours a day, 6% used them [social media] for 7 to 9 hours a day, and 5% used them [social media] for more than 10 hours a day” (Ozguven, Mucan 2013). Based off of these statistics and additional experiments, they concluded that “those who are open to experience, and those more satisfied with their lives tend to use social media more” and that there was no correlation between social media usage and other particular personalities: neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness (Ozguven, Mucan 2013). Further work in this area of social media use may lead to the development of broader correlations between why the claims that people who enjoy their life as a whole use social media more than those are not as happy with their lives. However, while Ozguven and Mucan work demonstrates positive aspects of social media, more studies would have to be done to conclude the certainty of the positive

Social media is defined as “websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.” However a more accurate definition of social media is as follows: “the relationships that exist between network of people” (Wiang, 3). Although social media traces back to before the 1800s, it is something that has become especially popular over the last two decades. What is interesting about this is that technology began going through a sense of both change and advancement of after

Social media has changed the way people think and how they communicate.  It’s incredible to see how social media has become such a big part of our daily lives. Just to think social media as we know it was birthed less than ten years ago in August 2003 with MySpace and has become such an integral part of our daily lives. Synonymous with checking our email we go to our Facebook for not only our daily gossip, but for up to date news and events.

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.

Social media has taken off like a rocket throughout the years. The annoying sound of a modem connecting has turned into a soundless transaction. The wait time to connect is instant, opening a global world of interactions for people. You can now connect with anyone, anywhere at anytime at least once a day. Social media defined by Goyal is “Any platform,which provides the facility of sharing ideas, exchanging information and sending messages over an electronic medium, is considered as social media.” (Goyal,222). This is to include online magazines, Facebook, Twitter, Newspapers,Email, Blogs, YouTube and many more. Advertisers have taken notice to these platforms, utilizing social media to promote their brands, develop trust with the consumer,save money and target audiences faster than ever before.

Defining social media is a tricky task to do because of its constant change (Tess, 2013). Ober and Wildman have explained that social media involve a vast range of PC and mobile platforms which continue to develop constantly, launched and re-launched, abandoned also ignored daily in countries all over the world that consist of various forms of communication (Ober & Wildman, 2013). Although Facebook is “dominant’ face of social media (Tess, 2013) and twitter is one of the popular micro-blogging website (Tess, 2013), however in recent times, various social networking sites, blogs, wikis, multimedia platforms, virtual game

sampled college students were using at least one form of social networking website. There was a

The goal of this paper is to examine the effects of social media on teenagers and young adults. This study is aimed at looking at whether social media as a key influence in determining the attention span of young people and their capability in fulfilling their studies and responsibilities. As participation in technological social network has become a mainstream communication method for many, this research will delve on the underlying problems of social media addiction among students. It is also for this reason that this research will conduct a thorough survey on the causal relation between the amount of time spent on social media and the academic results in students. This paper will also look on the relationship between the age and the number of hours spent on social media.

Social media can be defined as websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or participate in social networking. As a phenomenon of only the past couple of decades, it has certainly changed the way we live our everyday lives. Whether socially or professionally, it opens the door to incredible amounts of information; most of which is freely shared.

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.

Our lives seem to be more and more consumed by technology as great advances in this area have continue to be made, especially when it comes to social media. Many researchers have begun to notice that depending on how much time individuals spend on these social media sites, they can negatively affect their daily lifestyle in very significant ways.  For example, social networking has become a huge distraction for students and it can affect their grades depending on how often they check their various accounts while doing class work.  Researchers have also come to find out that social media can contribute to the development of psychological symptoms