The Impact Of Media On Social Media

Since the Bulletin Board System there has been hundreds, and counting, of social networks created: most notably Twitter, Facebook, Kik, Snapchat, and Instagram. Today there are just over 3 billion active Internet users (45% of the world’s internet users), 2.1 billion of those people have social media accounts (Jeffbullas.com). People use social media for many numerous reasons. Most use social media to stay close to relatives and maintain social ties. Some of people’s most essential daily needs are accounted for by social media: whether it be interacting with friends or coworkers, following politics, or following the latest fashion trend set by the Kardashian

Suicide rates have increased in teens over the past few years. Along with suicide rates increasing, mental health of teens in general has been a widely discussed topic. A huge contributor to these issues is social media. Over the past couple of years, teens have been diagnosed with mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression at a much higher rate. These issues are prevalent for teens all over the world. The increase in diagnosis of disorders is largely due to the rise in popularity of many social media platforms.

Social media can be a great tool for utilizing modern communication techniques. Young people make up a large percentage of social media users. Teenagers frequently browse forum and imageboard websites to look at content they enjoy. Many different groups of people use these forms of communication to voice their opinion or advertise an important issue. Recently, the alt-right uses modern social media to spread their extremist ideals and opinions. The article explains that many young people are in danger of going down the extremist path, due to the alt-right's use of propaganda in the form of memes and other teen friendly media. While the alt-rights reach has extended to more young people, the actual effect of the propaganda is not as severe as some may believe.

A social networking site, or SNS, is a platform to build social networks or social relations among people who share interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. (Wikipedia contributors) Social network sites have been increasing at a great speed, and now there are around 1.79 billion social network sites users (eMarketer), which means that more than 60% of internet users are using social network sites. Before SNS comes into people’s lives, self-presentation on internet is regarded as a role-playing game. People did not have to follow the rules in real lives, and they could present themselves in any way they want. However, with SNS, everyone is no more anonymous. On Facebook, my friends can see every photo I like and every comment I make, and they all know that it is me, Yongxin Li, who likes the photo and says these words. It gives me a feeling that everything on Facebook is real.

Participating in the creative world of media has been a tradition and a necessity for me since I was a young girl. Television channels like Nickelodeon, Disney, and MTV have become popular and innovative television channels that consistently develops creative and interactive ways to consume media messages. By watching broadcasting programs and television series, I learn something new or valuable that I can then impress upon to someone else. This connectivity and deeper understanding I have to television production and media have implanted my desire to pursue a profession Television and Entertainment Media industry. While other Millenials may view social media and television services as a way of relaxation or fantastical escape, I have

We are now living in the technological era of smart phones, Apple products, and social media. Throughout the Generation Like Social Media Documentary, frontline propose the perspective of social media as an evolving marketing method of likes, share, and retweets. Each like, share, or retweet ranging from their favorite brand, product, or celeb represent themselves creating their own unique identity which in term is used by companies as a marketing approach to reach teens and receive profit. Furthermore, with the advances of social media a digital revolution has begun in which frontline seek awareness on how children don’t understand how companies use technology and teens for their own gain.

In modern society mobile technology and social media have become ever engrossing and are constantly merging with parts of society. For instance, the role of a public figure that supports what they believe to be a honourable ideology, what was once a primarily television based role, has now become dominated by personality from social media platforms. These individuals used to be limited by their success through traditional media sources, providing a gate keeping sort of effect (Singer, 2013). Along with the the popular adoption of social media into mainstream society, came a dissolution of the success of these gatekeepers, and a new wave of influencers able to get their own message out through these services.

Medium theory is concerned with the prevalent role that technology plays in a constantly changing society, shaping patterns of both culture and communication. Research conducted by the authors, compared how newspapers and blogs differ in terms of the characterization of social media, the framing of the Steubenville rape case, and the characterization of the perpetrators and the victim. The sample included newspaper articles and blog entries released December 2012 to June 2013, the period that corresponded with the nonjury trial of the accused rapists and the aftermath of the sentencing. Altogether, the sample included 44 newspaper articles and 34 blogs. The findings demonstrated there was no significant difference in how the two platforms characterized social media regarding the coverage of the case. Concerning the framing of the case, newspaper articles were 50/50 in their description of football players as American athletes with a positive or negative connotation. Personal blog entries were heavily leaning toward the negative connotation. In addition, blog entries also discussed victim blaming/slut-shaming as a societal concern and were more likely to mention rape cover-up by coaches, officials, friends of the suspect, etc. than newspaper articles.

What role does social media play in the opinion of the public? How does social media news play in shaping public concerns and opinions? Why do people create false new stories? What is the idea around creating false new stories? What important political situations have been drastically affected by false news stories?

Today’s society is becoming a very dangerous and a harmful situation for adults and children due to personal information becoming exposed to the public for anyone’s eyes to see. There are people who post their entire lives on Snapchat, Instagram, and many other social media outlets. What are the consequences that portray in the condition that one displays too much information on social media, which can potentially be horrific to oneself? What occurs conceding that one has personal information on social media such as scammers, stalker, and thieves have easy access to that information which they will use against that individual? In the case that a scammer finds personal identity information, they will not stop until they get everything that they can steal from that person. In the case that a stalker finds personal information, they will not stop until they track that person down to get whatever the stalker intends to get. Sadly, it is the truth. Granted, a thief sees photos from a social media outlet of one’s beautiful house, they will want to rob that house. So, they will find accessibility to track when that person does leave their house. Nonetheless, the internet has expanded so roughly that it causes an abundant amount of harassment by having the ability to access everyone’s personal information. In addition, when it comes to broadcasting personal information, one does not have the ability to take off what is already on the internet what had already been posted. Publishing too much information, it can cause long-lasting harm to many.

With the development of advances in technology, communication through social networking has risen immensely. Communicating is not only less complicated, it is also relatively inexpensive. “Many teens in relationships view social media as a place where they can feel more connected with the daily events in there significant other’s life, share emotional connections, and let their significant other know they care” (Lenhart, Anderson, and Smith). However, the ease of access to social networking has allowed many adolescents to become overly involved. Networking has the potential to influence adolescents both emotionally and physically which in turn may lead to negative behaviors. An article from procon.org stated, “The use of social networking sites is correlated with personality and brain disorders, such as the inability to have in-person conversations, a need for instant gratification, ADHD, and self-centered personalities, as well as addictive behaviors” (ProCon.org). Essentially, social networking has rising negative influences on teens because of increased cyber bullying, lack of respect for personal privacy, and its addictive qualities.

Demographics and covariates. Participants’ age will initially be required for the cross-sectional analysis. Controlling for possible covariates, we will also collect socio-demographic information (gender, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic status, and place of residence).

Godiva currently utilizes social media in the footer of each webpage; among the social media icons present are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Google+, and YouTube. Additionally, social media sharing and engagement icons are present on each product view. Users are able to “Like” an item on Facebook, tweet it on Twitter, pin it on Pinterest, or click on the G+ Share link. Website visitors that are already logged into any of these accounts on their computers will not have to log into social media again to engage in sharing. Godiva’s marketing team does a great job in collecting data from the customer reviews on products, Allowing users to rate the product anywhere from one to five stars, create a review, and add up to six photographs to it! Additionally, Godiva has optional fields to collect age, gender, reason for purchase, frequency of purchase, value of the purchase, and lastly, selectable options for the user to select where they purchased this product (Fig. 3).

Why are we constantly sharing? To answer that question, we need to look at the underlying grasp of constant connectivity. Today’s society has the most connection than any before. Our technology and the internet have shaped our culture in such a way that it is almost a requirement. In this day and age, finding someone who is not connected in any way is few and far between. Social media is a major player in the connectivity of our world. With the more than 1.8 billion daily active users on Facebook, 300 million active daily users (with 500 million monthly) on Instagram, and twitter with 313 million active monthly users, this allows for insurmountable points of connectivity between users, and for the sake of this paper, countless amounts of media (images/videos) being shared (Twitter) (Instagram)

In our ever changing environment integrating the use of technology into our daily lives has exponentially increased over the last thirty years. The innovative results technology has created leads to a robust amount of valuable opportunities for social expansion found in the areas of commerce, medicine, occupational, and education. As the population continues to integrate the use of technology into their daily lives the expansion in technology use has also resulted in numerous negative exploitations, especially on social networking websites (SNW). Social networking websites are frequently targeted by those who threat to attack SNW registered user’s private lives. A frequent doubt that embarks the user’s thoughts is one that questions SNW’s ability of properly securing stored user information. Society also questions the possibility of SNW’s cultivation of user stored information and whether these websites will broadcast the information to unwanted public, such as advertisers. This is a heated confrontation between SNW users and the websites themselves. The question of whether the information projected on SNW can become a potential threat to society 's privacy can be easily answered, yes. As a SNW user myself I believe that many of SNW’s have the inability of properly securing user stored information. The low security creates a threat to society’s privacy; it also has the capability of creating a potential monetary gain from cultivating and distributing stored information.