The Impact Of Online Social Media On Society

Nowadays, social media has a big influence in our society. Who is didn’t use social media? Almost everyone use Social Media. Indonesia ranked 6th as the most Social Media users. After China, US, India, Brazil, and Japan. Our teenagers are so active in social media. Maybe they could be online in social media almost 24-hours per-day. But there’s a good and bad effects of social media. So, there’s some of bad and good effects of social media that we will discuss here.

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.

This annotated bibliography investigates several sources that discuss the positive and negative effects of social media usage in order to present an argument on the influence of social media on society. My position is that overall social media can have a negative impact if used irresponsibly, however given the prevalence of social media in today’s society, it is impossible to avoid.

Everyone realized that MySpace was being too cluttered with spam and negated by the owners, users switched over to Facebook. Facebook allowed several new features that MySpace did not, for example: games like FarmVille, “poking” and more. As a result of social media, people have become more connected with each other, but consequently less connected with the real world. If people are less connected with the real world, then what is so beneficial about social media?

Social media allows us to connect to people all across the world. It allows us to stay connected to friends and family who are far away and people who are somewhat close that you may not see often. For example

It's allows people to express who they are. Not everyone can express themselves, social media allows a person to be themselves in addition, social media allows people to have more privilege to convey who they are. Social media makes it easier to demonstrate who the real are.

Starting with the positives of it, it can help you get into a relationship and make new friends by finding people that share common interests. With friends social media keeps you in touch but you tend to not see them face to face because it’s easier to talk thru social media. I think that’s pretty sad but with family it’s different. Most of my family don’t live in California so social media is the only for sure way to talk to them. So with family it’s usually positive because it connects to family you can’t see face to face. According to Brian Solis in his article, "People Use Social Networks to Connect with Friends and Family, Sometimes Brands," “70% of adult social networking users visit the sites to connect with friends and family.”(12) But like I said friends who you can see face to face with just a short drive; you don’t see because of social media. There has been many articles that talks about how social media was designed to bring people together, but it has only made them feel more alone. As for intimate relationships, social media has probably become the number one way people start dating. Social media lets you just sit a wait for someone to message you or for other applications you wait for a match. Social media is great for find new relationships but when you're in a intimate relationship it only causes problems and brings about jealousy. In most situations if a relationship doesn’t work out it wasn’t meant to be but in some situations a relationship could have work if not for social media. Still my point stands if you want social media to be positive it can be, but if you can manage it then it is seen as a negative thing. It all comes back to self control and self discipline with social

Social media has both positive and negative effects. However, I feel as though the positive outweigh the negative. So many people benefit from social media including businesses, students, and distant friends. Although, when not used intelligently social media can be a destructive thing. Social media users should know the risks of social media and educate themselves. Overall social media is a positive thing that has made

Social networking sites allow you to connect with old friends from high school, family that lives far away, in my case, even in another country as missionaries, friends down the street, coworkers, and just about anyone else you can think of. This can make you feel more connected to the world around you. You can keep up with what everyone is doing and accomplishing in their lives very easily through statuses and pictures posted every day. I have met new family members, whether by marriage or by birth, through Facebook who I otherwise have not had the opportunity to meet. One of my uncles, who recently passed away, had an affair about thirty years ago and did not

Social networking has become a major part of society. Many people wake up each day and check social media websites specifically throughout Twitter and Facebook first thing in the morning instead of reaching for a newspaper. Since people are spending such a large amount of time surfing social networks, it is important to point out some of the positive and negative effects that social networking can have on a society. The positive effects of social networking sites are allow people to create new relationships and reconnect with friends and family. Increased communication, even online, strengthens relationships. And the other   is social networking sites make people share everything that they want and   bring people with common interests together, offer exposure to new ideas from around the world, and lower inhibitions to overcome social anxiety.

Social media has become prominent parts of life for many young people today. Most people engage with social media without stopping to think what the effects are on our lives, whether positive or negative. Are we as a society becoming more concerned with Facebook "friends" than we are with the people we interact with face-to-face in our daily lives? What will the longterm effects of today 's social media use be? There are many positive aspects, but there are equally as many dangers that come with the use of sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google +, Tumblr, Instagram, gaming sites, and blogs. Social media has both negative and positive effects on society, it is up to the user to decide what impact they want to make. In order to make the right choices, we must dig in and research this topic thoroughly.

The abundance of technology and social media today has led to many positives and negatives in our society. The

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

As social media has taken over our life, it has also generated new impacts on our life. It has influenced our society greatly, and hopefully it is more positive than