The Impact Of Social Media On Modern Society

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Today’s world is influenced by many factors. One of which is technology; many things have been created that have revolutionized society. Social Media is one of the newly invented platforms, which have come out as a result of technology. Social media is used on the web or via applications where users can view, share and learn about what others in their lives, communities and countries are doing. Social media has made communication very effective in today’s day and age and has helped many people in many ways; however, social media also has its downsides. Social media has made our lives less private and has allowed people to be able to find out confidential information about us. This topic is vital because all people using social media, from all different age groups, should be aware of the risks involved within social media because their privacy could be invaded by anyone. Social media can thus be seen as a threat as people can set out to harm you through invasion of your privacy. Social media is bad because it affects or privacy and communication skills.

It is a fact that social media has existed for several decades. However, as technologies keep advancing, the usages of social media have gained attention because of the issues they may cause. On one hand, social media is fundamentally used to interact among users via the Internet; consequently, they may share and exchange pieces of information and ideas in virtual communities and networks. In summary, social media is basically used to connect people. On the other hand, recent studies have found that rather than making the users feel connected, they can promote loneliness and less social interaction, which may lead to isolation. The scope of this analysis is limited to five sources with the following four themes: loneliness, face-to-face communication, textual technological communication values, and negative emotions.

The use of social media has increased rapidly within the past decade and still continues to grow as approximately 58% of people claim to use it. According to the Merriam Webster online dictionary, Social media is defined as "forms of electronic communication…through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content" (Merriam Webster Online). Most people across the globe have been introduced to some sort of technology with the capabilities of using social media sites and those exposed tend to become captivated by what they have access to, using social media often and depending on it to keep in touch with others. This leads people to ask, "Does social media make the world more disconnected or interconnected?" This is a controversial topic due to the overwhelming use of social media amongst the younger generations and even the older generations as well. This issue in society could potentially dissipate actual physical relationships between people and everyone will become technology-hungry robots. Karl Pilkington once said, "Everyone is living for everyone else now. They 're doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don 't get all that social media stuff, I 've always got other things I want to do - odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that." Overall, social media is ultimately making the world more disconnected while fooling people into believing that they are becoming closer to each other.

I have constantly thought about intimacy amongst couples as a private and a special thing between them, and considered it as a cherished moment to be experienced concerning the two without the interruptions of others. Yet, nowadays, every notion of privacy is becoming blurred with the use of technology, and peoples’ interpretations of what is private and what is public has evolved over time with these new technological developments. The smartphone plays a significant role in changing peoples’ views on their privacy, and having these devices in hand at all times, with unlimited access to the internet, alongside countless applications and free social media platforms available to share their content has made it even easier to forget about the concept of privacy.

Associate Director of Athletics at Saint Louis University weighed in advocating, “We have a conversation to say that it is not just social media in a bubble, but it is social media as another place you are going to make decisions [that represent your team, the department, the institution, and your family]. What’s unique about social media is the immediacy by which many people have a thought and then share a thought” (Bowles). Aside from athletics, students hoping to attend college are often required to give their Twitter handle as a section on the application. Unfortunately, in the world we live in, social media determines a significant part of a young individuals life. While sports hold great importance in our society, social media is

Technology has developed into one of the most valuable assets to everyday life. The social media apps developed from technology have opened many doors to allow the impossible possible. Being able to buy things online with the click of a mouse, chatting with a friend who lives across the country, depositing a check through your smart phone, and the possibilities are continuously endless. With more and more incredible innovations happening on a daily basis. Much has been made of the growth of social media and its impact on society. This impact can vastly be seen as a positive through the eyes of the general public, a strong perception driven in part by the social media itself, but as social media in all its forms has grown, an argument can inevitably be made that there has been a corresponding diminishment of personal privacy. Many forget that there is a price attached to having free sharing of personal information.

Ed Stetzer, president of Lifeway Research, writes, “If your student ministry is a four-year holding tank with pizza, don’t expect young adults to stick around.” Dr. Stetzer is referring to the current epidemic seen in America involving the church. American churches, and churches around the world, are experiencing a decrease in their attendance. At the current rate, less than ten percent of Americans will attend church, by the year 2050. The largest age group of those leaving the church is Generation Y or, as they are better known, Millennials. The lack of community, authenticity, and faith are contributing factors to the drop of millennials attendance seen in the American church.

With the surging power of technology in the past few years, it is evident that social media usage is becoming an intricate part of human society. In view of this extraordinary social change, many studies have been done to investigate the underlying psychological use of social networking sites. While these studies target user personality traits with usage, the networking companies could also benefit from understanding what the consumer wants in that specific application or website.  These studies are looking at behavioral characteristics such as an escape of loneliness, entertainment purposes, not wanting to feel left out, and many more. Despite being in a virtual world, social media has a great impact in the user’s daily life and affects

Selfie is defined as a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and shared via social media. Selfie was the 2013 Oxford Dictionaries word of the year and have great impacts on social media websites across the internet. To this day the world has been caught in this tendency by mocking it or participating it. As selfies get more popular the beauty standard are impossible to reach for ordinary young women. Every individual have different perspective of what self-portrait present. In fact, based on my own experience and the experience of classmate, I cannot deny the boost in confidence level that selfies bring. People, who were often unexpressive and distrustful of their own positive trait in the real world, often finds their worth through selfies.

Communication is essential to our everyday life. There are various methods in which we can communicate with each other. With the new social media platforms we have developed since the 2000s, as well as the increased accessibility of cellphones, our pockets now contain dozens of social media platforms on which we can communicate with virtually anyone. What differs social media from other methods of communication is the ease and instantaneous associated with these actions. Social media has become an important institution to our contemporary society, for the reasons that will be discussed below.

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.

Since I was younger I have always been creative and interested in coming up with my own unique ideas. When it came time to think about my future career I decided I needed to be doing something creative and artsy. I was not quite sure what I wanted to do with my future that involved my many interests. Finally, I came up with becoming an advertising manager after getting my degree in business marketing. Advertising managers create interest among potential buyers of a product or service for a department, for an entire organization, or on a project basis. They must plan advertising and promotional campaigns and decide which media to advertise in, such as, radio, television, print, online media, and billboards. Advertisements and forms of social media have a huge affect on people, because it is mainly all that we see. Now these advertisements are meant to sell society on an idea or product, they are not meant to be negative in any way. However, some advertisements, mainly on social media websites, are affecting society, especially women, more than most people realize.

Social media is a growing aspect and trend of the current generation. Currently there are 1.73 billion users over the world. As social media users ourselves, we are well aware of the many great aspects of social media, but also know there are some negative outcomes. This then led to the exploration of how social media effects society through studying texts. In each scenario the characters were affected in different ways, as well as the people around them. The texts studied are Ender’s Game, The Social Network, Cyberbully and Trust. In some of the texts positive aspects have arisen from the result of social media whereas in other extreme cases the result of social media has been extremely harmful. Wikipedia.com defines social media as ‘computer-mediated tools which allow people to create, share or exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks’.

Nowadays people are depending on social media for their daily activities. No matter what the event is social media somehow becomes the topic of discussion. Social media for many businesses can be a great tool, but it’s very important to put some restrictions and procedures in place and be very consistent with enforcement. Most employers and employees are probably not covered by a General Liability policy. The laws that are governing social media continue to change rapidly. Employers must speak with their attorney’s to completely understand the social media liability issues facing their business. The liability facing employers is very important and everyone in the business needs to understand what the governing acts consist of and have clear social media policies in placed in order.