The Impact Of Social Media On Society

Privacy is a topic that has impacted this new generation more so than others, and more than likely will continue to do so. It has been the source to much controversy and issues in the past decade. Additionally, it seems like privacy is only becoming more of a hazard rather than a blessing to users of social media and modalities of communication. Therefore, underscoring this topic and examining its effects, will possibly lead to an understanding of the rise and potentiality of this sensitive subject. Moreover, in some form or another, people have stumbled across this topic and that is why it is crucial that it is addressed, so that people can have an understanding of the problem.

Social media can be seen from completely different aspects and points of views. A major role in these different opinions plays mostly the age of the beholder, because social media made an enormous change in the last 50 years. One very important aspect in our today’s society is to get as many information as possible in a very short time period ("Impacts of social media”) Through social media and especially social networks such as twitter and Facebook, the information gets spread extremely fast. There are for example reporters who search on those networks to get information for their news and articles. (“Impacts

Most Think that social media doesn’t have any negative sides. When you think of social media what do you think of. People who use social media don 't think about how it can beneficial or not. how about this if you asked your self what would it be like to not have social media. would you benefit from it or would you need it. Most importantly this paper is to inform the reader whether or not it’s inserting. Let start with this question, What is social media? A form of electronic communication (as Web sites and social networking) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos). Social Media comes to a point on whether social media has a positive or negative out look on people in general. Social media effects both on privacy, theft, cyberbullying, advertising and much more on social media. If do don 't believe me go on to you computer and try and look up positive view of social media and you will see that there aren’t any good thing on social media. The importance of social media and not just the positive and negative views. The important details are the Face to Face connections, Time Wasting. Isolation and privacy are another of many in the two main drawbacks of social media that you should be worried about when using it.

These days it seems like social media is just as much a part of everyone's daily routine as brushing their teeth. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn, YouTube...seems like just about everyone's got a profile on one or more social media sites. In fact, according to Edison Research, over 2/3 of all Americans over the age of 12 use social media, and 75 million users report checking those sites multiple times per day. While it may not be quite the “15 minutes of fame” we were all promised at some point in the future, what this means is that most of us at least have the potential, if we're not careful, to have our information made public to a worldwide audience. While this may sound like an attention-seeker's dream come true, it can also be very

This article is especially informative for my topic because it includes facts and statistics that enlighten people on the lack of privacy we have on social media and what problems it may later present in the future. Clemmitt, Marcia. "Social Networking." CQ Researcher 17 Sept. 2010: 749-72. Web. 14 Sept. 2014. Marcia Clemmitt, journalist for CQ Researcher, wrote a lengthy article in CQ Researcher expressing her concern for the exclusive personal information people post on social media and what should be done to help people protect their private information on social networking. In Clemmitt’s article, Cliff Lampe, an assistant professor of telecommunications at Facebook, includes that all of the workers express deep concerns for people’s privacy. Lampe

In this article, Malcolm Gladwell argues that in a network were loose ties are prevalent and Hierarchy is just a word, social media could never give what social change will ask for. He starts off by recalling the 1960’s Civil Rights Movement, were groups of dedicated individuals challenged the status quo, with crucially, strategic activism that led to a true revolution. Mr. Gladwell illustrates that there are a few distinctions that show between traditional activism and social media. One being that social media is not a hierarchy, instead it is a network. Secondly, his more compelling argument that social media is built on “Weak –ties” which rarely will lead to the high-risk activism that is needed.

While many people put off and ignore the issue of social media and its downfalls, others say that people should think about how our lives are being affected by this advancement in technology, including, lack of human contact and precious time being lost due to consumption with social media. Social media is currently a highly controversial topic in which numerous people have mixed feelings. Society has typically viewed new advancements in technology as beneficial and a sign of success within their country. But, has it solely caused successful outcomes, or are there downfalls to these advancements?

Social media is more and more used to make presumptions and decisions about people. If I get to know someone I will go to Google and try to find out what can be found instead of waiting how all info itself will arouse by time passing. It’s debatable if it is ethical to spy about people in social networks because behavioral patterns witnessed there belong more to private sphere. But if person is willingly giving away his rights to privacy?  Also we seldom think of privacy issues when applying for “bonus” card to get 5% discount. It seems that sometimes people need to be protected against themselves and until there are no new and relevant social norms aroused, this is were policymakers should puzzle and offer solutions. Of course the balance is a key issue.

Technology has evolved over years from a luxurious service to now basic need to the societies globally. Social media offer divergent services and use to billions of peoples, and millions of organizations, companies, and institutions. Social media popularity is ever growing due to its simplicity and easy access. It has brought about a complete overhaul in the way we view and think in our society. The impacts of social media in the society are many, it includes both positive and negative impacts. Writers of articles differ on the extent and types of impacts. Steven Krause differ with Scruton, Steven argues that social media has brought more advantages, while the later in his article ‘hiding behind the screen’ argues that social media has impacted society more negatively.

Social media popularity has risen over the past years. The majority of the population of the age, now possesses one or more social accounts. Various articles and news sources have indicated that social media deteriorates person to person interaction and are gateways for cybercrimes to occur. However, behind such negative statements social media does provide a plethora of benefits to society. In fact, social media permits individuals to communicate, provides opportunities for businesses, and educates society.

Society today always state claims to privacy or being private but turn right away and post everything on social media making privacy just a myth. Privacy preserves negative space around individuals who are already fully formed or mostly fully formed, affording shelter from the pressures of societal and technological change (Cohen, 2013). There is no way around the fact that we use technology daily, but we should take in consideration how we should guard ourselves from the consequences of sharing with the world everything little detail that goes on in our lives. It amazes me how most people don’t think that posting their every move or what their eating or drinking or even where there going shopping will not get the attention of something or someone negative.

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.

Often there are inventions that change society. They become part of our everyday life. Social media is an invention that has changed the foundation of the way we communicate and in all probability, it will be around for the remainder of the homo sapiens lifespan. With life-changing inventions like social media, debates spark whether it is a good thing for our society or not. Dave Eggers “The Circle” shows the way social media can be a positive change for society with the Circle’s countless inventions that integrate social media. “SeeChange” is one of the inventions from the Circle that allows people to see HD quality live streams from a small device anywhere. Their claim is that with such devices we can make criminals and tyrants

The way we are judged and how we judge people play a vital role in how identities, communities, and generally societies are shaped. All our lives, we stay in an indirect war with ourselves; whether to spend our life in accordance with other people, or to do whatever we want, however we want? Apparently, it seems vividly justified as to which option should win. Everyone’s instinctive choice would be to spend their lives the way they want, but the truth is that we’re too afraid to ignore the ghost of judgement in most of the matters of our lives; too dependent on the ideas based on social constructionism. People try as much as they can to keep a controlled image of themselves in the society; how they are supposed to act. While constant supervision of oneself could be a hard task in real life, it could be a much easier one if the way we present ourselves is just a matter of a click or two. This paper argues how the growing use of social media allows us to regulate and efficiently control what part of our identities others can or cannot see, thus helping us to create “digital identities”. (Stoller, E. 2012)

As introduced by Van Dijck (2013), there are two theories of social media, which are Actor-network Theory and Political Economy Theory. The Actor-network Theory examines the connectedness of technology and human actors. It claims that users and platforms are interrelated and support one another, which can be simplified as social media platforms promote online interaction. (Van Dijck, 2013). People spend a growing number of time on social media sites, which ‘encourage active production and are characterized by a high level of interactivity have brought about new rituals of communication. (Fenton, 2012:) The study of ‘From Facebook to cell calls’ by Yang et al (2014) gives an empirical example of how social media makes people more social. The research indicates that Facebook as one of the most