The Impact Of Social Media On Society

Social media is defined by the Merriam Webster dictionary as “Forms of online communication, through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content” (Merriam Webster). Social media, if used responsibly, is a great way for users to connect with the outside world in ways never before imagined. Such forms of communication have been able to connect millions of people from around the world and put them right at a user’s fingertips. This technology has nudged its way into the computers, smart phones, and hearts of millions of people around the world over the past decade, but at what cost? Although a great way for friends and relatives to reconnect, social media

In Discipline and Punish, Foucault adopts a genealogical approach to examine the effects of punishment on society. In this paper, we apply Foucauldian analysis to information technology, especially social media on the internet. We will see that social media has both a homogenizing and a polarizing effect — while it often polarizes across social groups, it homogenizes within groups. Social media allows there to be less interaction between people of different groups while allowing norms to be spread and enforced more easily within groups.

Social media refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share, exchange and comment contents among themselves in virtual communities and networks. Social media or "social networking" has almost become part of our daily lives and being tossed around over the past few years. It is like any other media such as newspaper, radio and television but it is far more than just about sharing information and ideas. Social networking tools like Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Blogs have facilitated creation and exchange of ideas so quickly and widely than the conventional media. The power of define and control a brand is shifting from corporations and

Since the beginning of the 20th century, our generation had prospered and became remarkably advanced in this world. Furthermore, the greatest journey of innovation would be to, our precious, advanced technology. First, we began with just cell phones, next smartphones, in which, then opened a door to all theses different types of upcoming apps. Few of these apps have become a major key in our society; such as Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat. These apps were as another form of social media. It had opened a whole new world for people twelve and older; enabling them to share and memories, stories, and updates of their lives to their “followers”. Moreover, this way of sharing your life with others had brought in keen, automatic listeners. Which inevitably had also spread awareness like wildfire; the good or bad news. Nonetheless, this form of social media had an immense effect on users’ lives. There were major consequences in social media that had affected our community and relationship. The children of our future were becoming illiterate, a there became a new standard of “love”, and a latest form of addiction. Within our generation of social media, this could be one of the most extensive downfall of the century yet.

The use of social media in the professional domain has increased exponentially. It’s not only an extremely effective marketing tool, but it’s also cost effective and time saving (Kappel & Spector, 2012). Once social media crossed into the professional realm it was only a matter of time before employers and employees began to face problems regarding its use. Employers are not only using social media to advertise and recruit for their businesses, but they are also using it as a means to terminate their employees. This has raised many questions regarding how much access, if any, employers should have to their employee’s personal social media sites, and how much an employee should reveal about themselves online. This becomes even trickier when social media is used in nursing. The public holds health care workers to a higher standard, which can make nurses who use social media more accountable for what they post and how they display themselves online. Despite the potential drawbacks, many in the nursing profession believe strongly that social media is a positive addition to the nursing world (NCBSN, 2012). However, it is important for nurses to utilize the ethical codes and principles that guide the profession in their daily social media usage.

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.

Everyone have heard the saying “too much of a good thing, can be bad”, the meaning is self-explanatory. However, the statement is true, just thinks about it. Food is good, but too much is bad. Social drinking is good, but too much a person becomes an alcoholic. Social media started as a good idea, but even too much social media can become bad for a person. Society had reached a point where it is not necessary to have human contact in order to have a relationship. Instead of calling and talking to someone, people just chat through the internet or text message. People lost the art of conversation with today’s technology. Facebook launched in 2004 and has become a mega company. Last year, the company had 845 million users, revenue was $3.7 billion, and the estimated value of the company is $100 billion. There are negative and positive effects of social media since the launched of Facebook in 2004. The great debate is: have Facebook plays a positive or negative impact in society?

In 1968, popular artist Andy Warhol had brought to attention his opinion on the over-populated celebrity society of the time with his quote “In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes”. Times change, and the future approached, but Andy may have underestimated just how true that is. Nowadays, the quote has been translated to fit the modern times, “everyone will be famous for 15mb”. The quote being changed to that says a lot about the times that we are going through right now, which is the age of technology. ‘Mb’ (megabyte) taking the place of ‘minutes’ inside the quote expresses the general idea that society has become dominated by technology. With the growth of technology rose many things that have helped shape the world positively, only one of them being the increasing use of social media. Social media, even though relatively young in its days, has made a major impact on the ways society interacts. The rising use of social media has brought about a more involved and informed human population. This is a direct result of giving the human population a stage in which anyone can create and utilize a unique voice for themselves. There are many things that can be brought up when it comes towards arguing about the positive elements that social media has introduced to society and this paper will help bring some of them to attention. A few of the many positive conditions of social media are that it has effectively helped to shape the future of education, brought

The rapid growth and innovation of technology has had a lasting effect on the people of this generation. Tasks are done faster; life is more efficient. But the same efficiency that has made our quality of life better, has a hand in decreasing the quality of relationships around us. Sherry Turkle and Zeynep Tufekci both believe social media has done well to our society, but disagree on whether or not it is making human relationships grow apart. Social media is a double-edged sword; it brings people together that are physically apart by five hours, or even 30 minutes, but it also has negative effects on the quality of the relationships we have with these people.

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)

Marylin Vos Savant once said, “Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized”. The society we live in today requires modern technology. Texting, tweeting, and other forms of abbreviated communications are now changing how we speak. Of course technology and social media to be precise, is not necessarily evil; they have boosted the world’s economy by creating employment opportunities, increased the standard of living whereby individuals’ needs are met with greater ease, and the world’s connectivity has never been better. Although social media has benefited society in one way or another, it presents more serious consequences, including the way we speak and communicate with each other inhabiting face to face interactions, health associated problems especially among the youth, and poor performances at jobs and schools resulting from abbreviated words.

Many people have experienced what it is like to be influenced by social media in their lives. A majority of us has an unlimited access to the Internet, which leads us to open a variety ways to interact with people from all over the world. It is fair to say that most of people depends on social media as a part of their day. The roots of social media expanded deeper than you thought. The earliest way of communicating across great distances used written conformity delivered by hand from one person to another. In any other words, letter was popular. The earliest form of postal service was back in 550 B.C., and delivery system would be more of a widespread. In the year 1972, telegraph was invented which allowed all the messages to be delivered over a long period of distance. There are discoveries that happened in the last decade of 1800s, which included new inventions of telephone in 1890, and radio in 1891. Both technologies are still put to use today. The new technologies enable people to communicate across a great distances. When technology began to change rapidly, the first supercomputers were created in the year of 1940s. People like scientists and engineers began to develop ways to create networks with those computers and it lead to the birth of Internet. CompuSave, the earliest forms of Internet, were developed in 1960s. During that time, forms of email were also developed. In 1980’s, home computers were common and social media became more sophisticated. Internet chats

In recent years, technology has played an important part in our lives and has influenced us tremendously. One of the ways in which it has impacted our lives is through the use of social media. It seems like social media has become an important part of our lifestyle. We use it everywhere from being in classrooms to being at work. Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat have become a habit for many individuals across many ages. Although, social media is widely used amongst the age group of 18-29. In today’s society, almost everyone is expected to have one of these networking sites either for personal use or work-related use. These sites have extremely influenced our lives in both positive and negative ways.

These people are highly respected by this, the social media generation. They are role models and yet, they do not have the same rights as many others. They cannot marry the ones they love.

The influence of social online networks. This is a very controversial topic. Whether or not it is okay for everyone to use or not. Whether or not it has benefited or not any at all. So I am here to bring you truth. What are the influences of these media pages, and are social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and instagram a force for good or evil?