The Impact Of Social Networking On Social Change

“Our community now has more than 1.55 billion people, including more than 1 billion people active every day,” says Mark Zukerburg, the creator of Facebook, on his own Facebook page last year. As one of the most popular social media sites in the world, Facebook has been adopted by an increasing amount of people over the past decade. The number of users on Facebook indicates how Facebook plays an important role of socializing and communicating in modern age life. Since Facebook allows users to see their friends’ updates and access Facebook on a mobile device, it has a tremendous impact on its users in several aspects. People may ask, “how does Facebook impact its users?” Some people suggest that Facebook creates negative consequences, such as distracting students in class. However, do all users experience these negative consequences? Sociologist Everett M. Rogers argues that the consequences of innovations, whether they are anticipated or not, can be perceived as positive or negative. Since Facebook does not differ from user to user, rather that it is the users that are different from one another, Facebook’s consequences vary from individuals. Even though some criticize how Facebook influences people negatively, depending on how the individual uses it, Facebook can positively impact users through sparking creativity, providing convenience, and creating change.

Abraham Lincoln said, “The problem with quotes found on the internet is that they are often not true.” This funny, but obviously false, quote is an example of a meme which litters social media today. Senseless memes, along with scam artists, predators, and negativity represent the dark side of social media. There is, however, a lot of good that can come out of social media as well. With millions on social media, exposure to different causes, people in need, or other important issues is widened. In this way, regardless of whatever ills plague social media, these progressive platforms make it worthwhile. Social media continues to expand its presence and being able to use it for good as a vehicle for change may help

One example of a positive change though social media is the Black Lives Matter movement. Despite the fact that social media removes face-to-face connection, it has the power to create positive change in society and across the globe. Social media can bring people in far distance close together though a screen and a keyboard. Though several social media platforms, like twitter and Facebook, many people

Many Americans believe social media is making people waste their time by making us less productive while molding our daily activities as a stumbling block from all the distractions that it gives us. What about our collective life? How are we even going to find out about anyone that requires our help, along with our ways to assist others within that matter? Social media is an essential tool to promote true and lasting social change; because it is easily accessible to everyone worldwide. This is for the reason that is making us all come together, by giving us the ability to stay in contact. Three main points that demonstrate that social media encourages social change are: instigating political change, sharing information not address by the mass media, and communicating online to promote social causes.

Social Networking is the use of websites such as Facebook, MySpace,Twitter,LinkedIn, and classmates.com to communicate with other users (Hampton). On social media like these,users are able to develop biographical profiles as well as communicating,researching, and also sharing photos, links, videos,music, and more. Advocates of social networking sites conclude that online communities promote increased interaction with friends and family and also offer teachers, librarians, and students beneficial access to educational support and materials, facilitate social and political change,and distributing useful information promptly. This impact social networking sites are suggesting leads to my impression that social networking sites are good for

As technology develops rapidly in the modern society, the broad social influence it brings is also widely discussed, especially about its effects on social change. In the past, social movements were raised without the help of technology, specifically without social media, whereas social media has recently played a non-ignorable role. The connection between social media and social activisms concerned, here come some different voices. Few people maintain that social media now has no practical influence on social change, while others hold the opposite view, thinking social media is already a crucial factor in it. Personally speaking, I agree with the second kind of view: it is true that social media is not able to create social movements by itself in today’s world, but it plays an important and essential part in making real social change.

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.

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

Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Linked In have gained a widespread audience across the world. Although the original intentions of these social sites were positive, these mediums of social interaction now have negative effects.

Social network sites (SNSs) such as such as Friendster, CyWorld, and MySpace allow individuals to present themselves, articulate their social networks, and establish or maintain connections with others (Ellison, 2007). These sites could be used for work related situation, romance, connecting with individuals with shared interest, or creating a connection amongst college students. Facebook enables its users to present themselves in an online profile, accumulate ‘‘friends’’ who can post comments on each other’s pages, and view each other’s profiles (Ellison, 2007). Individuals can write on the wall of friends, send private message, comment on posts, as well as chat via instant messaging. Much of the early research on online communities assumed that individuals using these systems would be connecting with others outside their pre-existing social group or location, liberating them to form communities around shared interests, as opposed to shared geography (Ellison, 2007).

Roughly 14 years ago, one of the most well known social sites, Facebook, didn’t even exist. Now, it along with Instagram have over one billion downloads worldwide. According to numerous studies social networking helps society. It is improving communication, promoting useful habits and skills, grants people health benefits, and does a respectable job at keeping their sites secure. Social networking is overall good for society.

Society is constantly changing and will continue to change in the future. The change is predictable because people change their ideas, routines, and views frequently. One of the topics that is typically brought up when discussing the influences on how society is changing, is social networking. There are two sides to every story. One side of the effects of social networking is that it is beneficial to society by informing people on particular situations in the world and on current important events. The other side views social networking as dangerous and drama filled. While there are benefits and dangers to social networking's effects on society, I will argue that social networking has changed society more negatively than positively.

With the way the world is nowadays, there are numerous factors that can contribute to the way a person can view themselves. Some of those factors are social media, advertisements, television, and society. Each of them is very different, but all can greatly affect one’s self- image. One of Sherry Turkle’s main points in her writing was that social media can cause someone to stress for numerous reasons. Jean Kilbourne states in her writing that advertisements can tell someone how to view themselves or have an influence on the way they act. Bell Hooks explains how television can affect how someone views their economic status and how their economic status can make them feel about themselves. Social Media is meant for people to connect and socialize with each other, it is not meant to cause stress or pressure on someone for small reasons. Advertisements are meant for stores to promote their business and increase sales, but can sometimes be misinterpreted by people. Television is meant for leisure and entertainment, not meant to be taken serious and make someone feel bad about themselves. Males and females need to consider how social media, advertisements, television, and society can affect the way they see oneself.

The internet has a greater impact on people today than ever before. It has been a constant source of news, entertainment, and education for users around the world for more than twenty years. However, the most revolutionary of its technologies, social media, didn’t achieve mainstream popularity until about ten years ago. As a result of this new development, Facebook, Twitter, and similar services are becoming the most visited destinations on the internet. These websites allow users to quickly and easily share pictures, links, ideas and messages with other users; theoretically facilitating social interaction. But do these self-proclaimed social networking tools actually encourage healthy human interaction? The evidence suggests that they do.

Science and technology has become a catalyst for human development. In recent years, the introduction of computers and the internet has dramatically changed the way we live and interact. From medical discoveries to transportation innovation, information access to space exploration, the internet provided most of the changes in our society at least in the last two decades. However, one possible outcome of such modification may be seen negatively as social networking sites, particularly Facebook, has corroded the “real” essence of a community.