The Internet : Social Media, And The Internet

Social Media began affecting our communication and relationships as early as 1969 when the first internet service provider become available to U.S. universities. In 2002, Friendster, the first social media website available to the U.S. was created and gained over 3 million members in just over 3 months. One year later, MySpace launched. In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, a 24-year-old Harvard student, created Facebook, an online social networking service. This service was originally a way for students to interact. Today it is the world’s largest social networking service and allows over a billion users to connect though posting photos, sharing links, and comments which all appear on a “News

In the early 2000’s, MySpace became increasingly popular and in 2005 YouTube was created. This was a huge advance in technology, as it allowed users an entirely different and new way for people to share videos globally. A year on, Facebook and Twitter were introduced, and are still the most popular social networking websites. After this, many different social media sites began to surface – Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram and Spotify, to name a few.

The use of social media has now gone far beyond the sole use of entertainment purposes. When the social media craze first started, most people used it for quick communication and entertainment. It was sites like MySpace and AIM that are held responsible to get the social media ball rolling in the early 2000’s. The early 2000’s were part of a new age when technology reigned king. Technology was quickly spreading and people were starting to realize what the full scope of possibilities that were to be done with it. With all these new possibilities, people decided to start their own online businesses. All these new businesses that were appearing quickly spread and some turned into internationally renowned businesses. Two of the most popular

In this day and age, social media has become an integral part of our lives. It has created a platform for people to share information instantly and communicate with people all around the world. Facebook is the most outstanding example of successful social media network. According to the first quarter 2015 earnings announcement by Facebook, the site has achieved 1.44 billion active users per month, and 65% of which are daily active users. Other social networking sites such as Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn are also a powerful means of communication. With such a large audience, social networking sites provide ample opportunities to acquire information, network, and connect with friends.

Social media has now become a part of our modern day society and has a huge impact on our lives on a daily basis. Social media is the use of web and mobile-based technology to support interactive content. This content tends to be user generated and then might be promoted by other users to a new outlet or audience. Social Networking is a great

Social media websites are some of the most popular haunts on the Internet. They have revolutionized the way people communicate and socialize on the Web.

Social media is defined as “websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.” However a more accurate definition of social media is as follows: “the relationships that exist between network of people” (Wiang, 3). Although social media traces back to before the 1800s, it is something that has become especially popular over the last two decades. What is interesting about this is that technology began going through a sense of both change and advancement of after

The development of new technologies that have emerged since the mid-1990s has led to Internetbased applications known as “social media” that enable people to interact and share information

Social media is a technological tool that allows users to share information (Business Dictionary, n.d.). Other common features include the ability for visitors to create personalized profiles or accounts where they can post information for others to view and the ability to link their accounts to others (Nations, n.d.). Within the term the “social” component means sharing with others and the “media” component refers to the technology that allows for the sharing (Nations, n.d.)

The Internet is the decisive technology of the Information Age, and with the explosion of wireless communication in the early twenty-first century, people, companies, and institutions feel the depth of this technological change, but the speed and scope of the transformation has triggered all manner of perceptions. For instance, media often report that intense use of the Internet increases the risk of isolation, alienation, and withdrawal from society, but available evidence shows that the Internet neither isolates people nor reduces their sociability; it actually increases sociability, civic engagement, and the intensity of family and friendship relationships, in all cultures.

Social media, phones, and technology have really come a long way. I remember when I learned how to text, write emails appropriately, and create and maintain a Facebook page. When texting and writing emails, there are some things that you have to consider before clicking the send button. There is also some things to consider when creating and maintaining a Facebook page before clicking the post button for the world to see.

The template/sample can be found in the appendix, as well as all the results summarized by Google Form. 20 people took the survey in a lapse time of 5 days between October 12 and October 17. The survey suggested that half of the surveyed had a Bachelor’s degree and 75% of them are single, never married. Most of them (65%) had between 18 and 24 year old and took the survey via social media. The other category mostly represented (20%) was between 45 and 54 year old and took the survey sent my email. Knowing that most of the person who answered the survey was in the young generation I will focus my analysis on them. It is interesting to get to know more about their own perception of media. They haven’t lived the transition between traditional media and digital media like the other older generation did. They have an all-new look on media but still do not trust them. Only 25% of the surveyed answer “social media” to the question “Please choose a media outlet you think is the most trustworthy ». The Generation Y should trusts the tools they use the most but surprisingly, for them the trustworthiest outlets were Newspaper and radio with 30%. People mostly trust radio and newspaper but still, 55% of them choose social media to access current news on the daily basis. The question here is; why do people go on media they don’t trust?

Social media can be defined as websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or participate in social networking. As a phenomenon of only the past couple of decades, it has certainly changed the way we live our everyday lives. Whether socially or professionally, it opens the door to incredible amounts of information; most of which is freely shared.

The internet, and the abundant social media platforms it contains, enables us to post our own thoughts and words for it to be viewed, not only by our neighbors from across the street, but also by people from all crevices of the Earth with a wifi-connected device. Being linked together, in this way, can lead us to feel a strong bond with those who post or tweet daily updates of their lives we get to see so often. Even if we do not directly exchange messages with them and form close friendships; through a sense of fraternity, we tend to heedlessly believe statements they claim. However, entrusting our opinions, more often than not self-formed, to faceless commenters tends to dampen our ability to form educated judgements for ourselves. Surely those anonymous individuals are inclined to establish their own biases. Not to say that there is anything wrong with that, but for us to blindly rely on the string of characters displayed on the monitor in front of us without doing a good bit of research on the subject at hand first? Absent-minded actions like this is slowly becoming what is typical from a sizeable amount of social media users. Throwing out bold accusations we have not done a good amount of examination does not exercise proper critical thinking. Just because they choose to share particular snippets of their lives does not mean most of their notions are based upon well-informed conclusions.

Whether a healthcare organization is supports unions or is against them, it should have a policy on unionism, and this policy should be communicated to its employees. Fried and Fottler (2015) explain that a positive labor-management relationship begins with this policy. A unionization policy will often include policies concerning wages, benefits, hours and conditions of employment, which Gamble (2011) says are the most common reasons for unionization. With clear policies and procedures regarding unionization, an employee can find the information they need regarding the most common reasons for unionization and proceed through the correct channels for change. A policy also shows that management understands that each employee is important and deserves respect and that time and thought goes into employee relations (Fried and Fottler, 2015). An employee can also see and understand the implications of unionization with a clearly outlined unionization policy (Gamble, 2011).