The Rise Of Social Media

With the proliferation of technologies, especially the Internet, social networking has become ubiquitous in the modern world. Social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter, etc. are the impetus that is ever facilitating rapid creation and exchange of ideas to promote and aid communication. Humans interact by being social, therefore sociology analyses the changes in the social trend. Understanding the sociological perspective on the effects of social media, we find that the social aspect has changed. Comparing the past and present status of our society, it is obvious that there has been a transformation which all points towards the evolution of social media. Social media has changed our culture and has impacted on the way people meet, interact and share ideas; it has changed the perception of how people should communicate with the society. Social interactions have been defined to be an exchange among individuals with the aim of strengthening the society. Social interaction is building block in every society when people meet and interact; they define rules, systems, and institutions in which they will live by. On the other hand, social media is known as a platform that allows people to network and socialize through applications and websites that have been innovated. Though social media could be used as a useful tool to communicate with friends, family and even with people you do not know, however, researchers show that social media is absolutely harming human's skills to have

When I was younger, I learned to fit in wherever I went. My family was disjointed for about four years until I finally got settled in high school. My parents divorced and I was pulled out of my first elementary school and sent to one closer to home after fourth grade. This was about the time that my bullying started. It crushed me to be different from the rest of the children whose parents were still together. Other students didn’t understand anything that went on and they made fun of me for it. Moving around a lot gave me the experience necessary to combat the harsh comments of others.

The term “social media” is one that has been coined only since the beginning of the 20th century. In centuries prior, the earliest forms of communication were conducted through hand written letters dating back to 550 B.C. (Hendricks, 2013). Following this method of communication, the telegraph was invented, followed by the radio and telephone towards the end of the 19th century (Hendricks, 2013). It was not until the 20th century when the first versions of the “computer” were introduced. By the 1980’s, almost 100 years after the invention of the telephone and the radio, home computers and the use of email and online “chats” were beginning to be used (Hendricks, 2013). During the early 2000’s the popularity in social media sites such as

More than ever before, the explosion of social media has been dramatic and swift, fundamentally altering how individuals share personal experiences, search for information, form opinions and make decisions of daily living. The inexhaustibility, open and democratising disposition of social media has both great advantages and potential equally damaging risks, both individual and organizational. This essay considers the use of social media within the nursing profession; tertiary nursing practice and the impacts, potential pitfalls and educational advances that are encounted as a result of combing nursing and social media as well social medias impacts on student nurses on clinical placement. As we adjust and often benefit for the non static nature of social media, many nurses and nursing students have embraced social media, actively utilising its potential to enhance practice, education and influence health knowledge on a global platform.

With a rapid increase in technology came the rise of social media. Social media is a used every day with many different platforms to reach a many demographics. The culture of our society is being shaped by these social platforms with news at anyone’s fingertips. This paper explores if social media has made an effect on our society and if it has become a part of our culture

Social media has taken the world by storm and completely changed the way human beings interact. In the current age of technology, social media has affected the way people communicate in drastic proportions. Advancements in media can be both purposeful or destructive; however, optimum power in this decision lies in the hands of the user. Many people use technology to connect with people from all around the world, but instead block out the friends and family around them. Even though some feel that social media helps build relationships, it actually makes people more socially isolated and disconnected from the outside world.

Often times social media can be regarded as a device that deteriorates the value and importance of human communication. Most adults assume that millennials are using social media as a way to avoid face to face conversations and as a waste of time. However, multiple researchers have studied the importance of social media and its impact on people. It has been found that social media can be used as a creative outlet, way to socialize, learning tool, political outlet, and way to connect with others.

First, we will talk about how social media changes the way people communicate with others. According to lecture, the three periods of history are oral phase which mainly communicating by speaking; the modern write and print phase that allows wider spread by paper and copies; and the global electronic phase that makes spreading information much easier on electronic equipment. (Lin, Theories of Media Studies, 09/07) Networks make interpersonal communication more direct and socially efficient. Readers and authors, customers and businesses can ask questions of concern. Although they are remote from home, they can communicate instantaneously and communicate directly, which is novel and intimate. At the same time the use of network communication, whether it is thousands of miles away or in close proximity, the feeling is the same; both the ideas and wishes can be instant communication. What’s more, the Internet has overcome the constraints of traditional social space and time constraints and social, cultural, ethnic and other factors, and expanded the scope of people's

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.

Social media, also termed social networking sites, comprise websites, web-based services, platforms, and applications that allow individuals to “(1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system” (, Boyd & Ellison, 2007, p. 211), as well as (4) “create and share content or to participate in social networking” (Boyd & Ellison, 2007; Oxford University, 2017). Nowadays, social media use has become extremely

The widespread and significant influence of mass media, especially social media, virtual social networks and mobile messaging tools, the various dimensions of human life more influenced by these emerging technological platforms in the age of information and information society. In the present era, social media has become an integral part of our lives. All aspects of our lives have changed from politics to society, culture, and economics via social media and new technologies. Social media has caused revolutionary changes throughout society, becoming a dominant means of communication and transforming the ways in which organizations in both the private and public sectors need to interact with citizens (Mahajan-Cusack, 2016:

This paper seeks to understand how social networking media plays an important role in the contemporary society in relation to the manner in which people communicate, create relationships, share information or relate with each other.

I feel my dependency for social media has increased as a result of its growing popularity. Due to social media becoming more ingrained into western society, I no longer perceive it as a luxury but rather a necessity. There is an underlining obligation that exists, pressuring me into conforming as a means to be socially accepted. It is these factors that contribute towards the manner in which I engage with social media. As a student, I participate in social media through course forums that promote the collection of ideas often formed from the weekly readings. I however also use social media for social networking, informing and entertaining myself. Using sites like ‘Facebook’, ‘Reddit’ and ‘YouTube’ makes the distribution of content easily

Social media plays a vital role in providing a platform for individuals, organizations and companies to create, share and exchange information, ideas, career interest, pictures and videos (Jue, Marr & Kassotakis, 2010). This in turn has promoted a sense of knowledge and awareness thus people have been enlightened on various aspects of life and a chance to grow and a desire to explore more. In addition, social media has provided a platform for individuals to be equipped with the current technology and as such they have a chance to meet, engage and interact with people from all walks of life.

Social media are computer-mediated communication tools that enable users to consume and produce content through varied modalities. These Web 2.0 internet-based applications rely on user’s profiles to generate online networking through the collaboration of contents sharing and interactive exchange of information among users. Their central organizing functions fall into many sub-categories, including social networking (e.g., Facebook and LinkedIn), microblogging (e.g., Twitter), media sharing (e.g., Youtube, Vimeo, Snapchat, Flickr, Instagram), social news (e.g., Reddit) and blogs (e.g., Tumblr). According to statistics in 2016, there were roughly 78% of the United State uses social media and over 145 million users access these networks through their smartphones. Additionally, the most popular and dominant social media apps today are Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn etc. Among internet users from aged between 18-29, 87% use Facebook, 53% use Instagram, 34% use Pinterest, and 23% used LinkedIn. The population of social media users had never stopped increasing as the purpose of social media had expanded further toward consumerism, for example between 2013 and 2014, Instagram users increased from 37% to 53%, Facebook users increased from 3% to 87% while Twitter users increased from 27% to 38% and Pinterest increased from 27% to 34%. Despite the rapid growth in a number of users, there are a few obstacles in social media study. One of the obstacles is that there is no report or research