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    Social media is a wonderful way to share your thoughts and adventures with the world, but it can also become a breeding ground of hatred and negativity. Many female pop musicians have experienced the online negativity, and Lauren Mayberry is the newest victim to speak out against the cruel comments. The lead singer of Chvrches posted a message on her social media accounts, including an image of a rape threat that she received from a fan as well as a message calling for the end of this online cruelty

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    new social issue began to surface. As the internet rapidly gained international popularity, new branches of it were created. Currently, Social media dominates the internet world. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines social media as, ¨forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos)” (www.merriam-webster.com). The sudden rise of social media’s

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    When November rolls around, campaign advertising inevitably comes with it. Political advertising is at its peak and continues to pop up everywhere. Social media is no exception; as a matter of fact, that is probably where it lurks the most. Media has always been an advantage to politicians who need to spread their views and gather supporters. From the very beginning of media by newspapers, to the very latest of communication through phones, news through the media has always had an impact on the history

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    Social influence refers to changes in an individual’s own thought, belief, attitude and behaviours in accordance with other individuals or groups thoughts and feelings (Moussaid, Kammer, Analytis & Neth, 2013). There are three main forms of social influence, these includes conformity, compliance and obedience which has an impact on the daily lives of people in the society. Conformity can be referred to as when a person changes their attitudes to fit into the social norms of different groups. The

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    Social interaction plays an important role in people’s life starting from the early childhood as infants interact with their caregivers and build the emotional attachment that is the base for future relationships. By social interaction with others children learn how to communicate, play and behave in particular situation. Berk (2009) proposed the overview of the literature that concentrates upon the early attachment and its importance. Knowing the influence of social interaction on child development

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    Personally, I have always been a little late to the social media game. By the time I get the most popular form of social media, a newer, better version has been released. The first form of social media that I ever encountered was a website in 2006 called Club Penguin, where people could create penguins to represent themselves and go chat with any other penguin online at the time. While this isn’t what we think of as a social media website today, it had some similar aspects, especially in terms of

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    The rising popularity of social media has caused a fundamental change in how we share and consume information. Unfortunately, the non-professional nature of authorship on these sites has caused a disturbing rise in the spread of sensationalized, falsified, and methodically insufficient science. In this epidemic of pseudoscience, the social media goer must learn to question not just what they see, but its motives, methods, and limitations. The practice of skepticism has become a rarity in the online

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    Social media and social networking are causing depressions, anxiety, obesity, cyberbullying and the rise of harassment online. Yet most teens are extremely dependent on their devices spending hours doing nothing but mindlessly scrolling. These sites do nothing but destroy the self confidence of the users often leading to addiction. Platforms such as Instagram, Twitter and more have just become an addiction we all just accept even if it is detrimental to most people’s health. Social Media is detrimental

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    Values and ethics that influence Social Care Values can be defined as: “Emotionally charged beliefs that influence how we behave an which are influenced by a range of factors and experiences throughout our lives F.Sussex & P.Scourfield (2004 The things, beliefs, ideas are peoples values as they consider them important and will defend if they feel they are being threatened. Things individuals value can either be tangible or non-tangible, tangible values would be actual items whereas non-tangible

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    Social Factors in Health 1: Name five social factors that influence the Patient Doctor Relationship? There are many social factors that can impact on the Doctor Patient relationships everything from race to gender. To break it down and find five, I started with Doctors personal views he is under pressure to be ethical when he may not entirely be accepting of a person’s beliefs or sexuality. For instance a doctor may be homophobic and have a patient attend surgery asking for advice on practicing

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