Social Media And Its Impact On Society

As we all know, social media has a tremendous impact on society and has affected in some way our daily life, relationships, and/or business. Every day, people around the world access famous social media network sites such as facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and so on to find out about other people, others might use social networking to reconnect with old friends, make new friends, or even meet their spouse. The excessive use of social media websites might bring negative effects; while for other people, it might bring satisfaction or positive effects. Technological advancements such as the internet, have given us the opportunity to connect with other people anytime and anywhere in the world. Pretty much all around the world, everyone has access to the World Wide Web via a desktop computer or smart phones. The fact is that no matter our current location or destination we might go, social media will always be following us as long as we have that direct connection. The main focus of this paper is to identify the good and bad of social media, and the current and future problems it will bring.

In 2008 Joel Garreau conducted interviews and wrote a piece titled "Friends Indeed" for the Washington Post. Garreau brings up possible dangers, minor inconveniences, and what truly defines a friend in the new media world we live in. I felt Garreau came across as jaded by most of the interviews he conducted. He did not seem to speak with a wide array of people that gave positive impacts social media can have, but rather focused on the negatives of the subject. Garreau did bring up valid points, however, from personal safety to the aspect of different people in your life seeing your different personalities. For instance your Grandma that you go to church with on Sunday 's is now seeing the pictures of you partying with your friends on Saturday night.

Various individuals long for a time when technology did not take over the world. For teenagers, it is difficult to imagine a life without the World Wide Web and its countless perks at their fingertips. Social media consumes young lives more than any other form of technological advancement. Social media has a few pros, but also its fair share of cons.

Do you have a facebook account? What about Instagram? Whether you’ve dipped your toes in the waters of social media, have you ever wondered about the impacts that it can have on your personal life? In the modern society today, social media plays an important role. It has become a prominent part of a teenager’s life. One of the most difficult questions to answer is whether the role that social media plays is positive or negative. For the past 10 years, the rise of social media is immensely great. Although social media has helped change lives for good, it can lead to negative consequences such as the increase in cyber bullying, how social media affects how teenagers view body image and how social media drives teenagers to distraction.

Since we as a society are currently living in the age known as the Technological Revolution, chances are that in some form or fashion you are aware of and have been exposed to social media. Well, imagine a world where the use of social media became more structured and used to improve education as opposed to just being used for keeping in touch with friends and family, sharing pictures, and seeing how many likes you can get per post. According to the Business Insider Intelligence Report of 2014, social media is now the top Internet activity in the world, Americans’ specifically “spend more time on social media than any other major Internet activity, including email” (Business Insider). Considering this information, it is obvious that social media plays a vital role and impacts the lives of our nation on a daily basis. Some argue that its impact can be negative and a distraction to the educational experience of the younger generation. Regardless of your personal opinion, what if educators were to work with the use of social media for educational purposes. Since it is highly used, it would not only gain the learner’s interest but also would reach more people at large. Therefore, we should learn to better utilize social media in a more constructive educational manner.

Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat - all these are called social media and they have a critical impact on the way young people think and interact on a day to day basis. “Virtual Communities” (Lee, 2015) is about the virtual world and how it affects the physical world and the influence it has on the lives of people on a daily basis. “Enhancing Your Body Image” (Donatelle, 2015) is about the influences that media or outside sources have on the way people view their bodies and how people feel about themselves. The main similarity between the two concepts is the influences that virtual communities have on the way people see themselves in the physical world. Enhancing one’s body image and the affects virtual communities have on the physical world are connected in many ways; furthermore, the influences that media has over people and how that can lead into bullying, and how all of it affects the future of an individual.

When most individuals hear the term social media they instantly think of Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and other social networks we use today. Social media didn’t start with computers; however, social media dates back as early as 1792 with the telegraph explain Hendricks (2013). Social media started to spike in the early 1950’s when the phone became popular. Between the 50’s and the 90’s, many social media ideas were brought to life but eventually died; Border states most of these focused around a “Bulletin Board System”.

Over the years the view of marriage has changed. Society has constructed the views of what a marriage should look like and what roles should be played even who should be married. Today’s social media glorifies all aspects of marriage, from prenuptials to annulments as well as overdramatized weddings and divorces. Respect has been lost as there are more and more reports of infidelity and less privacy of family and home life. Marriage was something that was once significant and held in high regards has fallen victim to the social construction of a newly defined meaning. One aspect that has changed marriage is the cohabitation between two individuals. Cohabitation encourages premarital sex. Society accepts cohabitation and

The amount of users in social media has increased in numbers over the years. The use of social media has been used throughout different industries including collegiate sports. Over the years it has been seen to increase fan support and interactions, increase the numbers in ticket sales and help with recruiting. Social media has even posed as a danger into hurting a brand throughout recent events.

Since the 1990s, the internet has been gaining momentum, growing in popularity and relevance in today’s society. As a result, social media has been on the rise for communication, news, and entertainment, appealing to a wide range of ages and demographics. However, this increased use has also increased challenges to privacy, policy making, and ethics within the government. More recently, the Supreme Court addressed the relationship and challenges between the First Amendment and social media in 2015, ruling that it is difficult to accurately evaluate the intentions of others through social media posts. Social media is creating a new communication revolution in the United States and is generating more effective means to address government issues, but the challenges have demanded policy changes and clarifications of the First Amendment.

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.

In today’s society, online networking has been spreading rapidly throughout all generations because of its prominence. Social media are websites or other means of communication utilized by individuals to construct and share information within diverse groups. As these websites are presenting data, it is also interacting with users while providing the information, such as allowing users to comment on a post or to participate in a survey. Conversely, social networking sites are online platforms, which permits users to fabricate an open profile and communicate with others. As the reputation of social networking sites are continuing to develop, the time users spend on these sites increase as well. It is to a point where the websites are accessible on their mobile smartphones where they can browse on a regular basis (Duggan and Smith, 2013). With this being said, users have the ability for quick access, thus prompting individuals to invest long periods of time with social networking sites. Through this capability, it can be perceived how this impact affects the formation of identity and how a large portion of their socialization occurs online as opposed to face-to-face interactions. These connections can be shown through the influence of social networking sites, particularly Facebook and Instagram.

Most of us have been fiercely defending our personal right to make choices while we ignore the fact that the overall results and outcome only exploit us. For instance, imagine you go out with a friend on a Tuesday night and actually want to let the conversation drag; the youngsters tend to open Yelp and see different bars. This makes them drag the overall situation and without actually having a relevance to the scenario the two friends try to gauge in the attention of others also. This actually has confirmed the fact that balance has to be maintained in order to let the youngsters enjoy the overall advantages of social media (Tristan, 2016)

Social Media is an interaction between people where they create, share or an express their ideas and thoughts. It has also been defined as a group of web based applications which help in growing up the technological foundation of the internet. Social networking tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Google plus, BlogSpot, Youtube, Myspace and Wikipedia, and numerous additional technologies which can be considered as social media are changing the way of communication among the people across the globe. Some of the popular content sharing websites like YouTube, face book and Twitter have an option of upload, tag and comment for the users on different categories of content (Photos, Videos or Bookmarks). Human experiencing a vital part of interaction online through expansion of social media. Twitter has been a global communication tool in 2009 "Iranian Presidential Election

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