Instagram Now by Molly Wetta explores the usefulness of Instagram as a way for libraries to reach out to teenagers. The article provides tips and directions for getting started in five areas essential to building an Instagram following to showcase library happenings and collections. The first areas is content. Library collections shared though creative photos, advertising of upcoming events, and sending reminders to forgetful teens are outlined. Secondly, the article describes ways to build a following including hosting contest, personally inviting users and using hashtags widely used in the community. The third subtopic is filled with advice on taking quality photos. An excellent piece of advice is to avoid taking photos through the Instagram
Teen girls are the most focused on social media's ideal image that the use of social media is putting huge risks in their lives everyday.
Using the murder of Dee Ann’s mother as a means to intertwine the lives of the characters together, Steve Yarbrough examines the nature of relationships in “The Rest of Her Life.” The relationships in the story take a turn after Dee Ann’s mother is killed, with characters seeking to act more on their own, creating distance between many relationships throughout the story. Independent lifestyles prevent emotional bonds that hold relationships together from forming, thus preventing the characters from maintaining healthy relationships. The dysfunctional relationship present between Dee Ann and Chuckie in “The Rest of Her Life” is the result of the characters ' desire for self-gratification.
Social media as he believes causes depression, anxiety, and is an unsafe atmosphere for teens to use(Potarazu, Sreedhar). But, like many others, Potarazu, provides no supporting evidence that the use of social media platforms is the root of all teenager challenges. In fact, when used correctly the internet can be a confidence booster and create friendships. As Lisa Darwin says in her blog “I also think that, despite what the majority of people think, platforms like Instagram can be used to empower girls and to spread positivity, and if you look for good things, you will find them on there.”(Darwin,
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Through these past years, social media has taken communication to a new level worldwide and, new technology has taken place at the beginning of this century. In this generation, social media has become an important part of people’s daily life around the world. Social media is defined as online websites, and applications that users use to share content on the internet. Some of the popular social media tools, and sites includes: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and many others. Disregarding the fact that social media has become an important aspect in the lives of teenagers to connect with their friends as well as making new friends; it is increasingly becoming a necessary component in the medium of any business. Social Media has not only begun to draw the attention of teenagers,
Some people worry about teens using social media in the wrong way or for bad causes. However, they are wrong because if a teen isn’t able to experience with social media at a young age, they will not know how to utilize it when they are older. An example of this is a CNN statistic showed that 53% of teens who were new to social media at an older age either used it in the wrong way, over used it, or they posted inappropriate items. This shows how all this chaos can be avoided if teens are taught how to use social media properly at a young
Social media provides a system wherin you can upload content. Teenagers will use this to display songs, artwork, and more that they have made. This could be helpful in gathering fans and such for thier content. When this content is created many people can see it and provide critisem.
This paper will also pin point different behaviors of users on social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram that will also be explained in the Literature review. After reading the data analysis readers will learn the reasoning behind the growing addiction of social media young adults understanding the reason they use social media and even how often they log onto social media.
17% of all adults online use Instagram. (See Appendix D) In creating an Instagram page, you will be able to establish more of a personality for the organization. The right pictures and videos that you share will bring success in assembling this said personality. You could post pictures or videos of sentimental and personal success stories. You could post about upcoming events or previous events that flourished. Anything to promote or make people aware of music therapies benefits. Instagram also allows you to actually see the efforts of the organization and maybe even some behind the scenes work being done. This can help reinforce trust and confidence in the targeted audience as
Social media is even a perfect way to resale textbooks that one may not use at the next level or semester of classes. We all know that books hold knowledge and knowledge are the keys to success; As success is equivalent to positivity. Social media is splendid for those students that don’t have a voice in life or the ones who feel as if their voice is not being respected; Therefore, social media support students by giving a voice to those who doesn’t have a voice. In addition, college students key accompanied with networking, in today’s time networking can be the key to success. There are many social media networking systems that universities use for the students that attend the colleges. The reason for that because different student informs and reaches one another in different networks. In some student cases, one student may have every network from twitter, Instagram, to Facebook. Then, there might be a student with only one of those well-known
With similar insights about the platform 's marketing success, Loureino (2013) expressed that Instagram saves brands cost for designing and marketing a brand. Nonetheless, with there being many photo-creating and photo-sharing applications, Scott (2011) added that Instagram was deemed most popular conquering more than 100million users. The author wrote that almost all users of Instagram use the platform to create appealing images that can be shared onto the network - providing individuals and organisations with a network that can retrieve responses from a growing popularity of Instagram users. (McGough and Salomon,
Like, tweet, follow. These are the terms that can be closely associated with teenagers nowadays. Teenagers constitute a large section of Internet users (Chang, 2010, p. 501) and in this modern day, the non-usage of social media among teenagers is almost unheard of. Social media is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration. Social media, as well as the Internet, has emerged as an essential means for work, socialization and entertainment (Byun, Ruffini, Mills, Douglas, Niang, Stepchenkova, S. K. Lee, Loutfi, J. K. Lee, Atallah, Blanton, 2009, p. 203) among teenagers. Due to the use of the Internet for the aforementioned purposes, (Yilmaz, F., G., K. Yilmaz,
Technology has been and will continue to be an essential part of human life. Information technology is a revolution that has taken the whole world captive. Everyone around the globe is trying either to conform or catch up with the ever changing and improving technologies without having a second thought of its impact on their lives. The internet is the ground-breaking invention of the twenty first century, leading to the mushrooming of the social media and other communication platforms. The best invention that has captured my interest is the instagram. Its effect and how it has positively impacted on the lives of people, especially the youth cannot be underestimated. Instagram is improving the quality life. It has unlocked our creativity, enhanced connection and led to faster access to information. Comparing the past with the present, we can argue that information technology has done more good than harm and even as we progress into the future, we ought to adopt better technology because what we currently have may not be good enough.
Electronic communication through social media has gained many people world wide from a wide variety of users attracting attention from kids, teens, and adults that become attracted to these sites. Research studies in the field of online social networks reveal that these sites are positively and negatively affecting the lives of youth greatly. When using sites such as Twitter, Facebook, or Myspace for communication have allowed social media to play essential roles in their lives. Social media has really taking a toll on society’s way of life from altering face-to-face interaction, education, and work environment.