Globalization via Social Networking

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It really is a small world. This phrase—however clichéd and overused it may be—presents a certain truth about how interconnected the world has become in recent years. Advances in technology during the last two decades have created an online cyberspace that allows people across the globe to interact instantly. Beginning in 1990, the universal population of internet users has increased from millions to billions. Out of the seven billion people on this planet, six billion of them have access to a mobile internet device (Gopi Kalliyil on Social Media). Online technology such as social media websites has become an integral part of life for civil society, activists, nongovernmental organizations, software providers, governments, and ordinary citizens across the globe. Constraints of geography on communal and cultural arrangements have receded since the rise of the internet. This globalization of the world via social media websites has politically and relationally affected people everywhere.
In order to accurately explore the relationship between globalization and social media, one must first understand the definition of each. According to Thomas Friedman, a journalist for the New York Times, globalization is “the integration of technologies and nation-states to a degree never witnessed before in a way that is enabling individuals, corporations, and nation-states to reach around the world farther, faster, deeper, and cheaper than ever before” (sociology.emory.edu). This means that newly developed technology involving the internet offers a way for people to access other parts of the world at an unprecedented rate. For the first time in history, people in China can interact with people in Texas anytime they want by the simple swipe of a m...

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...nd social media is an essential aspect to the global community. Now it is just a matter of harnessing its power.

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