The Positive Impact Of Social Media

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Unit 5 rough draft Media has impacts on both socially and politically. Media has two main elements that are news and entertainment. People have argued if social media has a good impact on our society and some that has said that social media has a negative impact on society. The impact of media on the society extends to both social and political sectors. The first email was sent in 1971 with started social media. It has progressed from emails to messaging and emoticons on Facebook. About 1 in 4 people has at least one social media site (Whiteman). Social media can help to communicate others over long distances better, helps challenged individuals to enter society easier, easier to get the day’s news, and it can also help students in school. …show more content…

Some people might believe that social media can be addictive and it can but there are reasons why social media is valuable for the world to have. Social media can help families that has members overseas that are deployed, those who lives in distant countries, and those who are in Mr. Rogers words “helpers”. There was someone who had hearing lost that lost her job and had to use the money that she was saving to get a hearing aid. She was so frustrated she went online to talk about it. A kind person reading about her frustrations bought the poor woman the hearing aid that she needed. Social media helped them to communicate to this day because if it wasn’t for that she wouldn’t have gotten her hearing aid and wouldn’t of meet the nice person at all (Hootsuite, 2013). Media can also help military personal to communicate to their loved ones easier when they don’t have access to a phone. When my dad was deployed, we used Skype to talk to each other. It seemed like it was easier through Skype because there were times that he couldn’t use a phone …show more content…

you can go on their sites so you can get the news that you could’ve missed. There are times that my mom couldn’t see the news in the morning so she went online to find it and then she set alerts for in our location she would be notified almost immediately. Statistics say that social networking sites are the top news source for about 27.8%, newspapers are at 28.8%, radio is at 18.8%, and other print publications at 6% (ProCon.org, 2016). The downside is that people can use social media to spread false information. 49.1% of people have heard false news on social media (ProCon.org, 2016). “In a suburb in Mexico City rumors were spread on Twitter and Facebook about fires, shootouts, and caravans of gunmen cause a widespread panic causing the local police department to be flooded with over 3,000 phone calls. Which temporarily closed schools in the area (ProCon.org, 2016). You could probably say what’s happening in your area and forget saying what state you’re in and you could create panic in that

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