How often do you find yourself on your phone checking social media? Once you picture that imagine your teenager doing way more than you. Actually a study was conducted to see the average time teenagers spent on social media, and the results came up to nine hours a day (“Landmark report: U.S. teens use an average of nine hours of media per day, tweens use six hours”, 2015)! Obviously social media has become a huge part of most of our lives, and has changed the way we communicate with one another. Since social media has become is popular in today’s society there have been multiple “apps” that have been created for sharing thoughts, videos, and pictures online. To find the find the perfect social media app for you child, the app should have strong …show more content…
Twitter is a social media app that is on the rise right now. Twitter can be seen as a modern day Facebook; the concept is the exact same but there are a few differences. Twitter lets their users posts their thoughts in 140 characters or less, and that is called a “tweet” (very similar to a status update in Facebook). These “tweets” can include photos, a GIF, or a video. Like Facebook you can share this information to your “Facebook friends”, but in this case it’s called your “followers”. Instead of adding people you know, you are able to follow random people which means random people have the ability to follow you. You also have the ability to “retweet” (similar to “sharing” something on Facebook) and “favorite” (similar to liking something on Facebook) other accounts tweets. You also have the ability to direct message someone on the app. The app has 310 million month active users, but a total of 1.3 billion accounts have been created. Also there are a total of 500 million Tweets sent each day which comes to about 6,000 tweets every second (Smith, …show more content…
The should be Christian values and leaders in a social media to lead and guide your teenager in the right direction. There should be multiple accounts that have different types of Christian values like; scripture, encouragement, words of wisdom, bible stories, and a fellowship. Twitter can meet these standards in its app. Even though there are inappropriate accounts and materials throughout Twitter, if you look hard enough you will find appropriate Christian accounts to follow. Finding Christian accounts in twitter is like finding a flower in a patch of weeds. There a multitude of bad accounts on twitter, but once you find the good one it is relieving and nice. There are multiple accounts that fit each one of these categories to help uplift and lead Christian teenagers in a social media generation. I personally follow a few very good accounts that are still trendy but do not drift away from the Word of God. Some of these accounts are @HoodJesusYo, @SheReadsTruth, and @_ChristianHumor (“Twitter, Inc.”, 2016). These accounts are great examples of accounts that are not just verses being posted; they post appropriate funny content that any age will
Twitter is an online social networking service that has grown to a global scale. In 2006, it was created for people to be able to share short blurbs of information with each other, and it has done its job quite well. However, like most technologies, there comes consequences, good and bad, that many didn’t intend, or expect, to happen. Twitter has greatly affected the world, and society as a whole, as it affects everything from the news to even how we think.
Tweeting has remained the most appropriate and influential method of creating an influential personality. Although posting photos and videos on instagram and youtube attract a great number of followers globally, Tweeter is still the best
TWITTER: Unlike on Facebook where people typically only follow people they actually know, on Twitter people connect with those who they want to know. Twitter is an extremely beneficial way to follow the businesses, media, leaders, associations, and professionals in your industry. By following them, your Twitter feed will be filled with news that is relevant to your field. Twitter is an important media that keeps you in the know. More importantly, you do not need permission to follow public profiles, so you can follow and interact with companies and people you are interested in getting to
Do you have a Facebook account? Do you use Instagram? If you do, then how many followers do you have? Those questions and conversations happen everywhere. The social apps from our phones are becoming more and more irreplaceable not only among teenagers but also adults.
How many of you had a social media accounts before the age 13? Not many kids know what they’re getting into when they make a social media account. They make the account because they see everyone else doing it or wanting to try something new. Many c...
Social media is a revolution, which we are currently experiencing. It has changed the way people communicate and interact with one another, and opens up many more avenues to share news, information, and just general chit chat. Social media is relatively quiet young, but is here to stay for the foreseeable future. We are now at a point where online, we can share, read and react to lots of individual information being posted on microblogging websites, such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Tumblr and more. Twitter in particular has been widely embraced, and will centre most of the discussion.
Twitter and Instagram are Social Media sites that allow users to communicate with others. Twitter is used to communicate small thoughts. Pe...
There has been controversy as to whether parents should limit the use of social media by teenagers. Teenagers feel that there is no need to limit the use of their social media networking, but on the other hand, parents should feel the need to limit their use and also keep track of their teen’s social networking. Social media allows students to be connected with their peers, teens who post positive status are more likely to be involved in extracurricular activities, and for many teens putting up “selfies” is a self confidence boost; however, too much social media can affect students GPA in school, cyber bullying can affect social health. Social media networks can give out personal information. Social media sites such as Facebook are one of the most popular social media sites that has 700,000-750,000 members joining each day.
Social media is described as content created and shared by individuals on the web using freely available websites that allow users to create and post their own images, video and text information and then share that with either the entire internet or just a select group of friends (Affilorama, 2012). They are more like a website allowing you to express your daily activities, beliefs, locations, likes, dislikes, photos, music, etc. They are used by creating a profile, and logging in through either the website, or apps now used on smartphones, or any portable device with Wi-Fi connection. Although most social media networks are directed towards adults and young adults, young children are getting into these websites as well. There are usually age limits but there isn’t a certainty that all the users provided their actual age, allowing whoever wants to be a member of these sites to bypass an age limit “security” procedure. Facebook and MySpace require users to be at least 13, but they have no practical way to verify ages, and many young users prete...
Through twitter you also can get the latest news and you also can share information, pictures, and photos concerning fresh news. By using Twitter, you are familiar with what is going on around you, also you can get responses regarding any topic you have shared with friends and also you can receive comments, new ideas, thoughts which will greatly help you in your life. Twitter gives you the chance to know about areas you have never been to in your country or abroad, and through twitter you can obtained knowledge about their country, life style, culture, custom and traditions. Many people use twitter for cha...
Social media has become a major epidemic in today’s society. According to millions of people have signed up on social media websites, allowing their basic information to be shared with the world wide web. Two of the biggest social media websites today are Facebook and Twitter. The new generation tends to use Twitter over Facebook, the older generation prefer Facebook over Twitter. Though Facebook and Twitter serve the same purpose and have many similarities, they both differ in many ways.
Social media is quickly evolving in front of our eyes and it is almost impossible to reject and hide from this new form of media. Not only is it an important part of socialization within peer groups but now it is used to market and motivate people to become a part of a larger community. It is undeniably changing the way one communicates and how one finds and shares information. Most websites offer communication through the use of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn and many various blog formats. With new apps on smartphones and photography and video made digital, media can be created, edited and shared quickly and once it is in this new digital cloud it is not yours anymore. Through these new advances in technology one can share things about themselves to the world to view, and prior to social media one would have to communicate and share physically. These social media site offer adolescence new ways to access communication and entertainment and the long-term effects are still unknown. For this reason, it is imperative for parents to be more aware of this new media and what it offers both good and bad for our children.
In the twenty -first century, teenagers live in a life of social networking and life’s online. It’s hard to believe how much the world has changed over the decades, especially in technology. Technology helps people to contact relatives and friends from long distance more easily and conveniently. People can now talk to each other from everywhere in the world simply through chat and video calls. By time, internet connections have spread throughout households and social networking such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram has increased gradually. However, the internet and several modern technologies have wasted many times and has hurt the society. Social media plays such a big role in people’s lives that some people couldn’t even imagine
Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest. These are only a few of the websites that have become omnipresent in the typical teenager’s life. First launched in 2004, Facebook seemed like the perfect means to connect with old friends and take part in organizations. Eleven years later, the social media industry has snowballed from its original purpose of simply a network for interaction. Most likely launched by the incredible popularity of Facebook, other networks have popped up. According to The Huffington Post, 71% of teenagers engage in more multiple social media networks, 24% of these teenagers admit to checking social media almost constantly. Scrolling, posting, and liking are actions
Twitter described as the “SMS of the internet” is another online social network created in 2006 by Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass and Biz Stone. Twitter is a social network and micro-blogging service that enables users to send and read “tweets”, limited to the use of 140 characters. It is mainly used to communicate with other members of similar interests whether they know each other and to follow updates from celebrities. Mark D. Bowles comments: