Today’s society is centered around social media, not just for sharing photos, articles, funny videos you see online, but to keep in touch with those near and far with a push of a button. We come to a day and age where you can be anywhere on the planet and still be able to message your best friend who is sitting in their house thousands of miles away. I will admit that I love using social media because I can see what my friends are up to and keep up to date with today’s problems. Everyone from teenagers to the elderly use Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to show others what they may be up to or what they may have seen online. But the big question is “Is Facebook a fad?”. To me I do believe Facebook is a fad waiting to be killed by the next big social media site to launch. I say this because growing up we grew up on Myspace and that was something I thought would never die. The customization of backgrounds, adding my favorite music to my profile, and even having my best friends in my “top 8” was the best thing that has ever happened since pb&j. Now look at all of us today with the “600 million active users on Facebook” (Manjoo 2) the switch is apparent and my once favorite site, Myspace, is long gone. The social …show more content…
The movement today is definitely starting to surround itself in picture taking and taking live videos for friends and family to see. An app that has blown up in the past couple of years is one of my favorites which is Snapchat. With snapchat it appeals to many people with its facial recognition features that lets you add funny filters to your face and send them to your friends. Social media users love things that are always changing because it never leaves them bored. There is always something new to explore on the app and with that it not only keeps users entertained but friends entertained to because they get a good laugh or two out of
Many people may argue the fact that social media has increased the efficiency of the way we conduct business. However, like most things there is always a negative side; the very existence of these social platforms such as “Facebook” has brought about a desensitized society. Furthermore, the leaders of present times have gotten so used to social media that if the system was to crash it would literally have most of them pulling out their hair. I am not disputing the fact that social media has brought about a positive, yet momentous impact on the way we live today, but people have gotten so used to their use that we have personally stopped interacting with each other physically. Let me reason my point by asking you to pause for a minute and take a look around, what is it that you see? I am sure if not in a room by yourself that you’re probably gazing at a group of people that failed acknowledge you as you walked in, or you were the one that was too fixated on your personal gadgets that you’ve yet to realize you aren’t the only one sitting at this desk.
Facebook is rapidly attracting multitudes of visitors every month instigating a shift in communication. This change consequently presents that societies are choosing to become part of the popular Facebook culture for various reasons, such as its renowned opportunities for keeping in touch with current social circles, reunifying long lost family and friends and broadening prospects of finding new companions. Facebook removes some of the barriers that may limit our regularity of communication with people, upholding the geographic differences, social class, busy lifestyles and economic factors that may usually discourage us from regular contact. (Cooke 2011, pp. ix-4)
On February 4, 2004, Facebook was launched and with it the epidemic of social media impact crept in its shadows. Society was revolutionized by a new era of social interaction, where individuals could connect through media channels and share their unique brand with the immediate world. Just two years later Twitter was launched, and soon after Instagram was the newest contender in the running. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are just three of the top social media outlets that millennials crave. In the world of social media, anyone can be whomever they desire, and fame has reached feasible accessibility. Through accessibility, moral standards are quickly diminished and the platform for psychological impact has reached an all time high. Social
Social media has revolutionized friendships. It has changed the way people communicate and live. It has developed a desire in the world to constantly want to process new information and communicate. With newer technology, creating plans to hang out has become extremely easy. However, even with these developments, hanging out has not changed very much. As generations become further from this new era, they are more reluctant to oppose social media, unlike the younger generations that are now growing up with it and do not even know the old ways.
Social media began affecting our communication and relationships as early as 1969 when the first internet service provider became available to universities in America. According to the University of North Carolina, in 2002, Friendster, the first social media website available to the U.S., was created and gained over 3 million members in just over 3 months. One year later, MySpace launched. Facebook was created in 2004 by a 24-year-old Harvard student named Mark Zuckerberg. UNC confirms it was initially a way for Harvard students to interact; Facebook is currently the world’s largest social network with a billion users connecting though photos, links, and comments on a streaming News Feed. News Feed is a community page that shows the top stories of everyone on your Facebook. Now a billion people of today’s generation can interact with nearly everyone that have ever met. Services such as Facebook allow users to create and maintain relationships with people that they wouldn’t other wise keep in touch with. (Insert example)
My first experience with Facebook was back in high school. I associated it with regular mobile phone chatting applications. Most of my real life friends were members of Facebook, and they encouraged me to join the social website and make a “friend request” so that we could get connected. It was an intriguing experience because I had just heard rumors that it was an awesome chatting platform. The article by Ian Daly “Virtual Popularity Isn 't Cool—It 's Pathetic” (Daly) presents arguments and situations that have been closely connected to my experience with social media over the past several years that I have been an active member of several social media sites. This personal essay will show the link between the arguments from the article and my experience as a user of social media. In my opinion, these experiences likely relate to those of many other social media users.
The rapid growth of technology in our society has become more dominant than it was in the 17th and 18th century. Today, technology is used for almost everything in our day to day lives. But the most common usage of technology is for communication and industrialization. However, every good thing has its disadvantage if it is over used, and since technology has become very dominant, it is used by both young and older people but more predominant among the youth of the today. Even more, technology has brought about social networking such as Facebook, Twitter, my space, piazza.com, instagram, tango, and last but not the least texting. According to socialnetworking.procon.org, “47% of American adults used social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Classmates.com in 2011, up from 26% in 2008. [26] on social media sites like these, users may develop biographical profiles, communicate with friends and strangers, do research, and share thoughts, photos, music, links, and more” (procon.org. 1). Although these sites help many Americans to connect with their family and friends, have we really thought about how these sites are discouraging some students to spend less time with their books, how young adults are losing their marriages, the indecent behavior it is promoting, and how it has escalated texting and driving in our society? Obviously not!
Did you remember to tell your cousin happy birthday on Facebook? Do you know how many people liked your latest picture on instagram? Or how many retweets did you get on your totally relatable and borderline inspirational tweet? As of January 2014, 74% of online adults use social networking sites (Rainie). Also more than 9 out of 10 American teenagers use social media(Blaszczak). Because of social networking we are becoming more connected than ever before. Important information can spread faster than wildfire, and we now have the ability to have friends and relationships all over the world. With the ability to communicate and interact with anyone at our fingertips what could go wrong? Well...lots of things.
Social media is so popular that according to a recent article published by forbes.com, “72% of American adults are currently using social media sites; that figure has gone up 800% in just 8 years”(Olenski). Social networking was originally created to simply reconnect people with old high school pals, but in recent years it has evolved into a completely different operation. When social media first originated it was also intended for adult usage, which has in recent years expanded into the usage of all ages. Social media can create a negative affect on lives because it has been proven to be a dangerous addiction, for it takes away interpersonal relationships that are essential in life, and it has been proven to prevent people from being productive in life.
Social media is becoming the most important and influential technological advancement in our country since the internet was created in the 1960s. For the longest time people were only limited to e-mails to make communication to one another and there were no large scale social media sites available. However, the internet started taking off in the early 2000s as new generations started bringing to the table new and more advanced ideas. Facebook was invented in 2004, where people were able to connect with whoever they wanted throughout the world to communicate and be able to share anything. On their
Over the years, change has seen more technological devices being made that continues to connect more people. More and more millennials born in the years after 1980 now own a technological device such as a smartphone, personal computer, television or tablet. People have continued using these gadgets to access the ever growing social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Flickr, Google+, Pinterest, hi5, Tumblr and LinkedIn. The technology, particularly the above mentioned social sites, has made us more connected with increased sharing of photos, ideas, and successes about life with friends in other countries without ever physically meeting them. However, I have come to realize that even though technology has made people more connected
We live in a world that has become addicted and dedicated toward social media and it is driving America’s youth into the ground. Teenagers and adults are so wrapped up in social media that is runs their lives every day. Constantly people are checking their phones for the latest on social networks. They have to see pictures, tweets, statuses, comments, likes, and the list goes on and on. Social media is becoming the focus point in the modern American society that it is beginning to control people’s social skills, communication skills, and their livelihood.
These devices can do almost anything is seems and are becoming more of a intimate object rather than a technical tool. Smartphones are great store vast amounts of personal information, games, contacts, and applications. Many people more than likely have a few social network applications, but only a few are held in high regard and that being Twitter and Facebook. Facebook is a social networking website and service where users can post comments, share photographs and links to news or other interesting content on the Web while also playing games, chat live, and even stream live video. Shared content can be made publicly accessible, or it can be shared only among a select group of friends or family, or with a single person (…….). By focusing on the elements of Facebook one can see how convergence plays a major role in its overall function along with interactivity. Facebook is one of those platforms that seems to be accessed 24 hours a day seven days a week. People always seem to be engaged with this network and are constantly finding reason to utilize Facebook for any reason. It use to be a social network site that one had to log into and out of, but now with smartphone devices one can always be “on” in a way by receiving updated and alerts to whatever they want to be altered about. As the article we read called Digital Cultures: Understanding New Media
“Social media, a web-based and mobile technology, has turned communication into a social dialogue, and dominates the younger generation and their culture. As of 2010, Generation Y now outnumbers Baby Boomers, and 96% of Gen Y has joined a social network” (Qualman 1). Social media now accounts for the number one use of the Internet, and this percentage is rising bigger every day (Qualman). As a consequence, people are becoming more reliant on social media, which has a led to a number of advantageous as well as unfavorable effects. The world is more connected today than it has ever been in the past, and this is all because of growth in technology. What has yet to be determined though
Social Media is defined by Merriam-Webster as “forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos)” (Merriam-Webster), and for many Americans is a method of social interaction that is used often on a daily basis. It has been determined that one in five people use social media at least once a day and that 19% of Americans between the age of 15 and 54 are on sites like Facebook and Twitter(). It’s no longer common place to send handwritten letters or birthday cards, now writing on a wall, sending a tweet or snapping a picture is accepted. Although social media has provided todays society with instant forms of communication and ways to connect, it also created a new standard for living and has caused problems for many groups of citizens in all walks of life and has caused society to re-think its usage. There are two views about social media, either that. It is a positive addition to society and its benefits outweigh the risks, or that social media causes more harm than good and it’s usage should be limited.