How Social Media Affects our Lives

The definition of iconic is very famous, well known icon or a widely known symbol. Social media is famous and can be considered a widely known symbol of popularity. Social media are websites and applications that enable users to create and share content, or to participate in social networking. Social Media is affecting our lives immensely. Sometimes the effect is positive, sometimes it’s negative. Where would we be today if Social Media hadn’t have been created? Would we be more or less social? Would we remember birthday’s or events on our own? Would there be less car accidents? No one really knows the answers to these questions. Social media is affecting our lives whether we are personally using it or not.

Social Media first began in 1969 when CompuServe was created. CompuServe was the first major commercial internet service provider for the public in the U.S, using a technology then known as dial-up, it dominated the field through the 1980’s and remained fairly popular until the mid-1990’s. Not many people had the opportunity to experience internet in the 1960’s. Only 20,000 computers were made across the world in 1965.

In 1971 the first email was delivered. This would open up a whole new world. Email became very popular, and then so did online chat rooms. In 1985, the America Online Service (AOL) opened. AOL was first known as Quantum Computer Services offering an online service named Q-Link. Quantum launched its first instant messenger service in 1989. In the late ‘80’s-mid-’90’s home computers became very common. People began recognizing and wanting computers. Today, nearly 66% of online consumers check their email at least seventeen times a day.This includes in the office, at home, on the drive home, on the drive to work...

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Social Media affects all the time. Whether our children are getting bullied through social media, or whether we are the one’s addicted to these websites, it’s affecting us. Sooner or later social media and internet use will consume our lives. We will lose jobs due to visiting too many social media websites, or spending too much time on them. We will lose relationships due to cheating through Social Media or Dating Websites. All these things people are at risk of ruining yet they continue going on them.

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“Cyber bullying Statistics” Bullying Statistics. 2004-2006. Web. 29 April 2014.