Facebook: The Positive And Negative Effects Of Social Media

It is undeniable that social media runs in the veins of people in the bay area this excitement is easily transferred to the rest of the world. It is impossible to not use bland euphemisms to communicate the tactile takeover of social media. Mimicking the physical form of praying, with our hands preciously clutching our mobile devices, furiously checking to see what our fellow humans are doing with their lives. Social media can have both positive and negative affects much like the very cultures we belong to. It allows distant family members to connect, people in need of help to reach out, organizations with small budgets to be heard globally. When countries ban popular sites and apps, a new localized and "government approved" versions of what

As it is both produced by humans and at the same time preserving what we produce, including the production of ourselves. Culture can be seen through physical realms of music and art, social interactions and attitudes. All of which is expressed to a deafening point on Facebook. Not only is Facebook a significant member of culture but it also helps to make other significant figures by allowing for the mass spread of popularized people and goods. The following defines how an artifact holds its importance culturally, “The artifacts of a particular culture only have significance because members of the culture can name them, and the customs or attitudes of a cultural group can only be meaningful because that can be described as such.” The only reason going online and checking to see what people are talking about is meaningful is because we deem it so, which is why the idea of Facebook is often taken to be

With these different people comes the many complicated interactions and attitudes that would not be possible with out this evasive and yet obtrusive platform. Although Facebook is everywhere it is not Facebook’s attitudes and actions the we are at times constantly checking up on and interested in. We come to expect our fellows to know just the right amount of information to post online and dare you get caught checking to often. These unheard rules are referred to in the Critical Media Studies text as doxa described as the following, “The process of handing your money over to the theater to gain admittance, however, is a part of the doxa, or “the universe of undiscussed,” made up of social rules and processes that go unnoticed and unquestioned.” Social constructs and attitudes are just alive in the non physical world of Facebook as they are in reality. Not only are we suppose to follow the social norms of reality such as not picking your nose ( in public) but also we are now suppose to adopt this new set of rules that keep our online personality in high