Social media is channel of a communication where people interact either between two persons or among a small group. In addition, social media allows individuals to share ideas and opinions as well expressing their perspectives easily. Examples of social media are: Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp (Robert, 2006). Information on social media is controlled by the public or private owners. This is because any posted information can be viewed by a large audience. The audience can make comments and share it with other…
In today's world, social media plays a major role in each individual's every day lives. It has its advantages and disadvantages; however, it is doing more harm than good because society is losing its ability to communicate on a personal level.…
Urvish Patel 2, February, 2017 Thursday, 8:30 - 11:15 pm In the article “ Why you need social media” by Patrick Gillooly gives feedback to Cal Newport’s article, which describes various effects of social media in this modernized world. Patrick Gillooly talks about not to quit social media, which according to his research helps many people in getting employment, which is too essential for an individual in his professional life. On the other hand Cal.newport clarify that how bad social media reflect to people in this society. I strongly agree with Patrick Gillooly because of advantages of social media to young generation. I also realize the menace described by Cal.…
Freedom of speech means that a person or a body have a right to express them without any fear of suppression or penalty. It also means that there will not be any imposition of person’s speech. In today’s context, “Speech” is not limited to public speaking and it does include other forms of expression including social media.…
Social media is a phenomenon that has become prominent mostly in the last decade. It has a time and place and is one of the most used past times by a wide demographic of age and popular throughout the entire planet. Email was the origin of social media but generally only shared between 2 people. With the advent of the most popular of all social media platforms Facebook, it is not uncommon to see users anywhere in society checking and participating in their Facebook anytime of day and in all sorts of situations.…
With so many technological advances in today’s society, it is no wonder why industrialized nations like the United States are constantly changing and always seeking to find the next best thing. Social media is one of the several technological advances currently thriving in American society. Social media has significantly changed the way of communication between organizations, communities, and individuals through websites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.…
Social media has crucial influence in the today’s society. Unlike traditional media, social media is more efficiently and effetely on spreading news. In the past, people only able to acquire news from traditional media such as television, newspaper or journal which are slower than social media. However, social media such as Facebook, and Tweet provide people a place to share news, to form a group and to comment the issues that interested them. Moreover, Social media play an important role in political change. In the Arab countries, many political revolutions were succeeded within social media help. Social media not only bring convenience to people life, but the most important is it assist people to pursue…
Technology has advanced over the past decades, rapidly influencing today’s social culture. Social media is still developing into many different forms. Those forms can include Smartphone’s, computers, laptops, television, and tablets. Whichever the object is, it has also become a form of communication in many different ways. So much of people’s lives are impacted by social media, and there are many debates that whether or not it has a positive or negative effects on society.…
Social media and emerging mobile technologies have forever changed the visual sense of human interaction. Everyone is related to each other in this vast network created by the Internet. It shows us the connection between people in the world everyday. In American society, using social media can help many people find sources of information for your studies, work and share their thoughts and minds. It can be said that the media are a place of sharing, connection and communication of all people in America as well as the globe.…
The Facebook vs. Twitter case is about the two similar social networking websites, and Facebook facing the upcoming threat by Twitter. The case presents similarities between the both networking sites, as well as the advantages of each. In spite of the networking monopoly that Facebook seems to enjoy has being threatened by twitter in reference to their social networking strategies. This case also depicts their differences as well.…
Social networks have emerged as one of the most significant and innovative invention of the last decade that have erupted the whole world and led the new generation in a new direction. The online social networking has enhanced the communication system and made it more flexible, easier and comfortable to use. This new technology has been serving the world in multiple ways and has created new opportunities for young people to initiate small startups, provoked multinationals and local firms to utilize this medium as a source of promotion and multiple other benefits besides enhancing communication. The way online social networking sites are being utilized is quite clear, but the objectives of every person are different. However, this new technology has transformed many things but has some adverse effects as well.…
Bhanot (2012) defined social media technology as the “media for social interaction that can be used in web based and mobile technologies”. In addition, web based and mobile technologies can make the communication into interactive conversation. The most popular social media among the users are Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and so on. Besides, the social media technology is not for the public users to interact other user only but the social media technology provides internal social media to the organizations such as Salesforce.com (Andzulis et al., 2012). Social media is a new trend in this era. It is because social media is an easy way to get information, knowledge, news and others that useful to the users than conventional media such as newspaper, magazines and so on. In addition, the information in the social media is not expensive and easily to access compared than the conventional media (Bhanot, 2012). The statistic shows that the users of the social media had been increased year by year. Facebook has more than 175 million users that are registered in 2009 but has been increased to 845 million users that are registered while Twitter has over 465 million users that are registered. According to Kaplan and Haenlien (2010), the history of social media was starting 33 years ago. In 1979, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis from Duke University had been created “Usenet” which is social media that allowed users to post public messages. Besides, Bruce and Susan Abelson had created “Open Diary” which is an early social media. The “Open Diary” is a community of the online diary writers.…
Social media has now become a part of our modern day society and has a huge impact on our lives on a daily basis. Social media is the use of web and mobile-based technology to support interactive content. This content tends to be user generated and then might be promoted by other users to a new outlet or audience. Social Networking is a great advocate of social media, where content is distributed amongst a network of online friends, which can then be reposted or ‘Retweeted’. Twitter and Facebook are the main social networking sites and have had a great impact on the debate of regulating social media.…
How does social media impact freedom of speech, privacy, journalism, politics and personal expression? Should governments restrict access to social media, the internet and communications?…
Yes, education can be a positive or a good influence to us by the Americans in many ways. Especially most of the children are now studying in Public Schools because it’s free and the school can also provide other needs or tools of the student for learning like books but, even though they were the one to teach us the art of the English Language and literature, there are still some negative effects that this influence gave us.…