Social Media is a controversial topic. For this reason, many people have argued whether social media is positive or negative. Nevertheless, there is more evidence supporting the idea that social media has had positive implications on society. Reasons for this include that social media can help your career and that it can aid adolescents when it comes to socializing. However, there are several other individuals who hold on to a different view. Numerous individuals believe that social media is positive toward the working industry. This is because you can utilize social media towards the best interest of your career. For example, according to Patrick Gillooly, “Don’t quit Social Media, Put It to Work for You Instead”, it quotes “Most employers and costumers I’ve talked to are ultimately looking for confirmation of their excitement about you, no reasons for suspicions or doubts.” Not having any profile could be seen as a red flag, so why give a potential employer any reason to question your candidacy?” In other words, having a form of Social Media can aid your opportunities to obtain a job. This is because employers and bosses can get a glimpse of who you are through social media and analyze whether you are a possible good option for the job. Nevertheless, if you don’t have social media, they are going to be left in skepticism. Thus, because they don’t have an idea of who you are, they are not going to take risks in electing someone who they don’t really know about.
In conclusion, social media could be helpful in some ways and awful in other ways. Over the past 10 years’ social media use has increased tremendously, mostly by teens. As well as the long term effects on your health, there are many pros and cons associated with social media use.
Social media is a very popular and widely used medium of entertainment in today’s society that allows people to connect and congregate from all over the world without having to leave the comfort of home. In order for many people to relieve social isolation and loneliness, social media unravels new pathways of communication and can be used to help people open up and express their opinions (Naruse). It can give people the chance to share and express their ideas to a large audience and receive feedback. Large and small businesses alike use this platform of communication in order to relay information about their products and services faster by using promotions and advertisements on social media websites. While social media has proven itself to be helpful and beneficial in today’s society, there are many studies that show how it can take quite a toll on the mental health and wellbeing of the people who constantly use it.
It seems as if social media is known for the bad that happens, but I would like to focus on the positives about social media. I believe that social media is a great source for teenagers and children around my age. Not only does social media allow you to meet new people with similar interests as you, it allows you to reach out to famous people or can get out of your comfort zone. Teenagers can also use social media to find out the news. Some people watch the news on TV, but people my age find out what's going on through social media. Teenagers use social media as a source of entertainment such as watching funny Youtube or Facebook videos. Teenagers can also use social media for advice, such as if you don’t know an answer to a homework problem you could just direct message one of your friends for help. People like to think that only bad comes from social media, but that is simply incorrect. Yes bad stuff can happen, but there’s always a chance for something bad to happen. I believe that social media is great for teenagers, and so should you.
There are hundreds of social media apps, that millions of people use everyday. For most people that's how they start off their day. Teens to adults use the new technology that one day will be a standard in our world. Social media has a positive impact on the youth today. Kids who use social media become more helpful and develop a sense of empathy.
After debating whether social media has a positive or negative effect on teens, it has been concluded that social media has a negative impact on the developing teenager. Social media can be a great tool at times, by being a means to communicate with friends, classmates, and family members; It can also help spread your ideas, hobbies and life experiences. But after reading the article Studies Offer Mixed Messages On Social Media’s Effects On Young People, By The Baltimore Sun, it explains how social media has a negative effect on teens by causing them to compete (to have a better social media feed), change their body to fit into society (the ideal body shape) and the way it can makes someone feel.
Social media has changed the ability of organizations to self-promote in new generational ways. They attract a larger number of people cost-effectively through advertising in multi-dimensional ways. Social media has had a significant impact on the ability of the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) community to have a greater positive impact on society. This fact is demonstrated well in the case of the article “The Science Behind The Success Of The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge” published in Forbes Magazine. This challenge was a great success because it increased awareness and funding for the ALS Society which is demonstrated through the impact of the challenge, and the use of social media to achieve this. This essay will examine the impact the challenge had on society and the ALS community, which tools were used by the challenge, how the organization has fared in the years after the challenge, and lastly the positive effects of the challenge.
Social media is also a good source if you want a found a job. According to a survey conducted by Reppler.com of 300 hiring managers, 91 percent of these hiring managers say they use social networking sites to screen prospective employees. 76 percent check Facebook, 53 percent check Twitter and 48 percent check LinkedIn (Hire). This means that anything you have on the social media sites is being looked at by potential employers. This is a good thing because you can make your profile more suitable for a particular company or vacancy. If you already have a job or your own business and find some customers, a social media can help you very quick. Many people’s businesses are based on LinkedIn, Instagram, and others social media platforms (Hire). This can let people work and
Have you ever consider how social media is changing your self-esteem and your relationship with the people around you? Krystine Batcho, a professor of psychology at Lemoyne College (New York), believes social media has made many positive but also negative changes in society. Everybody around us uses social media, it definitely helps communicate with people and it is a great source of information. Many people do not realize that there is also a negative side of social media. Social media does not make us happier.
Social media has a very high impact on people, their feelings, thoughts, and much more. Although social media can be useful by helping people communicate and do other things, the way people use social media now is not a helpful way at all. Today, social media is used in so many bad ways such as bullying, false statements, and making women believe that they have to look a certain way and that they need and have to look the same as every woman on social media. But can social media be used in a positive way? Yes, it can but social media is so negative now that people can barely see anything positive coming from it. Social media has a very negative impact on society because it can distract people, it can give someone health problems, and it
“Social media refers to interactive web and mobile platforms through which individuals and communities share, cooperate, or exchange information, ideas, photos, or videos within a virtual network” (Naslund 114). In the year 2015, over two billion people around the world had an active social media account (Naslund 114). In the past ten years, social networking sites have drastically changed the way society communicates by connecting others faster and over larger distances (Pantic). However, these networking sites have caused serious problems within our civilization. Social media is destroying society by limiting physical interactions, increasing harassment and cyberbullying, and decreasing mental health.
When it comes to social media, there are many opinions as to whether it is negatively affecting people or not. Social media has many great uses that we all use such as, providing a way for communication through friends or family that live afar, promote business, entertainment, general socializing, and dating, you name it. But what is not expressed enough is how social media is a contributor to cyber bullying.
Social media has become a significant aspect and influence in today’s society. Whether it’s connecting with family and friends, increase in productivity, building one’s self-esteem or its influence in pop culture. On the other hand, the price to pay for social media is its expectations, in particular, the ones it sets for relationships in the digital world. Social media is responsible for creating unrealistic and unattainable expectations which results in making people believe in the false illusions of the “perfect couple” or hashtag boyfriend girlfriend goals as projected on platforms like Facebook and Instagram. Such false expectations and impractical norms leads to constantly comparing one’s relationship with others, false ideas of a healthy relationship and could result in jeopardizes one’s own relationship with their current or future partner.
Social media is also a magnificent way to find background information for background checks. If someone is looking for a candidate for a job, social media helps with
Social media has many positive impacts on human behaviors. It helps people, particularly the shy and introverted ones to coexist and to express their opinions, feelings and thoughts freely without any limits or fears either it's by posting on Facebook, tweeting on twitter or shooting a video on YouTube, which could help them significantly later in their practical social life. Furthermore, social media nowadays also helps in raising awareness regarding many social problems such as: racism, sexism and many political issues which raises a person's sense of knowledge, and it helps making the new generation more cultured, intellectual, enlightened and most importantly open-minded to all the new elements we now have in our society.
Using social media has both positive and negative impacts on our society. Acceptance of social media in our daily lives is seen as fun but also necessary. Some of the positive implications of social include promoting awareness of specific causes, government, advertising businesses and helping foster friendships between individuals who may have never met without social networking (Shellabarger, 2016). Some of the negative implications of social media are cyber-bullying, lack of privacy and a false sense of connection (Jung, 2016).