Social Media Affecting An Individual's Professional Career

With social media at the fingertips of most people across the world, one can only anticipate the varied effects such platforms can have on their day to day environment. Most average people use or have used some form of social media in their daily lives. It is so widely accepted that not having a form of social media account is seen as strange. Excluding Asia due to their internet accessibility, over 50% of the world uses Facebook alone. From social and professional lives, and all the way to educational lives, social media has an effect on its user. A person’s social life is effected by the use of social media on a variety of levels. Someone that is typically an introvert might find comfort in not being forced to interact in person, which …show more content…
In the day and age of social media, it is very important to consider how these websites and applications can affect an individual’s professional career. A large number of people are being fired or reprimanded for opinions, statements, and affiliations found on their social media profiles. Employers have started using social media profiles as a type of prescreening for employment, checking how one presents themselves to the world before considering them for a role as a representative of their company. On the other hand, these same platforms can be a beneficial tool to showcase and advertise a product or service, even if that service is the person themselves. Many people use websites like Facebook to promote their skills or product successfully as it reaches a large amount of people in not only the local area, but nationally and globally. A user may find it difficult to find a job if they have a non-professional voice and inappropriate content on their social media profiles. Addiction to social media can also cause problems in the work place as an employer finds that someone is disregarding their duties and workload to play on a computer or cell phone device, which many teachers and educators have seen in the classroom as …show more content…
Educators are having to adapt classrooms to either incorporate or ban completely the use of cellular and electronic devices. Some schools are seeing the compulsive use of cellphones in the classroom as such a hindrance in learning and focus that they have made mandatory bans on the devices being seen, while others have lessened the hold on controlling the use of electronics in class. Teachers are applying for grants to purchase entire inventories of iPads to engage students in learning at an extremely high rate. Most students are using websites and applications like Facebook and Twitter during school hours. This can distract from school work and learning and cause students to fall behind in the planned curriculum. On the other hand, there are benefits to the use of social media platforms within school that a teacher might take advantage of with their students. Social media makes it easier to connect with students and classmates, either by a specific class or the entire student body. A professor might have a study group set up within a social media website or application, making it easier for students to touch base with one another and share notes or discourse. Group projects might be easier to manage with students having such busy schedules, opening an avenue of communication and ability to share visage and