The Influence Of Social Media On People

In today’s society, information gets shared by billions of people every day through different means of social media. Whether they are qualified or not, people always tend to share the opinions on social media, usually on events that are happing in our world. This creates a variety of opinions that people from all over the world can see, however, sometimes these opinions effect people, perspectives and can have a really big influence on them. Bullying for example, someone that might have a huge following on the internet (like the most popular kid in school) tend to have a saying in the school which creates a network with a hierarchy. If this popular kid decides that there is someone in his school that is not “cool” or he just doesn’t like …show more content…
This idea of working in groups is to bring out the best of all individuals, however that is not always the case. Groups always tend to have a leader that takes control of that group and this has positives and negatives depending on the situation. The leader can be assigned due to his/hers expertise, or he/she can be assigned just for the mere fact that they are talkative. Surowiecki Mentions this in his essay about talkative people “This might be okay if people only spoke when they had expertise in a particular matter. And in many cases, if someone’s talking a lot, it’s a good sign that they have something valuable to add. But the truth is that there is no clear correlation between talkativeness and expertise.” Having the ability to express themselves do not mean that they have the expertise to lead a group, a lot of studies that were conducted on military-flier shows that the group followed people with higher status even though they didn’t have expertise in the subject. When a leader of a group is an expert in the subject it can be a good way to lead a group the right way however, it can sometimes limit creativity of other members of the group. Wikipedia challenges the idea of having a leader or an authority over the information that is shared in order to get everyone involved, …show more content…
People now a days feel lost without the internet because of how much of an influence it brings on them. People now have the ability change people perceptions through means of social media for example, ten years ago gay, lesbians and Trans genders used to always got bullied because these ideas were presived negative however, now a days with the help of social media anyone that bullies someone who is with a different sexuality is the one who gets all the hatred. This happened because social media altered this perception to a lot of people, particularly the young ones who now have control over most of social media. Social media displayed a different side of what people sometimes presive, even if you don’t agree with some of people’s ideas, you respect them to create a better community. This idea of unity was created because of networks that brought people together from all over the world. Social media helped us understand what is happening around the world from people that are directly involved, now people know that the news or the government corrupt information that is sent to the public and only show what they want to show in order to prove the point that they want, Surowiecki discusses this idea in his essay when he said “ The team succumbed to what psychologists call “confirmation bias,” which causes decision makers to unconsciously seek those bits of information that confirm their