The Impact of the Digital Age of Social Media Social Media has become increasingly prevalent in today’s society. The technological revolution has taken over our lives and it is incorporated in everything that we do. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and countless other Social Media outlets are becoming more and more popular all around the world. Social Media has changed the way we communicate and interact with people around us. Social Media allows users to share and exchange an enormous amount of news and data from all over the world. Business leaders have begun to target people based on their personality. In fact, in the article, “The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Social Media Use”, authors Nihan Ozguven, and Burcu Mucan found that,
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Social Media allows people to surround themselves with a large network of news and information and it also allows people to communicate with millions of other users, but the overuse of Social Media can result in a very serious addiction. Social Media addiction is the fear of disconnecting from Social Media services because you think you’re going to miss something important. Social Media addiction sufferers also feel an urge to be always connected. This fear can lead to many health complications; for example, “Do Social Networks Make Us Sick?” is an article written by Vito Pilieci, a psychologist for The University of Ottawa, who explains “Daily overuse of media and technology has a negative effect on the health of all children, preteens and teenagers by making them more prone to anxiety, depression and other psychological disorders”. Adding to Pilieci’s argument that Social Media can potentially be harmful to our health is an article titled, “Social and Parasocial Relationships on Social Network Sites and Their Differential Relationships with Users ' Psychological Well-Being”. In the article authors Young Min Baek, Young Bae, and Hyunmi Jang, explain that heavy use of Social Media might lead to socially negative consequences, such as social isolation, erosion of social cohesion, or Social Media addiction. “Users highly dependent on social relationships may tend toward addiction in order to fortify …show more content…
The way we think others think of us has a major impact into what we take our identity to be. Nowadays people can form opinions of us based solely on our social media presence without even meeting us in real person. Because of this, some people begin to form two separate and distinct identities: one identity in real life and another for social media. For example, Peggy Orsenstein, a writer for “The New York Time Magazine”, wrote an article in 2010 titled “I Tweet, Therefore I am “, in which she described the impact social media was having on her own identity, she wrote about how the information she was sharing was becoming more skewed in order to appeal to her audience. Orsenstein writes,” Yet the final decision was not really about my own impressions: it was about how I imagined-and-wanted others to react to them. How much was I shaping my Twitter feed and how much was Twitter shaping me? Orsenstein is saying that sometimes people begin to project a false image of which they really are; people post things, not for themselves so much, but for the way others will respond and think of you for posting that. Adding to Orsenstein’s theory is a book titled “Alone Together”, written by Sherry Turkle, a professor at M.I.T, in 2011 that examined the impact social media had on today’s youth. Turkle Interviewed 400 children and parents about their use of social media. Turkle found that, especially amongst
Social Media allows people to surround themselves with a large network of news and information and it also allows people to communicate with millions of other users, but the overuse of Social Media can result in a very serious addiction. Social Media addiction is the fear of disconnecting from Social Media services because you think you’re going to miss something important. Social Media addiction sufferers also feel an urge to be always connected. This fear can lead to many health complications; for example, “Do Social Networks Make Us Sick?” is an article written by Vito Pilieci, a psychologist for The University of Ottawa, who explains “Daily overuse of media and technology has a negative effect on the health of all children, preteens and teenagers by making them more prone to anxiety, depression and other psychological disorders”. Adding to Pilieci’s argument that Social Media can potentially be harmful to our health is an article titled, “Social and Parasocial Relationships on Social Network Sites and Their Differential Relationships with Users ' Psychological Well-Being”. In the article authors Young Min Baek, Young Bae, and Hyunmi Jang, explain that heavy use of Social Media might lead to socially negative consequences, such as social isolation, erosion of social cohesion, or Social Media addiction. “Users highly dependent on social relationships may tend toward addiction in order to fortify …show more content…
The way we think others think of us has a major impact into what we take our identity to be. Nowadays people can form opinions of us based solely on our social media presence without even meeting us in real person. Because of this, some people begin to form two separate and distinct identities: one identity in real life and another for social media. For example, Peggy Orsenstein, a writer for “The New York Time Magazine”, wrote an article in 2010 titled “I Tweet, Therefore I am “, in which she described the impact social media was having on her own identity, she wrote about how the information she was sharing was becoming more skewed in order to appeal to her audience. Orsenstein writes,” Yet the final decision was not really about my own impressions: it was about how I imagined-and-wanted others to react to them. How much was I shaping my Twitter feed and how much was Twitter shaping me? Orsenstein is saying that sometimes people begin to project a false image of which they really are; people post things, not for themselves so much, but for the way others will respond and think of you for posting that. Adding to Orsenstein’s theory is a book titled “Alone Together”, written by Sherry Turkle, a professor at M.I.T, in 2011 that examined the impact social media had on today’s youth. Turkle Interviewed 400 children and parents about their use of social media. Turkle found that, especially amongst