Criticism of Facebook

In this cut-throat marketing world, where technology and social media reign supreme in terms of marketing a new product to its prospective customers through advertising, word of mouth through over-hype media exposure by way of social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media platforms. Different gimmicks targeting different segments in our society like the Baby Boomers and the Millennials where both are proving to be worthy of marketing promotions as they are earning…

Nowadays, internet and new social media are being widely used by people. The users of social media were increasing rapidly from 2010 to 2017, and in 2016, there were up to 2.28 billion of social media users (Statista, 2017). Different information posted online can be very powerful and affect people greatly as bunch of users can give comments to the others. With the popularity of social media, the use of health-related websites and social media pages are becoming more and more common as well. It…

Social Media Key Elements: R. Effing and T. Spil (2015) , summed up and identified as well, some frameworks to classify social media best practices and key elements, in the existing literature and exploratory researches that could add value to the social media strategy within an organization: Target audience, channel choice, goals, resources, policies, monitoring and content activities. R. Effing and T. Spil (2015) define and summed up the key elements, taking as support the existing literature:…

What is pop culture? Pop Culture is what I would define as cultural activities; there is a wide range of what makes up pop culture, it is entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images, and other social network activities. Pop culture has a massive impact on today’s society. As expected by the standards of society, there is controversy about whether or not pop culture is either good or bad for someone. I agree with the argument that pop culture isn’t good for you in the sense of texting and…

There are over 3.5 billion Google searches every day and 1.2 trillion worldwide per year (internetlivestats.com). Sources G, B and H all contradict the thought that the under thirty generation is the dumbest. Source B is an article by Sharon Begley which is named The Dumbest Generation? Don’t be Dumb. Source G is an article by Clive Thompson which is titled Clive Thompson on the New Literacy. Source H is a cartoon from The New Yorker which is drawn by Roz Chast, it is titled Shelved. The under…

article, “Has Texting Killed Romance?” by Ashton Kutcher, he describes how developed technological forms of communication are taking away our talent of being romantic. Kutcher uses examples of how people text their crushes and declare their love on Facebook or Twitter instead of calling them or sending real flowers. This reflects that the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance that young adults prefer to use digitalization to express romance. According to Kutcher, “We haven’t…

igital Age, Breaking Up Is hard to Do Salvador Rodriguez is an author for the Los Angeles Times who specializes in writing about technology. In one of the articles he published, ‘In the Digital Age, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do’, he gave a personal story about how technology made his situation worse. Rodriguez and his fiance broke up weeks before their wedding. He used attitude, pathos, and person in his article describing how he handled. Attitude was mainly used to set the tone of the paper…

“Social Media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or change your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand” (Amy Jo Martin). Today in the 21st century, social media has changed dramatically by making it easier for people to not have the normal face to face interactions. Social media has had an effect on Generation Y students in the workplace and in a normal every day…

Another study tells that “ Provo Police Department, Lt. Matt Siufanua said using Facebook allowed detectives there to quickly spread word two weekends ago about a 13-year-old boy who was taken by his non-custodial father to Mexico.” “We were able to put it on our Facebook page immediately and shoot it out,” Siufanua said. “We asked for tips through the public and we were able to get some information back through our Facebook and the information we pushed out.”…

The art of photography was developed from people wanting to capture moments that they hope to remember for a lifetime. Before phone cameras came about there was Polaroid’s and disposable cameras, they all capture the image desired but the way the photograph is viewed is different. Photos taken on phone cameras, tablets, and newer cameras are digital images and the product is viewed at that instant on a screen. In contrast, photos that are thoughtfully taken on a Polaroid and disposable cameras…