Social media

comes from social media; from Hollywood and the creators of these lovely outlets. Social media has skyrocketed in the late 2000’s thanks to a huge advancement in technology. While I enjoy Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram, I can also admit that it is the root for most of our problems. Social media has opened a door to unlimited access of communication to every corner of the world. In the beginning, intentions for social media were good, but quickly turned bad. Thanks to social media all teenagers…

Suicide and Social Media Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States while being the third among adolescence aged 15-24. (Suicide Statistics). Prevalence rates of suicide among teens continues to rise along with an increase in social media usage. With the increase in both suicide and social media usage, millions of people are using sites such as Facebook to further enhance their grieving process. Social media allows people to provide their condolences without impeding on…

around social media. From posting about your day to uploading a video of you graduating, social media has taken on the role of being part of your everyday lives. Social media has so many great aspects that make living without it feel like we are in the Stone Age. One of the greatest aspects is the ability to interact with anyone anywhere. With social media, you have the ability to catch up on events or communicate with friends from college or even family members who live across the world. Social…

harder and doing their ‘fair share’? Social media has become an outlet for employees to vent after a long day at work. Due to this, more companies are turning to monitoring their employee’s social media sites. This is done both to look at what current employees are saying and to check on applicants to see if they are too good to be true. As a whole America is hearing on the news more stories of employees who are being fired for posts on their personal social media sites. Countless companies,…

Lim, 2001). These outcomes must be easily measured and consistently serve the same practical purpose (Plucker & Lim, 2001). In the 21st century, creativity has many outlets, one of which is social media. In the age of Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr, any number of people can log-on to a plethora of social expressivity and creative thought. One website remains considerably different from the others. Pinterest hosts approximately 17.8 million users, which in terms…

of Twitter in 2006, social media was used much more in the 2008 presidential election than any other previous campaigns. All of the candidates of the 2008 presidential election used excessive forms of social media including blogs, web pages, social networking sites and photo and video sharing sites to get ahead in the race. YouTube was extremely important to this race where seven out of sixteen of the candidates who ran announced it on YouTube. Using these types of social media allowed for…

Social Media absolutely kills me. As my peers and I have grown up with this constant knowledge being birthed into society, it’s easy to forget this wasn’t always the case. However, aren’t we always saying this? It’s not new knowledge that we are as students aware that we didn’t always have it this easy… yet we’ve let this monster control us. Wouldn’t it be insane if you just woke up and started getting ready and not checking our social media apps? Absolutely crazy. We as a group of young people…

Social media are computer-based tools that allow people to create, share information, ideas, and digital media in virtual communities and networks. Social media is defined as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content."[1] Social Media sites introduce substantial and pervasive changes to communication between businesses, organizations, communities, and…

There are currently 3 billion internet users in the world. That is forty-two percent of the world’s population. Those 3 billion users are in some way affected by social media, positively or negatively. It’s been reported that forty-two percent of generation z has said that social media had a direct relation to their identity and self esteem. An identity is made over time mostly in young adolescents, that is currently generation Z. It’s a generation that has widely been stereotyped as a…

Is Social Media Really Ruining Your Life? The topic that seems to be discussed way too much, social media. Although some people might say it completely ruins your life and is a waste of time some people like me argue and say social media has its benefits. Social media makes it easy to communicate with literally anyone from your choice, let the news be announced, and in general makes everything easier. Let’s just say it’s an advanced way to communicate. An example of the way social media is…