Social media

Imagine going onto your favorite social media site after you had just posted a new photo of yourself. You see all of these positive comments about how beautiful you look, but you see this one comment saying something negative. You brush it off as nothing and continue on with your day, because the positive on it is more important than the negative. Social media is beneficial for a society. Social media is beneficial for society because relationships can form online, good for marketing and…

reactions among different populations and even influencing them to take specific actions regarding the message being popularized. The media has remained a key tool in the transfer of the political message from the political entities to the masses since the history of man (Bennette & Segerberg, 2016; Fiske & Hancock, 2016). The main advantage about the use of media, which in this case refers to all communication tools and platforms, is that the information can reach many people within a short…

Social media has been a huge factor in peoples lives nowadays but are our social media antics hindering our productivity in the workplace. We are becoming so fixed to our devices and social media that we are not concentrating at our workplaces and deadlines do not get met. Some of the points that I will be pointing out to you are why social media is counter-productive and what effects social media has on the workplace. My first point that I am putting forward is why social media is counter…

Social media influence people nowadays. Social media is a form of electronic communication which helps people especially students who are in need in different terms such as sharing information, researching, communication, and entertainment. The rapid growth of social media usage has been observed over the past few years. And since, many users are always updated; it can indeed influence their lives in different terms especially the academic performance of the students. Moreover, there has also…

After the implausible development of technology, social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn emerged to play indispensable roles in our lives. In fact, there are three billion Internet users in the world that take up more than 45 percent of the total population. Among the many Internet users, nearly 2.1 billion of people have some type of social media accounts in their smartphones or tablets. Social media is crucial to our society, Sally Kohn spoke in her TED talk…

linked to their social media accounts? When most people are using social media, we tend to forget that what we post can have an effect on our lives and employers are starting to take notice of our social media profiles. Employee’s privacy of their social networks need to be respected there for employers need to have restricted access to social network accounts. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, social media can be defined as “forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social…

Presently, the impact of social media on education has become a driving factor as the world is getting smaller and through the use of technology such as social media. The way people deliver messages is, therefore, changing. The technology referred becomes known as social media technologies such as Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. The technologies that allow these performances to function are also one of the driving forces behind the impact of this technology on education. Social media diffuses…

Social media connection ties to crime. Therefore, cameras are everywhere; people use cell phone cameras to either destroy police officers or to grow its industry, and it will never stop. However, crime has become an increasing theme of social media in the platforms; such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, and Instagram. These networks have transformed the way we understand and experience crime and victimization. What are the potential effects of social media, presenting an unbalanced…

Does Social Media Hinder or Enhance Inter-Personal Relationships Tanisha Wylie Ashford University - PHI 103 November 19, 2017 Introduction Social media refers to communication technology including numerous applications and websites that facilitate easier and faster communication and networking. It gives people the opportunity to share information even from very far distances. Social media has both positive and negative effects towards interpersonal relations. In my view, social media has…

Grammar usage on social media is an issue that is plaguing our nation every day. As the average person clicks over to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or any social media for that matter, there are posts littered with grammatical errors. The main epidemic of flawed grammar plaguing social media is the dreaded difference between you’re and your, as well as the difference between there, their, and they’re. The most troubling part about this is how annoying the grammatical errors are to look at. Any…