Social media

The Beatitudes Versus (Social) Media Social media is everywhere. It constantly appears in our daily lives, and we accept it and normal living. Included with it’s popularity, however, is a lot of advertising and showing off. When someone uses social media, like Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat, they share their lives with the world. However, social media users only share the best things about their lives, making their lives seem much more important and glamorous to someone viewing their page or…

Positive impact of social media on adolescents Social media has invaded our lives enormously for the past decade. Children, adolescents and adults have been using the media websites on daily basis. The social media includes any website that allows social interaction such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and blogs etc. This range of sites provides teens with a platform for entertainment and communication (O’Keeffe & Clark-Pearson, 2011). Many researchers have conducted studies on the…

Social Media And The Erosion Of Journalism Overtime, everything must evolve. From fashion trends, to the human understanding of the universe, the world is a never ending string of fluidly shifting events. Even the way information is created and consumed is relentlessly altering and adapting. In the digital age, journalist, the gatekeepers and protectors of public information, are hard to distinguish from the herds of bloggers, and the countless soap box preachers. Often, the lines between fact…

2003, employees went to work in New Jersey with new social media privacy laws. The new law set in place regulated how much an employer could monitor an employee’s social media accounts. Employers in New Jersey were able to ask for social media passwords to access their employee’s social media accounts. The new law mandated that employers could not do this anymore. When the new law occurred it was the 12th state at the time to implement a social media privacy law in the workplace. The vice…

What would life be without social media? Currently, we have sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram where you can message old buddies or family members you don’t see as much. Social networks like these are supposed to make us feel more connected than ever. But is social media depriving us of getting out and socializing face to face with one another? Is social media making us feel more alone? Things constantly change day to day, the world itself changes and everything becomes…

SOCIAL MEDIA OPTIMIZATION (SMO) Social media optimization (SMO) is the utilization of social media outlets include RSS feeds, news and bookmarking sites, social networking sites and video and blogging sites to publicize or create awareness regarding a commodity, brand or event. It works in achieving a potential for business for the product, as it attempts to letting as many people know about it as humanely possible. The age today is that of social networking, and staying in constant touch with…

1800 Pony Express to every individual’s fingertips via smart devices and social media platforms. Within today’s milieu, we can send communications from any location instantly to anyone, anywhere, thus empowering relationships to be decidedly affected. This debate will present a logical argument to support one side of that issue, assess objections from the contradicting party while upholding the perspective that social media augment interpersonal relationships. The argument focal point of this…

The 21st century has seen the revolution of social media platforms in last 20 years and it been tremendously rising day by day. The Internet has become an enormously popular, convenient and gratifying form of expressing one’s thoughts. Social media is affecting every person’s life in unimaginable different ways. To start from, it helps in building connections across the world to growing intimacy of their online relationships. Human beings yearn for connection and belonging. With an emergence of…

Media logging exercises help people see what type of media they use the most. They may question, “Am I watching too much television”? Yet, how would they know when it becomes too much television. High School and College students all have dived deep into the world of social media. Social Media usage can cut into a Netflix binge and television marathon watching times, but it isn’t a good jump to be made. However, outside activities such as sports or even going out for coffee with friends cutting…

The role of social media in the exacerbation of narcissism is a controversial topic highly debated by professionals in the field of psychology today. Soraya Nehdizadeh, an undergraduate student-researcher at York University examined how Facebook shows a manifestation of narcissism and self-esteem and how individuals who use Facebook more tend to be more narcissistic and have lower self-esteem while those who use Facebook less tend to be less narcissistic and have higher self-esteem. Alex Lambert…