moving from one country to another country, he/she can still be in touch with people they love. Media can be used as an educational tool: Studies and individual experience uncover individuals tend to put their best foot forward while collaborating via web-based networking media. With social media, you can have better-structured study groups which will allow the students to share information quicker. Social media outlets like LinkedIn allow you to socially find and connect with successful…
and get the news before being broadcasting on the TV by an hour. Social networking can be also profitable. It turned out that social networking is being used widely as professional networking. It has been used in marketing to increase brand exposure, web traffic and gain market insights. 60% of entrepreneurs say that they had gained new customers due to the use of social marketing (Karr, " 2014 Statistics and Trends for Businesses on Social Media"). Furthermore, studies have…
Many people have access to the internet. Because of how accessible social media is, it serves as a platform for people to communicate with their family, friends, and people near or across the globe. This platform is also used to update people on current events happening around them. The information provided to them depends on not only how the messages are played out, but also how the audience receives it. In the context of the CNN documentary and the LA riots, there were different…
Social media is used in many different ways throughout all of planet earth. It can be used to complete service, to help communicate with others, to receive global news and many more helpful ways. Not only does social media help you communicate with others but it helps businesses, businesses are advertised through social media most of the time and since businesses have started to advertise through social media it has made a massive boost in advertising percentages nearly 33.5% more than…
In modern world, social media is developing fast and have gained astonishing worldwide growth and popularity which led to attract attentions from varieties of different age groups. Among them, teenagers and young adults are the extreme users of the social networking sites which causes the significant impacts on them. Social media means they are forms of electronic communication through which people create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages and other contents.…
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…
Many people don't know or get how and where things are, but using the web they can find things just like that whether then having to struggle on where to look and how to get there. For instance, Erick Qulman states, "Social gamers buy $6 million in virtual goods by 2013", "youtube.com". People are having to use the online…
Last week I was having a drink with a friend; he casually pulled out his phone and showed me a Meme that had gone viral. As I stared at the screen in shock, he matter-of-factly stated “and you thought you had problems”. There is a new violence sweeping across our nation. It is not necessarily new, but it is intensifying. Human cruelty is absolutely nothing new, but it is the spread and reach that has amplified. I am talking about cyber violence, harassment and humiliation. Unless you live under…
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…
It’s difficult, you go on Facebook and everyone is getting engaged, but you don’t have anyone to call your own. You go on Twitter and there’s an uncomfortable meme going around that targets someone like you. You get on Instagram and your peers are posting their thousand dollar clothing and jewelry, meanwhile you’re not financially capable of buying the “nicest” things. You go on YouTube and this girl is putting up her 13th makeup tutorial and she looks flawless in every single one of them, while…