The Influence Of Social Media On Society

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The Influence of Social Media on Society Table of Contents What is Social Media?3 Sources and Benefits of Social Media 3 Social Media Today and Yesterday 4 Four Pitfalls of Social Media4 False Sense of Connection 5 Bullying5 Decrease of Productivity6 Elimination of Privacy6 Media, Society and The Future7 Technological Advances 8 The Future of Social Media 9 Helping or Hindering? 10 Even using a social media tool like the Internet, it would still prove to be difficult to come up with a unanimous definition of what social media truly is. If referring to TheSocialMediaGuide.com, you would find over fifty definitions for the popular phrase. For example, Brian Solis, a principal at Altimeter Group, a research-based advisory program dealing with aspects of social media, would claim it is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. However “Tjongolongo,” a famous blogger who tunes her readers in to her connections in marketing and social media, would say it is simply “word of mouth on steroids.” But the best way to define social media is to break it down. Media is an instrument of communication, like a newspaper or the radio; so social media would be a social instrument of communication. Social media instruments and applications are tools that people use to share information with their network, which may include family, friends and coworkers, among many other people. Obviously, the use of the Internet has exponentially increased as the largest social media tool as time has passed and thousands of tools have become available through it. Popular sources include blogs (Blogger, Word Press)
micro-blogging (Twitter, Tumblr, etc.)
social networking (Facebook, MySpace)
multimedia (YouTube, Flickr, Skype, Magazines)
and bookmarking and news (Newspapers, Radio, Television). Nowadays, these social media sites

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