Social Media: Beneficial or harmful for our young teens? Social networking sites can cause both beneficial and harmful effects on children and young teens. Truth is that children and young teens are faced with temptations every day. They have access to social media like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Social media refers to the means of interaction among people around the world in which they share common interests among themselves in virtual communities and networks.
Secondly, there are also some attention seekers in social networking site. People who demand for attention will post photos and videos to grasp people’s attention. They want to attract people’s comments and response from their friends. These social networkers believe the active act on the internet can narrow down the gap between one another in the real world. Thirdly, followers.
How Social Media Affect Us Introduction The social media is a way to communicate with your friends, to write and upload pictures, and it’s also a way to find out about many information and news that are going on around the world. However, how does the social media help spread information around the world and how does social media affect the people who use it? This research paper focuses on the impact and effects that the social media has on people. The impacts and effects that social media has on people are news and other information are spread faster and sooner on the social networks than other places and people are more time on the computer because of social media instead of doing homework or doing a sport or even exercising. I chose the topic of the social media for many reasons.
Social Media Impact on Adolescent California State University Fullerton Health Promotion: Parent and Child Nursing NURSING 307 November 07, 2011 Social Medias Impact on Adolescent With social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace there are multiple means for adolescents to get connected and socialize. Our generation has become completely consumed by these social medias, with 22% of teenagers logging on to their favorite social media site more than 10 times a day (O'Keeffe 2011). With these social networks becoming one of the main way adolescents communicate their impact on adolescents choice has both positive and negative impact on adolescent’s development into adulthood. Some benefits of usage of social networks include expression of artist skills through sharing own composed music, Improvement of social skills by providing access to communication with people of all different walks of life, and increase in self-expression with ability to post blog and podcast expressing their opinion. Even more critical than the benefits of social networks comes the negative outcomes of such social medias usage.
In Josh Roses’: How social media is having a positive impact on our culture, in Current Issues Page.612. Josh states, “I recently asked the question to my face book friends: “Twitter, Face book, Foursquare … is all of this making you feel closer to the people or farther away?” There would be a lot different responses because some people might agree and say that it does bring me closer to people and other might say no, it keeps us farther away from people of our age. I see people intertwining with the use of social media in and out on a daily basis to keep up with life. The use of social media technology is also being used in the education world and is becoming increasingly more normal in classrooms all across our country. There are handful of benefits behind the use of social media in an educational system.
Social media continues to make strides to make communication more accessible and easier for all of us. Just this week Mark Zuckerberg, founder of facebook, has announced that it is now offering a Graph Search function in order for the user to have the ability to run queries from one’s network of friends. It allows users to run queries in order to find commonalities or other areas of interest within friend networks. Twitter has allowed many in
One of the biggest ways that big companies try to access the youth through advertisement is through social media. A Haunted House uses twitter Hashtags and a facebook Like Page to access it's target audience. All of the social media advertising has the same feel and message “You are young, we are young, you should watch this”. By using the twitter Hashtag, it allows the target audience to do most of the advertisement. Every time someone tweets using the Hashtag #AhauntedHouse, it shows up on the Hashtags timeline search and you could see what everyone is saying about the movie.
In addition to featuring videos on its site, YouTube makes it easy to share content across an array of social media and websites. (Collins, 2014) The most popular social media tools are Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn but the technology is constantly evolving and there are many more available. It is difficult to predict which platforms will maintain their popularity. Whichever platform is used, however, it can be easily accessed by computer, laptop, tablet and smartphone so that communication can be instant and always on hand. (Collins, 2014) The rapid rise in the use of social media is changing the way we communicate with each other at a great pace.
His audience jumped from just under 150 subscribers to over 4,400 in just two days. Since then, after over three years years, his audience is still increasing by the thousands each day and he currently has 1,395,114 subscribers. Charlie has taken part in various musical projects such as 'Chartjackers' which was a project he took part in with several other musicians, where they tried to prevent mainstream music from dominating the charts entirely and attempted to hijack the charts with a song that their YouTube audiences had composed. Through this project, they raised £10,000 for the charity, Children In Need. This is an amazing example that through the internet community, they could start to achieve recognition for musicians who aren't mainstream but are just as good as the famous musicians.
Social Media's Effects On Young People In this essay I shall evaluate social media effects on young people. Social media has many communicate platforms that use for interaction with other people and obtaining information. Statistics shows that 751 million users access Facebook from mobile with 7000 different devices and there are over 288 million monthly active users on twitter in the world (Social Media Stats and Facts for 2013 | Social Media Today. Retrieved from http://socialmediatoday.co). Although social media is thought as beneficial, it has three negative effects and can be dangerous for young people.