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.
Web-based communication has even managed to change our spoken conversation, with acronyms such as, lol (laugh out loud) that originally evolved from web-based communication being used in spoken conversation. The internet has dramatically changed the way we communicate with more people communicating via the internet than ever before. Social networking sites such as Facebook have roughly 800million accounts created, half of which are used daily. Over spoken conversation, the internet has became the main way teenagers tend to communicate, using sites such as, Facebook, Twitter, by texting, or by instant messaging. Some people from the older generations may look down on web-based communication, and disagree with it.
In 2000 Cuban introduced himself to the NBA community when he purchased the Dallas Mavericks for $285 million (“Mark Cuban”). Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has led his social network to new heights, even as some younger users have grown tired of it. Revenue grew 58% in 2014 to $12.5 billion, supported by a jump in mobile ads (Williams 12). Some 1.4 billion people around the globe are on Facebook, and those users are watching 3 billion videos a day on the site. Its Instagram unit has more than 300 million users, while mobile messaging app WhatsApp, which it purchased for $19 billion in cash and stock in 2014, has 700 million users and is growing.
Being the most popular form of CMC, approximately 294 billion messages are sent per day, which means more than 2.8 million emails are sent every second and some 90 trillion emails are sent per year, (2010). There is a long list of positive things to say about electronic mail as a form of communication. Used by friends, family, colleagues and businesses, it is a fast way of sending text-based messages. As well as this, emails allow you to forward pictures, documents and music to anyone with an email address and access to the Internet. You can communicate not just across cities, or countries, but also across international boarders.
They allowed candidates to submit applications directly within Facebook. • They also ran Facebook Ads targeting people around Florence who ‘liked’ such items as ‘Rock and Roll’ and particular rock bands. Dynamic demographic and interest targeting honed in automatically on users that responded most to the job content. • Fans brought to the Page by ads could use social features embedded within the app to socially broadcast jobs. This drove viral fan growth, as the Page went from 0 to 1,000 fans in less than 24 hours and to 6,100 fans in 4 days.
The advertising revenue associated with Facebook and other Social media is expected to generate approximately $8.3 billion dollars annually by 2015. Significantly, according to one survey, 81% of companies have implemented (or plan to implement) social networking in order to enhance their exposure. Seventy-three percent of small and medium businesses reportedly employ social media for marketing purposes.” (The Legal Implications of Social Networking: The Basics (Part One) By David Navetta on June 11, 2011Posted in ECPA, Social Networking) Facebook is one of the leading social media applications available on the web. It attracts all types of people from different ages and nationalities due to the growth of its reputation and amount of members. It appeals to individual who seek to locate family and friends.
(Stieglitz, Brockmann, & Dang-Xuan , 2012). Regarding the data in 2012, there are more than 900 million people who are members of the Facebook network and another social media is Twitter with more than 500 million people as users. (Forbes, 2012) The development of social media has increased significantly in many countries. Regarding the political sector, social media influences patterns of political communication. According to Mcnair, cited in Riaz, political communication is the purpose of communication about politics.
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.
When it come to the consumption of these devices, college students are apparently the “hardcore consumers” of most of the technologies according to the article. A not so surprising 86% of college students have a cell phone, 12% of which have smart phones with internet access. 83% of college students have some from of entertainment device such as an ipod, Nintendo 3DS or Sony’s PSP. As far as laptops goes, 73% of students have and utilize laptops, myself included. We (college students) certainly know how to use the these technologies, so well in fact that 44% of us use the Internet for more that 15 hours or less a week.
When the videos were published and time progressed, the videos that Obama’s staff created were watched for up to 14.5 million hours. On television where there is paid advertising, it would cost approximately $47 million. During his election, the media was in investment that he spend little to nothing on and made a lot back. Social media also allows people to repeatedly listen to the words of a candidate if they chose. For instance, when Obama uploaded a 37 minute video on the topic of race to Youtube, it was rewatched for a total of 6.7 million