The entire process of “digging up dirt,” if you will, seems rather disingenuous. What’s more, a third of the employers that participated in the survey reported disqualifying a candidate because of what they discovered online. The top reason employers decide against hiring a candidate is because they posted provocative or inappropriate photos or information. 45 percent found information about the candidate drinking or using drugs, 35 percent declined to hire because of poor communication skills, and 33 percent discovered the candidate bad-mouth a previous employer. Employers also use social media to “check on”
CIS111-Issue Analysis Dr. Joanna Cattafesta University Of Kentucky It is averaged that over 80% of teenagers are on social media regularly. Between cell phone use and computer technology developing, younger generations are becoming more apt to the use of technology. “Teenagers in particular use media for many purposes, including entertainment and distraction, but also exploration of significant developmental issues pertaining to curiosity, education, popularity, identity, gender roles, and sexuality”(Reaves, 2011). The media has become a problem in our day and age by brainwashing teenagers and giving them an unrealistic view on life. We live in a society and culture that values an individual’s beauty and thinness.
These are quite of few social media sites I know of, which Face book, Twitter, Instagram, and snap chat. Social media is a technology of internet based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations that allow us to create and exchange user- generated writings. Social media, on the other hand, is a two-way street that gives you the ability to communicate. They offer great changes to communication between businesses, organizations, communities, and individuals. In Josh Roses’: How social media is having a positive impact on our culture, in Current Issues Page.612.
The End of Solitude William Deresiewicz is a former teacher for English at Yale University. Currently he’s a contributing writer at “The Nation” and published his most famous essay “The End of Solitude” in 2009. In his essay, he claims that through new ways to communicate with each other like Facebook, human beings would lose a certain sense of solitude and the space everyone needs to figure who they are and what they believe in. He opens his argumentation saying that we only live in relation to others without any solitude because technology is taking away privacy and concentration. He proves this point with examples of his students who, according to Deresiewicz, write 3000 texts a month and don’t want to be alone so bad that they sit next to friend, even when they have to write a paper.
The Facebook experiment addressed the question “how does the usage of this social media affect the well-being of its users over time?” The hypothesis is that Facebook usage does affect well-being over time. However, the researchers were not sure whether Facebook usage helped users’ well-being (as revealed by some research done before) or affected negatively as other studies suggested. They started the study with eighty-two people; their mean age was 19.52 and the SD was 2.17. The participants completed a survey before starting the study to determine their initial status. Then, for fourteen days they were sent a text message every 168 minutes asking them questions about their well-being and how they felt about life.
I was hesitant to get it because I feel that whenever I did set up a social networking account a new networking site was created making the old one obsolete. I did not feel like trying to keep up, but I finally broke down when I had a biology project due and realized that I did not have my partners’ phone numbers; I did know that they both had a Facebook profile. Although these types of sites do not consume most of my computer time, I do feel that I waste a lot of valuable time of the computer
During the last decade, the Internet enriched our social lives and our civic connections. People use e-mail, on-line chat rooms and instant messages to communicate with each other. Even adolescents can use the Internet as the same as the older people. But, heavy use of the Net can bring some bad consequences to the adolescents more than what they do on adults. Brent Staples, in “What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace” (2004) pointed out the consequences of adolescents cruising the Net.
Distracted Driving: Technology has become an obsession among many Americans. Over the years cell phones have gone from a business necessity, to a personal necessity. As a result of cell phone dependence and the need for a person to always be accessible, Americans continuously endanger themselves and others by texting while driving. The Vermont texting while driving law is widely ignored because it is severely flawed. Texting while driving has been forbidden in Vermont since July 2010.
Students across American are dropping out of high school at a rapid rate. Researchers who study this problem do not know the cause, nor do they know how to fix it. CBS news reported in May of 2010 “You have some schools in America that send more kids to prison, than they graduate.” This is a problem that America can no longer afford to ignore. Students dropping out of high schools across America are a major problem that needs an immediate and effective solution. In 2010 The U.S Department of Education announced that “1.2 million students between the ages between fifteen and twenty-four had dropped out in one year alone.” (Women forum).
In order to understand slang better one should analyze different approaches to the definition of slang. Slang can be described as informal, nonstandard words or phrases (lexical innovations) which tend to originate in subcultures within a society. Slang often suggests that the person utilizing the words or phrases is familiar with the hearer's group or subgroup--it can be considered a distinguishing factor of in-group identity. There are more definitions given by scholars and recorded in dictionaries. Webster’s "Third New International Dictionary" gives the following definition of the term slang: 1.