Social media

comes from social media; from Hollywood and the creators of these lovely outlets. Social media has skyrocketed in the late 2000’s thanks to a huge advancement in technology. While I enjoy Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram, I can also admit that it is the root for most of our problems. Social media has opened a door to unlimited access of communication to every corner of the world. In the beginning, intentions for social media were good, but quickly turned bad. Thanks to social media all teenagers…

For some days, I have been thinking to stop using social media. Seriously, they irritate me. Whenever I am free at work or home, I take my mobile and try to find out what’s going on around the world (well music world!) through Facebook or Twitter newsfeed. And, sadly I always end up with some people sharing selfies with their pets, posts on how measurable their lives are with their house and jobs and concerns about what Mr. Trump is cooking for the upcoming election. As a music freak (my…

The abstract introduction of social media has greatly affected society. In many cases, social media and technology use has led society to become more superficial-focusing on wealth, fame, image, and power. Moral alarm over this trend is the shallowing hypothesis- meaning the daily use is being associated with cognitive and moral questioning. The correlation is associated with outgroup prejudice and materialism while having a perpetual tool for society to keep in touch and share their lives. In…

Suicide and Social Media Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States while being the third among adolescence aged 15-24. (Suicide Statistics). Prevalence rates of suicide among teens continues to rise along with an increase in social media usage. With the increase in both suicide and social media usage, millions of people are using sites such as Facebook to further enhance their grieving process. Social media allows people to provide their condolences without impeding on…

around social media. From posting about your day to uploading a video of you graduating, social media has taken on the role of being part of your everyday lives. Social media has so many great aspects that make living without it feel like we are in the Stone Age. One of the greatest aspects is the ability to interact with anyone anywhere. With social media, you have the ability to catch up on events or communicate with friends from college or even family members who live across the world. Social…

harder and doing their ‘fair share’? Social media has become an outlet for employees to vent after a long day at work. Due to this, more companies are turning to monitoring their employee’s social media sites. This is done both to look at what current employees are saying and to check on applicants to see if they are too good to be true. As a whole America is hearing on the news more stories of employees who are being fired for posts on their personal social media sites. Countless companies,…

Lim, 2001). These outcomes must be easily measured and consistently serve the same practical purpose (Plucker & Lim, 2001). In the 21st century, creativity has many outlets, one of which is social media. In the age of Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr, any number of people can log-on to a plethora of social expressivity and creative thought. One website remains considerably different from the others. Pinterest hosts approximately 17.8 million users, which in terms…

of Twitter in 2006, social media was used much more in the 2008 presidential election than any other previous campaigns. All of the candidates of the 2008 presidential election used excessive forms of social media including blogs, web pages, social networking sites and photo and video sharing sites to get ahead in the race. YouTube was extremely important to this race where seven out of sixteen of the candidates who ran announced it on YouTube. Using these types of social media allowed for…

Social Media absolutely kills me. As my peers and I have grown up with this constant knowledge being birthed into society, it’s easy to forget this wasn’t always the case. However, aren’t we always saying this? It’s not new knowledge that we are as students aware that we didn’t always have it this easy… yet we’ve let this monster control us. Wouldn’t it be insane if you just woke up and started getting ready and not checking our social media apps? Absolutely crazy. We as a group of young people…

Social media is a popular way to communicate with friends around the corner and the world. In fact, social media has become one of the top forms of communication. However, social media is full of risks and negative impacts such as bullying, desensitization, and addiction making it harmful to its users. First off, social media is one of the leading causes of teen depression and suicide. Why is this? Simple: cyberbullying. Forty two percent of social media users are bullied (slideshare.net).…