Social Media Good
Is social media helping or hurting society?
The use of social media has been pervasive these couple of years. It has been recorded that from July 2011 to 2012, time spent on social media has increased from 88.4 billion minutes to 121.1 billion minutes, which is almost a 40 percent increase. Social media is websites which people use to interact with friends, family, schoolmates, business associates and others. Social media refers to anything from YouTube and Instant Messaging to websites like Facebook and Twitter. 90% of teenagers, ranging from 13-17 years of age have some form of social media. Users can create a profile and build a personal network that connects the user to other users. Social networking has become a part of our daily routine and is a trend that will only continue to evolve as we grow old. The impact it has on teenagers life’s has been making people question the fact whether social media is helping or hurting society. Social media is helping society because it helps us stay connected no matter where we are in the world, it informs us about what is going on in the world and how we can help and last but not least it enhances our self-esteem.
Social media is helping society because It helps us stay connected no matter where we are in the world. Because of circumstances we can’t always be with the people we love all the time, but social media makes it possible. In the article USA TODAY “Social media doesn’t mean social isolation” by Ted Aljibe, William Ward, a social media professor in the Department of Communications at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, follows 10,000 people on Twitter, including people he’s met at conferences, people he’s lived near or traveled with or friends of people he knows. “I don’t get to see them every day, but I get to keep up with them and what they’re doing online,” Online he gets to keep in touch with them when he doesn't get to see every day, it’s like he’s there but really not. The
The use of social media has been pervasive these couple of years. It has been recorded that from July 2011 to 2012, time spent on social media has increased from 88.4 billion minutes to 121.1 billion minutes, which is almost a 40 percent increase. Social media is websites which people use to interact with friends, family, schoolmates, business associates and others. Social media refers to anything from YouTube and Instant Messaging to websites like Facebook and Twitter. 90% of teenagers, ranging from 13-17 years of age have some form of social media. Users can create a profile and build a personal network that connects the user to other users. Social networking has become a part of our daily routine and is a trend that will only continue to evolve as we grow old. The impact it has on teenagers life’s has been making people question the fact whether social media is helping or hurting society. Social media is helping society because it helps us stay connected no matter where we are in the world, it informs us about what is going on in the world and how we can help and last but not least it enhances our self-esteem.
Social media is helping society because It helps us stay connected no matter where we are in the world. Because of circumstances we can’t always be with the people we love all the time, but social media makes it possible. In the article USA TODAY “Social media doesn’t mean social isolation” by Ted Aljibe, William Ward, a social media professor in the Department of Communications at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, follows 10,000 people on Twitter, including people he’s met at conferences, people he’s lived near or traveled with or friends of people he knows. “I don’t get to see them every day, but I get to keep up with them and what they’re doing online,” Online he gets to keep in touch with them when he doesn't get to see every day, it’s like he’s there but really not. The