The internet is great. More specifically, social media is great. Social media is a wonderful tool that our generation has been blessed with. These days, many people might tell you social media makes you less social, but nothing beats sharing different ideas with all your friends. In an instant, you can show your friends a picture or a tweet that someone has posted and everyone can add their own input.
What’s better, it doesn’t matter where in the world you are, the internet is limitless. You can interact with all kinds of different people, whether they’re 5 miles away or 5,000 miles away. The internet allows you to make connections with people everywhere, whereas without the internet, you would have never met those people. That connection
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Why would I like such a tweet? First, I suppose I should clear up what a tweet even is. Tweets (like the one shown above) are shared publicly on a website fitting named Twitter. Anyone can type a sentence or two about whatever they would like and post it for all their followers to see. You can tweet words, pictures, GIF’s, and videos; and these tweets can be just about anything that’s not illegal. It generally makes for a pretty good time for everyone that doesn’t worry about politics.
To get back at my previous question, why do I find such a strange piece of media so entertaining to the point where I spend numerous hours a day enthralled in it? I mean, it’s literally just the script of a dumb commercial with some emojis that someone tweeted because they have nothing better to do. Nonetheless, it’s still funny to me, it’s funny reference that me and all my friends understand and can repeat to each other. You know there’s a word for something that is repeated and recreated by different people, it’s called a meme.
If you’ve been on any kind of social media at all, or even just been around kids, you most likely have seen a meme or two. Memes are interesting because people make memes out of just about anything, which makes them insanely diverse. In addition, memes differ depending on the specific social media you explore.
Facebook usually has memes like
These kinds of memes are what Gladwell promotes in today’s high-tech society, and are what he refers to as strong ties. Gladwell starts his disagreement with social media by stating, “…Facebook activism succeeds not by motivating people to make a real sacrifice but by motivating them to do the things that people do when they are not motivated enough to make a real sacrifice” (176). Since there are no physical contact in social media, people tend to initiate something that they cannot handle in reality. These types of statements that people make in the social media ridicules Gladwell’s belief in the activism. The Internet is an enormous system that is open to whomever has access to it.
The internet has been, arguably, the most influential form of technology to be introduced in the past hundred years. With this creation, the world as we know it has been connected in ways that were never dreamed of before. Peoples from thousands of miles away are able to converse and spread their ideas with a simple push of a button. Cultures have interacted like never before. This, in return, has caused a new information age that has enlightened the world as we start the 21st century.
especially in Canada, where a lot of people are immigrated from different parts of the world who leave their family and friends. So the internet is the fastest, easiest and sometimes the only way for them to communicate with their dearest people who are far away from them. Once in a while, it’s impossible to call them because of the time differences, but it can always updated with their news and current situation, see their pictures and also can feel much closer to them. Besides that, the internet definitely helps the immigrants to communicate in their new country, providing information about the new culture and language.
She looked at the Snapchat message one more time. Not only would she be taking her life, but the happiness of everyone else that she knew. All is took was one more glance. Although some people think that it is okay for children to have social media accounts, many only put their children in danger. So many children are posting without any sense of what it can cause.
The Use of Social Networking Nowadays, we are living under decent technology and it has changed a lot of things: Entertainment, communication, and relationship; economy, education, and habit; medical, political and cultural etc. Social media has allowed us to interact with many more people other than we are used to before. We are living in a world where people would rather use text message with their mobile phone than face-to-face to each other, share greeting with more than hundreds of friends on the social media such as upload how they feel on Facebook, show photo Instagram, and what they are doing with Snapchat.
Dangers of Social Media Lots of people post on social media about their beliefs right? People post their oppian on the network everyday. Many people get in trouble because they forget that nothing goes away and anyone can look at it. Lots of people don't know that when they apply for a job their social media can be searched or checked.
Today everyone is obsessed with social media. People are easily influenced by almost everything they come across on the internet including appearance and body image. In todays generation it is so common to be unhappy with the way you look. All this is due to societies high standards on the way we “should” look. With social media you can do many things, including pretending to be someone you are not.
Thirty years ago, the concept of social media would have seemed impossible. A place where a person can show everyone they know what they are doing in two seconds from any city seems insane. Today, it is the daily ritual of the average teenager, including myself. I start my mornings looking at Instagram and end my nights looking at Snapchat. The middle of the day is for YouTube.
Children’s lives have quickly shifted onto the Internet in the twenty-first century. Even the President of the United States has nearly forty thousand Twitter and Instagram posts. Social networks are websites that allow users to interact over the Internet. There are 600 million Facebook users across the globe (Rosenwald 2). 300 million visit Twitter every month (Maney 3).
Internet has transformed our day to day live personally, socially, politically and professionally. The internet impacts our personal, social and business lives. When we wake up in the morning, we use our internet device to check the weather, the news and our social media site. When we get to the office, we check our business emails and respond to them. Before the wide spread use of the internet about 32 years ago people use to talk on landline telephones and people use to TV that use analog equipment.
Social Media for The Community In this Modern Era, Social Media plays an pivotal role in communicating. If we look according to the expert B.K Lewis, media social is label for digital technology that allows people to interact,providing and sharing the message content. We know that social media is very close to the community. Even it can be said that “human’s can’t lived without social media”.
Chapter 1 Background of the Study Introduction In the contemporary world, most people use social media for news, entertainment, to seek information and to be updated every day. Nowadays, the use of social media has greatly changed how people interact with other people. Today, most people only consider the benefits that the social media brought to the people without thinking about the possible negative implications of using it.
Social media is an online service, platform or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people who share interest or activities. Some famous sites are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. The generalization of the internet makes us live conveniently and fast. We live in time where communication is possible without having to exert so much effort. We live in the time where social media is the main medium of communication.
Introduction Information communication technology provides the society with new communication capabilities. People can now communicate with others using videos from others of different parts of the world, instant messaging, social media sites like face book, twitter which allows people to remain in contact and communicate and share information easily and on regular basis. The world has become a global village. Internet and computer has made the communication process very fast and has also united people.
Online social media is a term used to describe the interaction and activities between individuals or groups of people, exchanging different ideas over the internet. Social media has a huge and significant impact on young people as they are gaining popularity all over the world. Children grow up in an environment surrounded by smart mobile devices, computers and interactive social networking applications such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Social media became a vital aspect in not only teenagers but also the life of adults.