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. Youth today are very inclined in using social media. Most of the students tend to believe that social media helps them a lot in terms of learning, studying, researching and finding information. Students can be easily influenced. Due to their curiosity, they want to explore or try what is new and trending to be able to fit into the society. They are able to easily adapt everything that they see around them. With the benefits of social media, it plays a big part in the students’ everyday lives. In using this, it allows people to be updated every day with regards to what is happening in their surroundings. Most of the students use social media for academic purposes, for instance, to be able to interact or communicate with their classmates and teachers with regards to the activities and tasks that have given to them. People, in general, …show more content…
Mainly in terms of the positive effects, harmful effects and how it can affect the Accountancy Business and Management Senior High School Students towards their stay in the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. This caught the interest of the researchers in studying this particular issue. This study is very significant to the researchers and the readers because through this, people will be able to know the possible perceived effects of using social media. This study will be able to help the students to manipulate the positive attributes, negative attributes and perceived effects of using social media for their
Social media has become a controversial topic over the recent years. There is a disagreement between people in whether social media can be a good thing or a bad thing to those who use it. Whether it can help or hurt people. Kennis Cady was a twelve year old girl from my hometown who committed suicide because of social media. The things that were said to her and about her over social media became a factor in Cady’s death.
Social networking creates a system of ideas for variations of groups to interact. This interaction leads people to share more personal information than just basic information. The effect of new media and social networking on personal interactions has impacted communications by creating various media ideologies through communicating over social media, one must look into different types of ideologies to understand the impact they have had on society. The use of social media has become global and widely used, to the extent the use of a social media grants simple access to so many more websites. This has caused many people to be unaware of how information is being disseminated and collected through using information about their online behavior and
The world has witnessed an outburst of the Internet-supported social media platforms. In 2005, it was estimated that 65% of America’s population used at least one social media platform (Bussert, 2010, p.24). According to a report by Pew Research Center, social media affects different areas of human life either positively or negatively. The most affected areas include work, communication patterns, business operations, news consumption, political deliberation, culture, health, parenting, teenage life, and social life (Gladwell & Shirky, 2011, p.32). This explains why social media has come to gain support and opposition almost in almost equal proportions (Bussert, 2010).
In the last twenty years, technology and social media have taken over the globe. Technology has enabled people to connect with each other; they can connect through email, text, or social networking sites. Since this phenomenon of being easily connected has occurred a significant amount of controversy has sparked. A few argue that social media is excellent while the majority of critics argue social media is having a negative effect on people. Two articles in which discuss the different effects of social media are “I Tweet, Therefore I am” and “The Upsides of Selfies: Social Media isn’t all bad for kids” by Peggy Orenstein and Kelly Wallace respectively.
While Teenagers feel that social media is more important than the real world its alot of negative effects of social media. One is that it can take over brain cells and effect mental and physical health. Being On social media every day, every hour, and every minute can really cause damage to your brain cells. Our brain grows as when learn new things and when we learn the new things it changes after we done experienced it. It Changes the way we think and feel.
On most of these sites, users may establish informal bio profiles, keep in touch with friends and strangers, do research, share thoughts, music, photos, and more. Social media can harm us if used wrong but, on the alternative side we can use it to keep up with news, help young children and teenagers also, offer help to a few people in need. Social media can be good without a doubt but there are disadvantages to it as well. Around 41% of Americans stay-up-to-date with social media. 78.5% of conventional media journalists surveyed utilized web-based social networking to check for breaking news.
In the generation of technology and innovation, the creation of social mediaattract a vast number of people world wide. Aside from the basic necessities of living it may also considered as one of the most important belonging of an individual in this day and age. Primarily because of its accessibility to communication, information, education, and entertainment. Social media offers several kinds of Social Networking Sites (SNSs) such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Gmail, YouTube, and among other things, which enable the users to communicate and participate to broader range of issues and events worldwide.
Its important to help students understand that using social media for learning isn’t an opportunity for them to engage and entertainment with their friends. Finally, social media important for keeping parents in contact with teachers and help students to contact with their colleagues, teachers if they had group work and make
The aim of this paper is to understand the various Positive and Negative effects of social networking sites. II. EFFECTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON YOUTH, SOCIETY AND BUSINESS Social media has a great influence on the life of many young people today. Now a day’s most of the people engage themselves in Social media without being bothered about what is its impact on our lives.
Over the last few years social media,media in general and online safety has been a major issue where children are involved. Young children are now using social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to post pictures of themselves and their friends and to express themselves on the Internet. This has the potential to be very dangerous and leaves underage children at risk of being viewed by dangerous and threatening adults. Children these days are in a hurry to grow up and look more 'adult' , this leaves them open and vulnerable to adults.
The use of social media, has become a powerful tool of the 21st century, increasingly connecting people, ideas and corporations. Social media has brought many advantages such as the increasing interconnectedness and the rapid spread of information, in addition to providing minority groups with a platform to promote social change powerfully challenging institutions and the ill treatment of individuals. Social media has however been open to miss use by individuals for their own personal purposes or for the exploitation of others which will also be explored in this blog post. Social media has played a significant role towards the rapid spread of information on a global scale allowing people to connect to information and events in real time beyond
Social media is a huge aspect of today's generation. Social media has been the main source of news and advertisement around the world. Today, everyone is on some type of social media everyday. With all the media that is exposed to people, they develop judgment and ideas based on what is seen on social networks. Despite the fact that media’s purpose is to reconnect people and seek new information, there are negative impacts on people as well, especially females.
Social media increases productivity. This tool offers more information, including new events and information can be accessed at any time of the day and night. Studies have linked the use of internet / social media with academic success as well as better job performance and job prospects. Social Media has positive and negative impacts, examples of positive impacts can recogrize and built relationships with many people and the negative impact is it can make a crime.
With the internet being invented and undoubtedly taking huge precedence in our lives, there is inevitably going to be a way for people to waste their time on the internet. That time waster, also known as social media, is one of the most beneficial and also one of the worst things that has entered the lives of people as a result of the internet. People everywhere use social media. They use it to feel connected to people who are far away, to promote their businesses, and for a plethora of other reasons. Social media has begun to be increasing used in school, the workplace, and also just in peoples own homes.
Nowadays, social media has taken a huge place in our lives. It seems like people misunderstood the purpose of social media such as TV and computer. In reality, TV was brought up to inform and to entertain us. Unfortunately, the evolution of technology and people addiction to media come up with many consequences which I believe were not expected. People begin to learn violence and do harmful actions to each other because of inappropriate shows and games they watch on TV and video games.