Have you asked yourself what is social Media? Well after researches and articles social media is networking site where people get together and interact using a highly open and scalable communication techniques. Social media are media for social communication, using highly accessible and scalable communication techniques, it is mostly a web based, like face book, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube and Google. Also Social media can be more than web based for example text messaging, news papers, and using cell phone. The Social media had brought a lot and it had brought more good than harm. In this easy I am going to discuss the impacts of social media to our day to day life.
There more than billions and billions people on social media every day. For instance some marketing company’s sell their products through social media. Some people just use social media for fun or to just waste lack of time. Some people use social media to still identity and do more stuff to it, while others are putting more of their information in. Social media can be helpful or it can be dangerous. People don’t know what’s behind it. I know some people that are online on Facebook the whole time nothing else, but there some others are selling their products. According to the Social media revolution 2 video it said”1 Out of 8 couples married in the U.S. met via social media”.
Anyone worldwide use social media. Teens and adult mostly use it for fun, but college students use it to communicate or to learn. According to BLANKENSHIP, MARK. “How Social Media can and should impact higher education.” Mar 2011, Academic Search Premier. Web. Apr.2011.(40). He mentions that the survey revealed that more than80% use social media in some capacity and more than half use the tools as part of their teaching. More than a million worldwide use social media, even the kids now a day use it in some way. Mostly social media is used for businesses.
Social media is done by an individual or groups of individuals for a product or service. Also is used for non- profits as well as political awareness or personal interest. According to the book authors Casebier, Allan, and Janet J. Casebier.“Social Responsibilities of the mass media”. Print. Page xiii. They said that “everyone acknowledges that the mass media have social responsibilities, but how far do such responsibilities extend? That’s so true and hard to see it in this way.
The term social media has been used widely a lot and for so many purposes, it loses its meaning. Social media is the tools we are using for communication and interacting. You can also say social networking. Although the term social media is new, no buddy knows the exact day it started. We need to look further back in human history, than we might find out when it starred.
The big question is what is the issue? Nearly 2 million people have their identity stolen and it will increase over the years. 39% of people trust there social networking sit with their information. “According to the Gartner study the 2006 victim population was at 15 million victims. That means every minute about 28 ½ people become a new victim of this crime or a new victim in just over 2 seconds. Studies on the total cost of identity theft vary”. We have to be a wear what we share with other people and what we put in to social networking sits. Your identity is very important and you can lose a lot if become a victim.
Many hackers try to get your information as possible as they can. There are many ways they can figure it out. Some might make some fake social networking sit in order of them to get that information. Some might send you a link and tell you that “you won a price” or it might say something different. Also some might send you a link and if you click on it your information might be shown to them. Most of us today including me put our true information on any web or social networking sit. Sometimes we get stupid calls for unknown people and all ways they trying to get your information.
Everyone have the right to hide their privacy. Privacy means the information that you don’t want to share with other people. Privacy is the right of people to make personal decisions regarding their own intimate matters. Also it can be the state of being free from public attention. So why some people trying to get into your privacy? United State passed Act of 1974, a strong limit on the government’s ability to invade people’s privacy, but still some people are trying to hack your information.
People on social networking sites make fake information to make you believe who every they want you to believe they are. Many teens fell for it. Many people use other people pictures, and pretend that this is who they are with fake information and it misleads people. Every one of us put their pictures on facebook or any other social networking sites. We upload pictures every day for others to see it. A lot of people don’t know that their pictures might or might not been using in a different account. How secure is it when millions and millions people using social networking sit like Facebook or any other sites?