...Use of Social Networking Sites and Instant Messaging Technology has revolutionized the way we interact and communicate with people. The Internet offers numerous platforms to communicate with friends as well as developing new relationships with strangers. However, the effect of social networking sites on social relationships is a topic of many debates. There are multiple ways online interaction affects people, especially the youth of the society, both positively and negatively. Therefore, the studies done to examine the impact of the Internet on social relationships is definitely necessary and important. The article Use of Social Networking and Instant Messaging reports the study over the relationships between use of social media such as instant messaging and social networking sites, network size, and emotional closeness in a sample of 117 individuals between the ages of 18 and 63 years old. Participants were asked to list and categorize each member of their personal, offline network into a series of subgroupings, arranged in a hierarchically inclusive sequence. Each person was listed into one of the three layers of their network – the support group, the sympathy group, and the active network. Secondly, because quantity does not necessarily equal quality, the next step aimed at answering two questions: What effect does the use of social media have on the size of each offline network layer? And what effect does the use of social media have on the emotional closeness of relationships...
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...selfie on snapchat, or the trending picture on instagram, but no one considers the real dangers of social media. Facebook has crazy people stalking people’s feed, and twitter has people starting silly arguments. Cyberbullying could happen, as well as self-esteem being damaged. Social media has a negative effect on middle school students, because it affects relationships, it affects teens mental health, and it can affect students when they are entering jobs and colleges. Social media negatively affects face-to-face relationships . According to ¨How Social Media Changed Teens’ Lives Forever,” “ Beyond diminishing...
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..."Relationships 2.0: Dating and Relating in the Internet Age," Does communication via social networking sites, such as Facebook, negatively affect the ability of young people to socialize and to develop and maintain healthy relationships? I think that Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and all other social media negatively affect the ability of young adults and teenagers. I think that Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and all other social media negatively affect the ability of young adults and teenagers. Young adults and teenagers are very addicted to social media; everything that they do, they do it via social media. I don’t think that young adults and teenagers can have and develop healthy relationships while having a social media account. For example, the other day I was watching the news and the news anchors reported that a teenage boy was shot and killed over a Facebook message. I have seen videos on social media websites where young people meet up to fight because of messages that were posted on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. I always think to myself that this is not healthy for these young people because they are ending up in jail, dead, or in a hospital. I think that they shouldn’t let young adults and teenagers have social media accounts. How can teenagers and young adults grow up to be successful and professional if all they do is going on social media? Teenagers and young adults get bullied via social media and sometimes they end up committing suicide...
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...numbers of individuals into distinct communities over the Internet (O’Reilly, 2007). Social networking sites (SNS) are online communities designed to connect individuals to wider networks of relationships, and are one major example of Web 2.0 applications. Sites such as Facebook have exploded in membership. In a short period of 2007 – 2010, Facebook estimates that its membership has grown from 50 million to over 400 million users (Facebook, n.d.). Online social networks are now an integrated part of daily life and compel questions of how these media platforms affect human development, relationships, and interaction. Teenagers are among the most avid users of technology in general and social network sites in particular (Lenhart, Madden, Macgill, & Smith, 2007b). Recent reports find that youth spend nearly 10 hours per day using some form of technology, with socially networked media playing a large role in their daily lives (Rideout, Foehr, & Roberts, 2010). New technologies are deeply intertwined with adult perceptions about teenage life. Mimi Ito and colleagues observe that, “Although today’s questions about ‘kids these days’ have a familiar ring to them, the contemporary version is somewhat unusual in how strongly it equates generational identity with technology identity” The clear finding is that today’s youth are increasingly connected to the world through socially networked media. While teenagers are engaged with technology, they are ever more disengaged from another...
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...than social media? Most people use things like Facebook, twitter, Myspace, emails, and Skype. When your single and looking to date or a way to meet new people you also use social media, such as eHarmony, match or other dating sites. Social media has made it very easy, and plays a big role in our lives every day, but does it affect your personal relationships? How did the world communicate before cell phones, internet, and e-mail? We used a land line to call people if we wanted to talk. We used the postal services and sent thing though the mail. If something was really important we faxed documents. If you wanted to meet new people you went out and socialized. Many decades of people communicated and had relationships without social media. Before social media if you wanted a job you went out and went job hunting. Now if you want a job you just pick up the computer and look at sites online. You fill out applications on line and wait for the phone calls. The new age of social media has made socializing very easy, but do you really know who is on the other end of the message you just sent? Social media is a new way to get information from people and use it for other things. You have been talking to this guy for six months, and you believe that you are in love. Now this guy is asking you to send him money, so you send him some money just to find out you have been talking to a girl. Social media has made it hard to trust people in the world. The one thing I believe that social media...
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...Technology Leading to Social Isolation Technology Leading to Social Isolation Imagine walking down the street, listening to your iPod, texting on your cellphone or reading books on your tablet. Do you actually look up long enough to notice other people around you? In most situations no, you are oblivious to what other people are doing around you because you are so involved in your social media connections. When you are at home, work or school how often do you get involved with your social media? Take a minute to really think about how much time you spend on your phone, laptop, tablet, iPod, or any other piece of technology. How much time do you spend alone because of it? Although technological innovations have helped us grow as a society and get more information, culture, and perspective at a worldwide span, it may seem to have doomed us into creating such isolated lives. Constant contact with social media has led to an unlimited number of cases that are tied to social isolation. Because of this issue, people are more invested in everything other than what they are physically doing; the increase of innovations through technology has to lead to a decrease of face-to-face interaction amongst society, which has created less meaningful relationships and a lack of social interaction that we need to function as a society, creating unnecessary health risks for people who fall under this category. Problem Analysis Technology has made too many things so easily available from groceries...
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...Topics : Social media plays a crucial role in a teenager’s life. II. Thesis Statement : Social media reveals the true character or identity of a teenagers either be popular or full of negative feedbacks, these highly affect how teen’s look and value their lives. III. Research Proposal : A. Research Purpose 1) To observe if teens get distracted with schooling (grades/academics) 2) To determine if teens struggle with friends in school and outside (social events & extra-curricular) 3) To identify how teen’s look at life (affected, positive or negative) due to social media. B. Research Questions 1) Do online social networks corrupt values and morals of a teen or every social media user in general? 2) Do teenagers be cautions in posting or sharing information about themselves in social networks? 3) Do teenagers spend more time browsing & surfing social media networks rather than studying academics for school? 4) Does social media affect relationships between children / teenagers and their parents? 5) Can cyberbullying be present to teens in social media networks? IV. Annotated Bibliography Subject guides. (2015, February 3). Retrieved February 17, 2015, from http://subjectguides.fortlewis.edu/content_mobile.php?pid=435944&Sid=3604900 Niemer, E. (2012, February 1). Teenagers and social media. Retrieved February 17, 2015, from http://www.alive.com/articles/view/23615/teenagers_and_social_media Social media general...
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...Shrivastava, H. Roque Has social media socially handicapped the young? As human beings, the only real method of connection is through authentic, face to face communication. Face-to-face interaction allows us to understand each other profoundly and allows us to get to know each other down to the most fundamental levels of who we are (Tardanico, 2012). According to Forbes magazine, less than 10% of communication is based on spoken words. This means that over 90% of communication is based on nonverbal signals such as body language, eye contact, and tone of voice. Therefore, it implies that face to face communication is a very efficient way of communicating and it evidently improves our interpersonal and social skills (Jones, 2013). However, direct interaction is not being seen as the best way to communicate anymore, especially among teens, and people are not putting as much value as they once did on face to face interactions (Suliveres, 2014). Young people nowadays mostly use text messaging and other digital devices to communicate their concerns to their target recipient. Mobile phones and SMS help them to stay connected with their peers especially with those at a distance and thus, making life much more bearable by getting moral support from them. Furthermore, it helps them to fight boredom. This type of communication makes it easier for them to reach out to other people making them more sociable in a sense (Horstmansho, Power, 2005). On the other hand, social networking sites have...
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...Social Media Affects Mental Health * Social media can affect many parts of the mental health. One part is self-perception- how we think about ourselves. The pressures that people put on themselves to get approval from other are huge. It can make people depressed when they don’t get all the likes. The pressures of taking the right picture, with the right filter, wearing the right outfit, at the right place, with the right people is unnecessary pressure. * Smiling depression is a term used to describe people who are depressed but do not appear to be. It is a depression that’s becoming more and more common these days. 6.7 percent of the population over the age of 18 suffer from it. Social media can be one of the major causes of this depression. People always want to seem happy to everyone. They care so much about their self-image they lost care on how they are really feeling. We all get that sadness, that pain when we see on Snapchat or other social Medias our friends having fun without us. We want to appear to be happy and appear to be doing other things but we are truly sad inside. Social media covers up your original self. The ideal self is the self we aspire to be. Carl Rogers’s theory of personality is that everyone has an idea of whom and what they want to be. With social media we can create the person that we want to be and how we want to be seen as. The problem with this is that once the cyber “you” that you have created is gone you’re left with the original you...
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...Chapter 1 The Problem and Its Settings Introduction The surge in popularity of social media in recent years has changed how we use the internet. But most importantly, how we study and how we learn. Social media has given us the ability to share ideas, feelings, and information at unbelievable speed. We can now communicate faster and wither greater efficiency with our lecturers and professors. Students can utilize social media by posting and sharing notes and lectures online, or watch a video pertaining to yesterday’s history class. Social media is not just limited to students, but many professors are now communicating with their students and peers via online. But social media is so much more. It enables students to attend lectures and classes who are half way around the world through the use of social media. It also allows professors and students to conduct meetings online. Currently, there are still many who oppose the idea of using social media as a tool for learning and studying. Regardless, many believe that technology is a vital part of today’s student success in the classroom. Many parents believe that the traditional learning styles is the way to go and that social media is just a distraction and may lead to procrastination. Background of the study The researchers were persuaded to conduct a study on the effects of social media in the study habits of junior nursing students in relation to academic performance. The setting for this study was conducted at the...
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...influence of social networking sites on high school students' social and academic development Dissertation Author: June Ahn Abstract: This dissertation examines the effects of social network sites on youth social and academic development. First, I provide a critical analysis of the extant research literature surrounding social network sites and youth. I merge scholarly thought in the areas of Internet studies, digital divides, social capital theory, psychological well-being, identity development, academic engagement, and educational technology to understand how researchers might examine new social technologies and youth. Second, I examine the question of digital divide, or whether particular teenage populations do not have access to online social networks. Using a nationally representative dataset from the Pew Internet & American Life study, I explore whether there are disparities in teenage access to social network sites. Third, I report a cluster-randomized trial that was designed to explore whether social network sites have a beneficial impact when used in high school classrooms. A total of 50 classrooms, and nearly 1,400 students were randomly assigned to use an experimental social network site. The results highlight the challenges and potential of this technology when applied to school contexts. iii Table of Contents Acknowledgements i i List of Tables i v Abstract v Chapter 1 : Introduction 1 Chapter 2: The Effect of Social Network Sites on Adolescents’ Social and Academic...
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...Influence of Media on America’s Youth What teen has not been exposed to the internet, cell phones, television, video games, or social networking? They control the lives of our youth. American teenagers have become obsessed with new hobbies, and no, they are not knitting, fishing, or gardening. Our nation’s adolescent lives revolve around handheld electronic devices, gaming consoles, and anything and everything that has a screen. Obviously the present growth of technology is remarkable, but do we truly know how it is directly impacting America’s youth? The lives of today's teens revolve around technology and various social media, all of which severely affect adolescent health, relationships, and education, exposing young adults to the bittersweet reality of modern life. In more ways than one would initially believe, the media affects the well being of adolescents. California Adolescent Health Collaborative provided survey results showing that 21 percent of teens who regularly use the media in California are at risk for depression. The collaborative also supplies the fact that teens who are habitual users of technology and social networks report not being satisfied with their lives due to often feeling glum and having a lack of excitement or even frequently being in trouble (Carroll et al). Teens who often try to stay under the radar, but are glued to their cell phones, are inclined to have damage to their mental wellness which may impair how they function on a daily basis....
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...communication between organization and publics; PR practitioners communicate with all internal and external public to create positive relationship between the firm’s goals and societal expectations. Moreover, PR tries to affect public opinion through its persuasive communication. The question is who are the publics? A public is a group of people who have a common interest in a specific situation. When the interests and values of particular publics meet with the interests and values of particular organizations, relationships are born; including 1- Media 2- Employees 3- Governmental officials 4- Community leaders 5- Financial analysts Publics are important to the organization because those publics have resources that those organizations need to fulfil their values-driven goals. They become a public once they recognize an issue, understand its relevance to them, and then talk about it or even organize to do something about it. What PR practitioners do? PR practitioners bring such a diversity of skills and programmatic capabilities to their jobs, PR do a lot of activities such as writing press releases, speeches, news letters, and announcements. They also do 1- Research 2- Counceling/ advising 3- Government affairs 4- Investor relations 5- Development or fund raising 6- Multicultural affairs 7- Issues management 8- Media relations 9- Publicity 10- Marketing communication 11- Promotion 1- Programming means analysing problems and opportunities;...
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...Social Networks and Media Conquer B2B Social Networks are a flourishing phenomenon in today’s generation. It has already entered and affected the B2C network. In B2C network the social networks have become a concerning factor and plays a major role in marketing and communications. As we are all familiar with the B2B network and what does it actually implies, the question arises whether the social networks can play an important role in B2B network and for B2B companies. Social networks are not another passing phenomenon; they have matured and have registered themselves highly in the minds of the customers. B2B network also gets conquered by the social networks the business houses that trade with each other are actually the customers of each other and they also engage themselves in social networking. Some useful statistics from the social networking world states that the total time spent on social media has increased from 6% in 2007 to 20% in 2011. The registered users will almost reach 2 billion people by 2014. These figures show relentless growth and usage of social media. Already 91% of the B2B companies are active on Facebook, 53% on Twitter and 47% on LinkedIn. These statistics reveal that social media has conquered B2B network and has entered in that chain as means of effective communication and presentation. B2B companies deal with people and not robots. So the influence of emotions before purchasing a product is applicable to them also as they are not immune to these...
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...their fingertips. Social networking has given teenagers the advantages of learning, socializing and endless entertainment. As years go by social networks keep growing, and proves to have many negative and positive influences on teenagers. While researching I learned that social networking is not just Facebook and twitter, social media is any web based platform that enables people to interact. Should parents limit the use of social media? Social networking has become very popular for teenagers to connect with friends from school and even meet new people. Networking has helped teens who are shy have a way to socialize by messaging and posting to people rather than an awkward face to face interaction. Families have reconnected and stay connected by sending emails and or posting pictures on Facebook when they live distances away or when going away on trips. Teens like playing video games that are web based because it allows them to interact with their friends even when there not sitting in the same room. There are many examples where the internet has negative effects on teenagers. Children no longer have the social skills to interact on a personal level because they’re so used to sitting behind a computer, on their smartphone or playing video games. Social media has been shown to affect the way people communicate face to face and teenagers are becoming accustomed to the use of coded languages to communicate and the use of slangs. This has been shown to affect communication skills...
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