January 2019 archive

Social media = Toxic

I believe that social media, overall is having a negative impact on society. While social media is useful for growing small businesses, connecting with friends and family, and even for school, it can also be seen as a detriment to society as whole. The power of social media is sometimes undermined, seeing that the election …

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Jacqueline Minelli: How has Social Media Affected Us as a Society

Overall, based on the reading I believe social media has negatively impacted our society. Companies like Facebook started out as a new exciting way to connect with other people. I don’t think it was ever intended to do harm to our society. As time went on, I feel like most of these social media sites …

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Social Media and Society

Social media has become a giant part of today’s society. Apps such as Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram are a major part in communicating. People like the idea of being behind a screen because they are able to create a version of themselves that they can broadcast to the world. Social media however invades the …

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How has social media effect us as a society

I feel like social media has affected this society in both negative and positive ways. In previous generations, you weren’t able to connect with anyone around the world in the span of seconds. With the help of sites like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube & twitter, this was made possible. While reading one of the articles, one …

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How has Social Media Affected Us As a Society

Social Media has become extremely popular over the years. Social Media has become the outlet that everyone uses for multiple purposes such as promoting products, sharing important news or information, or just keeping people updated with their daily lives. Social Media is also used as an outlet where individuals are allowed to speak freely and …

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How has social media effected us as a society?

Social media started as a way to bring people all over the globe together. Whether it was befriending people on Facebook, sharing your picture on Instagram and Flickr or watching a video from your favorite YouTube channel. Throughout time the social media changed from being something that was entertaining to have, to being controlled by …

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How has social media affected us as a society? Is this positive or negative?

Regardless of the unclear intentions of creators of various social media platforms, one thing is certain: they have transformed the means by which people connect and communicate with each other in a fundamental way.  Across great distances, the masses can convey and spread thoughts and ideas, organize politically to enact significant change, and reconnect to …

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The Effects of Social Media on Society

Social media websites have provided us as a society with many different opportunities such as; reconnecting/staying in touch with old friends, meeting new people, exchanging ideas, and sharing content. Social media has however taken over many lives in this society as people have began to rely heavily on it as a source of income as …

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Internet or Irresponsible? – Jontae Zapata

“Who Will Take Responsibility for Facebook?” by Virginia Hefferman, “Taking the You out of Youtube” by Henry Jenkins, and “The Truth About Facebook’s Fake Quest to Connect the World” by Noam Cohen all present a similar trending topic: who is to be held accountable for the people on the internet? Hefferman stated “Nothing about Facebook …

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Social Networking

Social media has affected society both positively and negatively. Facebook has definitely taken a huge toll on people of all ages. There are many fake pages & businesses promoting fake news and advertisements. Due to Facebook, it has been easier to locate and communicate with people who have the same beliefs or likes as you. …

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