How Does Social Media Effected Us As A Society? (Rewrite) – Jaritza Flores-Garcia

In the real world, the use of social media affected us as a society today that humans used it as a tool for checking on themselves during the week and their spare time.

But social media became a factor due to social issues that happened in real life including the election that ended up put Donald Trump in the White House after winning the election for the first time in his career three years ago.

According to the first article entitled Who, Will Take Responsibility For Facebook, Virginia Hefferman stated, “At last, in September, Facebook broke its silence. The company admitted it had received payments for ads by organizations likely operated out of Russia”. This quote is true because Russians did hack into  Facebook to encourage users to vote for Trump during the election in 2016.

While social media became a target for hackers to steal information from users, it also became a topic of mergers in real life. Henry Jenkins made an interesting case about the social media sites that are merged in his article, Taking The You Out of YouTube?, that companies like Google and Yahoo purchased social media sites Flickr and YouTube to create more efficiency but they will encounter the consequences after the mergers are completed.

I believe that social media could be a good way to communicate with people but sometimes it could be a bad thing that I found an interesting info about Facebook from Noah Cohen from Wired.com entitled, The Truth About Facebook’s Fake Quest To Connect The World that it is true that the company was given leaks by hackers to prove their point about the “quest” Facebook promised to people.

In my conclusion, social media has factors that affected and prevented humans from using it due to problems companies faced before but in the future, they will get through this for the security and safety for users.

Works Cited

Hefferman, Virginia, Who Will Take Responsibility for Facebook, Wired.com, 2017. https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-who-will-take-responsibility-for-facebook-now/?mbid=nl_100217_daily_fullwidth

Jenkens, Henry, Taking The You Out of YouTube, 2006. http://henryjenkins.org/2006/11/googtube_tv_20_or_bubble_20.html

Cohen, Noah, The Truth About Facebook’s Fake Quest to Connect the World, Wired.com, 2018.  https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-fake-quest-to-connect-the-world/?CNDID=9219546&CNDID=9219546&bxid=MjM5NjgxOTMxMDI2S0&hasha=9f3abca4ee1d0bd8d22c2bb6df525717&hashb=04be32edc0c92139a3e4bc3c88619f943b7dd6a1&mbid=nl_120418_daily_list3_p1&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIRED%20NL%20120418%20(1)&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl

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