Impact of Social Media on the Society
Facebook was launched in 2004.
After 12 years it had over 980 petabytes data. That is huge. Every month
over 1.5 billion users upload billions of photos and over 10 million movies. It
shows that communication has evolved. Today communication is based on visual
materials. Uploading photos and movies people create superegos or alter egos.
Big number of "likes" improves their self-esteem.
A few months ago the American magazine, “Psychological
Science” published research. 32 teenagers, aged 13-18, participated in it Psychologists showed them
their photos with different number of „likes”. Bigger number caused higher
brain activity in areas responsible for happiness.
Carl Rogers, an American psychologist, says that
personal progress is possibly only if a person can realize his own desires.
Social media can realize, in short time, our dreams of how we want to be
perceived. We can feel so much better and more confident. For example, a shy person could upload a photo from
a party with a lot of friends. In this way this person will be friendly or even
feisty. What is more, the same person will believe in it. Especially when this
photo will have a lot of „likes”.
Social
media simplifies communication. We always remember about someone’s birthday. We
don’t need to talk with colleagues. Sometimes one „like” is enough to show that
we remember them.
Psychologists says that social media make us egoists.
A lot of teenagers say that being famous is the most important thing nowadays
and social media help to become more popular.
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For every positive, there is a negative as well. Instead of interacting with others face to face, many people have taken the non-confrontational approach of using Facebook or Twitter. Look around the next time you’re in public, and you’ll likely see people everywhere on their phones and tablets. Opponents of social media would argue that it has made people much more introverted.
While there are many advantages and disadvantages to using social media, there are also some truly ugly aspects. For example, cyber bullying and online harassment has significantly increased since social media platforms made their way into mainstream society. Privacy has been harder to keep, and productivity in the workplace has slipped to alarming lows in many situations.
In Facebook I like it that this is worldwide, so it's easy to stay in contact with people abroad. I like the fact that we can make many groups, so communication between group of people is easier. So for me it is nice tool to comunication, but nothing more.
I don't understand updating five photos a day, photos of each food etc. It's annoying when some people are spamming with posts about nothing or some un-funny things mentioned to be funny. Like if they are addicted to post something.
I like to use Facebook to keep in touch with people when it is difficult or impossible to talk to them face-to-face. That's said, I only use a very small subset of features that come with Facebook.
“Psychological Science” experiment shows us how harmful this tool can be. From what I know, our brain releases serotonin when we get likes. And such a mechanism causes the addiction. Probably all of us noticed that we are kind of addicted to those likes. Checking it every day.
From another perspective, Facebook can help you to keep contact with a huge amount of people. Of course, offline communication is a much more efficient way of keeping contact with close friends. But comments and likes help me to keep in touch with not close people, which might be helpful in a future. So, I can’t imagine networking without Facebook today. I have a habit of adding every interesting personality I meet in my life. And it helps you to have a broader circle of contacts.
I'm very happy to say that I'm not interested in that service more than bare minimum to keep relations with people I like, and I'd be even more happy if I see that to be the case more often, as facebook is a massive timesink that has many negative effects in long-run. Sadly, people enjoy wasting their lifes sitting there, so it's not like I should be sorry for them.
The question is how to teach children to use social medias right. It's very sad when young girls watching Instagram's "stars" always looking perfect and trying to be similar to them. When person doesn't feel itself valuable because he or she doesn't have a lot of followers or likes on social medias.
I think children should be thought to live in the real world and to communicate more with the real people.
I had few friends that were very addicted to Twitter/Facebook/Instagram - and for me it looked very funny. I don't mind when someone is filming or making a photo while doing something great - it's a way of keeping good memories. For example climbing on a 100m rock or rafting through rough river - but when you look at a friend and you see that he had more fun posting it on Twitter to get applause/likes from other friends than actually doing it - it gets really depressing.
If you have a friend that is so addicted to Facebook or any other social platform that they forget about you if you don't use it then what kind of a friend is that?
First of all, portals such as Facebook, Instagram or Facebook allow people to comunicate all the time despite the place and time. Thanks to it, we safe a lot of time and are able to keep much more contacts. Otherwise it would be impossible.
Secondly, it enables both people and companies to share some information and advertisements or simply make money. Social media is a new channel which opens a lot of possibilities.
On the other hand, we waste a lot of time and are more addicted. Some people accent teenagers are the most susceptible group which has bad influence (which is absolutely true, in my opinion). In fact, we can see people who use smartphones all the time! Walking, being with friends, shopping and so on... Sorry, but I think it's some kind of disability.
Next, companies earn money thanks to invigilation and break our privacy. In my opinion, there is some king of race. The winner is the one who has a lot of information, but is not charge of it. It is danger area for everybody.
To sum up, social media has big influence on our life. It is very useful tool if the user do it in a proper way and is not addicted. Of course, it's possible not to use it, but life (e.g. student's life) is much more difficult. I mean everybody knows about some events thanks to social media. I wrote short list of examples, but it shows that social media can be both good and bad. The scale of influence depends only on the user and that's the true.
Facebook is for those who want to get likes and comments? I'm sorry, but I can't believe that so many people refuse to get a nice feedback from your friends. If you don't need the approval from your friends and family, are you sure you need them at all?The main thing is not to go to extremes and not to transfer all your real life to the virtual world. I love Facebook and Instagram, and I'm pleased to receive a response to my post and response. I do care what my closest people think about it. It is normal, why do people hide the fact that the attention of friends is nice?
Social networking is bad for kids. Sometimes it is. But. Inattentive parents and teachers, TV, street, poor environment are much worse. Parents should spend more time with their children, and it could help to avoid the psychological problems more than isolation from Facebook and video games. And if the teen wants to be an youtuber, why not? The main thing is to be a cool youtuber and nice person, and to try hard to reach the goal. Tell your granny that you want to project games for Android, ha-ha.
As it was wisely pointed above - the social networks are just tools. We can either learn how to use it properly, or move to a cave and once a year notify the relatives via pigeon mail.
I try to use social media as small as possible and likes better talking to person (even by phone) than writing.
What, Social Media is the thing that makes teenagers being driven by popularity and fame? Right, because they were never driven by those before. Instead of remembering birthsdays you just send like - so what, if you do just that you wouldn't care to remember in the first place.
Social media is made for people by people and is here to stay. Saying that it destroys society makes as much sense as saying that electric light is going to make everyone die from mysterious sickness - and some doomsayers tried just that in the past.
I am not really a fan of social media and to be honest I have cancelled my FB account, because I just don't think it is funny anymore. To me it has been a waste of time to just get pop ups from people I wouldn't talk to that much or from profiles I have liked years ago. I appreciate social media like Twitter, where people get to share their opinions, not really write long stories about how much they hate something or somebody.
Speciali young often mixed-up people started to use social media to create false image of themself. Bombarded with fake images of their idols - what is also fault of social media - become Insecure. They judge each other on pictures on instagram or amount of likes on faceboook what is unfair and unjust.