LEARN MORE...

Effects of social media today

Content type

User Generated

Subject

Writing

Type

Essay

Uploaded By

Xraargu X

Pages

Showing Page:

1/5

SURNAME 1

Insert your name

Course

Professor's name

Date due

Social media and its effects

Social media has become the new form of communication in the recent past. It is

estimated that most people spend nearly the best part of their time on the internet. The internet

has very many uses and social media seems to have the biggest share of it. People both young

and old are nowadays using social media to interact and communicate with friends and relatives

across the globe. Use of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Skype has

reduced the cost of communicating with a very large margin unlike prior years (Bryfonski, 2012,

P.78). The evolution of social media has been quite dynamic and impactful to the lives of most

people in the world. With this in mind, the reliance on this means of communicating keeps on

increasing. The reliance on social media has had drastic effects both positive and negative in the

society.

Social media has brought down the era of the ancient means of communication. Prior to

this era, communication was rather manual and involved a very rigorous process. People were

used to communicating through writing of letters which took so long to be delivered. Telegraphs

were also another old way of communicating which was time wasting and tedious. With this

experience, people have invented better, cheaper and faster ways of communicating in this

Showing Page:

2/5

SURNAME 2

century. Most social media sites are developed by people who have come with programed

systems to help people in different location to keep in touch with one another.

Social media have been used for various reasons by all and sundry around the world.

Some of the most obvious reasons include keeping in touch with family and friends, getting

updated on the current issues and affairs and sharing of information and ideas across the globe.

Apart from this, social media has been used as a platform of marketing businesses and doing

business via social sites where potential customers are found (Tuten, 2008, P.132). Advertising

and marketing have embraced the social media has a platform for doing business and meeting

potential buyers.

Through social media people have been able to share ideas and opinions from far and

wide. Facebook for instance is one of the most used social sites that many people use to interact

with other people in different parts of the world. Through such sites many people have been able

to meet and socialize with people they might never meet in their lifetime. Sharing of opinions

and ideas has been of great importance to people in changing many things around them. Twitter

also has the same use as Facebook; the only difference is that people use tweets. People get to

interact through tweets and direct messages to encourage each other as well as update one

another. These social sites have provided a lot of things all wrapped in one. They are also sources

of entertainment, news updates and many other social factors. Therefore social media brings

people together and lightens up most people social lives.

Teenagers are the most common users of social media around the world. They use it to

keep in touch and update themselves of the happening around the world and around them as

well. The fuss of being on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Skype is so much common with the

Showing Page:

3/5

End of Preview - Want to read all 5 pages?

Access Now

Unformatted Attachment Preview

Insert your name Course Professor's name Date due Social media and its effects Social media has become the new form of communication in the recent past. It is estimated that most people spend nearly the best part of their time on the internet. The internet has very many uses and social media seems to have the biggest share of it. People both young and old are nowadays using social media to interact and communicate with friends and relatives across the globe. Use of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Skype has reduced the cost of communicating with a very large margin unlike prior years (Bryfonski, 2012, P.78). The evolution of social media has been quite dynamic and impactful to the lives of most people in the world. With this in mind, the reliance on this means of communicating keeps on increasing. The reliance on social media has had drastic effects both positive and negative in the society. Social media has brought down the era of the ancient means of communication. Prior to this era, communication was rather manual and involved a very rigorous process. People were used to communicating through writing of letters which took so long to be delivered. Telegraphs were also another old way of communicating which was time wasting and tedious. With this experience, people have invented better, cheaper and faster ways of communicating in this century. Most social media sites are developed by people who have come with programed systems to help people in differe ...
Purchase document to see full attachment