Essays on Effects of Social Media

In the past decade, the amount of internet users has proliferated replacing bygone forms of media and entertainment with a skyrocketing trend among all ages know as social media. At its basis, social media is a website or application that enables users to create and...

It’s no lie that technology has connected us with other people around the world more than ever. We have the ability to connect with others in the blink of an eye (depending on how fast your wifi/data is, of course), but this is also breaking...

Social media has begun as an Internet-based platform which is extremely dynamic and vibrant. It has proved to be an extremely useful platform where one person can communicate with hundreds or thousands of other people. It is one of the most recent and successful technological...

In this era of globalization, the development of information technology has given a lot of effects to people in the world, especially for young children. The use of smartphones is popular among nowadays generation especially students. Because of mobile phones, students never have to look...

Social media is something most kids, teens, and even some adults are using all the time. It has become a part of our generation’s lives. Having people on their phones all day long is not only disappointing, but also damaging. Instead of talking to someone...

This study aims to investigate the influence of the social media on self-esteem and body image in both males and females, aged between 18 and 30 residing in the northern part of the country (Delhi). The social media in today’s time has come to become...

Social media has an ever-growing reach especially among the youth of the world. In this technology driven world, social media is becoming more of a necessity rather than a privilege. Classrooms stay connected, knowledge shared among peers and a much more accessible connection between student...

Over course of the past decade, the rise of social media has revolutionized our entire way of living and has become an essential part of our culture. Although social media has been designed in a way so that it can be easily accessed by anybody...

Social media is quickly evolving in front of our eyes and it is almost impossible to reject and hide from this new form of media. Not only is it an important part of socialization within peer groups but now it is used to market and...

I argued in this dissertation that because Twitter and Facebook do not have the same affordances that people may express minority viewpoints on these platforms in differing ways. The affordances I considered were friend networks on each platform, visibility, and identifiability. I argued that on...

A tiny interaction, contact lenses, and an app are used to rank one another. In a society where these things determine where you stand socially as well as in society, it determines your rights and basic needs it is ranked by a 0 to 5...

Humans are often depicted as social beings in need to form connections with other individuals whether as partnerships or friendships. And though we constantly attempt to maintain our individuality and in times isolate ourselves from others in order to avoid ‘following the herd’, our beliefs...

Is conversation a dying art form? Use of smartphone technologies to communicate has become exceedingly prominent in society to the point of actual concern. There are numerous social media outlets that allow for such communication. According to Pew Research Center, a nonbiased research organization that...

What do demonstrations on city streets in the Philippines in 2001, the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States in 2008, revocation of the results of the fraudulent elections in Moldavia in 2009, the M-15 movement with their camps and demonstrations in...

Today’s world is a global village. Everyone is connected to one another in this vast network generated by the Internet. As social media sites continue to grow in popularity it promises a lot for the modern youth. Social media has been widely adopted, with high...

Journalist Jesse Singal in his article “Social Media is Making Us Dumber. Here’s Exhibit A.” argues that people interested in discussing politics are falling victim to the brutal social media environment. Mr. Singal obtained a Master’s in Public Affairs at Princeton University and studied inequality...

From the day we are born to the day that we start recognizing the things and world around us, our perceptions of ourselves and others change and evolve. It is in human nature to judge the surroundings in which we reside in. More often than...

Internet based life is directly thought to be a piece of one’s life. It’s exceptionally irresistible that nearly everyone’s day by day routine incorporates the utilization of web based life somehow. Truth be told, it sets aside much opportunity to the point that the vital...

As the athletic director of Serra Catholic High School, I would not ban social media all together. Now, there are certainly downsides of student athletes using social media such as inappropriate content being displayed about other teams and inappropriate content being displayed about players on...