Social Media's Impact on Society
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Running head: IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON OUR LIVESIMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON OUR LIVESName of the Student:Name of the University:Author’s Note:
IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON OUR LIVES1The technological advancements over the past two decades, coupled with the advent ofthe internet, has revolutionised the everything. Human lives and the societal norms or ways havebeen completely and irreversibly changed. The way things were perceived or done in the oldentimes were no longer needed and digital medium completely took over us. With the risingpopularity of the social media, every human is connected to the internet all the times (Hudson etal. 2015). There are a number of different aspects and sides of this and the collective humansociety across the planet has been significantly changed. The current essay discusses this point ina more detailed manner: how has the widespread use of social media changed or altered our livesin a positive manner.Almost anyone can be on social media with the help of any electronic device and aninternet connection. This lets every person to be always aware about the activities of their friendsor family and see what they are doing, where they are, which movies they are watching, whatmusic they are listening to or which book they are reading. Social media platforms likeFacebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Pinterest all facilitate any person who wants toknow anything about any of their friends. While social scientists argue that being connected tothe internet has huge implications and often has sever negative aspects to it, there are alsoarguments in favour of using social media, that can greatly enhance the quality of the lives of thehumans (Ngai, Tao and Moon 2015).One of the most major thing that social media platforms have helped in is, instant accessto information. In the digital age, there is a huge amount of data that is created every day andmost of it available to the people who have internet access (Hajli 2014). Twitter and Facebookusers can spread the news of any event almost instantly, even before actual news media and othersources of news. The raid of Bin Laden’s hiding place to the mass uprising in the countries like
IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON OUR LIVES2Turkey or the civil war situations in the Middle Eastern nations, as well as any natural calamityin any part of the world, have all been leaked through users of social media rather than newschannels (Houston et al. 2015). This has helped countless people to become aware of what wasgoing on and also made sure that those who did not live in their native countries, could check upon their families and beloved ones through these social media platforms as well. One of the bestways that social media helps humans is by serving as a platform to promote small scalebusinesses. Digital advertising on social media costs no money and it can virtually reach a hugenumber of people at a single go. Friends can be made aware of the new business venture andeven their friends can be notified about a new initiative that has been started by a person (Bright,Kleiser and Grau 2015). This can be immensely beneficial for the people who aim to do businesswith a small capital and cannot invest too much on advertising their products or other services.Business venturers who cannot afford too much physical publicity, can always resort to thesocial media platforms and promote their own products for free.Exposure to the different cultures of the world and exchange of the cultures can also bedone through the different social media websites or platforms. The virtual world has beensuccessful in almost erasing all the barriers and international borders by being accessible byevery person. The free mobility of information through the internet and the ability for everyperson to check it, has made sure that people are much more aware about other countries andtheir respective cultures than they ever were before (Perse and Lambe 2016). Globalisation hasbeen fast forwarded and enhanced the most by the continuously rising use of social media andcurrently the global culture has almost become a singular one. This has helped people to be moreaccepting and more open minded towards other cultures and the difference in their own and
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