Annotated Bibliography: Social Media Costs and Benefits Analysis

This annotated bibliography examines the costs of social media, drawing on five journal articles to explore its negative impacts. The articles address issues such as the fostering of superficial connections, addiction, and potential for criminal activity. The bibliography includes research on the cognitive demands of social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, the advantages and disadvantages of social media use in the European Union, and the relevance of Marx's concepts of alienation and exploitation to social media. The final article investigates the costs and benefits of disconnecting from constant connection and the attitudes about unplugging from social media. Each article is summarized and evaluated to provide a comprehensive overview of the research topic, with the goal of informing readers about the content, relevance, and quality of the research.

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Amedie, Jacob. "The impact of social media on society." (2015).
The purpose and objective behind writing this article the author focused over to present
the evidence from several research and surveys conducted by many scholars in separate and
unique environment that distinctly demonstrate and identifies the negative impact of social media
in three specific and main categories. The first category shows that social media fosters a false
sense of online connection and superficial friendships that mislead people towards emotional and
psychological problems. II negative impact and category of social media on society is it harms
peoples and it can be easily become addictive reducing the family time and personal time as
well. Basically social media make people lethargic and addictive to it due to which they ignore
everything and spend their maximum time and efforts on different social media platforms which
keeps them away from themselves and their self-development along with their families too. The
third and the last harm that is caused by social media on the society is it is becoming a potential
tool for those who hold criminal thoughts and committing illegal acts on it. These are the three
most influential and negatively impacting factors of the use and extensive use of social media
also show the first and the third problem are showing link between the psychological problems
caused by social media and criminal activities committed by people mostly teenagers.
Bowman, Nicholas David, David Keith Westerman, and Christopher James Claus. "How
demanding is social media: Understanding social media diets as a function of perceived costs and
benefits–A rational actor perspective." Computers in Human Behavior 28, no. 6 (2012): 2298-
2305.
The author through this writing States the purpose of highlighting the examination
conducted for knowing the individuals social media diet that is the amount used, frequency of
using and duration of use. In this article the author conducted a survey focusing on Twitter and
Facebook which are used for informational and rational purposes by people according to their
requirements and specifications. The survey was conducted objectified on the cost that is
consumed by both the social media platforms and by interpretation it has been identified that

Facebook is a transparent technology holding no cognitive costs in relation with itself. On the
other hand Twitter is identified as an opaque technology having a salient cognitive cost element
associated with it. Along with it information that is gathered in this article is the oldest user of
Facebook judge the channel as a cognitively demanding one and bifurcates themselves as having
lower self-efficacy in using it. At the end of the survey the final results indicated that both the
social media platforms Facebook and Twitter received as cognitively demanding by males and
the exact opposite by females.
Drahošová, Martina, and Peter Balco. "The analysis of advantages and disadvantages of use of
social media in European Union." Procedia Computer Science 109 (2017): 1005-1009.
The current article is developed by the author with the simple purpose of providing
information Hindi analysis conducted over advantages and disadvantages of use of social media
in European union. The article suggests that social media is a platform which is very frequently
used by people and human beings and it has became a part of their day to day lives as they spend
much time on them. Therefore the the objective of this article is is providing a necessary
information which is very basic about the advantages and disadvantages of social media and is
utilisation.
According to the survey conducted for identifying which particular social media people use
frequently and what is the purpose behind it along with the positive and negative aspects of using
them. Once the server is completed result showed that European Union people use three social
media platform frequently and their opinion on their advantages and disadvantages associated
with the particular use they make of it.
Rey, P J. 2012. “Alienation, exploitation, and social media.” American Behavioral Scientist 56,
no. 4 (March): 399-420. doi: 10.1177/0002764211429367
The author simply distributed a piece with the purpose of highlighting on an exceptional
issue of American Behavioural Scientist on the subject of Presumption and the Presume. The
article will probably bear some significance with a considerable lot of Cyborgology blog peruse.
In it, I think about the appropriateness of Marx's two fundamental investigates of free enterprise
—estrangement and misuse—to web based life. In spite of the fact that Marx was depicting the

realist worldview of manufacturing plant creation, it is helpful to perceive how far these ideas
can be extended to represent the unimportant worldview of advanced presumption, in light of the
fact that, regardless of whether we watch shortcomings in how the ideas join on to online
networking, these perceptions become a beginning stage for new sorts of hypothesizing.
Also, I thought that it was essential to attempt to carry distance into the discussion
encompassing internet based life. Up to this point, most Marxian examination has concentrated
exclusively on misuse (numerous hyperbolically guaranteeing that we have entered a period of
hyper-or over-abuse). I contend that abuse has stayed a consistent among material and
unimportant methods of creation and that what is most wonderful is the way that efficiency
happens via web-based networking media with so little estrangement.
Thomas, Virginia, Margarita Azmitia, and Steve Whittaker. 2016. “Unplugged: Exploring the
costs and benefits of constant connection.” Computers in Human Behavior 63, (October): 540-
548. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.05.078
The author in this writing states with the purpose that online networking appears to have
taken on its very own existence. It has become an enormous piece of people groups' lives;
penetrating each angle. Notwithstanding, while there is a lot to praise about internet based life,
there are additionally negatives. There is developing mindfulness that online life is a twofold
edged blade. The vast majority of us are online a great part of the time. In created countries the
universality of individual cell phones offers consistent access to email, content, and web based
life. In the U.S. for instance, 81% of adults use the Internet or email and 64% of grown-ups now
own a cell phone; progressively finished, 19% are "cell phone dependent their telephones are the
only or the essential way they can get to the Internet. Since the beginning of the Internet, analysts
have been interested in individuals' on-line practices, from taking part in chat rooms and long
range interpersonal communication destinations to utilizing later structures of computer-
intervened correspondence (CMC, for example, texting and Facebook).
Notwithstanding the developing writing on various aspects of individuals' relationship
with advanced innovation, we know very minimal about individuals' perspectives about
unplugging from such technology. Understanding this is significant, as prove by the phenomenon
of media refusal, or pushback, in which clients periodically or for all time keep away from a few
or every social medium use. In this life expectancy study we examined age-related practices and

attitudes about unplugging from CMC for 24 h, including the perceived expenses and benefits of
keeping away from these media. Open worry about the present pattern of consistent availability
has prompted an excess of well-known books pushing the benefits of thoroughly unplugging and
the introducing of an early unplugging development.