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Technology has been the greatest revolution to mankind changing a lot of things including communication and exchange of ideas. When Graham Bell first invented the phone, he did not imagine communication would change this much. Social media has been a game changer when it comes to communication. Generation X who are the millennials and Generation Y can attest so much on the changes that have happened over the years when it came to use of social media. Sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp and Snapchat have millions of users from all over the world who log in and attest of the great impact that social media has had. Social media has taken the greatest charge of our lives and this paper will go into depth the impact of social media as well as the cons in a world that is largely driven by these platforms.
Social media is the smart innovations interceded by computers that promote the development and exchanging of data, opinions, career goals and various types of expression via digital channels and structures. The variety of remaining quiet and underlying internet-complex life advantages as available now portrays implication challenges; however, there are a few many highlights that may include internet-based applications. For instance, product posts or comments, computer-aided photos or transcriptions, and data generated through any electronic communication is the soul of the internet-based life. As advancement has transformed internet organization into the day-to-day schedule for each, society is seen to rely on this development reliably. Its impact on people is unique in different fields. Administration of web-based systems has extended the quality and rate of a planned understudy effort. Business uses online person-to-person communication to improve the exercises of affiliation in many different ways, such as, to achieve business goals, growing annual affiliation ideas (Khamis, 191-208).The internet has been described as a social technology, which has majorly contributed in the creation of a new form of interpersonal relationships. Studies define internet relationships as relationship between individuals who met online and got to know one another via the internet. Internet relationships are however not entirely new as they can be compared to pen pal that was common a few years back. Relationships on the internet can be diverse, they can be platonic, romantic, and some may have a business basis. Many individuals today spend a lot of their time on the internet with the hope of making a special connection with someone. The discussion highlights on the research on the internet relationships.
The young generation have harnessed the internet to their advantage. Getting well-paying jobs is no longer as easy as it used to be. The millennials are entrepreneurs and not lazy as the media articles has made it look like especially when referring to their constant use of the internet. We no longer leave in generation where well-paying jobs are guaranteed but rather one needs to be inventive. The internet has helped the millenniums be inventive. Most run online businesses and the greatest part is that they have the support of their fellow millennials as you will see them sharing the posts of each other business across platforms. Blogging and networking has been embraced by teenagers “average teen chooses to spend an average of 16.7 hours reading and writing online.” (Goldwasser, pg. 239) This means if there is information that you need the teens to get, then the best way to ensure they get it is through the internet. There are individuals who have gained following and refer to themselves as influencers. Youtubers such as Liza Koshy and David Dobrik are millennials who have harnessed the social media platforms to become millionaires. These individuals at a fee will help people know about your business and it is a great way of putting a word out there about a business. Thus, when you see “kids of today”’ online, there is so much they are doing. The millennials are taking advantage of social media building an empire for themselves that is why there are teenage Youtubers who are millionaires
With everything taken into account, online life is and will continue to be terrible, aside from whether something is done about it. The power it possesses over people is dangerous and often goes unnoticed. In such a case, people should be careful that they may cause national and general problems not having tended to or considered web-based life. In many web customers, online development stunts the progress of connections and makes narcissism. They are still at risk of paying little respect if the online experience does not affect customer rationally. There is no resistance to the risky side effects of interpersonal interaction online, including extortion of information, stalkers, or software engineers.
There are other social locations such as YouTube that provide customers with a phase of chronicles exchange and sharing. Customers post their chronicles here for different customers to see. For artisans and film producers, YouTube has been an exceptional stage as their fans can access their music accounts without much stretching. Also, other social goals such as My Space have given customers the opportunity to post chronicles on their profiles. Such purposes allow essential access to histories such as music, sports, documentaries, and movies. This is the best station for professionals and film creators to channel their work and through this, when watchers visit and take a gander in their work, they get paid for it.
Social web-based networking has reduced any use of verbal correspondence and expanded any use of online consulting services. People can nowadays have phone dialogs on their PCs. For example, Skype has engaged in this by advancing social goals. Here, related people will grant by catching the discussions of individuals. This is not at all like Facebook and Twitter whereby fertilizing the soil, the strategy for correspondence is. (Garima Kakkar, 2018) For their supporters, most social destinations have now joined webcams. Webcams engage’ buddies’ in having one dialog while watching each other meanwhile. This correspondence is gradually private and incredibly supportive as endorsers are given the opportunity to see each other. Webcam dialogs contained an extension of acclaim.
The greatest challenge that has presented itself in the use of social media is bulling. Social media platforms have set certain standards that for some people for example beauty, being rich among other things. When you log in to pages such as Instagram and Facebook where you get to find people posting their lavish lives and for people who cannot afford this live, they begin feeling low about themselves. With the pressure that comes with being on social media, several people have often admitted to the fact that they may post fake posh lives so that they still get to fit in the society. Most girls due to the social pressure often want to appear they are leaving large including visiting posh places but at times such decisions dent their pockets too much and they live that they are living behind the camera cannot be compared to the lives that they live on the gram.
According to research by Jean Twenge and other researchers, increased depressive symptoms is high among the youth and this is due to media screen as well as use of social media. Their study focused on what has changed between years’ ad what was common among the children suffering from depression. After a series of surveys and research, they discovered that the changes might be traced back to their teenage years and their immediate use of a smartphone (Twenge et al., pg. 3-17). According to research by Pew center, by 2012 phone ownership crossed 50% threshold at just the same time often depression increased. By 2015 phone ownership had risen to 73%. Sadly, it’s not only teenagers who are affected, but we have adults who fall in this bracket too. We can all agree that owning a smartphone does not mean getting into depression. It is therefore imperative to understand practices that lead to depression and how digital devices and technology predisposes us to depression.
There are subsets of technology that may predispose us to depression and other mental issues such as cyberbullying and getting hacked. There is so much information of ourselves that is out there on social media that may help in . A study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health indicated that prolonged cyberbullying might result in both depression and substance abuse (Gamez-Gaudix, pg. 446-452). Gone are the days when bullying involved fistfights or when a huge student picking on a small student. With cyberbullying one will pick a target and troll them online using something they know will be picked up by others. One may decide to body shame the victim or attack them because of their social class, religion or race. Getting a thousand notification where people have so many negative things to say about you may result in depression. “Thousands of teenagers suffer from depression due to cyberbullying, some of these kids end up committing suicide” (Kowalski, pg. 89). Hacking ay also predisposes us to depression. When your social media is hacked you become anxious or depressed as you do not know what the hacker may do with the personal data that you hoped only you would have access to. Hacking may result in extremely sensitive information getting linked which may lead to the onset of depression and a times suicide. although technology by itself may not lead to depression, what we do with our digital devices may predispose us to depression
Technology addiction is a thing in the present world just like phone addiction. With internet addiction, an individualist unable to stay for even a few hours without their digital devices. Nowadays people no longer need to meet up with friends and catch up. Even getting into a relationship no longer requires going out to eat with people as there are several dating apps in the market where you a hook up with your “perfect match.”
