SOCIAL MEDIA

Social Media



Social Media

Introduction

This paper intends to discuss the significance of social media. Social media has been becoming extremely popular and thus it possesses the ability to influence our lives. The most famous tools of social media revolve around facebook and twitter. However, there are many other tools to get engaged in the social media like linkedin, whatsapp and many others. There is an ever going debate about the extent social media is changing the way we all live our lives. The paper will be appraising the relevant and critical information appropriately in order to make sure that essay becomes innovative and essentially creative. The purpose of this paper is to make the reader aware about the various aspects in which the extended utilization of technology tends to impact the way people lives.

Discussion

This essay intends to make the readers aware about the influence of social media along with both the merits and demerits of using social media.

Influence of Social Media

Social media is not just about posting videos on facebook or tweeting. The underlying influence of social media is immense. The power social media contains is seems to be incredible. The most important influence that social media has its evolvement as the most easy and basic way to keep in touch to the huge global network. The social media websites like facebook, twitter, linkedin and others intends to connect people to different communities and even provide them with job opportunities to exploit. It is not incorrect to suggest that social media has become one of the most important way to exchange information (Romero et al 2011 Pp. 18-33).

The influence of social media is said to be remarkable. It is changing our lives in a manner by providing us with immense opportunities to connect with people and also to create an underlying link with small businesses and large corporations. The overall influence of people using social media has increased due to the fact that information has become easy and cheap to produce and exchanged. Moreover, the way people get to interact with important celebrities like political figures and others, the influence of those interactions tends to become even higher. The political candidates now tend to utilize social media and arrange social media campaigns in order to make people convinced about voting them (Bryfonski, 2011 Pp. 150-155).

The ever growing utilization of social media can be traced from the fact that there are only a few people still left with not getting involved in the activities over social media. The basic reason behind the popularity of social media remains that the social media is not just a platform for marketing; it has been emerged as one of the greatest revolution of the century possessing incredible influential power. The underlying influences social media tends to possess are completely able to impact to a greater extent the way we all live our lives (Collierm, 2010 Pp. 1-4).

As with any other aspect of technology, the social media also possess various merits and ...