Social Media Impacts

When anyone gets into some sort of conversation about the way media has impacted our society; this particular conversation turns into a very complex conversation. My personal belief on why that is, is because media has both positive and negative effects on society today. Some of the good that media has on us is keeping us updated with what’s going on throughout the world, keeping in contact with important individuals, getting back in contact with individuals, also ways to promote and market ourselves etc. As for some negative effects, some naïve individuals who decide to date online and sometimes end up with a horrific outcome such as being catfished, being raped and or killed, getting their reputation wrecked from poor decisions, cyber-bullying etc. but I also believe that anything that has been created, clearly has some sort of concept. The creators obviously want their creations to be used and taken advantage of but becoming popular and consistently used is a plus. According to the New York Times article How Facebook Is Changing The Way Its Users Consume Journalism about 30% of adults in the United States get their news on Facebook, which relates to one of the positives I previously stated about social media, it can keep you up to date. One negative that I found very interesting within this reading would defiantly have to be a study that was done by Pew Research Center, the fortunes of a news site can rise or fall depending on how it performs on Facebook news feed. Which in my opinion means, because Facebook is linked to so many different things and or social media corporations, they are most likely ruining some businesses if it seems to be something that becomes popular and useful on the actual Facebook website. So Facebook is one of the top social media websites that has a huge impact on society worldwide.