Intro to: Influences of Social Media Blog

He everyone in this Blog i hope that i have shown you guys the different kind of influences of social media whether it be bad or good. the reason i picked this topic because i  myself was curios of what social media or social network is doing to our society. I wanted to research on the different opinion of others on what social media is about and how people are using them today. In this blog you will see different types of Social Networks that people use as social media and how they can be used. Also you will see videos of what social media is influencing our teens and how our networks in these social media can also influence us in our lifestyle. Hope you like, thank you visiting my blog and hope you find it interesting and educational.

A quote from Charles Simic in " a Reunion with Boredom"

In the essay by Charles Simic "A Reunion with Boredom" tells a story of what Charles Simics experience on the aftermath of hurricane Irene. He writes about how bored he was without the gadgets of today’s world. He then starts to realize why he is bored and that in the past a experience a different kind of boredom. He states “Drowning in it, I came face-to-face with myself as if in a mirror. I became a spectator of my own existence, which by turns struck me as being too real or unreal (Simic, 2011).” I believe that Charles Simic is telling us that he was to focus on the type of boredom he is experience. Like his lack of cell phone use, Internet use and any kind of technology use.  He began to look at himself and realize that with those technologies he doesn’t have the control of himself but he was just a spectator of his life. He then questions himself if what he was doing with those technologies for himself or for others.  I believe that this quote show how technology is being used today and that we don’t know what to do if these technologies are gone.

The social Media effect

Here an interesting visual reflection on what goes on today in social media. It shows picture all the possibilities of what can happen once you've created a particular post or message in social media. It will show you where in social network it can go and who can see it.

TED Talks: with Nicholas Christakis

Here an interesting discussion or presentation about how Social Network can influence the way you eat, the way you feel, and where you are in your style. Nicholas Christakis talks about how our friends influence us and that with the invention of social network our friends-friend also influence us and that the influence can go further through how social networks operate.

Teens and social Media

This is a short Video about what teen today do in social media. And how the minds of teens today changed do to what social media offers to them. This is interesting because it shows why social media is affecting each generation how they think and show the difference on what us old people use to think when we were their age.

Positive and Negative side of social media

Ali, S. N. (2012, August 8). Social Media Today. Retrieved from Social Media - A Good Thing or a Bad Thing?: http://socialmediatoday.com/syed-noman-ali/608781/social-media-good-thing-or-bad-thing

The topic of this article is to show the positive and negative opinions of people about social media. The author wants to show what people are saying about social media. The article claims that even if there are negative and positive opinions about social media, these opinions do not prove that social media is bad or good. The author lists different ways on how social media has a negative and a positive side.  He compiled opinions of others about social media and categorized them as negative and positive opinions.

5 ways Social media influenced our society

Guha, S. (2014, March 7). hubpages. Retrieved from How Social Media Has Changed the World? 5 Impacts of Social Media on Our Lives: http://webseo22.hubpages.com/hub/How-Social-Media-Has-Changed-the-World-Impact-of-Social-Media-on-Our-Lives

The topic of this essay is integrated our social interactions have become through Social media and  how social media created a whole new world where free to expressions is widely popular to our nation, so that our opinion is shared with our friends and peers. The writer wants us to see exactly how social media have changed our daily routine and life style. The writer claims that social media is not going away in the future, and the use of social media will someday change our way of thinking and communication. He lists five groups of business and interaction that uses social media to conduct their business and how our way of life changed.  The writer uses these five to show how social media is being used now and how it is becoming society’s way of communication.

 

social blog: Are games that addictive?

social blog: Are games that addictive?:  

                  

"John
A. Logan, believes there’s a social and challenging aspect in game addictions"

I'm really interested on this article, because i want to know about how game addiction is affecting people. The reality of how a lot of people now are getting  more and more into game and spend most of their time playing games. What i want to know do is that What is the challenge aspect John A. Logan is talking about i know about the social aspect of it but the challenge is what I'm wondering. 

Facebooks first 10 years

Molina, B. (2014, Febuary 2). USA Today. Retrieved from How Facebook changed our lives: http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/02/02/facebook-turns-10-cultural-impact/5063979/

This article shows how Facebook changed through the year and how it affected people.  The writers’ purpose is to show how Facebook evolved through the years and those peoples’ lives has changed with it. The writer used Research statistics, Individual testimonials, and Professors.  This article will show how Facebook the biggest social network site in the world have changed and how it is affecting the world. It will also show how different people are using Facebook in ways that they can use.

Teen’s Terroristic Tweet

Matthews-El, T. (2014, April 13). Web Pro News. Retrieved from American Airlines Reports Teen’s Terroristic Tweet: http://www.webpronews.com/american-airlines-reports-teens-terrorist-tweets-2014-04

 This Article is about how a teenager tweeted a joke to American Airlines. Tweeting that she is from Afghanistan, member of Al Queda, and that she going to do something in June 1. Writers shows how Youth today are stupid and the that after 9/11 terrorist threats are serious even if they are fake or Jokes. The Author claims that due to the fact that this tweet became viral and will stay in the net "forever". This teens tweet will haunt her for the rest of her life. When she applies for college or a job her Tweet will pop up in the report and determine her fate. This author found this tweet through constant Re-tweet of this incident and how popular it became in just hours. This Article is a good example of what not to do in the Internet specially in Social Media site. The Article will show how powerful social media  is and that anything goes in the world of Social Media. 

If you want to know how people are saying about this tweet here the link of the Imgur site. terrorist Joke threat

Summary:" Is Google making us stupid?" by Nicholas Carr

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In Nicholas Carr’s essay “Is Google Making us Stupid?” he notes that the more time he spends online, the harder time he has reading deeply and he struggles with concentration and contemplation.  Carr says that others have felt this too; they report skimming texts instead of sustained attention. Recent studies back up these claims. Carr interviews psychologist Maryanne Wolf who says the Internet, with its emphasis on speed and volume, may be destroying our ability to engage deeply with texts. Carr points out that Nietzsche’s writing style changed after he acquired a typewriter, and even the invention of clocks affected the way people think about themselves and their world. The Internet has changed people’s thinking even more. It has even shaped traditional media to become more like itself. Carr discusses Frederick Winslow Taylor who used a stopwatch to promote efficiency in early factories. His ideas have become the cornerstone of modern industry, and this approach has now come to dominate the Internet, and by extension, thinking.  Google is the best example of this, in its effort to organize everything with the ultimate search engine. Carr wraps up by suggesting that perhaps new technology has always changed the way we think, but then again the Internet’s effect is deep and profound. He fears we have become “pancake people:” wide but thin, and that human intelligence is more and more resembling artificial intelligence.

In the Question of is Google making us Dumb? There is really no definite answer on what exactly Google is doing to people's intelligence. Reading Nicholas Carr's essay made me realize how people today process information. You can say I agree and also disagree to Nicholas Carr. I can agree that people now don't read more into a text in a book, article, or anything that can be read, and that reading will not make you understand what the text or even maybe comprehend the text. But in my opinion, the way Google and any another big corporate social media uses these fast skimming process of reading utilizes a fast way to find important parts of the text. They made processing information more simple and accessible to everyone. Thinking about how Frederick Winslow used his stopwatch to promote efficiency in his industry make me think that the way we use Google now also does the same thing. Google provides a better way to find information in simple text and also provide easy access to the things that people are more interested in. So in conclusion, If you are a type of people who likes to go in detail on what you are reading maybe Google is making you dumb, but if you are a type of person that just want to skim through text and just pick and choose on what you like then Google is not making you dumb but it’s just giving you a faster way to learn.

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Hashtag Revolution

Lee, D. (2013, November 7). BBC News. Retrieved from How Twitter changed the worlds, hashtag-by -hashtag: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-24802766

This article talks about how business, politics, news, sports, celebrity, activists, arts and the law changed through twitter. The article wants to show how twitter is being used from organizations and people to influence or announce events that are happening.  The writer claims that twitter has influenced a lot of events that had happen around the world. And that twitter is a way to connect to the world through a word or more and provide significant reaction or consequences to the twit. The writer talks how twitter is a very effective ways of communication resulting an effective influence to  the world.  The writer researched popular twits who had influenced people. He analyzed twits that are effective on showing the purpose of  hashtag twits. This article will show you how twitter is influencing the world. And how organization and people use twitter to conduct business or other events that people want to promote.