Wednesday, October 23, 2013


Twitters power over today’s society

Twitter is used by many people all around the world.  It is considered to be one of the many social media networks that can connect you with people all around the world in a second.  It can be used recreationally/socially, for entertainment, business, and for news updates.   Many people will use these types of social media to their own advantage.  This can be good in some ways or bad in other depending on what you personally want to do with it. 

            Many people use twitter and other technologies to their advantage.  A business can use twitter to help promote its business.  It uses it as a marketing device so you can maybe see if there are any special offering or so you can update yourself with what the company is doing new or making. There is also a very large demographic of people who use twitter so business would be able to reach out to the people. The demographic that the business are trying to reach would be using this technology for social reasons. 

Social media can be used in a negative or positive way.  One of the many positive way that it can be used it so wish someone happy birthday. Or it can simply be used to look at what others are doing during the day or how they feel during the day.  Many people who are using it in a positive way aren’t really trying to use it to hurt others.  Something that has become a big problem with social media is that more and more people are becoming a victim of cyber bullying.  Not only Is this bad but it has led to many deaths of children, mostly teens.  Also, through this technology people can get into fights which can be seen by others.  Some might think that this is the entertaining part of the technology, however, it is not.  For entertainment purposes it can be used to share different music and different games. Many Celebrities also use twitter to keep their audience in touch with what they are doing in their career. Celebrities can also use this as a resource to promote products that they have created such as perfume or can use it as a form of advertisement. This is one thing that is good about the technology because you get to keep in touch with the celebrities you find interesting. 

There are many bad and good parts about technology. Studies show that people who spend more time on the internet tend to be more likely to get depressed. This can be related back to cyber bullying. Cyber bulling is when someone is being harassed or humiliated on the internet. This can cause depression in a teen and anxiety and increase their chances of self-harm or even as extreme as suicide. This is not something that can be taken lightly. The social media networks have opened the gate to teens becoming a victim of bullying. The state has taken some footsteps in the right direction to spot this from happening.  However many people have already become the victim to this tragedy and some are not able to tell their tale on why social media has hurt them in some way.                             
 


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