Social Media 's Influence On Education

    People do not realize the immense impact social media has on their lives.  Social media first impacted people’s lives with the invention of the telephone in 1890.  Following this, the radio entered many homes in 1891; this was the beginning of social media.  During the twentieth century, computers and the Internet began the modern rise of today’s social media. UseNet, in 1979 was a virtual newsletter, which began what people think today of as modern social media.  When home computers became popular during the 1980s, such sites as relay chats took off.  Then, in 1997, the first true social media site , Six Degrees, came about: “It enabled users to upload a profile and make friends with other users. In 1999, the first blogging sites became popular, creating a social media sensation that’s still popular today” ( “Complete History of Social Media: Than and Now”). Although social media has some positive effects,  social media has changed the world for the worse because it negatively affects politics, privacy, and bullying.

Social Media began affecting our communication and relationships as early as 1969 when the first internet service provider become available to U.S. universities. In 2002, Friendster, the first social media website available to the U.S. was created and gained over 3 million members in just over 3 months. One year later, MySpace launched. In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, a 24-year-old Harvard student, created Facebook, an online social networking service. This service was originally a way for students to interact. Today it is the world’s largest social networking service and allows over a billion users to connect though posting photos, sharing links, and comments which all appear on a “News

With social media being fairly new to our modern world, there are a significant amount of different ways to utilize it through many different applications and websites. Some of these websites are being applied towards social media. People need social media to initiate relationships with new friends or keep in contact with distant friends along with family. Social media is also operated to help promote upcoming events or to help speak your mind so that everyone can see things from your own unique perspective. Debates over social media are very popular, this is because it can be easier to hide behind a screen than to argue in person. Social media is applied for easier accessibility to news of what is happening around you as well as what is happening around the world. Countless people value group messages, Facebook messages, for example, to reach out to people who might be harder to connect with in person. Social media has become more than just something that we play with for fun, for some it has a become a part of their lifestyle and everyday living.

In this day and age, social media has become an integral part of our lives. It has created a platform for people to share information instantly and communicate with people all around the world. Facebook is the most outstanding example of successful social media network. According to the first quarter 2015 earnings announcement by Facebook, the site has achieved 1.44 billion active users per month, and 65% of which are daily active users. Other social networking sites such as Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn are also a powerful means of communication. With such a large audience, social networking sites provide ample opportunities to acquire information, network, and connect with friends.

56% of Americans use social media that means 177 million people in the United States use some form of social media. Social media has changed how we all communicate; we can get instant updates to any kind of event sporting, political, even national disasters from a device that can fit in the palm of our hand. Since 2004 Facebook has went from 1 million users to 1.15 billion users, Twitter since 2008 went from 6 million users to 555 million users today (Morrison) Since so many people use social media on a daily basis 93% of marketers use social media for business (Morrison). Many people use these resources as a news source as well as a way to communicate with friends. With so many users someone is bound to use these resources as a way to spread

Today, the term that many people know is social media. What people don’t know is when it was created and how it has evolved. Social media are websites and applications that allow many people across the world to create and share content or even get involved in social networking. According to the Article, “The History of Social Media: Social Networking Evolution” the birth of social media began in 1997 with a social media website called Six Degrees, then blogging and instant messaging were created thereafter. About one hundred million people became socially occupied on social media in the year 2000 (4). Many people were able to use the internet from their mobile device, computer, or other electronics. In 2004, Facebook was set for students only, but is now used by people all over the world (5). Today, social media has millions of platforms. Social media icons are seen everywhere and it’s unusual to see companies or stores without them (6). Social media has impacted many people since it was created, but some question if it has put either a negative or positive impact on society today.

According to Forbes, there are about 1 billion social media accounts all over the world, these accounts makes almost all of the countries of the world connected with each other.Social media is a very common in today’s modern world, social media is considered to be one of humanity’s greatest achievements and accomplishments. Never before humans were connected to each other as in today’s world. and almost everybody has a Facebook account, there are about 500 million Facebook accounts. Facebook allow its users to chat with each other, to see each other’s pictures, and to comment on any post. Which is very useful in the business and marketing world.

Social media’s beginnings can be traced back to one of the first recognizable social media sites in 1997, a site called Six Degrees (Hendrickson, 2013). A user could upload a photo of themselves to be used as a profile picture and become friends with other users. The site closed a few years later in 2000, but with a rise in the popularity of blogging websites, social media was quickly gaining popularity. After Six Degrees, websites such as MySpace, LinkedIn, and Youtube began to pop up, providing new and dynamic means of communication. MySpace was the number one form of social media until 2006 when Facebook and Twitter came on the scene (Hendrickson, 2013). These websites all have a variety of things in common; they were created to promote communication and friendship, to make a place to connect with others and promote businesses and products. Unfortunately, as true with most things, you must take the sweet with the sour.

Social networking is helpful for everyone that knows how to use networking in their everyday life. Social Networking is not only going on nationally, It is a vast group, that’s been going on internationally. People from all over the world take part in it. It has information about anything. Anything new, everything old and whatever the reader wants to know. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest are few of the important Social networking sites that are playing an important role, now a day in the life of a person. As of July 2015 there has been a huge increase in the number of people who has started using social networking websites more and more. “76% of American adults online use social networking sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest, as of July 2015, up from 26% in 2008”. (Social Networking 2015). This shows how much increase in social networking has in adults, who are relatively new to this. The youngsters are way ahead and around 98% of the young users are found on the websites like Facebook and Twitter.

Social media can be defined as websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or participate in social networking. As a phenomenon of only the past couple of decades, it has certainly changed the way we live our everyday lives. Whether socially or professionally, it opens the door to incredible amounts of information; most of which is freely shared.

Today, when mindlessly scrolling through Facebook or any other derivative of social media sites you may see “Teacher Attacked by Student” or a video along those lines. Many of these videos and pictures of teachers lying unconscious surface the web. If you have not seen it yourself, you may have heard about it by a colleague or friend. According to the American Psychological Association, three percent of teachers are physically attacked by students (2015). Of the hundreds of videos plastered on the web, many of them are take out of context and the antagonist are commonly supported due to the simple fact that they are the students. The student automatically becomes the victim because the teacher retaliated but what most seem to forget to ask is, what did student do to cause the teacher or authority to react the way that they did? Yes, there is no excuse for violence in the classroom and there are procedures to handle situations involving unruly student but also there is no excuse for disrespect and mistreatment towards authority. With that said I ask, are we showing our youth that it is acceptable to express disrespect by siding with the antagonist in most mainstream situations such as the ones portrayed on the internet?

The primary issue of social media usage is that it blends the fine line between real-world interaction and virtual interaction. The social impact and use of social networking sites has increased substantially since their inception and will continue to increase. Facebook, which launched on February 4, 2004, is perhaps the largest social networking site available. Based upon statistics Facebook released in 2009, users spent a total of 500 million monthly minutes on the site and shared approximately 25 billion pieces of content per month (Castells 3). The amount of messages people send

The use of social media in classrooms has always been a very controversial topic. Hence not all the parents were happy that Ms. White had been using Facebook to communicate with her students. Even though Ms. White had timelessly repeated her good intentions she could not escape the ruthlessness of some of the more conservative parents. Today, however, was the day of the monthly Communicating our Word to Better Education school meeting. This month’s meeting was a discussion, to most a debate, on whether or not Jameson Middle School should continue to use Facebook in the classroom.

Facebook, a social networking website, has changed the way people communicate with each other. A social networking website is an online platform that allows users to create a public profile and interact with other users on the website. Facebook has even changed our most personal and private conversations and how they are conducted around the world. Since the internet’s birth in 1983, this trend of online communication has been growing. Created in 2004, now registered with more than one billion participants, Facebook’s user numbers surpass even the top four social networking websites combined. According to Wikipedia statistics, Instagram has 300 million registered users, LinkedIn has 200 million users, Classmates.com has 50 million users, and Flickr has 32 million registered users. To be further convinced of the claim that Facebook indeed changes the way we communicate, you would only need to create your own Facebook account and start participating in their social networking experience. Technology and internet usage is fused into every aspect of our society including the style of communication. The launch of Facebook in 2006 also enabled other devices such as touch phones, interactive tablets, and even advanced cars with their own networking capabilities starting in 2007. Facebook is a multibillion-dollar company and is highly recognized for connecting more people than other networks. Facebook’s long-term success can be attributed to providing entertainment, world news, and

We went from telegraphs to phones. Lets start from the beginning. The word telelgraph was first coined by the french inventor of the semaphore line, claud chappe. 1832 was when one of the electrical telegraphs was invented. The person who invented it was pavel schilling. A guy named brian arthur of the santa fe institute believes that technology evolves over time. I mean we have touchscreen phones and watches. Stuff that people back in the day thought we would have in a hundred years, we now have less than 50 years later. So over the years while technology evolved it may have had a good impact but it also has a very bad negative impact, such as child obesity, no sun, and even paying more attention to social media than school, not that some