Conclusion with References

Conclusion

            Social Media has helped evolve our world and is going to keep growing to hopefully make life easier and more connected. Social media and the Internet can help the education system as well as in the workforce. With this increase in knowledge of technology, hopefully everyone can be more helpful to try to find ways to securely protect private information that is lingering in cyberspace.

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Security Issues and Social Problems

Security Concerns

            The biggest security concern that comes from social media is how secure is the information that a person is putting on the Internet. Companies that use the Internet and social media networks find it hard to control and trust employees when they are on the Internet. Situations like confidential information getting leaked to a wrong person; as well as inappropriate behavior could put the company at risk (Nesbit, 2011). There company’s owner is likely to check your Facebook and see if there is any inappropriate behavior that would be grounds for firing a person. People that use these social media have a sign agreement that gives out personal information such as address, phone number, and credit card information. Most of the time it’s hard to know who is receiving this information and if there is a third party monitoring you computer and is stealing your information.

Social Problems

            Facebook has become a huge time-waster for many Americans, which has now been recorded that it is the website where Americans spend the most time (Cain, 2012). Many sentences are now being seen with fragments and acronyms and emotion icons, also known as emoticons which are replacing how to describe how someone is feelings. Social media is starting to show that it values, “frequent communication more than meaningful communication” (Cain, 2012). On Facebook, we can like or dislike anything that gets posted on the Internet. This is very personal and can upset a person’s feelings if they receive many dislike comments or even being bullied by other people.  For many marketers and advertisers, they have noticed a shift in how communication needs to be done. Communication now has to be shorter and straight to the point. If it is not then they could lose the attention of their audience (Cain, 2012).

            Facebook and other social media help people who struggle gaining interpersonal relationships in reality to make social connections. It benefits people with low self-esteem because it allows them to open up more. They can talk before they see each other thus eliminating the first impression moment and they actually like the person for who they are (Forest, 2012). People have a hard time talking to someone face to face and with these new ways of meeting people it makes that process easier.

Benefits and Legal Issues

Potential Benefits

            The biggest benefit of social media is that it gives everyone the ability to communicate quicker and more efficiently. The most popular forms of communication that keep everyone connected would be email, Facebook, and Twitter. The developers of these social media companies are making these devices more user friendly. People of all age groups will have the ability to use these social media devices.

            In K-12^th grade school and college, students are taught to do research using different types of social media, and without the Internet many students would have a hard time researching information for a topic. Students do not have to go to a library anymore to find a book for information. There are databases and other scholarly journals that can give them the necessary information. Library liaisons and librarians are now accessible through email and live chats allowing students to get their questions answered quicker and receive helpful hints.

There is a new branch of our educational system that is called distance learning or distance education. This allows for the students and teacher to meet outside in a traditional classroom setting, and complete their assignments online.  The only time they need to meet at school is when they have to take an exam. Positive benefits that can come from this are students can manage a job and school more conveniently without sacrificing time and money. It increases the amount of people who will go through school throughout their lifetime by getting students with different abilities and different life situations, and could help cheapen the educational system. Teachers now have to be concerned with computer programs that can teach the student any curriculum. There is a growing concern that eventually our educational system will no longer need teachers (Farzaneh, 2011, p. 92). “teaching through radio and television training problems, shall be conducted by electronic machines and teacher, other students do not need to maintain all the knowledge but this information will be stored in electronic brains and will be publicly available” (Farzaneh, 2011, p. 92).

Social networks influence how a business would relate to its customers, and they do this by paying attention to what is going on with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. These three main sources allow people with the same interest to form a group together and share information about a product, alert each other of discount and saving opportunities, and discuss their overall experience at a particular store. The company is able to keep in contact with its customers through these sites and allow them to give any special attention to the customer’s happy to ensure ultimate satisfaction. This new relationship between company and customer will not only help create a stronger customer relationship but it will influence other customer to go to that particular company. A negative effect that can come from this is if people are unhappy with their experience with a company and they post it on their Facebook or Twitter, then it can could persuade many people to stop going to that particular company (Grewal, D. & Levy, Michael, 2009, p. 348).

YouTube has been help for many companies to have videos for how to do improvement jobs around the house, Facebook and Twitter benefits companies by allowing customers to ‘like’ a company and build strong customer and company relationship (Grewal, D. & Levy, Michael, 2009, p. 348). They are also keeping track of what customers are looking at when they are on these sites, so they can cater the website and promotions to what the customers are looking for.

            Writing is the main form of communication in school, at your job and in many of our personal lives. In the professional world, having good writing skills will land a position of higher pay, higher quality of work and will display a higher level of professionalism to other co-workers. When a person puts any piece of writing on the web, it doesn’t matter what form of social media devices they use. They are able to gain the audience of the attention quicker and receive feedback or opinion equally as fast.  When articles of writing are printed on paper; the writer is normally in this one-sided conversation, but with social media tools it has become a two-way street of flowing information (Magnifico, 2010).

Legal and ethical issues

            Ethical and legal issues are now a topic for discussion because social media and technology are fairly new topics and there are not many laws addressing key issues. People need to be more aware of pieces of writing that they posted online because if there is any type of misinterpretation that ruins a person’s life, it more than likely could end up in court. The Internet keeps co-workers connected even when they are not at the particular job location. When an employee can prove that the harassment as “server or pervasive” it can be put under as hostile work environment claim. “The US Supreme court recognized that employers are liable under the Title VII of the 1964 Civil rights acts for harassment that is sufficiently severe or pervasive to alter the employee’s work environment (Gelms, 2012).”

            A teacher was fired over calling her student a “germ bag” and “snobby” on her Facebook page. Another teacher had to fight to save her job after a picture of her and a stripper was posted on her Facebook page (Miller, 2011, p. 645)”. Social media sites are becoming so much more popular it’s harder for teachers, adults and people leadership positions from keeping their private lives private. The issue is a matter of public concern in education if it is “speech by public school employee about a policy or practice which can be substantially and detrimentally affected the welfare of the children attending the school (Miller, 2011, p. 645).”

Introduction and Background

Introduction

The Internet and social media are not just about getting information out to the public, but about promoting change and people coming together people with the same goal to enforce that change (Chandler, 2011). It is an essential part in everyone’s daily life and in the business world. Through different types of media and depending on how much you use them, it will begin to shape the life you want, and it will affect a person’s future. There is an enormous amount of information drifting around the Internet which has started to raise suspicion about how secure the Internet is, and whether or not our personal information is safe from hackers and identity thieves. Social Media has affected the way people speak and write in the twenty first century through different types of media outlets.

Background

         The Merriam-Webster dictionary definition for social media is, “A form of electronic communications (as Web sites for social networking and micro blogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (e.g. videos).” There are several forms of social media technologies which include: social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace. There are also podcasts, Internet forums, blogs and weblogs, microblogging, videos, social bookmarking, YouTube, virtual games, virtual social worlds like Sims, email and instant messaging, and online dating sites. Social media influences a person’s life and well be reflected in the way a person speaks and writes. Social media helps people communicate everyday and keep in contact in a much quicker and efficient way; whether it is a business meeting or trying to keep in touch with friends and family, there is always a way to stay connected. There are positive and negative qualities that come from social media, especially when it comes to communication.