Social+Media

Social Media

Requirements: positive and negative impacts- Mackenzie responsible use, how you should be using it- Riley general overview of social media, how it was started, history- Caroline statistics and fun facts- Annie real life situations and stories- Grace

Positive and Negative Impacts A. Positive Impacts 1. Students can study better and have their homework/study problems solved outside of school a. Students can have a discussion or collaborate with teachers or other students to solve their problems. i Teachers and Coaches can post schedules, projects, and homework on social networking sites. b. Social networking can help students study effectively and efficiently. i They can get help from the social networking site or some intelligent technology in time rather than waiting for teachers to answer blogs or emails, which save much time. 2. Long-distance family and friends can communicate for free via social networking-FaceBook/Twitter/Myspace a. Family and friends living in different countries share their life, ideas, views, pictures, and games through social networking sites. b. You can also communicate through text messaging and phone calls. 3. Social Networking sites have provided us with an excellent worldwide way to share information, articles, experiences and consumer’s reviews on products and services. 4. Social Networking Sites are a great way to connect with employees & customers, sale, marketing, and recruitment 5. People can join different groups associated with their hobbies and similar interests. You can meet new friends and talk about special interests. 6. Companies can advertise their products, and sales on social networking a. Studies have shown that advertising on social networking has increased the buying of the products advertised. i. Because of this, the sites are helping the economy. 7. People can have renewed friendships. a. People can reconnect with friends from high school, college, and even grade school. B. Negative Impacts 1. People get addicted to it  a. people become so addicted that they depend on the technology and forget how to interact with the world around them b. While doing homework, students wasted time and get extremely distracted by the social networking sites. From personal experience, you distracts you GREATLY. i. so much time is wasted on social networking sites 2. Once you put information on a website it can never be erased a. After you post something and decide to delete it, someone may have already posted it somewhere else such as YouTube. i You never know who has picked the picture or video up, and it may come back someday at the worst time or to haunt you 3. Social networks give socially challenged people a way to express themselves in online form a. Someone can have a totally different online personality then their personality in real life. 4. Co-workers can use social networking sites to get you fired a. if your information is not on private, other(including co-workers) can see your profile, and most of the time there is something embarrassing on it   b. there also can be information and pictures that could get you fired such as bragging about something you did at work that needs to be kept confidential, or posting pictures of you drinking at the bar 5. People can make anonymously bully other people through social networking a. people can make fake Facebook accounts to bully other people; two girls were arrested for doing that b. on FormSpring you can anonymously ask people questions or just say horrible things to bully them 6. People(particularly teens) can sext( bad texting) a. They can send bad things to each other i inappropriate pictures can be sent and then when those people become haters one can send that picture to people 7. Stalkers and Perverts can stalk and try to kidnap/rape kids using social media, and find out all their information 8. Colleges can use something that can go into profiles of applicants even if their profile is on private-background checks a. if there are things such as pictures with drinking, sexuality, or cursing on it applicants may be rejected from college 9. Couples can see their spouses relationship status and divorce them because of it   a. One lady killed her husband because he changed his relationship status on facebook to in a relationship when he was really still married to his first wife 10. Social Networking users are crone to fraud and identity theft. a. Users can have money stolen from bank accounts just from signing up for networking sites.