EBSCOHost / Frontiers in Psychiatry Online social networking sites and mental health research. Authors: Toseeb, Umar Inkster, Becky Toseeb, U., & Inkster, B. (2015). Online social networking sites and mental health research. Frontiers In Psychiatry, 61-4. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00036 Nowadays, Social Media plays a majority role in our daily life’s, seriously we can’t live without it. Before the digital age, socializing and networking weren’t as popular, but now Social Networking Sites and Digital Social Media platforms such as vine, Facebook and Instagram has officially brought a new era for socializing and networking. However, this doesn’t simplify that this is making a positive change within our society. Even though, Social networks can …show more content…
(2015). Should your university SnapChat?. University Business, 18(3), 22. As Snapchat launched in 2011, it has been a serious threat to other Social Media Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Due to the fact, many college level students are using the older social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter less and are using Snapchat instead. As a fact, college and universities use such platforms for marketing purposes, which leads colleges with the need to use Snapchat as a marketing tool. Luckily, Snapchat made the smart move to take the direction of using college students as part of their main targeted audiences. Shortly within their launch, Snapchat added a feature called “Campus Stories” which allows college and university campuses across the world to expose themselves in a more personal level. In other words, the Campus Stories allows authorized staff to add stories shared by any user in the “Campus Stories.” Which allows any users across Snapchat to view the stories and experience a more personal level advertising exposure. Many campuses also use Snapchat to communicate acceptances and exciting news with their students. Not only was this a motivation for colleges to use Snapchat as a tool but also the fact that 77 percent of high school students used Snapchat on a daily
Says snapchat’s chief strategy officer, Imran Khan. I agree, the communication is defiantly there, there’s four different ways to communicate with people. The Entertainment is there also, there are so many different things you could see on snapchat. It’s like that because everybody has their own individual snapchat and everybody’s different so it’s going to be different types of pictures and videos nobody has ever seen before. Snapchat isn’t just a United States app either it is international. In a lot of country’s all around the world snapchat is being used by people speaking whole different languages and showing off what they do in their area or what they see on a normal basis. A lot of celebrity’s flood their snapchats showing off their life and how their living outside the music. Big celebrities like DJ Khaled have started trends with snapchat with what they do or what with what they do. Snapchat boasted in September 2017 that it has more than 4 billion daily video views, a figure that has doubled since June and now matches Facebook’s scale, despite Snapchat having one-tenth of Facebook’s daily user
Snapchat is able to share videos and pictures as well as communicate with friend and family, this appeals to its users pathos because they are able to share great memories with close friends and family. Instagram is a photo and video sharing social network service that has evolved and added stories to there website to make it easier for its followers to share short videos and stories whenever they want for a max of 24h. Since the beginning of this year, snapchat has long been forgotten and its users have made the move to instagram because of the recent redesign, its competition with instagram stories, as well as influencer and celebrity effect on its
When Snapchat first launched, it quickly gained a lot of bad press. In 2014, 4.6million of its user’s personal details were leaked, with usernames and partial phone numbers being made available online. This was in addition to the controversy already being created by users who latched onto the ‘quick photo gone forever’ premise to share their personal moments… unfortunately for the app, it didn’t take long for others to recognise the ease of a screenshot. Suddenly Snapchat was being lambasted across all media for poor security, enabling bullying and encouraging users to send images that they wouldn’t want shared.
Social Media as a whole has become a part of one 's everyday life. However, college students are inseparable from their smart phones, and heavily engaged in Snapchat. Snapchat has the ability to
We all fail to see and understand the empowering role social media has set in motion in today's society . It is with an undeniable fact that social media has impacted variety of cultures, economies, and our overall perspective on how we see the world. Social media is best known for its form for bring individuals to share and learn new ideas, connect with , and relate to.Although there is much more of different varieties that come from the benefit of using social media ,it has also allowed us to communicate with friends and family from any corner of the world, It has also come with a risk. It has drastically impacted negatively our lives because we are either alone or its form to change us through time.
Snapchat is unique because you can view a photograph for a few seconds before it disappears. “Snapchat also offers other features, including a chat feature and a stories feature. Snapchat rivals other social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter(Mazzei).” Snapchat has grown rapidly over the past few years, people like being able to communicate with friends or family and send pictures that disappear within a few seconds. Snapchat is popular, and widely used around the world.
Social Media is a vast realm that connects the divergent minds of young people. It is like a vacuum that collects our time, talents, and thoughts. Through it, we can learn about the lives of others whether they live next door or on the other side of the world. It links us together and closes the ever existing gap that separates us. But is this all that social media can do? Social media is a powerful platform that sets the standard for what is good, bad, popular, or what is even desirable or unattractive.
The social networking site is an online platform that people can use to express their opinions, build social relations or share different activities, backgrounds and interests. “Today, social networking and the technology that enables it continue to evolve by incorporating a host of new communication features and functions” (Weber, Matthew, and Peter Monge). Social networking sites have rapidly been increasing over the past few years, and it provides many kinds of services including sharing photos, videos and many more. Facebook is one of the most popular social networking site on this planet right now. Many celebrities are using social networking sites to promote their albums and make money through advertisement. Many people all over the world are using social networking sites to talk to their families that are far away. But what are the positive effects of social networking sites for college students?
Social media is discussed daily because it is growing at a rapid pace and continues to be an important part of people's lives, especially first year college students. People use social media in their first year of college in a beneficial way to create new opportunities/possibilities for themselves, create relationships that otherwise wouldn't have been discovered, and to provide an escape route for relief in their busy college life. All these factors created come in many forms. Social media is very complex and is constantly changing, which makes these components so much more valuable for first year college students.
The internet has a greater impact on people today than ever before. It has been a continual source of news, entertainment, and education for users around the world for more than 20 years. However, the most innovative of its technologies, social media, did not achieve mainstream popularity until about ten years ago. Facebook, Twitter, and similar services are becoming the most visited destinations on the internet. These websites allow users to quickly and easily share pictures, links, ideas, and messages with other users; theoretically facilitating social interaction. These services, through a combination of accessibility, simplicity, and intuitive design promote positive social behavior by encouraging interaction among friends, relatives, and co-workers; facilitating communication between individuals, and fostering a profound sense of community. Social media is a rising trends in the world today. Communication skills are exemplified by use of social media networking. Social media networking allows for a communication outlet. Social media is being utilized by students, parents, businesses, and religious organizations. It is being used in many forms by many different platforms for many reasons.
Social media is a newly formed phenomenon that can be misconstrued as having a negative impact on our new generation. Social media, whether friend or foe, has shaped our society into what it is today. With all the technological developments, it is difficult to determine if a new advancement is productive or not. Social media should be considered a positive stepping stone to future success by contributing to our overall image. We can grow and thrive through the lessons that social platforms provide to us. Social media may connect us to the external world, but it also connects us to ourselves by increasing our likelihood to discover a pertinent occupation. The platforms that have arisen from technology have increased connectivity, constructive thinking, and exposure to the world around us. The importance that the various social platforms hold over our lives is something that will only enhance our understanding and betterment in the future.
Typewriters to computers, telephones to smartphones, written letters to communicating through social media such as snapchat and instagram, demonstrates how times have changed with communication. The earlier generations growing up had to use their imaginations and creative minds in order to be entertained. Playing outside with friends, building forts, and playing school were some of the many favorite activities of children. Today, you see smartphones in the hands of young children, changing children's ideas of fun. Now it is a struggle to find someone that is not a registered user of some type of social media website, such as snapchat, twitter, facebook, or instagram. It is everywhere and extremely hard to get away
All social media sites have different communities and uses. Within technology, there are endless possibilities of the uses for each individual site or application. The majority of respondents said, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Tumblr are the most used social media sites in this group of college students. As one of the respondents in Transcript 5 states, “Okay, I use it (Facebook) during the year. I use it a lot for my on-campus activities because I’m involved on campus and all my profile pictures are fliers and promos. So
It is difficult to walk in to a classroom and not see a social networking site on a student’s phone, IPad or laptop screen. Social media is a highly used by college students, high school students and some middle school student. The most popular social networking site is Facebook. The newest social networking site is Instagram. About 90% of undergraduates on the majority of college campuses and 90% of high school students use social media sites, creating online profiles of themselves and adding other users to their lists of “friends” on the network (Manago, Taylor and Greenfield 2014). Social networking plays an influential role in young people's lives now in days
Nowadays, college students share a substantial proportion of the total users. Not only because they have unprecedented freedom and