Social Media

Social Media Impact On Our Lives

Contents

Introduction1

Impacts of the social media:1

Virtual Life Satisfaction2

Real life2

Second life2

Forces2

Behaviour of people3

Change in the attitudes3

Education3

Lifestyle4

Globalization Of The Social Media4

Statistical Information4

Shift In The Waves:5

Social Media, Employee Privacy And Concerted Activity6

Employee's privacy:6

Realizing the Value of Social Media Requires Innovative Computing Research7

Multipurpose Social Media7

Factors7

Access To The Information7

Leverage8

The Targeted Audience8

Cost Efficiency8

Customer Loyalty8

Scams And Viruses9

Interpersonal Surveillance On Social Media9

Government and Social Media10

Conclusion10

Social Media Impact On Our Lives

Introduction

Social media, although it is just an intelligible word, yet it has a whole world in it. It refers to the online translation of happenings. The portals of social media are mobile and internet. It is an evergrowing platform of sharing things, and it has undoubtedly flattened the world. It is a connecting cell between the users of the world. Social media is the fastest growing channel, and it interacts the people all around the globe directly or indirectly, whether they are known to each other or not, localized in the same area or other. It is a technological tool to share the information with everyone (Safko, 2012, n.d.).

It is a revolution, as in history it is for the first time we have access to the free global world (Schaefer, 2011, n.d.). We have an easy access to updated as well as historical information and extensive data.

It is a more efficient and fastest way of information distribution and authentication. It incorporates a vast list of ingredients which lies in its domain; like news, sharing, uploading, e-campus, e-library, pictures, videos, blogs, advertisement, articles, biographies, bibliographies, books, events, personal profiles, social networking, etc.

Impacts of the social media:

As the social media are now the main part of our daily lives, it has many tremendous negative as well as positive attitudes on our lives. The rate of users of social media has devastatingly accelerates in these few years.

Virtual Life Satisfaction

Real life

Real life is our natural life. Though it is a life by default, everything happens here are your luck and your fate, but still some people are reluctant to the happenings and step out of the situation and moves in the second visual world.

Second life

It is a virtual world for the social networking users. They can communicate and interact with each other, share things as well as data through expressive avatars and create their own balloons of social lives. It is an online visual 3D world, which you create for yourself. It is the translation of the world you want to see, and where you want to spend your life. it is a perfect life, where no one gets bankrupt, employment is for everyone, no one gets sick, everyone is happy, etc.

Forces

Individuals who are not satisfied with this life or the people, who do not welcome the change, are morally low, face some problem, and usually switch to the second life. Unemployment is also a main factor of the shift towards second life. People typically use the second life as an escape from their current life ...