Difference Between Media And Social Media

Suicide rates have increased in teens over the past few years. Along with suicide rates increasing, mental health of teens in general has been a widely discussed topic. A huge contributor to these issues is social media. Over the past couple of years, teens have been diagnosed with mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression at a much higher rate. These issues are prevalent for teens all over the world. The increase in diagnosis of disorders is largely due to the rise in popularity of many social media platforms.

With all the social media account based apps and websites it’s easy to falsify personal information with just a click of a button, and boom you are a different person. Even using different pictures to physically change your appearance digitally. There are hundreds of reason why people falsify personal information but the most likely is to get attention for others, boost confidence in themselves by pretending to be somebody else, or maybe to get alternative things like money, jobs, friendships, or relationships. Referring to paragraph one about the show catfish they have tons of examples of people using fake accounts to gain attention, relationships and even using it to get money or other valuable from strangers. For Example, in season one episode three a young lady by the name of kim had been talking to a man named matt who had altered his identity over the internet for ten years because he was ashamed of his appearance.

There is a rising dominance of social media sites that allows users lives to become increasingly transparent. With full information about ones activities available for everyone to see, it blurs the line between personal and impersonal information. Personal information like where you were, and your private life information are now things that everyone feels free to share, and by doing so dismantling the boundaries of personal information.

Identity stealing was an issue I familiar with since 2008. I was working at the internet cafe (warnet) at the time. Media covers countless stories about “Catfish”. Many people became victims. Lesson I learned was not to reveal the full identities including date of birth, simply because I use it to stay in touch with people whether I know them well or not. After all, social media was an informal platform of communication at that point.

Since social media is such a mainstay in today’s society, people should not be allowed to obscure their identities on any platform. People use it to connect with family members, make love connections and even sometimes just to feel included. While social media and other online accounts and things of that nature can be fun and helpful, there is a lot that goes happens on a daily basis online that is not safe. The world is full of people who are not considerate of others feelings and choose to ignore right from wrong. There are scammers, bullies, predators and overall terrible people who make being online and having an account unsafe. If there was a way to pin point who these people are early, something can be done and can make social media

When we are just wandering social media pages we often think why would a hacker try to steal my information ,but more often then not they do not care how much you got but how much they can get off your name. Hackers are not the only ones that can gain access to your information. Many companies can be forced by law to hand over your private information to authorities ,that is a loss of privacy. "The social network itself may also try to access your email address book to invite your friends to join the the network too. in other cases, a social network may be obliged to hand over its user account information to a government agency which is also a loss of privacy" as said by Hadely Jones. To combat this intrusion of privacy you can keep your social security number secret, only add people you can trust, and useless information to begin with.

The selfie assemblage is a means of self-expression and representation of oneself. It is one of the ways to communicate and interact with others. Emerging technologies and new platforms are enabling individuals to interact with each other more conveniently. As a result of these emerging technologies, everyone is always connected in one way or the other. These interactions through devices are affecting behaviors and practices of users in a variety of ways. Some ways of communication can affect users’ measure of worth. Therefore individuals’ view of themselves and each other is sometimes dependent on their interactions with social media platforms. This age of emerging technologies and digital media has had many mixed effects on society. In some ways, social media has given users the opportunity to express themselves and discover their identities through interaction with others across various platforms. They have also had an impact on how network identity differs from one platform to another. As well as, increase ways in which individuals are able to promote themselves online.

This is one of the easiest ways for any person to experience identity theft. The reason behind this is that the personal information that one posts is available anyone to see. An unknown internet user does not need to know how to hack into a website to steal valuable information the way he would need to in order to steal a credit card number. When an individual posts their birthday, their place of employment, or their address, it is visible to everyone. Children are especially susceptible to this form of identity theft. The vast majority of adults know what is safe and acceptable to post online. A child who just got her first social media account may not know the dangers of posting private information online yet. She may not expect anyone other than her friends is able to see what she posts. Not to mention that it is not even just personal information that is easily stolen over the social media anymore. It is becoming increasingly simple to obtain passwords from careless social media patrons. This is why internetmatters.com encourages parents to inform their kids about privacy settings on social media. For without the use privacy enabler, stolen information over social media can lead to bullying, blackmail, or identity theft that most will most likely not be discovered until early

Not all users on social networks will become victims of identity theft, but the statistics are alarming. Even with 54% of social media profiles targeted for identity theft, 93% of user’s still share relevant information such as their full names and those of families. How social media identity theft typically occurs is through unconscious sharing. Social networks encourage and often require

The dangers in social media, can come in many forms. The biggest one, is identity theft, and that not only means stealing another’s information, but also the pretense of being someone else. For example, a teenager can be chatting with this person online. Both of them have been talking to one another for many months, and finally decide to meet up. Now what does one think of this scenario, to many it sounds completely unsafe, and stupid; but this teenager doesn’t think so. Because, they know them and think this person is who they say they are, and there is no danger. When in reality, this person might not be who they say they are, and are meaning harm. In the end, this teenager will end up in a precarious situation, all because the knowledge of what to do is not present.

Social media has become a very prominent part of everyone's life, irrespective of the age group. While social media is very helpful and it is a necessity in everyone's lives, whether it has a positive or negative effect is a debatable topic. Social media definitely plays a very influential role on the psychosocial development of children and youngsters today.

Social media has becomes a more relevant thing in this century. Now more then ever there are so many ways to communicate with others. People are using social media for more then just talking to friends. They are now using it to find love connections. Since people are able to talk to one another on social media this can lead them to creating a fake profile and pretending to be someone their not. If someone doesn’t like the way that they look they can easily change it by using someone else’s picture. If they want to pretend that they live in another state they can just change it. Nothing on social media has to be verified so anyone could really be anyone that they want to be.

Twitter, Facebook, Instagram- social media sites were created for one sole purpose, the purpose of expression. Expression of one’s emotion, one’s appearance and one’s reality. In an article written by Peggy Orenstein, she writes about a problem we’re facing today; having the ability to post pictures and videos of anything, we are letting technology shape our lives. Constantly holding iPhones in our hands when hanging out with friends have changed our relationships among others. Are we slowly losing the grasp on reality and letting social media shape our appearances and emotions?

Social networking sites have become popular over the years, like twitter, which allows users to present themselves through their tweets using photos, hyperlinks, or hashtags. Boyd (2010) argued that social media platforms like Twitter encourages members to use their actual identities but it does not mean people are presenting themselves online the way they do in real life.

The effects of mass media and social media have changed the way people have experienced presidential campaigns in many ways. With the development of new technologies through the last hundred years many different ways of experiencing the campaigns have taken place. Newspapers, radio, television, internet and social media websites have changed the ways we all have experienced elections.