B4 - Impacts Brought by Media and Social Media

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Do media affect the society? 

          Media do affect society, us in all aspects of our lives. The influential and persuasive power bring impacts positively and negatively to the society. The positive effect bring by media is that audience no longer ‘obedient’ where they follow authorities and media blindly, they do have the abilities to judge who is on the correct or the wrong side; While the negative effect is most of the stereotypes and mindsets, violence and more negative issues are influence by how does the media portrayed all these issues to the audience without/ even with ‘filter’ process. 

What impact will the audience have from social media?

          In today’s world, social media have become so important and they have been blending in to our lives, and became one part in our lives. It is unimaginable, where our lives without social media. With the aid of social media, yes, we can connect to the people globally, even can get the latest news and information. However, the negative impacts brought by social media were inerasable. Most of the people are too obsessive with social media where we do not actually talk in person-to-person and this caused them to lack of interpersonal communication skills. Besides that, social media have also act as distractions in lives where people might keep on updating statuses, and checking for upcoming news, no matter they are having classes, breaks, or driving, and more.

What impacts will social media have from the audience?

  

          With the rapid growth of social media users, social media users no longer merely consume social media, but they require the best from social media. In order to compete with competitors and keep in trend, social media have to match the requirement requested by social media users by updating and improving their applications, by adding some other add-ons such as adding more fun games in Facebook, WeChat, Line and more, and also by upgrading their system to a more stabilized system. Social media is no longer solely connect to people, but also entertain their users. 

Read more: 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2792691/    -  Impact of media use on children and youth