This author is glorifying the benefits of social media from a business perspective. he emphasized the quickness of social media to deliver news to a large amount of people. This is very handy during disasters or events going on in the present such as protests and natural disasters. more importantly this article looks at the benefits of marketing and business growth thanks to social media.
Social Media addiction is a bigger problem than you think.
Social networkers and creators are trying so hard to make their networks so addictive that you can’t resist them. A study shows that people intended to quit them, but they couldn’t make more than a few days. They are fear of missing out because everyone is using social media; everyone has a phone. That notification number draws them into it. Image ideas are two people have their phone, one you can see the notification number on top of the Facebook app, one you can see the notification number is on while the person is on Facebook; another idea is a person is on Facebook watching a funny video and interacting with friends.
It’s Not All Bad: The Social Good of Social Media
The main point is that major new outlets, corporations, and persons of interest use social media to deliver messages to the masses. When news or items are posting immediately, the public can stay informed. Delivering new alerts on social media channels reach more people faster. Social media can also be a valuable tool for sending safety messages and showing photos from severe crashes resulting from distractions. Sometimes, social media does more good than harm in retrospect. Image idea: one person is on Facebook looking at the posts about internship or designs in Group or Public information (Communication Design @ CityTech) on Facebook; another idea-a person is using Facebook Messenger on the phone, talking about homework with his/her classmates.
the article really spoke about how social media can be used in positive ways. In the article one of their points is that social media helps alert drivers who are too much on their phone. For example there are many film makers who use social media to draw awareness to people who drive and use their phone. Another point the article made was when it spoke about how teenagers can use social media as a form of self expression and be a part of something. For the social media project it would be good to take pictures of up close shot with a half lit face showing how social media is bad and really draw emphasis on the emotion in the face. Also for a happier shot use a white background and a much more exposed face, getting really up close and personal with the subject.
The author of Social media addiction is a bigger problem than you think, Mike Elgan, is expressing how negative Social Media is on society. The notion of addiction is used to symbolized how individuals are immensely drawn into Social Media everyday and have a fear of “quitting” because of this addiction.
Photography can be used to capture these moments of ‘Social Media addiction’. Maybe not being so literal and capture a photo of someone on their phone, but maybe a group of young students following each other robotically, in reference to the following network Elgan describes in his article.
The author describes this article by comparing social media addiction to that of crack/cocaine addiction.the companies responsible for the addiction work hard everyday using algorithms that track the users engagement with their sites in order to enhance the viewers browsing time on the particular site. They are all in a competition to get the most viewers by any means they can.
the addiction can get out of hand when you actually try to stay away from social media and notice that you cannot control your impulse to grab your phone and check your status.
The point this article is trying to convey is that social media is almost like an addictive drug. It shows us different points, one of them being FOMO, which means fear of missing out, social media makes you feel like you’re missing out on the world so it draws you in more to find out what is going on. Another point they make is the idea of having a notification number that pretty much alerts you that something is going on in the site. Especially when you have facebook as an app this number is more apparent because it appears as a red icon drawing you in even more. Finally there is also the idea of the network effect which basically says that the more people are connected on a site, the more valuable the site becomes. This is seen with the amount of people using facebook and also if anyone remembers myspace, back when it was one of the most popular social medias and then people switched to facebook and dropped the whole idea of myspace. This article really shows us in different key points on how social media is doing more bad than good in our lives, it shouldn’t feel like we can’t live without social media.
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