Media has affected us by its advancement; because media is ever changing we have to change along with it. Now that media is virtually all around us it we need to keep up with the intake of all that extra information, as well as try to keep up with a generation who are more advanced then we are. Parents whose children have cell phones and are on social media sites have to be aware of the dangers that lurk within those sites in the Clinical report—the Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and families. This article states that there are pros and cons to the Internet and social media sites. The pros are that adolescents are connected to a vast array of knowledge, also to their classmates and friends. This leads to better cooperation on class assignments as well as outings with friends. The cons on social media are health like Facebook depression, cyber bullying and sexting. Facebook Depression is a phenomenon where adolescents become so dependent on Facebook that they compare their life’s, things and body to those online and the effects take a toll on their mental state and well being. Cyber bullying in a from of bullying were people post mean comments or photos ignoring your privacy and how that affects you in the future, it’s a way of chipping away at your self esteem by belittling you and humiliating you. With cyber bullying the world sees the comments and photos of you. Sexting as we all know is when couples or friends with benefits send text with sexual explicit content or photos of themselves nude or semi nude. This is a problem because teens are doing this and teens don’t have the maturity to problems go, so they end up posting those photos or texts online. As we all know once it’s on the Internet there is no way to actually permanently delete it.
The Article How Facebook is Changing the Way it’s users consume Journalism state that because of social media site journalist have to change the way the present news. This lend to creating an algorithm to predict the users taste in news and the display that news first on their news feed. As a Facebook user this algorithm is fairly accurate because when I sign in to Facebook the news I get first always relates to video games and movies.
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I agree Facebook’s algorithm is fairly accurate as well as other social media sites like youtube and Pinterest, they always seem to be spot on and recommend topics I enjoy which keep me on the site longer.
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Twitter does the same as well. There is a site called stumbleupon you fill in all your interests and the algorithm generates websites with your interest which is fairly accurate as well
This is really amazing. I think it wouldn’t be just interests of topics or issues. I foresee social media solving medical problems by justing typing in your medical problems into the search bar, to get a medical prescription. I think we are at a point where whatever needs to be done, will be done.
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We do that today but the sites need to be debugged and there is a bunch of fixing that the coding needs. but people are coming up with new ideas everyday so lets wait and see.