Unit 3: Social Media and its influence on your life

Social media is very helpful but can also be very harmful. Social media helps us get to know news sooner about whats going on in the world we live in. On the other hand it could be used for more bad than good. The aspects that social media is both good and bad. The bad is that I feel like I can’t go through a 50 minute class without even touching my phone and as soon as it’s over I go on my phone right away. Also with the cell phone usage when I am having conversations with someone and my phone goes off I check it immediately and completely disregard what the person that I am talking to is talking about which is not right. For the good with social media is that I can find out anything about a person so quickly if I need an answer right then and there. This is helpful when doing interviews with someone you can look them up and see what type of person they are on the outside world and how they act over social media. Back to social media you find out things about whats going on all over the world so quickly, way quicker than it was decades ago. For example for the corona virus, we were informed on every social media platform as soon as it was discovered and we knew it was in the United States. If social media wasn’t here we would have found out about the disease weeks later rather than the day after it was discovered. Also for this about the corona virus there probably wouldn’t have been automatic travel bans there right away if we didn’t have social media to inform us on this right away. Same with weather such as big tropical storms like hurricanes. We wouldn’t know when it would hit certain area of the states at what time without it and we wouldn’t know if we needed to evacuate the area at a certain time. Overrall social media is 100% helpful to have in this world.