Social media are impacting my relationships in a multitude of ways. Social media make it much easier to keep up with people, which can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on the context. In a positive sense, social media are highly efficient. With the click of a button I can see what my friends […]

The first chapter of Ethan Zuckerman’s chapter shed some insight on how the Internet played an integral part in containing the SARS virus, even in the early 2000s. Dial up (and therefore ridiculously slow speeds) was still prevalent and if I remember correctly, DSL was beginning to emerge as a cost-effective, higher speed alternative to […]

Modern social media are impacting my relationships in both negative and positive ways.  I find social media to be beneficial because it helps me stay close and connected to my friends and family at all times, while gaining insight into their daily lives and seeing what they are up to.  I think that the ability to […]

I would be lying if I said I hated social media. I’m constantly on Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, checking to see whats new in my friends and families lives. Recently, due to a class that I’m in, I’ve been spending more time on Twitter as well. To me, social media has become a constant in […]

Modern social media has very powerful impacts on relationships. It allows you to connect better and more frequently with those you love, long distance friends, and even your closest, most intimate friends. It allows you to monitor their actions to get a better understanding for their likes and interests. It allows you to feel linked […]

  Social media is a platform that was not available a generation ago and it is fundamentally changing the way people meet and interact. According to Dr. Rachna Jain, a psychologist, there are two observations that are happening with social media. First, it is allowing people to meet more people than ever before. The types […]

Social media has allowed people to gain popularity among peers, be it ones in their hometown or ones in another country. The things we do for hundreds of likes could be classified as “insane” or “attention-seeking”. We’ve seen celebrities turn to Twitter to feud with one another not because they are deeply passionate over an […]