15 Amazing ways social media is changing the world

Because of our commitment to social media, we ignore the hype that all of us are superficial and self-narcissistic. I can not believe what happened really

This is the conclusion of extraordinary research at University College London. This is available in several new books and reports.

Nine anthropologists have lived in nine communities around the world for 15 months and are studying the role of social media in people's daily lives. The report shows how social media is integrated into China's factory workers, relations between Syrian and Muslim young women at the Turkish border, Indian IT experts and Brazilian poor children I will.

University College London has created a website that allows you to browse the video interview and explore it in detail, but it provides some summaries of the results. These are the initiators of a real dialogue, I think you can tell me what you are thinking in the comments section. started

In a popular way of thinking, social media tends to make us more personalized and narcissistic, but it is not the case.

Personal-based social networks are said to be at the expense of more traditional personal relationships. One research found this, but in general, we used social media to actually strengthen traditional groups such as families, castes and tribes, and restored confusion by migration and movement.

Children and adolescents can affect their communities and the world in an amazing way. Social media offers a variety of ways to achieve a positive change. Some examples are to conduct fund-raising activities and participate in "political events" (Clark-Pearson, O'Keeffe, 2011). There are many good aspects of social media, but children and young people have many adverse effects. Social media can affect the mental health of young people. According to the survey, the level of effect seems to rise as the youth usage rate rises. Their satisfaction will decline and the possibility of falling into trouble and frustration will increase (Rideout, 2010). Furthermore, teenagers using Facebook are biased toward self-euphoria, antisocial, aggressive behavior (Rosen, 2011).

According to my survey, the use of social media by young people is constantly changing in new ways to cope with changes in social media platforms, puberty, and social background. Social media is still an important aspect of adolescence and appropriate information and guidance guarantees that use is secure and healthy. In my sample, teenagers usually have access to various devices such as mobile phones and laptops. They usually use laptops for school work and use it for all other parts of life (social, family, interest). Teenagers are also using mobile phones in certain aspects of school learning, including access to school materials, information, and contact with colleagues.