Social Media

And its effect

On

YOU

By: Jason A. Howie

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Social Media Use Has ReachedAn All-Time High

1.1 billion users worldwide

500 million users worldwide 340 million tweets daily

343 million users worldwide

225 million users worldwide

By: Shandi-Lee

Social Media has

Benefited

Society in Many Different Ways…

By: Fellowship of the Rich

It Lets Us Connect With Loved Ones

From Anywhere AroundThe World...

By: U.S. Army Korea

27.8% of Americans

Rank Social Networking

Websites as their Top News SourceBy: ncsuweb

& Users Reported the

July 20, 2012 Aurora, CO Shooting

Before News Crews

Arrived On The Scene

By: MDV

64% of Companies are onTwo or More Social Networks for

RECRUITING

89% of Job Recruiters have Hired Through

It Has Never Been Easier to Find a Job!

By: Roadsidepictures

Now Let’s Step Back

And See What Social Media Is Doing To Our

Dating Life

By: Life Mental Health

Obstacles

AwkwardConversations

Unclear Situations

and

It Has Created A Whole New Set Of

By: EliJerma

Who cares about the marriage…I just want

to be Facebook Official!

When is she going to start talking about something new? I already found out

about this on her Facebook Profile!

By: Jameson9101322

It’s A Problem In Many RelationshipsThere Are Too Many Ways To Converse

Everyone Prefers A Method

But No One Wants ToCompromise…

By: Trey Ratcliff

Now, What About Our

Friends?By: Razorfrog

As many as 160,000 kids every year skip school just to avoid being harassed

Texting and Social Media

are making it easier than ever to harass

classmates…

By: windsordi

49.5%Of

students reported being

victims of

Online Bullying

By: Ansonn

Let’s see what Social Media

is doing to our

CommunicationSkills

NowBy: mrwilleeumm

“Someday. but certainly not now,

I’d like to learn how to have a

Conversation,”

- A 16 year old boyBy: aaroncohenphotography

We are together

But each of us is in our

own Bubble

Connected to keyboards And tiny touch

screens…

By: Drriss

13 million users said they had never set, or didn’t know about Facebook privacy settings

28% of Facebook users shared all or

nearly all of their posts

publicly

Without Privacy, users’ online persona’s are open to theWorld…

By: adnac

A Lack of Privacy can harm

students’ chances for

College Admissions and Employment Prospects

By: CarbonNYC

They might not realize that

Their online personas

Are costing them a

JOB

By: jasoba fett

Our Online Persona has a strong impact on our Identity

and Sense of Self-Worth

Studies have shown that

the comments on your

Facebook profile picture strongly affect your level of

perceived physical,

social, and professional

attractiveness

By: Simon Greig (xrrr)

With the inrush of so much information about how other people are living their lives…

It’s easy to feel that we

can’t compete

By: Ninja M.

German Studies concluded that 1 in 3 people felt worse after visiting their Facebook news feed

With feelings of

envy loneliness anger

By: russavia

In order to prevent impairing our communication, social, and professional skills,

and our emotional state, we must find aBalance Between

our Online Lives and our

Offline Lives

By: rptnorris

…Otherwise Albert Einstein will have been correct

By: Galaxy fm

“I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will

have a generation of idiots.”

- Albert Einstein

By: patriziasoliani

Sources• http://socialnetworking.procon.org/• http://

www.buzzfeed.com/atmccann/how-facebook-ruined-dating-and-breaking-up-too

• http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304708604577502672286303452.html

• http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/24/why-facebook-makes-you-feel-bad-about-yourself/

• http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/724791-i-fear-the-day-technology-will-surpass-our-human-interaction

• http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2012/06/facebook-your-privacy/index.htm

• http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1368817831-VqqlMH3LWtoPsW4on1N+qQ&