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  1. Aug 2023
    1. We are used to being in contact with more individuals, and it is easier to remain in contact with people we only met once. Giving up on this does not seem likely for humans,”

      I feel like everybody is very used to know social contact in real person and is used to social media contact and like to talk to people over social media rather than in person and this does destroy the future

    2. Given all of the reasons not to engage with social media — the privacy issues, the slippery-slope addiction aspect of it, its role in spreading incivility — do we want to try to put the genie back in the bottle? Can we? Does social media definitely have a future?

      I feel as given all the reasons I am not engaging with social media and knowing that there may be a privacy issue and hacking issues people still tend to use these things, and I know I do because I own a small business so being on social media is apart of my job just like many other people even if they are in this type of industry but I don’t really believe that social media is like a drug because people can stop using it. It’s just a behavioral thing I feel like social media definitely has a future and will not be some things that will end because people like to take this slippery slope

    3. The U.S. Justice Department has recently begun an anti-trust investigation into how tech companies operate in social media, search, and retail services

      I believe that the US justice department beginning, and antitrust investigation into these tech companies in social media could be very helpful in ending a lot of bad activities on social media

    4. no surprise, then, that Facebook has begun making deals to carry e-sports content

      This is to bring more people into the Facebook industry, and to have more people join. When people see that there are deals to carry esports content in Facebook, and knowing that they were able to find things for sports in clips been destroyed them into downloading the app.

    5. Virtual worlds and gaming have become a major part of the sector, too. Wharton

      Virtual roles in gaming has definitely been a big major part of the sector also and there are billions of people around the world that play video games and get bullied worse than being on social media.

    6. both groups showed significant decreases in anxiety and fear of missing out over baseline, suggesting a benefit of increased self-monitoring,” wrote

      I feel as the decrease of anxiety and fear is something that social media gives to people because there is a lot of self distracting matters on social media and a lot of bowling so the decrease of anxiety and fear is something that I know could help.

    7. The results, published in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, showed significant reductions in loneliness and depression over three weeks in the group limiting use compared to the control group.

      I feel as people tend to not have social interactions with people because they think they’re socially interacting through social media accounts with this research assigning people to only a certain amount of minutes per day on social media can be helpful to reduce loneliness and depression.

    8. Worse, there is an addictive quality to social media, and that is a big issue, says Berger. “Social media is like a drug, but what makes it particularly addictive is that it is adaptive. It adjusts based on your preferences and behaviors,” he says, “which makes it both more useful and engaging and interesting, and more addictive.”

      I believe that there could be a dick to qualities to have any social media but I don’t believe that social media so I could spread because you can stop being interested in social media at any time over in your life but being addicted to drugs is way harder to stop.

    9. social media’s erosion of the truth and destruction of empathy, its tendency to make people unhappy, and the way in which it is “making politics impossible.” The title of the last chapter: “Social Media Hates Your Soul.”

      I agree that social media is made to distract peoples self-esteem and it has a lot of lack of empathy and it does tend to make people depressed and I’m happy

    10. social media has become really fundamental to the way that billions of people get information about the world and connect with each other, which raises the stakes enormously.”

      I can see if this is true for my generation, because a lot of my generation students do not watch the news to get fundamental Lyn about things that are going on in our neighborhood. We usually get this information when we see it on social media so it has became some thing that has been able to raise awareness

    11. and I don’t think anyone quite expected Facebook to become so huge and so dominant,”

      No one believed that Facebook would become such a big social media industry. But now I feel as the generation that was born in the 2000 use Facebook and that’s why there’s so many people around the world so they can interact with each other on the social media platform

    12. Social media isn’t a utility. It’s not like power or water where all people care about is whether it works. Young people care about what using one platform or another says about them. It’s not cool to use the same site as your parents and grandparents, so they’re always looking

      I hundred percent agree with this because younger people don’t like using Facebook due to older people using it they say that it’s for the older generation. They want to have the new trending social media, such as Instagram and Snapchat and TikTok, where there is many different age settings, while Facebook is for older people.

    13. In 2007 I argued that Facebook might not be around in 15 years. I’m clearly wrong, but it is interesting to see how things have changed,”

      In 2007, Facebook wasn’t really a big industry on social media yet and that’s why people would not think it would be around for so long. I believe that for the next generation Facebook may be something that is not around, but I am not 100% sure but the younger generation does tend to say Facebook is for older people and they don’t like using it because they don’t understand how.

    14. In 2006, Facebook had 7.3 million registered users and reportedly turned down a $750 million buyout offer. In the first quarter of 2019, the company could claim 2.38 billion active users, with a market capitalization hovering around half a trillion dollars.

      It is unbelievable I love how crazy industries on social media can expand throughout the whole world in a fast period of time. Facebook is one of the main used social media accounts in 2022 and his claim to have active users and good marketing skills for a lot of small businesses, big businesses and other entrepreneurships.

    15. As quickly as social media has insinuated itself into politics, the workplace, home life, and elsewhere, it continues to evolve at lightning speed, making it tricky to predict which way it will morph next.

      social media is a very fast place to grow in business workplaces Home lives and other environmental places to grow their business or even their lifestyle. Social media changes very fast because of so many people using it so it’s hard to know what will be the next..

    16. Elon Musk raised the specter of essentially removing the space between social and media through the invention — at some future time — of a brain implant that connects human tissue to computer chips.

      It’s sad to say, but within the next few decades, social media and social media, CEOs will raise the spectrum. In the next few decades, the digital and physical world will be collided. Mornington back a brain implant to make a human into a computer is very unsafe.

    17. In little more than a decade, the impact of social media has gone from being an entertaining extra to a fully integrated part of nearly every aspect of daily life for many.

      This is some thing I agree on and have seen firsthand on what an impact social media has done, especially to the new generation