Troy
Johnson
Professor DePiero
10/13/2016
Eng. 101-108
Social
Media
Social
media has undeniably taken over the 2010s. With so many different
websites and apps they are extremely easy to access. Social media is
websites
and applications that enable users to create and share content or to
participate in social networking. The
initial idea of social media sites was to connect different people
from around the world. You can rekindle relationships with friends
and family members from around the world. Since then social media
sites have evolved so much more beyond that.
There
are many different social sites today. Three of the most prominent
social sites of today include Facebook , Twitter and Instagram. Each
one has a different set up and abilities , but essentially have the
same ideas and target audiences. The target audience for these sites
are for the younger population. Generations born after 1970 are the
general target , but it is also easy enough to use for people who
aren't quite as tech savvy as the younger population.
The
purpose of these three social media sites is to connect people from
around the world with each other. In the last 2-3 years these sites,
Facebook and Twitter in particular have become media outlets for
news. You can watch news clips and skip through to highlighted
events. More recently Facebook has created "Facebook live".
With Facebook live anyone with a Facebook account can broadcast
anything they are doing live in real time. This also includes news
stations. I recently watched the second presidential debate through
my Facebook live feed on one of the news channels that broadcasts to
Philadelphia and the surrounding suburbs.
Social
media sites for the most part have a upbeat tone. Of course it is a
place where people come to express their opinions and emotions on
different topics. They have a welcoming style, with applications
having plenty of bright colors and animations. What makes these
social media sites deemed as social networking sites is the ability
to see what someone else is posting about in their life from
anywhere in the world. They are to also share world news and news
going on in your own area. I believe Facebook is the trademark and
definition of what social media is today.
Today
there are three prominent social sites. In my opinion I believe
Facebook is the most prominent. Facebook serves its purpose and in
my opinion it is the definition of social media. On Facebook you
can create a profile. On your profile you can list your name , the
city you live in, where you are originally from, along with your
birthday and where you went to school. You can also post pictures
and tag various people in the photo either people who are in the
photo or that you want to see the photo. Unlike Twitter where you
can only tweet 140 characters per tweet or Instagram where you only
post photos, Facebook allows you to post both statuses with
unlimited characters and many photos. You can add, accept and deny
different friend requests giving you some control on who views your
photos. As stated by the Investapedia website, who wrote an article
about “Twitter vs. Facebook vs. Instagram”, with the information
they collected they have come up with conclusion that “As
of 2015, 72% of online American adults use Facebook. The site is
especially popular among online women, 77% of whom are users of the
site. In addition, 82% of online adults between 18 to 29 use
Facebook, along with 79% of those 30 to 49, 64% of those 50 to 64
and 48% of those 65 and older. While its user base is dominated by
those over 25, Facebook still has over 50 million users under the
age of 25.”
Without
question social media has dominated the 2010s. With so many
different social sites circulating the internet, there are three
which are most prominent today including Facebook , Twitter and
Instagram. One of the main goals of these three social media sites
is to connect people from all over the world. Social media sites are
geared with a upbeat tone. Of the three social sites I believe
Facebook is the most prominent & serve its purpose as the
definition of a social site.
Troy,
ReplyDeleteFor the purposes of our class (studying writing), I want you to focus on something a bit more specific. Social media is super broad. Ask yourself: what are some specific types of writing IN the social media world? Think about our “Nesting Doll” activity from yesterday’s class. You could go from social media → to → tweets → to… lots of different kinds of tweets: tweets about political causes/activism, tweets that are intended to sell/promote products, funny/goofy tweets. They’re all different, right? So the questions I want us to answer are: what makes these smaller sub-genres SIMILAR and DIFFERENT, and to what effect (what makes one “better” or more effective than another), and why?
You started getting into some stylistic conventions, which is great. You mentioned that social media sites/posts have an upbeat tone. My next question to you would be: OK, can you prove it? What did you SEE in the language/writing that made you think of it as being “upbeat”? Getting into those kinds of specifics is what will help you support/substantiate the claims that you make (which is essential for making an argument, which is what academic writing is all about). The best way you can do that is by locating or pinpointing specific examples—specific tweets or Instagram posts or Facebook feeds or whatever. Instead of generally talking “about” these genres, I want you to examine specific examples of genres.
In ENG 101-108, I’m trying to train you to become super-observant so that you can get down to the nittiest of details and adhere (if that’s what you want to do) to the audience’s expectations for all the different genres that you’ll write here on out. By gaining a deeper and more critical reading awareness, you’ll be able to adopt/adapt writer’s choices (their writing) into your own writing.
Z
This is a great essay. You used your own expirience with social media while analyzing its use in today's society.
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