The social and economic impacts of social media on health

 

Einstein once said “it has become appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity”. However, in spite of its profits, the effect of social media behavior within the virtual environment is worrying . The way that it is presented nowadays as a part of who we are, and how it establishes a context that affects the human demeanor, and even the whole world economy, has been claimed that we are increasingly being distant from ourselves. The question here is how it grieves our health both physical and psychological.

 As quoted in an article on the famous website The Independent, using social media can frequently make us feel increasingly unhappy and isolated in the long run. It is interesting, to some extent, if we observe the form the marketing is installed within the virtual platforms, its strategies and what are its effects. Working through internet algorithms, it recommends products that the internet knows well by analyzing our latest searches - these are called Cookies, as explained on the Wikipedia website. The manner in which the advertisements persecute us is odd. Being present to us not only in the form of skippable advertisements on websites and blogs, but in videos or photos on Instagram, it incorporates our favorite famous, unknowingly deciding a significant part of our life in our place. Overall, the Economic Marketing Mechanism is totally linked to the social issue. 

While the Marketing Industry gains with our impulsive purchases, we gain (or maybe think that we gain) with likes, comments and shares - this is what Baily Parnell, a public speaker considered one of 100 woman more powerful in Canada, stated firmly on her Ted Talks named “is social media hurting our health”, calls by “Social Currency”. She talks on this video, available on youtube, about how the people let their social repercussions modify their lives. It would be ignorant if we do not remember to cite anxiety, depression and stress here as examples of social media implications - mainly girls, from an early age, start to be pressioned by the filter photos and the perfect body shapes of the girl, who have a weighty quantity of followers, which intends them to those types of diseases.

 The big world of networks has grown. Talking with empirical evidence, a recent survey by the broadbandsearch website shows that every second 11 people use social media for the first time. The place where wireless energy brings us together is also a place where a totally innovative context ensues. We know that Einstein was a genius to be totally wrong in one of his statements and it shows us the evolution of humanity through the virtual platform is more than what we can see on our mobile screen. 

Daniela Urias.

Impact of Technology on Relationships

 Without a doubt, the advances in technology are very important for society, we are now able to know/search everything at any time, talk to people on the other side of the planet, but one the most perceivable upgrade is: social media. Those made a great evolution on communication, and with that, almost everything got easier, mainly relationships.

 We are living through some tough times, and more than ever we need social media to keep the world working, due to the fact that we can't go out of our houses, our best choice is to use video calls or similar things. But contrary to what many think, social media isn't made of just good things, everything has a downside. 

 We can assert that the human is a social being, we are always trying to keep our relationships with other people, and the social media is empirically perfect for it, you can talk whatever you want(or it is possible) and the high quantity of things you can do is great. 

 On the other hand, other kinds of things can happen during relationships, inside all kinds of social media can be any kind of disconcerting problems, such as: addiction, lies, antisocial behaviour, betrayals, detriment, harassment and many other ones. Above all, we should not permit social media to determine who we are, differentiation of both is very important. 

 We must comprehend that almost everything that we do has a downside, but the social media has more repercussion because this is something that basically follow us on our daily life, and we need to keep in mind that some people need our aid, and we should avoid all kinds to resolve, or maybe eradicate, all the problems involved with this. 

 Eduardo Quevedo Urias Proença.

Social-economic impacts of social media

                    

 There is not any more important start-up nowadays than social networking. Social media asserted its influence on business, society, entertainment and on much more elements of our lives. However, is this phenomenon worthy for us? 

 It is true that social networks usually have cases of fake profiles, fake news, it can be unhealthy, and it has the ability to pursue adolescents to go into a hyper-connected life. Nevertheless, social media has a huge potential on technology advancements, resolving issues, making stronger ties, aiding people who are fighting with themselves, and the most important, modifying thoughts and teaching some people how to be empathic.

 In a society, the function of social media is nothing more than to help people make acquaintances and stronger bonds, teenagers need to be aided by someone who does not get lost in themselves and have tools to help them.

 You can not disagree that social networks raise the economy to another level, people can buy and sell more easily, and make the economy stronger. Even though these are most notable features of the economic impacts of social media, there are some that need to get more notability, it is called crowdfunding, social networks made it much more easier, philanthropic entrepreneurs and companies had a harder time in the past, but today the repercussion of some crowdfunding objectives on internet made the income of venture capital very big, and made it easy to contact backers, and make a desire become true. 

 Summarizing, social media impacted a lot in the last years, both in economy and society, we need to make these tolls even more practice to utilize, and make a good use of it, it is on our hands, society just have to evolve it more and more, and fortunately we are able to do it. 

Felipe Pereira.

Online World

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As we witness the global situation nowadays, social networks have become targets of great influence and income generation.

 As a large part of the population already remains connected to the internet, the generation of monetary profitis has something viable.

 Due to the easy and the massive amount of connected users, shopping has become inevitable. A simple method, requires less tax and can still be concluded ‘’ inside your own home’’. However, not only did this area develop during this period, we can mention that the area gained prominence in this function. Why and how does it affect the physical business relationship? In fact, online commerce stands out for the reduction of tax imposed in the national network, in addition to being able to be carried out in stock and with a minimum number of employees. 

 During the use of any application or system, you may have come across advertisements, these remuneration is led by their services, leveraging the economy, since investments are easier to be collected when dealing with online networks.

 Pedro Augusto Pereira de Góes

            ANALYZING THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA.

 The advancement of social media strongly modifies our perception of the world, and during the corona virus crisis some aspects of this new way of life was highlighted. It is important to comprehend that this discussion was prior and circumstances evolve and polarized this question. On the intention of determine the ties between the daily life and repercussion of the internet, let us consider some basic aspects, as the business that comprise digital tools on their work could honor the acquaintances in detriment of those who didn’t, in a general way the social media made possible the approximation of entrepreneurs and backers allowed the rising of new start-ups, personalized by the clients necessity. As an example during the period of isolation consumers searching for quality change their internet services of big employment to local services of the internet, myself is included in this percentage, by the way. Another expressive factor to analyze is the health of people that constantly work with technology or recently have to adapt to it. Since the creation of the first computer to nowadays the resources available on this machine's upward increase, this new apparatus always promises to increase our productivity, so why, according to researchers, have we been spending more hours on social media? While these devices promise to engage the work, they also create a big distraction by confusing customers with the amount of sources, our hyper-connection, instead resolve problems and provide us more time, are seriously affecting our activities. Especially the way we communicate in relationships, Sherry Turkle in the ‘TedTalkconnected, but alone?’ assert that we are becoming narcissists, anti-social and less emphatic. This behavior nurtures adolescents all kinds of disconcerting new diseases, as FOMO (fear of missing out). A Research conducted in 2017 by the Royal Society for Public Health indicates that Britons aged 14 and 24 believe that Facebook, Instagran, Snapchat and Twitter have detrimental effects on their well-being. Even though there is a tangible part of the population not included on the Social Medias, showing that the equality outward by these devices derives from an empirical experience. It is true that all those devices depend on crowdfunding and venture capital to work and it can pursue developers to go over several ethical issues as was presented, but maybe a philanthropic aid could differentiate the advance of social media. 

Ana Julia Fernandes.

IMPACTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON BUSINESS

                                   IMPACTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON BUSINESS 

The businesses and the way people sell things has evolved since the development of social media. It is a fact that companies have grown due to the aid of the networking that shares the products, and influences people to buy. What causes a question to all of us, even though we know social media has good effects on some parts of the society, has it been impacting the business in a negative or positive way? Well, according to Kickstarter – one of the best sites related with crowdfunding – says that of the total projects that have been successfully funded on the site to date, 69% have raised less than $10,000. So, we can see that a person can raise money easily for small projects, which is a good point of social media on business, as long as a lot of people don't have enough money to start their own business. There is a report made by Life Marketing that states firmly how social media increased sales for three small businesses. This research presents the main topics that an entrepreneur needs to achieve his goal. First, you need to make a few questions to you, if the product is worthy and if it will benefit the buyers, furthermore, the seller also needs a good strategy about the way and how he will sell the product, and finally, have good marketing to pursue the client and to conclude the sale. In the end of the survey, it showed the profit about each case, which was very impressive, because any person can do that inside their houses and still can have excellent results. In conclusion, with my empirical knowledge and perception relative to the social media impact on business, and conform the data presented before, it has shown to be very positive. By the fact that the world is facing a pandemic period, the commerce has been falling, and with that, the stores are fighting to survive, included Talismã Acessórios, but thanks to the social medias like WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram, they resolved this issue, and in addition, modified the whole industry of sale and the way people will work forever. 

Igor Camargo.

     

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