Social Media Usage
Social Media Usage
TECHNOLOGY
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SUBJECT: SOCIAL MEDIA USAGE
CONTENTS
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Intro
-Article Reviews
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Research Objectives
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Research Methods
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Research Findings
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Conclusion
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References
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INTRODUCTION
Internet is like a box of chocolates, you will never know what you will get, due to every
platform’s uniqueness. Social media is a controversy topic in today’s society. Some people think
that social media destroys human interaction and real-life human relationships. While others
think that social media is a bless to humanity. Social media makes human interaction much more
convenient and much faster than real life human interaction, it makes globalization a reality, it
gives a chance for introverted people to express themselves, and it also benefit develop
Social media has made communication a lot more easier than ever before. Now, with a
touch of a button people could communicate with anybody anywhere in the world. There are
about 2.77 billion social media users around the globe in 2019, these accounts makes almost all
of the countries of the world connected with each other. Social media is a very common in today’s
modern world, social media is considered to be one of humanity’s greatest achievements and
accomplishments. Therefore, we as a group decided to collect and study the social media usage
ARTICLE REVIEWS
Review on article Social Media Use for News and Individuals’ Social Capital, Civic
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Social media is becoming a more popular internet platform due to the rising of Social Network
Sites (SNS) such as Myspace. So with the rising of such social media sites, the questions that
arises are do these help us to be more informed, find common causes or participate in public
more often, or is it that it fosters shallower relationships and distracts people from public
affairs. This study the effect of informational motivations for using any type of SNS and focus
on information about public affairs that is communicated through online network sites, such as
when individuals learn about opportunities for community work, discuss information about hot
political issues, and share links to stories on social media.1 Also, this study goes into the effects
behaviours. In addition to these political antecedents, media use and informal discussion
networks are found to be related to the production of social capital, and to individuals'
participation in civic and political causes2. Individuals with larger networks participate more
because they are more likely to be exposed to people who have higher levels of education.
These educated individuals provide knowledge and expertise that engages citizen. This paper
relies on an original survey data collected in the U.S. between December 15, 2008, and January
5, 2009. The survey instrument was administered using Qualtrics, a web survey software, and
was pilot-tested before actual fieldwork. Four variables are explored, which are social capital,
civic participation, offline political participation and online political participation. This
analysis also includes the following variables such as social-demographic variables, news
media use, general SNS use, online network size, political knowledge, and internal political
efficacy. The hypotheses were tested using four sets of hierarchical OLS regressions, one for
each dependent variable. After getting the results, it is supported that the hypothesis predicted
that SNS use for news surveillance would significantly increase social capital is true. It is also
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proven that the important role of SNS use for news in predicting civic participation. Both
hypothesis 3 and 4 on informational use of SNS use for news had a significant and positive
association with both online and offline political participation is true. Informational use of SNS
exerted a significant and positive impact on individuals' activities aimed at engaging in civic
benefits of sarahah apps is it can protect your privacy on sarahah. This app also will help
enhance your area of strength, strengthen, areas for improvement ay your workplace and with
friends, it will help improve your friendship by discovering your strengths and areas for
improvement and let your friends be honest with you, that why this sarahah protect your
privacy because the people who get the message don’t know who the massager. Sarahah also
can help your businesses improve service. Sarahah also good for your mental health. Why
sarahah good for mental health because if you getting negative feedback activates the same
area of the brain as physical pain does and can release chemicals to ease suffering in the same
way it would if you were injured. The people who are willing to be brave enough to do work
and make that commitment and questions themselves are immensely more successfully,
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Disadvantages Of Sarahah Apps
The disadvantages of sarahah apps is your age, because there are currently no age restrictions
published in the terms of services of the messaging app. However, the iTunes app store
recommends user should be 17 years old to download the app. The worse is things about
sarahah is that you can’t replay to anyone. Anyone can search you and start bullying you and
then all you can do is just get humiliated. You cannot keep a check on who is saying what about
you. And the worse is like other apps, it doesn’t even offer calling option. The last is you will
hurt by the comment to you because some people will say a good but there a some people write
the comment is not good and cannot detect who the people write the comment, I could be your
best friends or your siblings, that’s why sarahah is the most complicated for who used it. 5
Advantanges
[Link] Informed
Posting information about the community allows followers to keep in touch with current
events. Community posts often include traffic reports, weather, local news, special events,
restaurant reviews and other information useful to locals and visitors. 6Large scale events, from
television shows to natural disasters, become the topics of enough posts and discussion to
appear as Twitter "Trending Topics," giving Twitter users an idea of what is current, important
and popular.7
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[Link] and Outreach
Individuals, businesses and organizations can use Twitter to promote their products and provide
services about the brands.8 Many businesses have integrated Twitter and other social
networking tools into their customer service and support systems.9Businesses can reward those
who spread a positive message, often with a simple expression of gratitude.10 Negative
coverage can often be circumvented by reaching out to unhappy customers to help resolve their
issues.11
Twitter allows you to establish a direct relationship between celebrities and their fans.12 Beside
that,many public figures have Twitter accounts in which they publish information related to
their work and personal life.13 In this way, your followers can feel closer to them.
Disadvantages
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Scammers create Twitter accounts to perform a variety of tasks such as posting links with
unrelated tweets, posting duplicate updates, and providing links to websites that promote
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phishing practices and malware.14 As much as Twitter strives to protect subscribers from
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The main disadvantage of Twitter is becomes [Link] you start to use Twitter ,you will
get more involved into Twitter.15So,when you become twitter addictive it will wastes your
precious time and it will consume your most valuable time .16
[Link] Limits
Twitter limits each tweet to 140 characters.17 Unlike some social networks, a tweet that exceeds
140 characters cannot be posted. In addition, you can only send a maximum of 1,000 tweets a
day.18 Even retweets count as tweets and make up your daily total number of allowed posts. 19
TikTok users can create content such as short videos of themselves lip-syncing to songs, or
acting out comedy sketches, with a database of music, effects and sound bites from which to
choose. - The app has been “held up as a space somehow free from the vitriol and danger of
other social media networks for the teenagers. It is an app of anti-stress the allows teen to freely
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express their feeling by choosing a song that is suitable with their emotions. In this way, kids
Following the introduction of a number of new features, TikTok emerged in its negative side
of users. The app has now transported you into the worlds of regular teenagers whose videos
have thousands of likes and hundreds of supportive comments. But there are some issues that
have been criticize of the app. Bullying and trolls have been swarm into TikTok which the
reason is why the issues rise. Young users have complained on the platform about other people
repeatedly trolling them over because of video that they make. Other issues also include young
girl dances in skimpy clothes or imitates sexy dances, hopping for respond people in the
comments either asking them to continue making these kinds of videos, saying they’re sexy or
asking for their Snapchat or DM [to direct message]. Some of these girls are not even ten years
old.
Reddit is an entertainment and news website where users can share content. The site displays
a long list of posts, which can include links to articles elsewhere on the web or posts in the
form of texts.20 The site is divided into subreddits, with each user choosing which subreddits
they would like to subscribe to according to interest.21 These include general political threads
for individual countries, a music subreddit where links to music may be shared or more
miscellaneous threads such as ‘Shower Thoughts’, which contains a range of often amusing or
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paradoxical musings by Reddit users.22 The essence of Reddit is the upvote system. Users can
either upvote or downvote a post according to their opinion of it. The more upvotes a post gets,
the more prominently it will be displayed on the site. The comments on the site are as important
as the posts themselves, and can become extended discussion forums for issues highlighted
WeChat article.
WeChat are the instant messaging application from Guangzhou Research Center in early 2011
from TenCent company. The sudden rapid boost of user starts from the difficulty of Chinese
people to enter Chinese characters on a smartphone which the WeChat have ability of talk and
record a voice message.24 The most used feature of the WeChat in china are mobile which we
can use WeChat wallet to pay the different Is that the bicycle does not require a docking station
which the bike actually have the ability to use user phone that connect it to determine the
bicycle location that why it doesn't need gaps or other fancy things. The second feature is that
WeChat wallet which have more than 600 million active users, while Alibaba Alipay is 450
million the reason is that users can use it to close, buying things, collecting money, renting, be
invested through WeChat, donations and other charities.25 The third feature are the buying
branded product online which like Dior a famous brand for women handbag which they launch
the limited-edition handbag only for sale in WeChat which all 10,000 pieces sell off in 1 day.
The forth is that WeChat has the flexibility to connect to 85,000 other app which is so many if
you compare to app like WhatsApp’s or Facebook. WeChat have been building the ecosystem
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for the third-party companies to develop function and service within the WeChat apps.26 The
average of daily user time spent on WeChat are 66 minute which was research taken at 2016.
WeChat have 900 million user and about 800 million daily user and almost 60% of the daily
user life depend on this app which actually is a bad thing which is this app when down suddenly
will surely make their life totally chaos. 27There are around of 60% of people open WeChat
more than 10 time a day and active more than 1 hour. WeChat let people contact each other
more easily but also at the same time have ignore people in exchanging feeling, emotion and
idea in real life. Beside that WeChat also contain some violent, pornographic talk picture that
will do a long-term harm to the life of teenage and easily get influence by the bad thing and
make them easily influence and addicted to the social media at a very early age. The result is
that the teenage society will have a significant negative effect like fighting with friend, fall in
love in secondary school, speaking bad word and doing drug. Next is that WeChat allow strange
to add each other with the shake feature from the WeChat app which if teenage use it they
won’t think much about danger of meeting stranger in somewhere else.28 Beside that the
problem of many teenage that have bad eye sight have increase among the teenage because of
they are facing the smartphone and television for a very longtime for a day. Another thing is
that there is scammers and spammers all over WeChat which are really annoying which they
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In this era of technological and information revival, there are many social media created to
facilitate the daily lives of people regardless age, religion, race and nation. This includes the
creation of social media such as Tumblr. After nearly ten years Tumblr is one of the main social
networking systems available. And with over 300 million blogs and over 550 million people
visiting the site each month, it would seem that Tumblr would be great place to advertise your
business, be it online or a brick and mortar shop. But what are the advantages and disadvantages
of using this Tumblr? Let’s elaborate on the effect in the next paragraph.30
Social networking tool is one of the advantages of using Tumblr is that unlike many sites used
for blogs, WordPress, and the like. This means that as you gain followers, other people can be
exposed to your advertisement. This means with little work on your side you add can travel
much further on “word of mouth”.31 In addition, the options Tumblr has to integrate SEO
options. SEO is stands for “Search Engine Optimization” which is the process of getting traffic
from the “free”,” organic”, “editorial” or “natural” search results on search engines. This allows
you to track using Google Analytics, or other options to see when someone click on your
Tumblr ads. Then, the great advantages of using this social media is that is simple to use and
setup. You do not have to be great coder to get something fitting setup. However, if you do
know what you are doing you can customize it even more to get a more unique page customized
to your business. 32
Every use of social media comes with the disadvantages of its use, as well as Tumblr. One of
the disadvantages of using Tumblr is age restriction. Some of the risk of using Tumblr to
promote your blog involves that fact that you may on occasion come across inappropriate
content. Tumblr allows user to post adult content and this may make creating a safe
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environment for expressing ideas to all ages an inadequate option. The lack of reporting feature
on Tumblr makes it more difficult for users to report content deemed illegal or abusive. Users
must email support with concern about specific blogs and users. Next, Domain-Based Hosting.
Tumblr requires you to use the Tumblr platform and servers to host your blog. 33 WordPress,
Blogger and other platforms provide options for hosting a blog using the software on your own
website, allowing greater control over the up-time and content uploaded to the blog and saved
within backup archives. On a domain-based blog, you can keep all the images and content on
your own server without needing to rely upon Tumblr to host your content. The ability to host
your own blog would provide users with more privacy as well. This feature can sometimes be
abused, especially by people who have a large number of followers or tend to their own
work/opinions. It can even lead to cyber-bullying. You do have the option to turn this feature
off, so if you start to receive anonymous messages that you don’t like, you don’t have to
Facebook article
Facebook a 19 year old Mark Zuckerberg launch a site at Harvard sophomore on February 4,
2004 called the [Link] it was an instant famous app which we see now day as a social
media app.35 The site has become one of the biggest web sites in the world, visited by
1.74billion people a month which are taken from 2017 research. The main feature of Facebook
is advertising and promote your own business by creating a page for your product or service
first sign up an account and select for business or company. Second is add picture for profile
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and cover then explore the page, add some description about the product or the company.
Lastly is that create a username that are easy to remember and unique from other.36 The second
feature are the Facebook Live, where you can stream live videos the benefit is that it provides
unique of its own kind in the video. The second benefit are it easier because we don’t need to
learn video editing and illustration.37 The last are can better connect with the audience. The
third feature are news feed which is the place where we often see new information, global
We can access to global info within our phone within a second which is the most useful feature
in Facebook. The way that news feed work is that it has a score system which calculate which
type of things that you consume often so that it will predict the next news feed.39 The bad side
of Facebook are when we spend a lot time on social media, we will be less interacting with
our nearby people which make our relationship worse. Other effects of Facebook are that using
Facebook make us loss sleep which come from the addiction to the Facebook.40 Why we so
addicted to Facebook are because of every time we see Facebook our brain release dopamine
because we see the notification that reward us with like, comment and praise. Dopamine is a
chemical in our brain that give us pleasure from food, drug, and sex usually. In theory
dopamine sound nice but it also responsible for so many self-destructive behaviors. 41 Next bad
side of Facebook are there are fake news problem which mostly occur when someone that
doesn't do some research on the news and just help share the post and make other confuse and
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panic. The forth bad benefit of Facebook is that we are obsess with refreshing Facebook news
feed because the news feed is made to be like a lottery machine that keep us scroll the news
feed which use our natural curiosity of fear of missing out interesting things of our friend
share. We check our friend message even when we drive car to not miss out interesting things
that our friend sent us even though we know what we did is dangerous. So here is the bad
benefit of Facebook. 42
WhatsApp Advantages
Send to anyone Document files upto 100Mb such as PDF, Slideshows, etc.
It has also the features to delete the message that you have sent (So He/She
won’t be able to read what you have sent to them) in period of 1 hour.
It imports the contacts from your phone and tells you that how many of your
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You can share your location, photos, status, images, documents, videos with
your friends.
It do work without sim card, Only if your (Mobile No) account already registered.
You need not spend any money for chatting and sharing with your friends
It shows that your message sent or not and the receiver has received or read
the message. (single tick for sent and double tick for delivered, grey is for
delivered and blue is to show that the message is read by the person).
It also shows that the receiver received your voice message and listened to it.
One of the best feature is that it provides an easy way to change your number
App interface of WhatsApp is very simple and user-friendly, that’s why it is very
easy to use.
It has also extended it’s services for using direct in web browser and in Desktop
It’s saves your money by reducing normal Text and Multimedia messages
cost.44
WhatsApp Disadvantages
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It can be annoying sometimes due to constant messages.
You must have access to internet to send and receive messages for free
In a group only the Group-Admin can add the persons / give admin title to other
Your profile picture is visible to every person having your contact number.
WhatsApp is addictive. Once you get addicted to it, it’s very difficult to get over
WhatsApp addiction.
You need to share your number in case you want to add someone and
communicate.45
Advantages of Instagram
Instagram is one of the most popular platforms today that enables photo sharing and social
networking online. You can take photos or videos, then send them to Instagram, a simple and
fast, beautiful and fun way to share your life with friends and family. 46 It enhances the artistic
ability by taking pictures, it improves communication with people. You can also advertise your
own product if you have a business or shop, by taking a picture of the past product and posting
So, new followers or users can see about business products and connect with business brands.
When you take a photo, upload it and it will be uploaded automatically or posted to your
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Facebook account. Instagram is a valuable social media medium in the future, especially for
business purposes because marketing and strategy methods are rigid but higher feedback and
positive effects are very good. The images used in visual marketing, Images help to make it
easier for customers to know about the product and through Instagram. Businesses via
Instagram can start and have a small customer community and it will grow rapidly, Product
sellers can manage real customer attitudes from ordinary buyers to regular buyers or customers,
Disadvantages of Instagram
The photos can be manipulated using several effects so that uploaded images can attract buyers
to buy the product. Instagram allows users to adjust the image size and enhance the picture
quality by using some filter effects like Early Bird and X-Pro II, these gadgets and features can
can lose copyright ownership, Instagram is a great place to store, capture and share photos but
fear from Facebook using Instagram to generate income to make the photographers rethink
how they use photo sharing applications.48The copyright of the displayed picture will be easy
to lose, It one of the risks of using social media and for business marketing, the photos of their
products can repost or copy for others using it without asking for permission, And people can
These days, the majority of us will be us are utilizing web based life in their everyday lives.
From youthful age until the old age. Be that as it may, online networking is being mishandled.
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Before utilizing it we need to know the destinations of online life. Above all else, online life is
worked to interfacing each other particularly who lives far with their family. It will less demand
for them to remain associating. Furthermore, Social media is additionally for them who are
kept running up a business. With online networking, business people can spread their news of
their business until the abroad and get an opportunity to open new wings of their business.
Finally, web-based social networking is for us to know the most recent news in our reality.
With web based life regardless of where we will be, we can peruse the news utilizing internet
based life.
RESEARCH METHODS
To collect the data and information of this study, we visited the Mahsa University library to
research some references on social media. The library contains various references such as
scientific books, newspaper, magazines and so on. Furthermore, important aspects have been
noted based on the references obtained. With this, information and references material
religions and races. Through this method, we learn more about the public’s view of the uses
We also use the rapidly expanding information technology facilities in our country by
navigating websites related to the title given which is the use of social media. In fact, we also
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download the material as references to assist our research. This with the information we have
obtained from the internet through it can further strengthen our research.
RESEARCH FINDINGS
2 Accounts
18%
4 Or More Accounts
44%
3 Accounts
27%
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How many times a day do you look at social media?
Not Everyday
13%
10 or more times a
day
40%
2 – 5 times a day
22%
5 – 10 times a day
25%
Not Everyday 2 – 5 times a day 5 – 10 times a day 10 or more times a day
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How often do you spend on social media?
30 – 60 minutes
26%
3 hours or more
52%
1 – 2 hours
12%
2 – 3 hours
10%
12%
During social
Any spare moments occasions
48% 22%
Meal times
18%
Whilst at school/work During social occasions Meal times Any spare moments
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When do you access social media?
I. Never (7 Respondent)
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Do you check social media before you get out of bed?
No
22%
Yes
78%
Yes No
b. No (11 Respondent)
Yes
93%
Yes No
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2. No (10 Respondent)
Keeping In Touch
With Friends And
Family
48%
Shopping
31%
3. News (7 Respondent)
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Has social media effected a relationship friend/family/romantic?
No
9%
Yes
91%
Yes No
2. No (18 Respondent)
Yes
90%
Yes No
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II. No (20 Respondent)
CONCLUSION
Internet based life is an extremely helpful and imperative convey arrange for every one of the
general population these days. We can utilize it to know companions and keep contact with
companions that originated from various nations. We can likewise share our thoughts so rapidly
with the goal that every one of the things could grow so quick since individuals could disclose
to us their thoughts and we could enhance it promptly. We could likewise adapt new things via
web-based networking media by watching or perusing the things that individuals shared onto
the internet based life. Individuals could likewise move things via web-based networking media
There are more favorable circumstances for utilizing web based life, be that as it may, there is
dependably focal points and burdens for a thing. As online life is unreasonably advantageous
for individuals, practically a large portion of them don't need to 'stand up' to speak with
individuals. Never again, individuals will lost their relational abilities. The more difficult issue
is numerous individuals used the intensity of web based life and utilized it to menace
somebody. The intensity of online networking is additionally same as the one, all things
considered. A tad bit of them utilized web based life to do things that illegal, which is a trick
conduct. Online networking changed our life to such an extent. Our life turned out to be
increasingly advantageous on the grounds that web based life is a valuable instrument for us in
21st century, it could assist us with improving our life. Be that as it may, we need to mindful
of how we use them. On the off chance that we could utilize the web based life shrewdly,
having internet based life will turn into a decent change for us.
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