The Effects of Social Networking

How Obama Really Did It           Obama's campaign used social networking tools in order to bring him to the brink of presidency. One way that Obama's campaign did this was by developing a social networking site which provided information on Obama's achievements. Bringing Obama's campaign to the internet helped Obama gain recognition seeing as everyone goes on social media and everyone goes on the internet. His campaign brought information to Americans instead of Americans going out of their way to discover what plans Obama had for the United States at the time. Obama's campaign had discovered that by placing their plans for the country and their beliefs on social networking sights such as Facebook and MySpace, and their supporters word share it for them and spread the word.           Obama's online campaign helped bring in millions of dollars in donor money for organizations that needed the help and that needed to gain recogni...

Growing Up Online           The PBS presentation "Growing Up Online" highlights the dangers and concerns of social media as well as how it changed future generations and society as a whole. This presentation provides the positives of social media as well as the negatives. Some positive impacts that social media and the internet have had on society is the ability to obtain tons of information right at your fingertips as well as how means of communication have become a lot more convenient. Because of social media and the internet as a whole, people are capable of sending out emails rather than going face to face to talk to someone or by making a phone call. Students are capable of searching the web for information that they need to obtain for their assignments instead of looking through numerous amounts of textbooks or just simply not having access to information at all. Teenagers are using social media as a way to express themselves in a way they don't fee...