Social Media: Changing Our Society

Social Media: Changing Our Society Electricity was first introduced to society hundreds of years ago; the way people communicate began to change in many different ways since then. New inventions helped people build more sophisticate tools to build better places to live and work. This new inventions changed the way we live now days; they make our lives much easier. In the decade of the 1920's when radio was first introduced to public, people begin buying it and using it more and more, as years passed by it become incredibly popular that most American families had a radio at their houses. They could spend hours with their families listening to music or their favorite shows. This was just the beginning of the revolution of social media. Throughout the years social media has reached a lot more people and has changed the way we communicate and interact with others, but it is changing the way we think too “Psychologists have also argued that digital technology is changing the way we think” (Derbyshire). The easy access to social media is causing alarming changes in the brains of society. The use of social media through computer and mobile devices has spread quickly, and its available almost for everyone around the world and currently, the two most prominent interfaces are Facebook and Twitter. Facebook allows users to create profiles and allows them to interact with each other and to share their interests between them. It allows them to build and maintain connections and invite others to join a community. In contrast, Twitter is a social media interface that enables users to share a limited amount of user-generated content, quickly and easily, to an extensive number of other users. With this interface, the communication exchange is central, and the creation and sharing of user profiles is not necessary, but Twitter can link to user profiles that exist on other social media interfaces. These two are the most common sites that people use to communicate and they spend

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