Social Media Summaries

SM Summaries 002

Social Media

1. Summary 1

In the article entitled “Posting personal experiences on social media may help you remember them in the future”, the author, Susan Kelley, talks about how social media can be functioned to facilitate human memory. Based upon a study conducted by Cornell University, an expert in personal memory found out the posting process on social media contributed to deepening a persons’ reflection on their experience, and people tend to recollect. these memories more easily For example, Facebook provides users previously posted pictures to remind them what was happening at that time periodically. Especially, interactive functions built-in on many social media can be more helpful when users recall these posted events as opposed to those not posted online. The sense of interaction online whose formation accounts for commenting and sharing experiences, facilitate their memories. A research study, “Externalizing the autobiographical self: sharing personal memories online facilitated memory retention,” was launched to test such function of social media. The result shows that people are more likely to recall things posted online regardless of what kind of things. The author points out that this study on social media has impact on construction of "the autobiographical self" in today’s digital era. (Tianyu Chen)

Reference
Cornell University. (2016, September 7). Posting personal experiences on social media may help you remember them in the future. ScienceDaily. Retrieved September 8, 2016 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160907143204.htm

2. Summary 2

According to the article, “Why dads get tough on social media and moms don’t” by Joe Dziemianowicz, a new survey, which was conducted by workingmother.com, revealed that half of employed dads are more likely to roil a social media platform in terms of posting disputed opinions, compared to working mums. This study also shows that more than a half of both mums and dads avoid triggering blowback in the workplace, while mums feel less threatened than dads from official backlash when they share comments on social media. Some participating working parents thought they had suffered from impertinent behavior through social media, and involved dads seem to be more sensitive to criticism than mums. The author cited words from an editorial director of Working Mother Media to indicate that the difference between mums and dads accounts for mums’ wisdom on dealing with online attackers. Mums are willing to guide options on social media towards positive instead of string it. (Tianyu Chen)

Reference
Dziemianowicz, J. (2016, September 13). Why dads get tough on social media and moms don’t. New York Daily News. Retrieved September 13, 2016 from http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/dads-tough-social-media-moms-don-article-1.2790443

3. Summary 3

According to the article,” Stressed at Work? Tell It to Social Media”, the author emphasizes that social media is a good tool to track how employed persons feel about stress when they are in a workplace. By filtering key words related to work in tweets, researchers found out tweets related with work and stress soared to a peak at the beginning of a week and gradually fell off through Thursday. There was a rapid decline on Friday, which means employees were ready to enjoy the weekend and expressed less negative feeling related to work. It is interesting that trends of posting stress-related tweets grew since Saturday and it increased remarkably on the last day of a week, because people began to worry about the coming tedious work. However, positive tweet analysis turned out a nuance. The lowest decrease rate of positive tweets was obtained in the middle of a week, which shows self-adjustment can help an employee raise hope even if they suffered from work. The author suggested employers follow up on what employees posted on social media so that they could clearly know about workers’ stress levels. It’s helpful for managers to assign work based on this research and to keep workers energetic. (Tianyu Chen)

Reference
Palmquist, M. (2016, September 15). Stressed at work? Tell it to social media. Strategy+Business. Retrieved September 15, 2016 from http://www.strategy-business.com/blog/Stressed-at-Work-Tell-It-to-Social-Media?gko=eab8b

4. Summary

The article described the significance of social media in marketing of a product. According to this article, social media creates a positive idea to the customer to buy B2B product. A salesperson can communicate effectively through social media to sell a product. This article also describes the effect of social media on the satisfaction of the customers. The authors also encourage the manager of a company to use social media for advertising their products. (Rafikul Islam)

References
Agnihotri, R., Dingus, R., Hu, M. Y., & Krush, M. T. (2016). Social media: Influencing customer satisfaction in B2B sales. Industrial Marketing Management, 53, 172-180.

5. Summary

This article describes the challenges and opportunities of social media in business. There are opportunities in Facebook, different blogs, Twitter, and YouTube in business of a firm. The description of each social media was done in this article. This article also gives some advice to the company regarding how to use social media effectively for their business. According to this article, a company should choose social media carefully, and they need to think about whether it is helpful or not for their business. They need to also think about whether social media is accessible to all or only for few people. (Rafikul Islam)

Reference
Kaplan, A. M., & Haenlein, M. (2010). Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of Social Media. Business Horizons, 53(1), 59-68.

6. Summary III: Social Media

This article encourages the firms to use social media. According to this article, social media significantly influences the firm’s reputation. Social media also impacts the firm’s sale and survival. The authors define the social media by using seven building blocks: uniqueness, discussions, sharing, existence, associations, status, and groups. These building blocks help the firms in a different way. Finally, the authors discuss their recommendation for the development of strategies for monitoring the various types of social media. (Rafikul Islam)

References
Kietzmann, J. H., Hermkens, K., McCarthy, I. P., & Silvestre, B. S. (2011). Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social media. Business Horizons, 54(3), 241-251.

7. Summary on the social media #2

This article is talking about the positive and negative impacts of communication on Facebook. First of all, the author mentioned some positive points of using Facebook. Facebook allows people to communicate with each other no matter how far away two people are. Some people may argue that telephones are also able to do this task. However, people can send messages immediately to receivers whether they are online through Facebook. In addition, people can update their lives by posting a picture or some words, no matter where they are. Another positive point is that Facebook is able to find your old friends by simply typing their names into the search engine. Last but not least, people are able to develop their interests by reading other people’s posts or likes.

Here are some negative impacts that the author mentioned. First of all, people tend to feel jealous if they do not participate in the activity that their friends post about. They would wonder why they were not invited and feel depressed and jealous on this event. Secondly, some people may post some inappropriate words to others. Normally, these words are impossible to be said in front of people. Finally, Facebook is too convenient for people. They interact with other people through Facebook rather than face to face. In this situation, people would decrease their social abilities, especially the young men who need to develop this skill.

In conclusion, with the moderate use, Facebook is a good tool for communication. Heavy use of Facebook could bring some negative impacts to the users. (Cheng Ta Cho)

Reference:
Shlokinani. (2012). Effects of Facebook on Communication – Its impact and study. GoCompu. Retrieved September 13, 2016, from https://gocompu.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/effects-of-facebook-on-communication-its-impact-and-study/

8. Summary on the social media

This article is talking about how social media affects student life. The appearance of social media promotes the flow of information, and knowledge into different countries, and then a so-called global village comes into the shape. Communication with others in a long distance or even in different countries becomes possible through the social media. We can do lots of things on the social media such as connecting with a friend in a different country, making new friends, uploading the picture, and so on. Although social media brings up lots of advantages, we still cannot neglect the negative impacts of it. These impacts are remarkable upon students, mainly because of the ‘’identity crisis.’’ Students can create a virtual identity through the social media, and it gives them freedom to do what they want. When one of their friends posts a certain thing, they would be forced to do the same thing. As a result, their behaviors would greatly be affected by their friends from the internet rather than teachers. In addition, the more time students stay on the social media, the more vulnerable they would be, and the more affected by others’ posts. The most important point is that students should spend most of the time on learning, extracurricular activities, and normal social activities by face to face instead of spending too much time on the social media. In conclusion, although social media brings lots of advantages to students, they still need to control themselves and use it in an effective way so that they can enjoy the convenience and pleasure that social media gives without disregarding their learning. (Cheng Ta Cho)

Reference:　
Karadkar, A. (2015, September 13). The impact of social media on student life. Technicianonline. Retrieved September 08, 2016, from http://www.technicianonline.com/opinion/article_d1142b70-5a92-11e5-86b4-cb7c98a6e45f.html

9. Summary

In the article entitled, “Driving or talking? The brain concentrates on one thing at a time”, the author talks about how the brain will reduce hearing when we concentrate on something that requires the use of sight. Although the brain is effective and efficient for us to concentrate on something that we need to do, the brain doesn’t have the ability to deal with too many tasks at the same time. For example, some policies state that a driver cannot talk while driving, because the brain cannot handle talking while driving. Furthermore, an experience was carried out, and thirty-two students from Linkoping University took part in this study. Some of them were in calm surroundings and others were with distracting background noise. All of them were given a visual task to work on. The result showed that the nerves’ response in the brain to sound decreased as the difficulty of the task increased. However, this result suggests that many possible paths will be studied for further work. (Yiting Dong)

Reference:
Linköping Universitet. Driving or talking? The brain concentrates on one thing at a time. ScienceDaily.. Retrieved on 7 September 2016 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160907082054.htm

11. Summary of the social media#3

As we know social medial brings lots of advantages to people; however, it also has some negative effect on people. First of all, it can be difficult for people to tell the real relationship from the virtual relationship through social media. Heavy users may lose the connection with important people such as their friends or families. In addition, cyber-bulling is another issue. Anonymousness makes people to assault or verbal attack easier than before. Even some famous singers or actors could not take those attacks and committed the suicide. Another negative point that social medial gives us is that low productivity. For example, when workers are on the duty, they would look at their phone to check the social media for several time during the office hour. Obviously, it would greatly reduce the productivity. Finally, posting too much personal information would let you lose your privacy. Your social media accounts may be hacked easily and stolen your personal items such as credit cards. (Cheng-Ta Cho)

Reference: Jung, B. (n.d.). The Negative Effect of Social Media on Society and Individuals. Retrieved September 15, 2016, from http://smallbusiness.chron.com/negative-effect-social-media-society-individuals-27617.html


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