Social media

 

When it comes to social media the online landscape has changed immensely since I was a child. When I look at it the dynamics of public opinion have also changed immensely, it changed from, be very careful of everything you do or say online and that it’s not all that important for everyday life. Then once the iPhone came out and so did myspace and Facebook, the ideas around social media in my sibling’s generation as millennials and mine as the very beginning of gen z started to look at the internet and social media completely different from that of my parents. Communication strategies have also changed a great amount also.  Companies have in recent years started to look at communication in the workplace different not just on the public sector of things. For instance, companies are using teams and other online meeting locations like zoom to hold meetings or talk to coworkers. When you look at the private sector or personal usage. People are now talking to people online more and more. You have dating apps social media like snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and a lot more. In fact, there was a study done about how 45% of men have never approached a woman in person. “In the entire dataset, 29% of men said they never approached a woman in person before. 27% said it had been more than one year. This was larger for men in the age 18-25 group: 45% had never approached a woman in person.” (DatePsychology, 2025). With that being said I am unsure how accurate or true this study is. But it goes to show that most men or women feel more comfortable talking to others online.

There are also some potential implications for society, democracy, and other interpersonal relationships. For instance, social media platforms give millions of people the ability to voice their opinions on everything like what cake is better to the dress is blue and black not white and gold, all the way to political topics.  There are a great many things that could be said about the implications of social media in the current political climate and how the current president like to use his social media. That could be considered bad for one view and good for the other and vice versa. Social media also allows democracy to have now an even larger voice, to give an example, there was a very popular social media influencer who testified before a Senate committee about the second amendment. And then there is the implications of how it can affect interpersonal relationships. People can say or do almost anything they want on social media, which can have great cause and effect on interpersonal relationships.

MyStateline. (2023, September 28). Almost half of young men have never approached a woman romantically, study finds. https://www.mystateline.com/news/national/almost-half-of-young-men-have-never-approached-a-woman-romantically-study/.