Title & Description of Research Topic

Title: The Social Media Age and Its Waves of Influence on Society

My term paper’s topic will be discussing a specific area of new media technology and its impact on society. I would like to research the impact social media has on today’s society and the positive and negative consequences of using it on a daily basis. I hope to discuss 5-6 positive impacts that it has brought forth and 5-6 negative ones, if I may perhaps find any more that seem extremely interesting, I will definitely include it within the essay. Some of the benefits of social media to society that I plan on researching are providing a platform for safety information (weather warnings), generating voices for its many users, professional networks (job/career search through social media outlets), linking with anyone potentially worldwide, providing an even playing field for small businesses, and an outlet to introduce and heighten brand image. Some of the disadvantages that I may discuss within this paper will be higher chances of identity theft, cyber-bullying, reductions of face to face connections, privacy issues, and social media addiction. Social media is truly incredible with the amount of changes it has brought forth to the habits of human beings all around the globe in such a short amount of time, which makes writing about the positives and negatives of it an extremely important part of this essay. I want to make sure that I use interesting and out of the box ideas that help illuminate into social media’s influence.