Social Media Impacts on Interpersonal Relationships In accordance to basic social science, interpersonal relationship has been defined as either a short term or long term association existing between two people or even more (Arnold & Boggs, 45). This essay looks at both sides of the coin in regard to the impacts of social media which basically encompasses Facebook, Instagram, twitter and more others as a tool for building health interpersonal relationships. The contrast argument however states that social media has been an agent when it comes to hindering interpersonal relationships. Well, human beings are basically social creatures with natural desires which eventually drive them to connect with others. Without fear of contradiction, social network popularity has really made positive impacts when it comes to the manner in which human being interact every day (Arnold & Boggs, 45). Among many types of interactions necessitated by social media, romantic relationships are the core. Research has revealed that courtship has changed from the old way of initiation where people had to look for each other and converse to just an instant message…
Social Marketing Introduction The way in which businesses and companies carry out their operations has been transformed by the idea of social marketing. Presence of many websites in the market has facilitated instant feedback whether positive or negative. Those people who receive and influence the goods and services of the business world have been given the power (Honeyman, 2008). This is viewed by Philip Kotler and Sidney Levy during the inception of social marketing in 1969. According to the video released by The Health Communication Capacity Collaboration, lucky strike secrets are rebranded and smoking as the ultimate symbol of winning deliberation. Campaigns that influence the consumer behavior are to be designed. Social and behavior change communication are the approaches needed today. Some areas have used and realized the success of social marketing, for example, requisition of marketing, and national mass media where individuals have been helped to develop healthy behaviors. Social marketing has four main principles. They include; the product which may be tangible or intangible, the price which is the consumer’s investment (Pantane, 2016), the actual platform for product’s distribution…
Social Media and Body Image The wellbeing of an individual is drawn from several life aspects. Body image, for example, is essential in the determination of the comfort that an individual develops after accepting the shape of their body. The acceptance of an individual’s body image plays a crucial role in their mental well being as well as social interaction. One of the most aspects of life that create an impact on the degree of accepting one’s body image is social media. The development of technology came with social media that allows people to interact with a variety of people. The impact of social media has, however, received different perspectives from different people, causing a debate that has existed for several years. One side of the debate argues that social media is responsible for most cases of low esteem that happens when individuals find their friends to be more attractive. However, the other side of the debate holds the positive side of the argument by claiming that social media offers a platform where people find the need to be…
Social Media and Loneliness It is important to understand social media plays a vital part in connecting human beings as well as developing correlations with influencers as well as journalists. Additionally, social media takes part in offering a considerable opportunity to develop customer service by gathering input, answering questions, as well as listening to their feedbacks. Precisely, social media pertains to connecting with other individuals. However, a new research depicts that too much social media contributes to not only loneliness but also disconnection. In spite of the fact that social media has become a mainstream medium, studies indicate Internet utilization is connected with mitigated social networks as well as heightened loneliness. Some scholars maintain that the use of social media leads to negative effects on people’s relationships that replace face-to-face contacts. Specifically, this contributes to increased los of depth that is vital as compared to breadth for psychological well-being, which in turn results in heightened loneliness. Current research shows that individuals who use social media and have many online friends are lonelier as compared to those who do not. The…
Managing Business Failure Several options would have been employed to save the situation facing Youcastr. Generally, Youcastr failed due to poor management and not because it lacked resources. Therefore, the assets associated with the firm would be essential in coming up with solutions. The first option would be taking bank loans. Banks always provide loans to established firms, and Youcastr was already established. Moreover, Youcastr failed in two main fields that would have been managed for proper cooperation. Youcastr management failed to pay attention to revenue management. A better option would have been to invest in revenue-generating ventures instead of building on costly ventures (Barringer, 2015). One of the ways of raising revenue for investment would have been borrowing money from friends and relatives. Also, the firm was formed as a result of the meeting of three partners. The partners would contribute towards lifting the revenue ability of the firm. Moreover, the customer network would have been engaged to maintain their loyalty to the firm. The failure of Youcastr began when customers started losing their loyalty towards the firm.…
Ratio analysis of Barry Computer Company Please grant me the permission to give analysis and recommendation of Berry company ratio analysis as compared to that of the ratios prevailing in the industry. The ratio that am analyzing include profitability ratio, turnover ratio and liquidity ratio (Houston, 2009, p. 90). In terms of liquidity ratio in which I will consider quick and current ratio. Current ratio in Barry Company is 1.98 lower compare to that one of the industry of 2.0, it is recommended that it should be at least 2.0, so Berry Company is stable. Quick ratio in Berry company is 1.25 compared to1.3 of industry there being stable because the company can be able to pay current liabilities from its liquid assets. In terms of efficiency ratios, Barry Company holds stock for long by 28 days more than the industry which indicates lower level of sales. The Barry company inventory turnover ratio is lower which will lead to lower profitability compared to the industry turnover ratio. The total asset turnover of Barry Company indicates that lower sales are being…
VIOLENT AND NON-VIOLENT CRIME RATE AS REFLECTED BY SOCIAL MEDIA Abstract Do the local social media reflect the real annual crime rates (90% non-violent crimes and 10% violent crimes) in Canada will be scrutinized. Two local social Medias, CBC news and Globe and Mail, will be used in the study. Each social media will search the crime news and the recent twenty (N=20) crime news will be selected. After identifying which crime news belongs to violent crime or non-violent crimes (by applying Bussa Law definition), the individual proportion of violent crime rates and non-violent crime rates will be calculated. The research question about the coverage of crime news in local media whether reflect the real crime rates will be answered. The implication of this finding will be discussed. 1.0 Introduction Throughout the case study of Jill Meagher, Sanja Milivojevic and Alyce McGovern reveal the importance of social media and suggest that criminologists should take full advantage of this kind of new information technology (Milivojevic & McGovern, 2014). The growing importance of social media on criminology aspect is recognized by more…
Whether Local Social Media Reflect the True Violent and Non-violent Crime Rates? Throughout the case study of Jill Meagher, Sanja Milivojevic and Alyce McGovern reveal the importance of social media and suggest that criminologists should take full advantage of this kind new information technologies (cite). The growing importance of social media on criminology aspect is recognized by more and more people, like Jeremy Prichard introduces the social media sentiment analysis (SMSA) might be used as a future empirical tool to measure the public opinions and attitudes to crimes (cite), and Perin Michelle points out that social media is beneficial in reducing crime rates (cite). The association between social media and crime becomes stronger with the development of social media. From the traditional social media (radio and newspaper) to the new social media (telephone and computer), the role of an audience’s engagement with crimes changes from a “passive audience” to a “proactive participant” (cite). Although the social media is important in the contribution toward criminology studies, whether the social media real reflect the proportion of crimes rates have to be considered.…
how the media uses rational/emotional/ethical appeals to get its point across Your first two writing assignments were designed to focus on specific critical thinking and writing skills. You learned to understand and summarize authors’ ideas, and you also learned how to use personal narratives to develop and strengthen your essays; then you argued whether social networking was positive or negative for American society. Also, you were asked to analyze someone else’s argument, specifically a visual argument made by an advertisement. You learned to analyze an argument using the rhetorical triangle – showing how the media uses rational/emotional/ethical appeals to get its point across. Your third assignment, an argumentative research paper, will incorporate the skills you have developed throughout this course, and will develop new skills in research. For this assignment, you will: Address the topic: Social Media Technology is transforming how we make connections with others. The refinement of smart phones and growth of social networking sites are changing our ideas about friendship, intimacy, and privacy. Over half of American youth between twelve and seventeen have a…
Logistics cost Control in medical distribution company Introduction Unlike the medical distribution industry in the United States, where top three companiesown 90 percent of the entire domestic market, in China, there are currently around 9000 medical distribution companies nationwide. In early 2000, the China medical distribution industry comes into its development surge, thousands of company were gradually started in this industry. However, in 2017, lots of new policies and regulation were introduced by the government, reorganizing the medical distribution industry with an intent to lower the medicine prices with fewer smaller sized “middle man”. Within three years, it is expected that 80 percent of the medical distribution company will be eliminated. In the urgent of surviving this elimination, find ways to run the business more efficiently become critical. I will be focusing on the research of logistics cost control in medical distribution company, trying to come up with some optimization measure in term of minimizing logistic cost in medical distribution company. The research will be both qualitative and quantitative. For the qualitative approach, I will be interviewing the management and…