Impact of Social Media on Modern Workplace

Impact of Social Media on Modern Workplace

Introduction.

Social media use seemingly grows every day. Advanced innovated technology has led to the increasing use of technology in the modern workplace — an online platform for personal and business use. Affordances’ concept of these platforms derives from the point of architecture (Evans et al., 2017). Facebook is the largest online media platform network. After its launching, the online platform has overtaken every known site. Based on some research, it seems that most people are using this platform frequently and has daily life impact. Globally it’s the leading online platform for socialising and networking. Its central core mission is to make a world an open place for all people and race. With over 500 million users, Facebook online network has newly joined users (Facebook, 2011).

Compare these social sites and how they are the same and different.

            Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Snap chat, Instagram, and YouTube are social media which have similarities. The similarity comes in where all of them allow their users to comment and post daily updates, swipe ideas, or activities participation and events while allowing users to share interests to others (Gitomer,2011). In contrast, Facebook accessibility is vast as compared to this other online networking platforms; LinkedIn, Twitter, Snap chat, Instagram, and YouTube. Facebook is the easiest to his users from all the others. It uses social activities and graphs in targeting people demographically. It makes the Facebook platform to be unique, and hence advertising is fantastic.  The twitter platform allows personal users to share personal updates of characters not more than 140. Users can tweet, retweet and like favourite posts. Unlike Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, and YouTube, LinkedIn is mostly a business-oriented platform. All content can direct you to LinkedIn. YouTube platform is different from the other Media. With marketing, you can use YouTube to make your video allow people to see the content (Santos, 2015).

Describe ways in which social media users in the workplace.

            The social media platform has a massive role in the workplace.  It is a faster way to spread certain critical information to targeted people. It helps workers to communicate; hence employees need to portray themselves professionally. Business can use the media stage for marketing their company and its products. They can build relationships between people; get feedbacks of its products and having employees in terms of future and present. Social media has become a stage where people expose, have their market expense reduced, growth of partners, sales improvement and customer relations development (Bosari, 2012).

Describe the benefits of social media use in the workplace.

Positively, social internet interactions have seen to affect the satisfaction and performance of the job. It has enabled workers to have a better balance of work life. Research showcases media use in working areas has high morale hence allowing the employees to take a break from mental from work (Bennett, Owers & Jasani, 2010). They are using social media, both the employer and the employee benefit. The media platform also enables employees to communicate in their station; hence evidently, there is an increment of traditional stagnation voice forms (Budd, 2014).

Describe potential mistakes made when using social media in the workplace.

            Companies tend to use these media platforms for marketing their companies. How employees present, their companies may affect it positively or negatively. Workers who use media search as Facebook to post their photos or videos may tarnish the company’s name. If a company is on the light may cause havoc or heated talks that can bring down the company’s name (Sonnenberg, 2009).