The Influential role of
Social Media
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What is the problem with
Social Media?
Well, they are multiple...
Popularity of Social media
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3.96 billion people currently use social media worldwide, up almost double
from 2.07 billion in 2015
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Globally, the average time a person spends on social media a day is 2 hours
24 minutes; if someone signed up at 16 and lived to 70, they would spend 5.7
years of their life on it
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50.64% of the 7.77 billion people in the world use social media, of eligible
audiences aged 13+, there is 63% are active users
With the still growing popularity of social media platforms
some problems arise.
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With the rising popularity of Social Media the problems that arise
from it become more and more visible and common.
Some prominent magazines such as Lifespan, Men’s Health and
even the BBC have published articles that prove the negative effect
social media has.
Examples of these negative effects are Addiction, Fear of missing
out, and the spread of misinformation
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What is our goal?
● Try and tell people our age the objective and
factological “truth” about social media
● Spread awareness about the subconscious
damage that some social media usage might
cause
● Try and introduce the concept of “fake
news” to our friends
● Introduce some strategies that might help
the average person create a habit in
checking information online.
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Step by step solution
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Once a person reads an article he or she should think about the validity of the information within
the source
Create a presentation about fake news in social media information from the flyers+more
information about the topic and the event
The flyers will spread awareness about fake news on social media and they will advertise a lecture held
in the concert hall
Talk to the dean and ask him to let us use the concert hall
Present him our idea and discuss whether it would be okay. (similar to our 19.04 advisory meeting where
we discussed the usage of social media and its consequences)
Prepare a speech connected to the information in the flyers.
Provide examples of fake news so people can distinguish them easier from real news.
Present the speech + presentation.
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Our budget
$$$
Flyers
We have designed flyers in order to
promote the event organized by us.
The flyers are designed by us and since the
information is free online and our thought
processes is also free we would just need
the money for the printing on the flyers.
This comes a bit shorter than 20 lv.
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Challenges for the
project and
consequences from
our solution.
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Challenges
⊹ Organizing the event
during a pandemic
⊹ Getting the attention of
our classmates and
friends
⊹ Fitting the event in
between tests and event
in hopes of achieving
maximum attendance
Consequences
⊹ Hopefully motivating
our friends to try and
reflect on their use of
social media
⊹ Make them a bit
more curious on the
topic
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Thank you for your
attention
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Works cited:
https://backlinko.com/social-media-users
ourworldindata.org/rise-of-social-media
2020.www.conference-board.org/retrievefile.cfm?filename=TCB-Fake-News-Awarenes
s-Attitudes-Actions-of-Advertisers1.pdf&type=subsite
www.governmentevents.co.uk/event/the-tackling-misinformation-conference-2021/
www.grin.com/document/358350.
www.ukessays.com/essays/media/effects-of-social-media-on-everyday-life.php.
disruptive.Asia/social-media-more-powerful-than-governments/.
www.forbes.com/sites/alisonescalante/2020/08/03/research-finds-social-media-users-are-more-likely-tobelieve-fake-news/.
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