Three Key Idea About Social Media

A False Sense of Connection

According to Cornell University's Steven Strogatz, social media sites can make it more difficult for us to distinguish between the meaningful relationships we foster in the real world, and the numerous casual relationships formed through social media. By focusing so much of our time and psychic energy on these less meaningful relationships, our most important connections, he fears, will weaken.

Decreased Productivity

While many businesses use social networking sites to find and communicate with clients, the sites can also prove a great distraction to employees who may show more interest in what their friends are posting than in their work tasks. Wired.com posted two studies which demonstrated damage to productivity caused by social networking: Nucleus Research reported that Facebook shaves 1.5% off office productivity while Morse claimed that British companies lost 2.2 billion a year to the social phenomenon. New technology products have become available that allow social networks to be blocked, but their effectiveness remains spotty.

Privacy

Social networking sites encourage people to be more public about their personal lives. Because intimate details of our lives can be posted so easily, users are prone to bypass the filters they might normally employ when talking about their private lives. What's more, the things they post remain available indefinitely. While at one moment a photo of friends doing shots at a party may seem harmless, the image may appear less attractive in the context of an employer doing a background check. While most sites allow their users to control who sees the things they've posted, such limitations are often forgotten, can be difficult to control or don't work as well as advertised.

Reference: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/negative-effect-social-media-society-individuals-27617.html

Ideas for zine

I want my zine to consist of chapter that work as series to help put emphasis on my overall themes of social medias effects on people and 3 aspects which are...

·      Decreased productivity – the subject will be facing a lack of productivity such as fitness, sights, etc

·      Isolation – the effect that social medias have on the interaction that someone has with the world around them.

·      Creation – the subject find passion in something creative.

The idea for my zines colour spectrum will be the use of very simple colours (the less the better in this case) and I want the colour in the photos to represent what is happening in the images. So for example the photos around isolation will be very saturated and lack brighter colours.

I will preferably present my zine in A5 horizontal size.

I want my zine to leave people with a question that I don’t have to force on them. Such as something to think about that the zine doesn’t explain in great detail.