Who Are You Following to Get Your News?

In the world of new-age media, social media has allowed an outlet to produce paperless and convenient ways to get up with the news. Currently, many people in the United States are ditching their cable box subscription and accessing their news via social media. This new way of receiving news has made an impact on how society receives information as a whole and how news outlets can access different age demographics by doing so.

With Twitter and Facebook taking control as the top platforms of sharing information, news outlets are developing a following on these platforms in a way to keep up with the vastly changing way of how information is shared publicly.

With each new generation of social media platforms and users, we see a shift from how each generation views its media. Twitter and Facebook are being moved down from the top platform as a new application TikTok and how Instagram takes its place for the younger generations to view news in social media.

We see how news anchors are developing their personal profiles on platforms like Instagram as a way to reconnect and stay connected with users. Furthermore, we dive deeper into how this merge of social media and the news has affected the public positively and negatively.

When looking at all the positives about how social media is impacting people’s ability to learn and stay educated with current events, there are some drawbacks with the development of fake news spreading through the internet and with how having access to news at all hours of the day affects people as a whole mentally.

Overall, this spread of information has its positives and negatives, and it is up to the users as to what you make of the change with social media. In the world, we live in today, especially with cancel culture, it’s hard to juggle mentally with the amount of information that we have access to the simple type of the finger and how we react to it. Who knows what this unlimited amount of information will do to us as a society as a whole, but time will tell as we involve with it.

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