How Social Media Has Changed Us By Elvin Nisman

The main difference between a blog and a wiki is who gets to write and publish content. In a wiki anyone can write, edit or change content while in a blog only the admin can write, edit and publish. Other users can only comment in a blog which the admin can monitor. On the other hand, wikis are monitored by admins typically.  As a result of this wiki's are a more collaborative tool since anyone can write on it while blog is controlled by one person exclusively. "Among 311 CIOs who participated in CIO's 2008 Consumer Technology survey in January, 30 percent said they provide wikis as corporate applications." This shows the depth of how wikis are taking over the collaborative corporate environment. Blogs are used more in collaboration than ever before. For example, blogging became so big that the US military had started became wary of it. "T housands of troops who use blogs, Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites to communicate with the outside world are ...

I have decided to focus my reesearch paper on how social media companies created products such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc have changed how people interact toward eachother. I believe that social media has made people feel satisfaction through likes, posts and messaging. It has created an illusion to make people feel happy for a few moments but sadder for extended periods of time. For example, if someone got 95 likes on one post instead of the 110 likes they got on another post, they think people do not like them as much or they look bad in the picture. But if this situation occurred inversely, people would think they look better or more people like them. In reality, most likely what happened is that more people saw your post which lead to more likes. People act differrently on social media than in person which is why words like "fake" are used more often. My generation is more depressed than previous generations whcih I believe social media has played a major role....