According to Merriam-Webster, to complain is to express grief, pain, or discontent as well as, to make a formal accusation or charge. For people, complaining is a way to communicate the slightest thought of annoyance. Nowadays, complaining has emerged into a never-ending and constant occurrence. People excessively complain to their friends and family, and on social media about small things. Yet, they fail to do anything effective with their complaint thus, producing an unnecessary negativity. Complaining has become a normal habit for people that has to be stopped. First of all, many complaints concern matters that compared to worldly issues are unimportant. As I was waiting for the bus one December afternoon, I heard my friend next to me …show more content…
In Teddy Wane’s article “The Microcomplaint: Nothing Too Small to Whine About” he claimed, “Now, in a seismic shift for the moral culture, abetted by technology, we tolerate and even encourage the “microcomplaint”: the petty, petulant kvetch about the quotidian.” Through social media, individuals can ramble on about any possible act that is bothering them. They hide behind social media to complain without having to display their face. Technology has made it so that people can complain at any time of any given day during any situation by simply pulling out a smart phone. Over the years, companies have even began to reply to complaints made by shoppers. This year, the social-media analytics firm Simply Measured concluded that “the number of top brands with dedicated customer service [Twitter] handles has increased by 19% year-over-year.” Although this may seem like a favorable thing, a large number of complaints made are still ignored. The complaints on social media only serve to create bad publicity for these companies. Additionally, complaining on social media can easily transform one careless thought into a larger issue. Therefore, individuals should not waste their time objecting on social
It has come to my attention, as your media advisor, that you have been involved in a sex scandal of massive proportion. Due to the pictures found on your phone and the recent pregnancy of the same young woman, you must find a solution to clear your name to the public(The Associated Press). There are many options that you might be willing to look into to clear your name under these unfortunate circumstances, but in this case I would refer to the ideas of Elizabeth Kolbert for assistance. In her book "Stooping to Conquer" she claims that the best option to relieve your name of this scandal is through " comedy that makes fun of oneself". By following the ideas of Kolbert you will be
middle of paper ... ... The world we live in today is becoming more and more apathetic. Most people only care about their personal well-being and perhaps those who are closest to them. Some people have little or no knowledge of the world around them and what’s happening in it, they have little concern if the subject does not directly involve them.
In her article, “Our Precious Little Snowflakes” Margaret Wente (2015) emphasizes her concern with the snowflake generation and their inability to withstand the routine stresses of the adult world. She compares this generation to the Baby Boomer’s and notes the differences in parenting techniques used while raising them. For example, Margaret points at that given the amount of kids per household parents did not focus in on one child, or give their children a falsified sense of entitle meant by means of ridiculous amounts of praise. She also points out that given the parents unnecessary need to shelter their children from reality, children are unable to realistically establish themselves as individuals. In fact, they are more codependent on
Within the recent years there has been many changes occurring in our nation that had never happened before. Well defined social understandings such as gender, race, sexually as well as other self-identifying terms that had been previously well understood were starting to change and evolve, no longer fitting the social mold that it once had. A great illustration for my previous statement of change can be seen in the article “The Year We Obsessed Over Identity” by Wesley Morris, which highlights specific major events that had occurred in recent years till two thousand and fifteen. One case discussed in the article was the idea that race was defined by your skin color and other biological characteristics that landed
The subway passengers would not take a stand against an injustice right before their eyes. Injustices were in their lives everyday and what was another one? The subway passengers seemed to be desensitized toward the pain. Clay lived out the lyrics in Bessie Smiths song, Downhearted Blues,“Trouble, Trouble, I’ve had it all my days. It seems that trouble’s going to follow me to my grave,” (Bessie Smith, Downhearted
Technology has had a negative impact on this generation- we have lost and forgotten many things because of it. In Malcolm Gladwell’s “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted”, he discusses the difference between social media activism and “real” activism and the loss of human connection that he has identified. He believes that with social media activism, we lack the connections a community should have because we don’t get together in person- we are satisfied with being connected through technology. He also thinks that as time goes on, we will only get worse when referring to the ideas that we are delusional because the issues we fight about (such as getting phones taken away) aren’t as important as we think.
I chose “Here We Aren’t, So Quickly” by Johnathan Sofran Foer, and “Wake Up Call” by Megan McGuire. They have similar underlying themes and will be an interesting comparison. “Here We Aren’t, So Quickly” is about what seems to be a daydream about the future relationship between two lovers and how it evolves over the course of their adults lives. “Wake Up Call” is about the relationship between a girl and her parents as she grows up from adolescence in to young adulthood. .
In my opinion, social media is a way to bring the world closer and an assertion of consumer choice can be used for promoting issues that matter. A human rights activist can make an unknown story reach hundreds of thousands of people by the ‘simple click of a button’.
“Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted” by Malcolm Gladwell is an article published in the Annals of Innovation, by The New Yorker magazine. Gladwell starts with an example of true activism. He opens the article with a depiction of how the Greensboro sit-ins contributed to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. Then the author supplies two examples of protests that have taken place in recent years that some people have said were started and organized on Twitter. He then goes on to clarify why Twitter was not a factor in these events and how media and government can distort certain truths about social media’s role in protests. The author continues the article by explaining why communication and relationships were more efficient before the era of social media and then compares social networking from the past and now. He uses this strategy to illustrate social media’s effect on how we interact and our commitment towards one another. Gladwell goes on to explain the organization of activist groups of the past and its
“Nothing is perfect.” Though social media brings us uncountable convenience, there is a trade-off with the convenience. Due to the advanced technology we have, social media has become part of our life, which it means that social media could determine our sociability. In Peggy Orenstein’s “I Tweet, Therefore I Am,” though she praises Tweeter for its convenience, at the same time, she also worries that “(Tweeter) makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic and contrived self.” Since we don’t care about who we talk to, we might act abnormally due to our feelings, and
Today’s young adults live a life caught between two worlds: the physical realm of human interaction and the digital universe that sits just a mouse click away. This is an age in which entire relationships are formed over online digital platforms, and a single person’s opinion can be broadcasted worldwide in a matter of milliseconds. Lately, the freedom of expression that social media has given young adults has provoked interesting behavior among users of such social media platforms as Facebook and Twitter. The term “slacktivism” was coined as far back as 1995 by Dwight Ozard and Fred Clark as an expression of doing something in support of an issue or cause that requires minimal personal effort (Kain, 2012), and is now used to describe this new behavior; where everyday activists have taken their causes to the Web in search of exposure and support, and users have found a passive way to support the causes that they claim to believe in. Every day, hundreds of new slacktivist-oriented pages and videos sprout up across Facebook and Twitter, and slacktivist supporters rush to “like” the cause and pass it along to other friends in their network. This, however, is not the only form of slacktivism. It is also evidenced in the statuses of the numerous members of the Facebook and Twitter community. The role of the “status update” and the “tweet” has evolved from reporting a person’s physical activities, into a platform for launching whatever propaganda a user deems worthy of sharing with his or her social media community. It would seem that social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are providing users with a false sense of ego, and that this – in turn – has contributed to the monumental rise of slacktivism and consequential degradat...
Social media is at the core of many marketing plans for corporations in the United States and world-wide. One of these companies at the forefront of social media use is Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (Wells Fargo). The ability to directly contact customers and potential customers in a real time online environment is crucial to the bank / customer conversation and reinforcing the company’s place in a customer’s mind as the entity that they want to do business with (Wells Fargo Bank, 2014). This case study will discuss the current status of Wells Fargo’s use of social media as a means to building their customer base. Additionally, historical information on the process of the marketing move to social media will be presented and the development of the roles that are involved in this marketing strategy will be discussed. The impacts to the public sphere and society at large will play into the discourse of the social media topic and finally, the underlying theories will be discussed as they pertain to Wells Fargo and social media.
In the article “Why Don’t we Complain?” William F. Buckley Jr. overstates the concept of complaining over the value of patience. American people are too meek, they cower to say anything about the small things in fear of being rude. Technology has taken its grasp and distracted the people from the central issues of government. This attitude has caused the effect that people partake little power when deciding to speak up. The people must complain about the small things or the big issues of life will never be spoken out against.
Although social media has provided todays society with instant forms of communication and ways to connect, it also created a new standard for living and has caused problems for many groups of citizens in all walks of life and has caused society to re-think its usage. There are two views about social media, either. It is a positive addition to society and its benefits outweigh the risks, or that social media causes more harm than good and it’s usage should be limited. Some of the ideas that are central to the idea that social media is a benefit to today’s society are that social media encourages increased communication with friends and family, provides fast access to breaking news and other information, and helps businesses attract new business and correspond more quickly with their existing customers.
An area that is often overlooked by retailers is the use of social media for customer relations. According to a research done by Oracle, in today’s world 35% of businesses don’t integrate social media for sales or customer service (Oracle 4). Social media can benefit retailers in many ways, but they can also negatively affect them. The customer’s voice is becoming louder because of social media, and customer complaints no longer remain in a small group of people: they go viral. According to Lauren Paxman, this happened to Keara O’Neal who was on a shopping trip to find bridesmaid dresses for her wedding at the high-end store GASP. At the beginning the sales assistant, Chris, was very helpful trying to find her dresses, but then he turned aggressive by pressuring her to get the dress; he even turned disrespectful by ridiculing her size 12 and made inappropriate comments such as “Have fun shopping at Supre… I knew you were a joke the minute you...