Relation between Social media and individualist and collectivist cultures
Student X
University of the People
BUS 4402
Introduction
Social media has become, over the last two decades, the medium the most utilize by young and adult people. They are used them for work purposes and for personal purposes too. They are many, such as Texting, Blogs, Email, Twitter, Facebook, Video Conferencing, Tele Presence, and others. Nowadays, people tend to think that social media help them to become more collectivistic than individualistic. This paper attempts to investigate the impact of using social media on the individualistic and collectivistic cultures.
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Thus social media is very useful to the society in general, by its collectivist side, it allows everyone to stay connected, but on the other hand the individualist takes too much space and sometimes covers the collective side. So, in order to manage the usefulness of the social media well, we must make the right things, use them when it is necessary and not let them take over human …show more content…
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