This document discusses the benefits of social media to society by analyzing real examples where social media has positively impacted individuals, groups, and businesses. It looks at unique cases that generated news interest and how social media has influenced people's lives, businesses, and the world. The document provides links to news articles on topics like how social media boosted Colorado tourism and transformed customer service. It also describes the authors' process of blogging weekly about social media discussions and collecting other opinions on Twitter and Facebook. The conclusion is that while social media is sometimes portrayed negatively, when used correctly it can benefit individuals, groups, businesses, and bring advantages to everyone in society.

2. 0 Discussing real examples of social media benefitting individuals,
groups and businesses and analysing through our discussion the
benefits it brings.
0 Looking at unique cases, usually ones that have already
generated interest in the news.
0 Finding out how social media has had an impact on society –
peoples’ lives, businesses and the world.
0 Social media has its obvious benefits that we are all familiar with,
but we’re looking at major or unique cases where social media
has played an important role.
The benefits of social media
to society

4. 0 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22121338
0 https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152773162620601&set=o.130775200407725&type=1&theater
0 http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/04/10/colorado-tourism-social-media-boost-industry/
0 http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/04/10/colorado-tourism-social-media-boost-industry/
0 http://www.forbes.com/sites/capitalonespark/2013/04/10/taking-care-of-business-social-media-will-transform-customer-service/
0 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4760294/Police-called-in-after-Chelsea-player-Eden-Hazard-was-red-carded-for-kicking-a-ballboy-during-cup-
semi-final-match-with-Swansea.html
0 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/social-media/Social-networking-with-a-purpose/articleshow/18130952.cms
0 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-21041468
0 http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/25/top-social-news-2012/
0 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-tarkoff/social-media-branding_b_2406242.html
0 http://readwrite.com/
0 http://www.timescolonist.com/life/2012-the-year-in-social-media-1.186972012/12/06/social-media-drives-album-sales
0 http://www.newsday.com/opinion/brinkley-social-media-is-what-tyrants-fear-most-1.4265965
0 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-20267690
0 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-20315531
0 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p010vlxv

7. Blog
0 http://ttt2002.blogspot.co.uk/

8. Before…
What next?
0 Our opinions are limited.
0 We will be using social media to ask other people of
their thoughts and ideas and collect their opinions as
well.
0 This will be done by using Twitter/Facebook to post
articles on our news feeds and allowing other people to
respond.
0 We will collect opinions and blog about them.
0 Our aim is to find out the benefits social media brings
to every aspect of society, and how it brings more
positives than negatives.

9. Since the last presentation…
0 We’ve looked at and discussed many more stories and
found many unique cases that brought out a lot of
discussion in our group.
0 We’ve blogged about our discussion on a weekly basis.

10. Conclusion
0 Despite finding many stories that speak about how
negative social media is, using it in the correct way for
the benefits that it was intended to bring has many
benefits for individuals, groups, schools, businesses,
etc.
0 When social media is portrayed negatively, it is
because it has most likely been used incorrectly.
0 Using it correctly brings advantages to everyone, and
new web technologies came about to make things
simpler.