Who is an influencer? What is their role in our society? Not long ago it was a word I had never heard of before, but it's incredible how relevant they may be among our teenagers and, therefore, for the future generations.
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Influencers: How a 'new breed' of social media stars changed the game (BBC News)
The Role of Social Media Influencers in the Lives of Children and Adolescents (Frontiers)
Instagram worst social media app for young people's mental health (CNN)
Girls and social media: 'You are expected to live up to an impossible standard' (The Guardian)
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ResponderEliminarBeing an Influencer is nowadays one of the most dreamed jobs among young people and teenagers. They are people who post regularly on their social media about their life and interests, and get paid for that. Also, they often are asked to collaborate with trademarks; they recommend the product to their followers and in exchange they might earn money or get the items for free.
ResponderEliminarHowever, this arising job has been a trending topic since its origin and there are people who support them and others that still don't believe it is a valid profession.
On the one hand, an influencer gains its followers by being relatable, this means that a regular person sees itself reflected in them. It could be due to that they have a goal in common -like traveling-, they have a lifestyle they are trying to achieve ,or they teach abilities that are useful for their public -like gaming- all in all, they are very useful as a source of inspiration and to keep you motivated.
Also, many times influencers get in contact with their followers and act like their friends, which is helpful for many people who need support and find it in them.
Furthermore, a simple post on their platforms can bust the popularity of local or not-well-known brands, so they are a new form of marketing which in fact, is very effective.
On the other hand, there is nothing that guarantees you that the products they recommend are good, you can just trust them, but at the end of the day, they are strangers to you and the more products they sell the more money they get. So that could lead to dishonest reviews.
Moreover, as their name indicates, they "influence" people, not just to buy things but to act in certain way. Many young people look at them as role models and that could be dangerous if the influencers show on their social media bad habits such as smoking and excessive drinking.
From my point of view, it is a job as any other and it has its difficulties (as maintaining your social networks and being constantly thinking about your image) and its good aspects (as being famous and getting free things). So we ought to respect them ,but at the same time to avoid getting too attached and idolizing them.
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ResponderEliminarInternet has brought lots of things, which includes influencers. The word influencer means someone who affects in people opinion or actions. But, are these influencers qualified to influence our opinion? It´s what they say always true? Do they know what are they talking about? Some parents could wonder if the people his child is trusting and watching is teaching him good things, and this could be really dangerous.
ResponderEliminarFirst of all, let´s talk about the job. An influencer could be everyone who usually post content on the Internet, so as you could think, everyone can be an influencer. There are lots of influencers, most of them love their audience and take care of them, but others only care about money, so they´ll do what is best for them. We should try to identify what is the person´s objective, and knowing that, we´ll decide to trust him or not.
We can see these persons talking about different topics, for example, a few months ago, we saw that everyone was talking about coronavirus, giving tips and adverts about it. Most people didn´t know anything about the virus, but their main objective was to earn money
so they decided to lie about the virus and put everyone at a high risk. We shouldn´t trust anything on the Internet, unless we could prove that he is telling the truth. We should be really careful about it.
Most parents don´t know what their childs do on the net, and you could think that they are going to be ok, nothing can happen to them if they are safe at home. But maybe they are wrong. Your kid is watching people all the day, people that can be teaching him things that aren´t right, and people that will affect their personality. I think that every parent must know what their sons do on Internet and be interested on what Influencers do they trust, so they can be sure their childs are safe.
Finally, I think being an influencer isn´t easy. You must be very careful with what you say. There will always be someone pointing at you when you fail, someone who critices you when you say someone that they don´t agree, someone who trust you, when you say something that thay isn´t true. So, they have a lot of responsability and we must be more comprehensive with them, because, at least, they are entertaining us.
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Thanks to the Internet, many people have become famous and have a job that usually makes a lot of money. A clear example are influencers. Influencer is a person who has an important presence on Social Networks with many followers who work with a mobile phone or with a computer.
ResponderEliminarThe presence and influence of an influencer on social networks can become the image of a specific brand, be it clothing, beauty or health.
Influencers often use the instagram or youtube platform to show us different products and promote them. There are all kinds of influencers, some give us information about makeup, others about food, others about sports ...
Influencers show us their perfect life, their travels, their perfect family, and their everyday life.
There are good and bad thoughts about them. A positive aspect would be that they provide us with information about various brands or products and keep us informed, and a negative aspect would be that many influencers who practice bad habits, such as smoking, drinking or using inappropriate language.
I think that being an influencer is not easy, from my point of view there are influencers who are a great source of current information and can help many people, but you have to be careful with the influencers that we follow.
Nowadays, there are a lot of influencers on instagram. An influencer is a person who has many followers. Therefore, these persons have an important presence in social networks because they influence their followers to do certain things or buy certain products. So, Have you ever thought about the work of influencers?
ResponderEliminarOn the one hand, if you follow an influencer they will bring you good things but others not so good. First, they inform you of some news and products that they supposedly use. However, most of them advise you to use a certain product without them having tried it before or even thinking that it is not as good a product as they tell you. Due to this, they can charge large amounts of money to advertise certain brands.
In addition, they can help you with a lot of choses. For example, there are children who are sick and the only thing that distracts us is seeing their idol or talking to him or children who have other problems. Although this is not always good because there are many teenagers who compare their lifestyle to that of influencers and their self-esteem lowers. Due to the influencers travel a lot and have a lot of brand clothes which are most of the time given by the brand itself.
To put all in a nutshell, I think that the work of influencers is like any other because there are people who really do it with love and others who do it for money.
I'm sure that many people, especially teenagers, have heard the word 'influencer' at some point in their lives. But, what is being an influencer on Instagram? Is that something good or harmful in our society?
ResponderEliminarInfluencers are the key word in Social Media. An influencer is a person who has an important presence in social networks with many followers. They are important people by the fact that their opinions and updates are shared and commented by many people. Besides, due to their presence and influence on social networks, they can become the image of a specific brand, either clothing, beauty or health.
On the other hand, there are positive and negative aspects to following an influencer. They provide us with information about several brands and keep us informed. Moreover, many of these influencers worry about their followers and advise them about specific themes. These are all positive aspects, but the truth is that sometimes influencers can be harm the self-esteem of the adolescents. For example, when they promote products it's normal to start to do a comparison between her lifestyle and the one you have in your real life.
However, not all influencers accept every deal they're offered. Many of them don't care about money or the number of followers. The only thing they want is generate a positive impact on their followers and talk about issues that could make a difference in someone's life.
To put it in a nutshell, influencer is the 'new mode' on social networks. Sometimes they are a great stream source of current affairs and they can help a lot of people. In my opinion, you don't have to be an 'influencer' to reach other people.
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ResponderEliminarThere are many influencers in the world who are able to help us, for example Charli Damelio, who is studying medicine to obtain a cure for Covid 19. She is doing it to help her sick 90-year-old grandfather.Abel Martinez Padilla 2A
ResponderEliminarInfluencers are people who can influence the decisions of their followers as they have the power to persuade us to buy things they advertise in different areas, such as fashion, beauty, gaming, technology, travel, cooking, etc. Social media influencers are very popular among teenagers nowadays.
ResponderEliminarTo begin with, it is estimated that about 40% of the world’s population uses social media. Teenagers spend a large part of their time watching, giving likes to influencers' posts and commenting on them. One of the biggest platforms is Instagram and influencers use it to post about their everyday life, stay connected with their followers, or promote different kinds of products. Teenagers choose to follow the influencers for entertainment, information or advice. Depending on how many posts they make and how many likes they get, influencers can win a lot of money.
On the other hand, the impact of social media influencers on teenagers may have negative consequences, too. There are lots of influencers who practise bad habits, such as smoking, drinking or using inappropriate language. What’s more, influencers’ content may also affect teenagers’ psychological well-being.
All in all, it is shown that influencers are very popular among teenagers and that they make a good profit out of it. The more they post, the more followers they get. Being an easy way to make money, it is no surprise that more and more people are keen to become influencers nowadays.
Nowadays, young people have very internalized the use of social networks such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook…
ResponderEliminarIn a very short period of time, a new job has been established and that is called “influencer".
As their name suggests, these are people who, thanks to social networks, have become famous and are influential for people who follow them. The impact of these people on the opinion and behaviour of their followers is very important.
But there are some aspects that from my point of view, aren´t right in this work, such as the promotion of excessive consumerism.
The “speciality” of influencers is selling us things, they advertise products that they wouldn´t really recommend if it weren't for the money they would earn doing so. It isn´t an ethical way to sell. The problem is that they are so influential that their followers believe that they need these products.
Another negative thing about this job is wanting to pretend a perfect life.
Many photos that they publish on platforms such as Instagram are heavily edited to correct "imperfections" such as pimples, stretch marks, scars ... Or even to appear slimmer or stronger than they really are. This shows a distorsed image of reality to the public they have, which is usually young people, and in some cases, it generates complexes. Also, they post images that they are on vacation or eating in elegant restaurants, and they do all that to pretend.
I think it is not an easy job, because they also have to be very careful about what they do or say. Just as they have a lot of fame, as if they were celebrities, they also have haters who criticize them, and bad comments hurt people, but I think that influencers could use the power they have to educate their followers on bigger issues. For example, a current topic right now, a good use of the facemask. Some of these influencers record videos or upload photos in the street without facemasks, or doing a bad use of them. Instead, they could take advantage of the impact they have on their followers and make them aware of how important it´s to make good use of it to stop the pandemic. I think it´s something that is really easy to do and would help a lot.
If you have a social network like Instagram or Facebook , you have probably heard the word "influencer", but what is the real meaning of that word ? and what is their job in the digital community?
ResponderEliminarAn influencer is a person who stands out in a social network and expresses opinions about a specific topic that has a great influence on many people who know or follow him/her. Besides, the influencers make recomendations about products , lifestyles or services to their digital community but , they are not in charge of selling them directly. they use the power of social networks to make them viral.
An influencer is ,therefore , a person who has many followers (more than 10,000 or 100,000) on social networks . For that reason they are an inspiration for many teenagers but also for that , there can be consequences . Sometimes , the life of an influencer is not perfect but most teenagers think so and that is the problem. Teenagers start to compare their life with the life of an influencer and that can create some anxiety.
Maybe, one of the "safest" platforms is Youtube , which is a website where people can upload videos about their lifestyle , fashion , games to share them with other people. I use Youtube a lot and I really like it because also it is so useful to learn about something.
Summing up , I think that being an influencer is not bad, but you don´t always have to let yourself be influenced by them
Nowadays, many people are influenced by others who share their “perfect” lives through social networks.They are called “influencers” and each day there are more of them on the internet. But, what is their job really in social networks?
ResponderEliminarTheir job consists of posting photos promoting the trademarks which pay them to do it. The prestige of each one depends on the number of followers and the influence that they have in their photos according to the likes. Brands contact them to share a post with their products in exchange of money and having their products for free. This is so in most cases.
Nevertheless, there are not only brands that have and offer products. Travel companies and other brands which are dedicated to that or something related, also pay them to promote them. Influencers only have to share the trip by a photo or a video where they appear in fantastic places.
This job has a lot of criticism on society for several things. For instante, looking at their social networks can become bad for us because it seems that they have the perfect lives. Most of their followers are teenagers, and they can think that if they don’t wear, buy or do the same as them, they won’t be as good as them, and so on. Whereas there are people who take it as a good thing, because they can turn to them to find a product or a garment.
On the whole, there are good and bad aspects regarding them. In my opinion, it is a job like any other, because it is also difficult to reach the level of influence that many have, get the perfect photo, or get along with the fact you are well know among young people
Nowadays internet is used by everyone and many people work on it. Internet is very useful for us and is necessary in our lives. There are many social networks and everyone has an account in each one. Thanks to internet, many people have become famous and have a job where they usually earn a lot of money. A clear example are the influencers. They work with a mobile phone or with a computer and they don't have to leave home.
ResponderEliminarInfluencers usually use the instagram platform to show us different products and promote them. There are all kinds of influecers, some are related to make-up, other with videogames, other with sport and other with music.
They have millions of followers and they treat them as if they were friends. Influencers show us their perfect life, their travels and their perfect family. However, it could be a problem because they could make the young people who see them feel inferior and anxious. People think that they have a wonderful life and they don't have problems but it is not true, they have the same problems than the rest of people, but they only show the good things.
Being an influencer has become the dream of many teenagers. Many influencers that we know and that are very famous like Dulceida started with youtube. She uploaded videos because she enjoyed filming and editing them. Over time she has gained millions of followers on instagram, she has her own festival and her own clothing brand. She is an example to follow.
However, not everything is good in the world of social networks. Influencers receive many comments that are not good enough. They have to cope with nasty comments about their body or even their beauty. Haters draw defects out of anything and are waiting for something to go wrong to comment it. They rejoice in the misfortunes of others and do not like to see them happy.
From my point of view, being an influencer is a good job but you have to take care with bad comments and don't pay too much attention to them. I follow many influencers and I follow their pieces of advice. Nevertheless, there are many influencers that only want to earn money by getting more and more followers, and they show and promote us products that are not beneficial for our health. We have to be careful with the influencers we follow.
This is the dream job of many people, influencers often make collaborations with big brands in which they pay a lot of money in exchange for promoting their products so that their followers buy them. This seems like a simple job but it is not, they spend a lot of time recording, editing and uploading videos to satisfy all their followers, people usually stop them on the street to take photos with them becáis they admire them and on many occasions they are their example to follow. It is cool job but there are many people who have become depressed because of the cyberbullying that a part of their followers does to them a diary and they have a really bad time.
ResponderEliminarÁngela Rodríguez 2 eso a
This is the dream job of many people, influencers often make collaborations with big brands in which they pay a lot of money in exchange for promoting their products so that their followers buy them. This seems like a simple job but it is not, they spend a lot of time recording, editing and uploading videos to satisfy all their followers, people usually stop them on the street to take photos with them becáis they admire them and on many occasions they are their example to follow. It is cool job but there are many people who have become depressed because of the cyberbullying that a part of their followers does to them a diary and they have a really bad time.
ResponderEliminarÁngela Rodríguez 2 eso a
This is the dream job of many people, influencers often make collaborations with big brands in which they pay a lot of money in exchange for promoting their products so that their followers buy them. This seems like a simple job but it is not, they spend a lot of time recording, editing and uploading videos to satisfy all their followers, people usually stop them on the street to take photos with them becáis they admire them and on many occasions they are their example to follow. It is cool job but there are many people who have become depressed because of the cyberbullying that a part of their followers does to them a diary and they have a really bad time.
ResponderEliminarÁngela Rodríguez 2 eso a
Nowadays who does not know what an influencer is? The only ones who will not know are the elderly. Young people see on social networks like Instagram, tiktoks, people you do not know of anything and you see them every day uploading photos or collaborating with large clothing stores to put their new clothing collection on sale.
ResponderEliminarSo the company to make cash and earn money, they collaborate with the influencers, the clothing store sends a package to that influencer, and shows on their social networks how good that sweatshirt or outfit is.
Now all young people watching on social networks like me, they see a youtuber or see influencer who has a house like a footballer, supercars and expensive clothes, because all these young people then say that I want to be a fireman or a doctor, If being youtuber with millions of followers, he made more money than them.
If it's good for you to be an influencer and they start to see you and get to know you and the clothing companies start collaborating with you. You will be able to lead a life as a footballer, traveling, seeing new places, and working with people who do the same as you. I think that this new generation is the future, some will be doctors, others will be engineers and others will be influencers or youtubers.
What is being an influencer? Many people ask this question. For some time ago these people were not as important as they are now.
ResponderEliminarBefore, this work was frowned upon by many people, and although now there are quite a few people who still think the same, the number of these people has dropped considerably.
And why does this happen? This is thanks to the importance of being an influencer in our current society.
Being an influencer is a very important job like any other. Influencers have the ability to help people thousands of miles away. Through their videos posted on social networks, they can reach the other side of the world.
They become the idols of many people, since their function is to influence people, both in the way they see things, and in the way they face them.
Who are the influencers? They are people like us, they don't have any quality that differentiates them from us, simply that they have dedicated their lives through their videos to advise others, even to entertain them or to help them with specific problems.
We can find them on the different social networks, both on YouTube, Instagram or even on Tiktok.
They are usually teenagers or young people, because the content is usually aimed at students and teenagers. But we can also meet influencer of already a certain age. I have particularly come to see people in their 90s who are influencers.
In my opinion being an influencer is a good job. You dedicate yourself to doing the things you like, and the things that you are good at it. And also to help others.
But I think it is not a job to dedicate your whole life, as I see it, it would be convenient to have another job to dedicate yourself to, in case someday nobody needs your help.
There are many young scientists who do a lot of experiments and help people, for example David Garcia, he is a 21-year-old from Granada. He has gotten cancer medicine. I like why it helps others and that's good. Abel Martínez Padilla 2A
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ResponderEliminarInfluencers are the people who are dedicated to social media and work in them. Nowadays influencers are very important in our society because is always connected to social media.
ResponderEliminarInfluencers have a big responsibility because all the things that they are doing can harm younger people that follow and see them. But they have a big capability to say something and arrive at all places in the world and help other people.
I think that influencers live well because nowadays the social media is the thing that we use the most. So influencers have more and more work, but at the same time there are more people who work in this job.
RAQUEL PEINADO TORRES 4ºA
Nowdays, the people are to very internalized the social networks, with instagram, twitter, snapchat, facebook, youtube...and now more young people stay "working" of influencer.
ResponderEliminarInfluencer is one person that make videos in that their purpose is that you copy that they are doing. That they want with this videos is to create one new tendecy. The influencer that do is to influence people about what they should do, for example advice on beauty, fashion....
I think that there are two different type of influencer, for one part stay the influencer that the only that they want is to are famous and win a lot of money that are the mayority, doing videos of videogames that they recomend the buy... or doing advice of cosmetic when they don't know any of medecin for recomend some products, but that pass is that they do this because the companies pay to they for that they do anouncements of theirs products and that the people buy more, as can are the case of the influencer of fashion, videogames...
For other part, stay the influencer that the only that want is that the people see that if the want with effort th can achieve his dreams, as can are the influencer that are influencer then of pass a one hard life, and that they want is too expose that the people can do to achieve their dreams, as can are one football player or basket player that say where are his life ans that with effort they achieve that they want. I think that they are the good influencer, not the other that only that want is win a lot of money and don't work.
And remember that you mustn't to create all of the advice that the influecer say as can are the influencer of fashion... remember they a lot of time don't know that they're saying as can are the influencer that in the quarantine start to talk about the virus, when they don't know any.
Other think with that I don't are accord is with that the influencer win this big quantities of money if they want to are rich that they work as all the people.
I think that the influencer don't are bad if you see the correct.
Nowadays the majority of the world is connected on the internet, and in the last year the concept of “ influencer ” has become very popular.
ResponderEliminarInfluencers are people who have created a highly successful “ character ” in the digital world, and are followed by thousands and even millions of people.
And this has become a job for many people, and even being able to make a living from it.
There are many types of influencers, for example, the “gamer” influencer, they share their experience playing and at the same time talk about the qualities and characteristics of video games.
Videos can be up to three hours long, and are viewed by thousands of people.
And they also have the functions of being promoters of a new brand or attracting the attention of a product.
Sara Peinado 4A.
I think that be influencer is not a work, I think is a hobby. Because the fame is not forever, but you earn a lot of money sometimes.
ResponderEliminarA lot of people love watching videos, taking photos, surfing on the Internet… so they dream with be influencers.
Andrea Valdés Padial 2ºESO A
ResponderEliminarAn influencer in a person who has a great influence on social networks and that many people like to see and know about them, such as youtubers, streamers or famous people on instagram.
If they are very big influencers they can even do very important events. Last year a former commentator, streamer and youtuber named Ibai did an event called ibainefico in which I spent many hours live streaming in order to raise € 100,000 based on donations to donate all that money to a company solidarity.
Influencers are currently very important in our society since for most teenagers they are our first source of fun and entertainment, especially when we were in quarantine since we could not go out and we spent most of our time on the internet, I think Being an influencer can be a job if you are a very big influencer like rubius, ibai, willyrex ... and you earn enough money to make a living from it
In these days all people have some social network like facebook, twitter, instagram, whatsapp etc.. Young people about 12-30 years old have a lot of interaction with this platforms, and they spend a lot of time in this platforms.
ResponderEliminarInfluencers, are a persons who normally has a lot of followers in these social networks, because they offer a lot of content that people likes, this content can be many things, like funny videos, videos of social critical, videos of his opinion and more...
I don't like influencer because they win a lot of money, with things that are normal. In the world are a lot of people that have better things to offer that influencers.
People who are influencer are normally a person who has a higher than average ability to relate to people and be tactful.
Alejandra Garcia Garcia 2º Bach
Today the world of the Internet is becoming a job for people. The Internet should not be a job, it should be a hobby. Right now there are many social networks and they try to get a lot of money, for example: (youtube, imstagram, facebook ...).
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Today the world of the Internet is becoming a job for people. The Internet should not be a job, it should be a hobby. Right now there are many social networks and they try to get a lot of money for example: (youtube, imstagram, facebook ...).
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MANOLO UTRABO BEJAR 2ESO A.
Nowadays, influencers are people who dedicate their lives to spending all day with the movement and with social networks, they use them so that everyone can see them and follow them on their social networks.
ResponderEliminarFor me, influencers have a very hard job since they have to be glued to the mobile 24 hours a day and show their life through a social network such as Instagram Facebook and many other platforms. On the one hand being influencers is good since you have a lot of people who follow you and support you but on the other hand there are very bad people who all they do is criticize you for something you do.
There are many people who can live perfectly from social networks but these platforms will not always continue to exist, influencers are especially young people, who stop studying because they think they can earn money for their entire lives through social networks.
In conclusion I think that influencers should better influence the people who see them and not always show that they have a perfect life when in reality it is not.
Influencer marketing, or influencer marketing, is a form of advertising that has emerged from a variety of recent practices and studies, focused more on individuals than the target market as a whole. Identify the people who have influence.
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Nowadays, we live in a world where that is based on technology and the Internet. We live influenced by social networks. Especially in young people, our lives revolve around them. We usually use Instagram, Twitter, Tik Tok...
ResponderEliminarIt´s curious how of these apps there are people that they have set up their own job. They are called "influencers", their job is to create content, like photos on Instagram, videos on Youtube or Tik Tok... for their followers. They earn money according to the number of followers, likes, and display that they have.
I think it isn´t an official job, is like a hobby. In my opinion, it is a fun job because they have a lot of topics to choose,but they have to be careful with their publications, and they have to be ready to receive all types of comments too.
Andrea Valdés Padial 4ºESO A