Throughout my essay I have came to the conclusion that the bad outweigh the good. It can be horrible and helpful just depending on how you use it. As the years went on and on social media started to become a big part of people's lives. People became more and more familiar with it and started to learn how to hack others accounts, phone or laptop. I think people should enjoy life more with being offline. Sharing your information on the internet will give hackers and bullies an entrance in your life. Cyberbullying can cause self-harm.
It is a great way to stay communicated with the world around you but has also created harm making it unhealthy to society. An example that it is unhealthy to our society, the film called Nosedive from Black Mirror on Netflix, a story by Charlie Brooker, it is about a woman who is desperate to boost up her social media score that she is so engaged to her technology. She doesn’t see much of her surroundings or pretends to be living in the perfect life for this being an example of isolation. She is addicted and looking for acceptance through her technology for according to Seife, “Instead of exposing us to the differences, the Internet actually encourages conformism and intolerance.”(289). Seife’s statement makes sense to the film Nosedive because the women is following traditional standards of conduct how her society is on their technology as she’s following her own beliefs. The film shows their own society having to fit in with technology through mobile devices, everyone shares their daily activities and rates their interactions with others on a one-to-five star scale, and where one's current average rating can be seen by others and has significant influence on their societal status. This film reflects and gives the idea on how our own society
The Internet has negative and positive impacts, it depends how we will make use of it; the negative effects can be like a computer virus, internet theft, pornography, and dating sites, however the internet can be used for good purposes. Internet helps people to communicate and be connected with everyone all around the world by mail, Skype, Facebook, Google, twitter, and other social network apps and web sites; I personally believe technology benefits everyone and we are depending on this platform to better our lives in a positive way.
Social media can be negative but what some people don’t know is that social media can be a lifesaver. I was online talking with a friend who lives in another city and she said she was really depressed and i was able to talk her out of committing suicide and to go get help.There are so many different cases that are like that where people go online for salvation, sadly there were no articles on it in the packet that i saw. The reason why this topic is important to write about is that if parents only find stuff saying social media is horrible and no children should use it, then the parents will become overprotective and their children might not be able to grow up fully. Social media is good because it connects people, help bring up self esteem, It can help spread awareness of social issues.
Many people do online shopping instead of simply going to the store. This means personal information is saved to the computer. As this may seem as something normal there is ways people can steal that information. It has been proven over and over by big companies being hacked for example PlayStation Network. Technology does have positive sides to it but it can be an issue to your security. Besides having access to credit card information, hackers can locate where you live or even where are you now. This is dangerous since they can be searching for reasons to harm you. Another side effect now in the social media aspect is that social media basically defines you for possible employment. Companies can do basic researches and find your information of Facebook or any other social media and base their decisions on that. They can access your private information and depending who you are daily can shape up your character. This means that you should be perfect and any flaws you may have to them can be found thanks to the social media you enjoy
Being poor means you barely have enough money for the luxuries in life; you can only afford the absolute necessities in life. Being middle class means you can afford to splurge here and there on luxuries. Being wealthier means you live a life of opulence, and you are not concerned with money in the slightest. I do not live an extravagant live nor do I live a life devoid of luxuries. Most of my significant events in my life do not have money involved in them. Whenever I have money I carelessly splurge it on things I will never come to use or I treat myself to candy with it. I loathe saving money in such a manner it drives me insane whenever I save more than a couple dollars. I choose Katie Nolan for this section because she is the polar opposite
Im letting the dark take me over. If I fight it it'll only become stronger. I'm letting them intertwine with my mind and I'm slowly becoming bad again. The thoughts are coming back but only its stronger. I'm becoming more and more emotionally drained day by day. I'm trying to keep myself from doing bad things and god it is so hard when you've become so addicted to the pain. I just want to be good again and I know I'll be back, I know I'll be myself again soon. I just tired, tired of battling everyday with yourself and your own emotions .. It's so exhausting
Starting with the positives of it, it can help you get into a relationship and make new friends by finding people that share common interests. With friends social media keeps you in touch but you tend to not see them face to face because it’s easier to talk thru social media. I think that’s pretty sad but with family it’s different. Most of my family don’t live in California so social media is the only for sure way to talk to them. So with family it’s usually positive because it connects to family you can’t see face to face. According to Brian Solis in his article, "People Use Social Networks to Connect with Friends and Family, Sometimes Brands," “70% of adult social networking users visit the sites to connect with friends and family.”(12) But like I said friends who you can see face to face with just a short drive; you don’t see because of social media. There has been many articles that talks about how social media was designed to bring people together, but it has only made them feel more alone. As for intimate relationships, social media has probably become the number one way people start dating. Social media lets you just sit a wait for someone to message you or for other applications you wait for a match. Social media is great for find new relationships but when you're in a intimate relationship it only causes problems and brings about jealousy. In most situations if a relationship doesn’t work out it wasn’t meant to be but in some situations a relationship could have work if not for social media. Still my point stands if you want social media to be positive it can be, but if you can manage it then it is seen as a negative thing. It all comes back to self control and self discipline with social
As much as social media has managed to ruin our society, it plays a positive role for the public as well. Social media allowed people to use their networks as a form of reaching out to old friends and family across the world. With America being known as the melting pot of the world, our society has several people with family on the other side of the Earth. With social media in effect, this permits people to stay in touch with long lost loved ones and keep ties tight. Not only has it sanctioned friends and family to keep in touches but has granted people to relocate birth parents and unknown family members as well. Yes, social media has failed our society greatly but there is always a rainbow somewhere after a rainy day. Social media can play a positive role by bringing people back together.
Social media as a whole has benefit our society in a number of different ways. In the essay Is Google Making Us Stupid?, author Nicholas Carr felt that technological is taking other our ability to function independently. Which is somewhat true but I for one disagree. I feel that the world of technology has had a positive impact on us, by allowing us to step out of our comfort zone and explore new world possibilities. Such as a new form of communication and the ability to work more efficiently as well as expressing our creativity.
This allows for many people to become something that they are not and while not wholly bad there is still cause for concern. Many use social media to depict themselves as they would like to be seen, often times creating their own identity separate from their true selves. There are obviously many different levels to this, which vary greatly in harm, but lets consider how tricky this can become when going from online to meeting the person in real life. I believe that the widespread communication aspect allows for many different, albeit great online communities to be formed but it is simply that, a way for people to hone in on things that please them. Speaking more positively, it isn't all bad and there are many people who just seek communication which is completely fine. In essence digital media is, at its basest form, a way for people to share, communicate, and make
Kids should be kicked off of there sports teams for getting bad grades. What do you think, If you get a bad grade should you still be able to play sports, or just keep playing and have not so good grades?
Social media has both positive and negative effects. However, I feel as though the positive outweigh the negative. So many people benefit from social media including businesses, students, and distant friends. Although, when not used intelligently social media can be a destructive thing. Social media users should know the risks of social media and educate themselves. Overall social media is a positive thing that has made
Have you ever had a good or bad experience with social media? Have you ever been a part of a protest that was started on social media? I think that social media is a good thing because you can have so much fun on it and even make friends on in. Without that you would be limited to the kids in your neighborhood and in some places there are not a lot of kids that you can make friends with or they do not live close so you have to drive there. That is all fixed with social media. Like recently I have found some friends on social media that I play games with. They are super nice and without social media I would have never had that experience I would have to play be myself all the time and have no one to talk to. But now I have the chance to make friends and have fun with them even tho they live far away. Also colleges and most jobs look at your social media account to see what kind of person you are and if you are able to work so not only can you have fun but you can also potentially make money from it and you can make friends. Things like Facebook are so convenient to talk with friends or family without that we would need to call them and that is just so much harder to do then
The effects of the internet on me and this society have been rapidly changing. Did you know that approximately 3.2 billion people use the internet, about 200 billion emails and 3 million google searches would have to wait if the internet was turned off for one day. Let me tell you about something that happened when i was little, it might be off topic a little but when i was little i was born backwards, meaning i came out legs first. My hips were out of place and until i was about 2. My dad is always on the internet and loved taking pictures of his “Little princess”, the pictures can still be found on facebook along with a lot of other things from my family memories. That was when i started wanting to get on the internet, i asked for a facebook and they said no, being a rebel i made one anyways just to play the games on it. The internet can have positive and negative things about it for younger and older people, for example the internet engines are one of the best information givers out there, they bring almost everything and anything to a lot of internet users that lange from all over the world. The internet can provide ways to communicate with family and friends from a long distance, and even meet new people. Bad things about it is people sharing and storing illegal information on the internet, much like the dark web. The addiction to the internet and the online network can be disturbing a person's way of living and professional activity.
Nowadays, Internet become the most important thing in real life of each person because people can use the social network such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube to communicate with each other.The fact is that most of people know how to use Internet from children to adult. The most common technology devices these days are tablet, computer, laptop, and smartphone. They like it because they can do whatever they want on the Internet with these devices. Besides communicating, people also use Internet to listen music, watch movies or films, and play video games. The social networks is created to help connect people with someone who far away or making new friends. Social networking will become the most helpful thing if people know how to use it in the right way.