Overall social sites serve one purpose, encourage communication. Social sites can help strangers connect based on a shared interest. People find it easier to communicate on topics they find interesting. Most sites have message boards which permit conversations, debates, or polls that can influence new views on topics. Social sites are good for allowing instant feedback. This type of interaction works well for those who are shy, they find it easier to connect with others since face to face interaction isn’t needed. Social sites are open to such a wide range; it aids you to be in contact with people you otherwise may not have met. Mobility and lack of restrictions permit individuals to talk to other individuals no matter their time or place in the world. Today’s society is pushing a rising brand of digital society, which is being achieved through social sites. Just as any other custom, if not monitored the use of social sites can be damaging. Earlier I stated that social sites can be helpful for those with timid personalities, but this can also lead to isolation. Although it may be easier for these passive types of people to communicate, it’s not helpful. Social sites assist seclusion, permitting those who find face to face interaction nerve racking to stay in this insecurity. Thousands access social sites from public computers, allowing personal information easier to take. Users don’t realize how much private information they are allowing to be accessed and most don’t know how to create severer privacy settings. Unaware users can become victim to identity theft which is becoming more common due to social sites. More and more youth are being exposed to social site, since it can be accessed from any phone, iPod or laptop it’s hard for them not to be. Revealing children to these social sites allow them to possibly interact with social predators. Social sites come with small shortcomings; bad grammar, and poor spelling that can become a habit if unnoticed. Using social sites responsibility and teaching children to do the same will increase the benefits and avoid the disadvantages.
When reading your article, I feel that you lean towards social media is a good thing, but still can have a few problems involved in it. It seems that you share a few valid points to your argument, but is there any research to back this up? Some seems to be common knowledge, but I don’t think I can totally support your claims on social media, especially with a few of the negatives that you pointed out at the end.
ReplyDeleteYou talk about social media being harmful to grammar and spelling errors, but it seems almost nonchalant. Many professionals feel that it is making many students have horrible sentence structure and all together the inability to produce a solid piece of writing. Your defense that parents should be teaching children how to use social media seems like a good idea. Most kids think that they are fun and games, but truly don’t understand the trouble that can come from being on those websites. Over all, I do believe that you make some strong points throughout your article, but I am just a little curious on where the information is from and if there are any solutions to the problems that you pointed out.
Although I agree with everything you said, regarding any positive/negative effects of social media, I thought the format of your post could be better. It would help the reader if there were a clear opening, body, and conclusion paragraph. The body could have been split up into two different paragraphs, one for the positive effects and the other for the negative effects. In the beginning of your piece, I felt like a lot of your sentences didn’t flow. You just listed off a bunch of things and ended the sentence and moved on, you didn’t really explain anything until the end of your post. You have a lot of good information but it’s just hard to read the actual post itself because of how it’s presented. One sentence stated, “Today’s society is pushing a rising brand of digital society, which is being achieved through social sites.” To me, I have to re-read this sentence to understand what you’re trying to say, and it doesn’t help that you have nothing written after that to explain what you meant. These are all easy fixes that will make your posts a lot better than they already are!
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