The topic that I will write aout is whether social networking sites our good for our society. Social networking sites have recently increased in this last decade. Some of the leading sites have been Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace. Some of the benefits of these sites have been that you are able too meet new people or reconnect with old ones, including friends or family. It also may bring people with the same interests healthy conversation. But some of the negatives of social networks have been cyber bullying, less face to face talking, online predators, and promoting lazy behaviors. I personally believe that although having an account on a socail networking site may be beneficial it also can be negative. I use my social networking sites for school purposes, or talking to people who do not have phones or other types of communication. But it can also be used to dicuss topics commonly occuring in a normal teenagers or adults life, in a healthy environment were you cannot be punished for having an opinion. Although statitiscs are correct about the number of risks that have been said about social networking sites such as cyber bullying or promoting lazy behaviors. There have been plenty of times were i have just felt like staying inside on the computer or watching tv, rather then going outside to actually interact with other kids. Do you feel that social networking sites can damage a child's future in any way? Also this relates to class because Mr.Griffis asked us to build an Twitter account to be used for school. Is this considered a bad thing?
This picture shows how an obese child would rather sit and network on a computer rather than back in the old days were there was more physical activity.
This video shows some of the negative affects of Facebook, a social networking site.
This video shows how people feel that Facebook can be a positive influence on society.
http://socialnetworking.procon.org/#Background
http://www.yahoo.com/?fr=fptb-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElZbbFxARMY&feature=related
I believe that social networking bring many benefits. It helps teach technology to kids. Social networking are often used in the classrooms for homework and discussions blogs. Also, you can keep in connect with people that you know. You also connect with your professors to ask questions and other students in that class. Technology is such a big part of our lives, you just know how to used it. The only bad thing about networking is putting too much information out there because you never know who is reading it and what are you saying.
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