The Boston Globe
It all starts with the overview of how social media has become a place where more harm than good is happening. No one meant Facebook or Instagram to become a spot of where hate is filtered through. Nicholas Carr is stating how getting more information on each other, was meant for good but instead “put us at each other’s throats.”
“Although people believe that knowing leads to liking,” the researchers wrote, “knowing more means liking less” This quote is what the entire article is mainly about, the whole reasoning of telephones according to AT&T’s top engineer in 1923 predicated that telephone systems “join all the peoples of the earth in one brotherhood.” Meaning that if you could talk to people and learn about people you would become almost as one with others. Thinking that technology could almost stop war, by “making war ridiculous”.
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It might be easier to share our hateful opinions on people online which is why cyber bullying is such an issue because you can’t see how your words impact other people. In the Canadian study, it showed that people who have sadistic qualities are the most active people online. “Sadists just want to have fun . . . and the Internet is their playground!”
Overall in this article, you can see how much they put into emphasis that knowing more, means liking less. Social media puts you on a magnifying glass, everyone has the capability to see what you post and you have the incapability to remove it completely. They continue to say constantly that social media was suppose to help people understand and be more compassionate with people, but instead it really has; like in the title. Put us at each others throats. Giving us the capability to respond and talk to anyone with that social media which gives the ability to hate anyone with that social
It all starts with the overview of how social media has become a place where more harm than good is happening. No one meant Facebook or Instagram to become a spot of where hate is filtered through. Nicholas Carr is stating how getting more information on each other, was meant for good but instead “put us at each other’s throats.”
“Although people believe that knowing leads to liking,” the researchers wrote, “knowing more means liking less” This quote is what the entire article is mainly about, the whole reasoning of telephones according to AT&T’s top engineer in 1923 predicated that telephone systems “join all the peoples of the earth in one brotherhood.” Meaning that if you could talk to people and learn about people you would become almost as one with others. Thinking that technology could almost stop war, by “making war ridiculous”.
So in the beginning, everyone …show more content…
It might be easier to share our hateful opinions on people online which is why cyber bullying is such an issue because you can’t see how your words impact other people. In the Canadian study, it showed that people who have sadistic qualities are the most active people online. “Sadists just want to have fun . . . and the Internet is their playground!”
Overall in this article, you can see how much they put into emphasis that knowing more, means liking less. Social media puts you on a magnifying glass, everyone has the capability to see what you post and you have the incapability to remove it completely. They continue to say constantly that social media was suppose to help people understand and be more compassionate with people, but instead it really has; like in the title. Put us at each others throats. Giving us the capability to respond and talk to anyone with that social media which gives the ability to hate anyone with that social