Andrew Kean Disliking Social Media

In an article written by Andrew Keen called Sharing is a Trap he explains his reasons on disliking social media and where he believes it is headed. His article can be broken down into three key ideas which are the following: the different types of social media that exist during the same time he wrote the article, how much time people are using social media currently, and finally what he thinks and fears about it. Also his ideas will be compared to another source of ideas that have similar thoughts on the subject at hand.
To begin Andrew Keen compares a work of art that goes by the name The Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, to the lifestyle of people of the current generation. Keen explains how there is a type of sharing media for every little …show more content…
Glazer also explains how difficult it can be to remove something from the internet once it has been posted because it can be saved onto someone else’s device and be re-uploaded somewhere else. However, she also claims that places such as California have a new program where people of the age eighteen or younger can request to have all their personal information that they have posted onto these sites …show more content…
Originally social media was supposed to be used for networking within companies so they could respond to certain ordeals at a faster pace as well as keeping everyone informed about the company’s status as stated by Keen.
Finally, Andrew Keen explains why he fears how far sharing has evolved, referring back to the work of art The Woman in Blue Reading a Letter. Keen tells how he believes humans have never really been social in of which most prefer to spend time alone away from others. In his Article he tells of Mark Zuckerberg’s Law who is the creator of what keen calls “the smiling utilitarian at the heart of this social darkness,” which is “I would expect that next year people will share twice as much information as they share this year.” and how it will keep rising every