Censorship Of Social Media Analysis

In the past, it was difficult to communicate with one another. It would take weeks, or even months, for people to receive or respond to another person’s message. Thankfully, the complications of finding out whether someone wanted to come over for dinner was over whenever social networking was created in the 1970’s (1stWebDesigner , 2016). Social networking is defined as a service, based online, that allows people to create a public or private profile within the site, follow or subscribe to other people they may share a liking with, and have the ability to look at the profiles of those people freely. There are many sites such as Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, Facebook, and an array of others, in which people use to interact with family …show more content…
They say that the use of social networks can cause many problems in a user’s life. A factor such as age can definitely show why one may be against the use of these networks. Since there is limited privacy on these networks, children that are young are exposed to so many things that should be censored to their eyes. They are not aware of the multiple amounts of predators out there. There are many stalkers and pedophiles on these sites that can gather information about someone and attack them through these sites, instead of in person. And if children fall victim to this crime, it’s not good at …show more content…
“…as the benefits of the multipurpose mobile phone expand, so does its risks. Not only do they point to possible security issues with GPS running on a cellphone, but cultural observers worry about the growing preference of young users to stay plugged into a virtual network, often oblivious to the real world around them (Goodale, 2008).” Goodale is saying that the advances of the social networks aren’t bad, but they do hold some problems that may arise in the future. Others just watch as the changes to society happen through the use of the sites and either welcomes the new customs and the new ways of interacting with one another or dislike them completely because of the lack of privacy by the users. Engdahl talked about the different point of views people have about social networking and the effect it has on society. When social networking began, people knew that this would make major changes to the way people interacted and communicated, but, it only affected a small amount of people. The networking community was small and people had to pay for each minute spent on the web. This is the reason it had a small effect on society. However, there is now a large percentage of the population who are involved for the transformations on the society. Now there were many different opinions to these new changes. Many people were enthusiastic about the opportunities online social networking offers, and