It has come to my attention that social media is getting a lot of talk about it being “bad” for our society. People like Kerry Coppinger, the author of “Phone Fetish: How Snapchat Is Ruining Your Life and You’re To Blame”, claims that we, as millennials, use and abuse social media with a “don’t care” attitude. When it comes to the topic of social media, most of us will readily agree that it’s a distraction. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of what about the pros of social media. While some are convinced that it separates social media users from those around them, others believe that, besides it being a distraction, social networking sites help students do better at school. My view on social media is that it’s neither
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Such as, Law Enforcement using social networking sites to catch and prosecute criminals? For example, in 2011 the NYPD added a Twitter tracking unit and has used social networking to arrest criminals who bragged of their crimes online. So, would we really be fine without social media in our everyday life or would it diminish most of the problems we have with it today?
If you ask those who disagree, such as Tom Hodgkinson, writer for the Guardian, would agree that you shouldn’t need a computer to connect with the people around you. Although I agree with that statement, we don’t just use Social Media to connect with those around us but simply those that aren’t. So social media is never to blame in these cases but us as a whole.
We have a choice to connect with those around us or not so the blame shouldn’t be towards Social Media but us as a whole. Some people who are antisocial turn towards social media and again it helps them express themselves the way they want to. As Danah Boyd, a Microsoft researcher, was making his advanced argument in It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, “Teens aren’t addicted to social media. They’re addicted to each other.” Which I agree with because teens aren’t always allowed to hang out the way most teens do, so they’ve moved it online and for some obscured reason adults don’t want that either. So who’s to really blame
Such as, Law Enforcement using social networking sites to catch and prosecute criminals? For example, in 2011 the NYPD added a Twitter tracking unit and has used social networking to arrest criminals who bragged of their crimes online. So, would we really be fine without social media in our everyday life or would it diminish most of the problems we have with it today?
If you ask those who disagree, such as Tom Hodgkinson, writer for the Guardian, would agree that you shouldn’t need a computer to connect with the people around you. Although I agree with that statement, we don’t just use Social Media to connect with those around us but simply those that aren’t. So social media is never to blame in these cases but us as a whole.
We have a choice to connect with those around us or not so the blame shouldn’t be towards Social Media but us as a whole. Some people who are antisocial turn towards social media and again it helps them express themselves the way they want to. As Danah Boyd, a Microsoft researcher, was making his advanced argument in It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, “Teens aren’t addicted to social media. They’re addicted to each other.” Which I agree with because teens aren’t always allowed to hang out the way most teens do, so they’ve moved it online and for some obscured reason adults don’t want that either. So who’s to really blame