In today’s society, there are numerous of social media such as, Facebook, Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit. They are websites and applications that allows users to produce and share content with others, simultaneously, participating in social networking. Due to the mass of social media, news are spread more expeditors, innovative ideas are shared, and communication is much easier. With all these factors come into play, this have morphed our society to a quicker pace environment than it has ever before and this will continuously go on as we individuals grow--however, despite the beneficial factors of social media, it has contributed more harm to society than it does to enhance. Because since going online is very accessible in this day and
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IIka Glebis, an assistant professor at the London School of Economics, whose study about social networking sites, “Be aware it is a space that is watched.” This is true because regardless that you do not have tremendous amount of friends or followers online, there is a high possibility that you are being watched or stalked by someone—and it could be someone you do not have any knowledge for. In addition, social media has given the option to users whether they want to share out any personal detail of themselves such as, their occupancies or school, their home address, and their cellular phone digits. However, since not many users do not take in consideration what they post online, this feeds online predator more power in harming the user’s lives. Because of this sort of privacy on social media, social media has produced to become of a more threat to society—causing society to be an horrendous environment. J.B. Michel co-author of Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture describes that being cautious is not the only thing how you should behave on social media, stating that “Need to be especially cautious about the quality of the data and the error it can …show more content…
With this, it gives the predator an easier chance to strike on that user. In addition, bullying someone has become much easier, due to social media being so accessible today, with that it has made social media a very unfriendly environment. Lastly, social media has enforce unattainable beauty standards, since anyone can post up a picture of themselves wherever whenever and if they were to look different from someone who is consider “beautiful”, then they will be labeled that “unattractive” user and because of that, it has affected tremendous amount of user’s self-esteem. No matter how much harm social media has done to society, it will stay regardless--due to its positive aspects. But the negative factors of social media will still out runs the
IIka Glebis, an assistant professor at the London School of Economics, whose study about social networking sites, “Be aware it is a space that is watched.” This is true because regardless that you do not have tremendous amount of friends or followers online, there is a high possibility that you are being watched or stalked by someone—and it could be someone you do not have any knowledge for. In addition, social media has given the option to users whether they want to share out any personal detail of themselves such as, their occupancies or school, their home address, and their cellular phone digits. However, since not many users do not take in consideration what they post online, this feeds online predator more power in harming the user’s lives. Because of this sort of privacy on social media, social media has produced to become of a more threat to society—causing society to be an horrendous environment. J.B. Michel co-author of Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture describes that being cautious is not the only thing how you should behave on social media, stating that “Need to be especially cautious about the quality of the data and the error it can …show more content…
With this, it gives the predator an easier chance to strike on that user. In addition, bullying someone has become much easier, due to social media being so accessible today, with that it has made social media a very unfriendly environment. Lastly, social media has enforce unattainable beauty standards, since anyone can post up a picture of themselves wherever whenever and if they were to look different from someone who is consider “beautiful”, then they will be labeled that “unattractive” user and because of that, it has affected tremendous amount of user’s self-esteem. No matter how much harm social media has done to society, it will stay regardless--due to its positive aspects. But the negative factors of social media will still out runs the