Social networking such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Bebo are tools for people to communicate. Hundreds of millions of people use these tools for finding new friends and sharing their daily activities or their opinion. Some people find these are interesting and use them every day. They find these sites are so beneficial to them. After reading Micheal Rosenwald 's article "Can Facebook Help Overcome Shyness?" and Tom Meltzer 's article "Social Networking: Failure to Connect", in my opinion, social networking harms people more than benefits them. If you spend too much time on something you will get the side effect of it, likely, if a person spends too much time on social networking this can hurt a person 's well-being
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According to Meltzer’s article, the NSPCC released a detail in 2009 that the number of calls from children and teenagers about loneliness had risen five times higher after five years (Meltzer 1, 2). Moreover, the Mental Health Foundation found that 53% of 18-34-year-olds had felt depressed because of loneliness (Meltzer 2). In fact, another researchers found that young people worried about feeling alone, being single, about the quality of their relationships with their friends and family more than any other group (Meltzer 2). The reasons for those finding are spending too much time communicating online and not enough in person (Meltzer 2). In addition, the young generation has a very different habit from the old generation. They were growing up while technology is developing; it effects them a lots. They are depended on the technology too much. They use machines for a lots things to do for their daily activities such as coffee maker, electric vacuum, lawn mower, washing machine, etc. Especially, even they depend on smartphone and computer for communicating. They prefer staying at home and play computer or chatting on screen to going out. They base on social networking to connect with their friends. As Meltzer tells us that the twentysomethings have developed and mediated many of their friendships through …show more content…
In details, the growth of electronic media is the most significant contributing factor to society’s growing physical estrangement (Meltzer 3). Studies show that loneliness can weaken our cardiovascular and immune systems. Even more, “being lonely was as harmful as smoking 15 cigarettes a day or being alcoholic” (Meltzer 3). I have known that people usually go online at night; it makes them not have enough sleep. It harm people health a lots and it decreases their agility in day time. People who don’t have enough sleeping, their memories will be lost gradually. They always feel tired and exhausted even in the beginning of
According to Meltzer’s article, the NSPCC released a detail in 2009 that the number of calls from children and teenagers about loneliness had risen five times higher after five years (Meltzer 1, 2). Moreover, the Mental Health Foundation found that 53% of 18-34-year-olds had felt depressed because of loneliness (Meltzer 2). In fact, another researchers found that young people worried about feeling alone, being single, about the quality of their relationships with their friends and family more than any other group (Meltzer 2). The reasons for those finding are spending too much time communicating online and not enough in person (Meltzer 2). In addition, the young generation has a very different habit from the old generation. They were growing up while technology is developing; it effects them a lots. They are depended on the technology too much. They use machines for a lots things to do for their daily activities such as coffee maker, electric vacuum, lawn mower, washing machine, etc. Especially, even they depend on smartphone and computer for communicating. They prefer staying at home and play computer or chatting on screen to going out. They base on social networking to connect with their friends. As Meltzer tells us that the twentysomethings have developed and mediated many of their friendships through …show more content…
In details, the growth of electronic media is the most significant contributing factor to society’s growing physical estrangement (Meltzer 3). Studies show that loneliness can weaken our cardiovascular and immune systems. Even more, “being lonely was as harmful as smoking 15 cigarettes a day or being alcoholic” (Meltzer 3). I have known that people usually go online at night; it makes them not have enough sleep. It harm people health a lots and it decreases their agility in day time. People who don’t have enough sleeping, their memories will be lost gradually. They always feel tired and exhausted even in the beginning of