As I sit at my desk looking over my classwork for the week I can’t help but find myself clicking back and forth between Facebook and the work I’m looking over. Before I know it, it’s past midnight and I’ve found myself only half way through the work I intended on completing for the day. I’m sure I’m not alone on this, I’ll notice classmates scrolling through their feed during a lecture, or checking their instagram account periodically as they do work in the library. Facebook and social media in general consumes hours upon hours of time throughout our daily life, sometimes outright interfering with how we carry it out. In this paper we will take a look at Facebook, and social media applications in general to see why they could be considered
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From old friends, long distance relatives, to simply asking your neighbor if they could hold onto your mail while you’re out of town; social media is the adhesive that keeps some of us interacting with those we’re normally unable to. However, this adhesive is just that, it simply cannot replace face to face interactions in our lives. Interacting with one another has turned into sending a message that’s less than 180 characters, and a reduction of one another 's physical presence. According to Greene’s article, Emile Durkheim had conducted a study into the reasons of suicide, and one of those is separation from one’s family. It follows this by using the separation of the NFL Terrell Owens from his family after he had been traded as an (extreme) example of the inability to interact with those close to us physically. The article then takes a look at women with the mean age of 38, had some college education, or had learned a trade with 92% of them using facebook as their primary social networking platform. In addition, the article also looks at how these women spend their time, and a majority are left with less than 40 minutes to socialize after performing their daily routine. Communicating with one another allows us to empathize easier, it allows us to relate to each other, and the article states …show more content…
We scroll down these pages and agree to terms we’re not quite so sure of and move on with our lives. Infact, there is an episode of Parks and Recreation where one of the characters state something along the lines of “You shouldn’t have to have an advanced law degree to avoid getting screwed over by a big corporation.” referring to the corporation their fighting against over tracking the entire towns online activities that had been placed into their terms of service without their knowledge. This is easily related to the terms of service we agree to with facebook, where its used to target ads to their target demographics. On January first of this year their new terms of service added a policy quite similar to the one satirized on the show where it will allow the website to (literally) track our every location, which most will agree is quite an invasive practice. Additionally, another issue is that if we do not agree to this policy we’re no longer able to use this platform which in a sense will separate us from the mass with an estimated 1 billion users around the globe, and over a quarter of that frequenting the site daily.
Social networking does its job well, however, the negative aspects of them can be viewed just as easily as its positives. With some moderation, and taking time out of our days
From old friends, long distance relatives, to simply asking your neighbor if they could hold onto your mail while you’re out of town; social media is the adhesive that keeps some of us interacting with those we’re normally unable to. However, this adhesive is just that, it simply cannot replace face to face interactions in our lives. Interacting with one another has turned into sending a message that’s less than 180 characters, and a reduction of one another 's physical presence. According to Greene’s article, Emile Durkheim had conducted a study into the reasons of suicide, and one of those is separation from one’s family. It follows this by using the separation of the NFL Terrell Owens from his family after he had been traded as an (extreme) example of the inability to interact with those close to us physically. The article then takes a look at women with the mean age of 38, had some college education, or had learned a trade with 92% of them using facebook as their primary social networking platform. In addition, the article also looks at how these women spend their time, and a majority are left with less than 40 minutes to socialize after performing their daily routine. Communicating with one another allows us to empathize easier, it allows us to relate to each other, and the article states …show more content…
We scroll down these pages and agree to terms we’re not quite so sure of and move on with our lives. Infact, there is an episode of Parks and Recreation where one of the characters state something along the lines of “You shouldn’t have to have an advanced law degree to avoid getting screwed over by a big corporation.” referring to the corporation their fighting against over tracking the entire towns online activities that had been placed into their terms of service without their knowledge. This is easily related to the terms of service we agree to with facebook, where its used to target ads to their target demographics. On January first of this year their new terms of service added a policy quite similar to the one satirized on the show where it will allow the website to (literally) track our every location, which most will agree is quite an invasive practice. Additionally, another issue is that if we do not agree to this policy we’re no longer able to use this platform which in a sense will separate us from the mass with an estimated 1 billion users around the globe, and over a quarter of that frequenting the site daily.
Social networking does its job well, however, the negative aspects of them can be viewed just as easily as its positives. With some moderation, and taking time out of our days