Having at least one account on online communication websites has been become a new trend. According to Mark Zuckerberg, “The thing that we are trying to do at Facebook is just helping people connect and communicate more efficiently” (Mark Zuckerberg). “Social technologies have broken the barriers of space and time and enabled us to interact twenty-four seven with more people than ever before” (Tardanico 2). Thanks to the explosion of information technology, the online social service opens a new era as it impacts “how work is done, the way we communicate, and our society” and it has been considered to be indispensable in modern life (Yeung 1).
From my perspective, the “electronic communication” was created at the beginning as a tie to hold members together; however, it seems to bring an opposite scenario (Tardanico 1). In spite of the benefit of the invention of social network, Ph.D Marilyn Price-Mitchell notes: “The way …show more content…
Human being benefits from it, but also suffers it. The manifest and latent dysfunctions of online communication service affects the young generation at distinct aspects. If users cannot aware of its drawbacks and politicians and internet providers do not join hands to find solutions, it may pass its serious damage from one generation to another. Although the “electric communication” was a technology revolution in human history, it has been considered to be a social