Criticism of Facebook

Introduction Recently I have read an online article called, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” written by Jean M. Twenge. As the title portrays, the article is about technology’s impact on the younger generation. Twenge states, “I’ve been researching generational differences for 25 years, starting when I was a 22-year-old doctoral student in psychology” (Twenge). She goes on in the article to state her opinion about smartphones and to support it in a variety of ways. Quoting and…

someone, why is it that the majority of people would prefer to text? Society has traded relationships for convenience at the expense of health. This theme is quite apparent through the lens of two works. Both The Public Image by Muriel Spark and “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” by Stephen Marche discuss how a person is affected when they become isolated. In this context, I will not be discussing physical isolation, as Annabel and Frederick are in fact surrounded by people. The definition of…

we live in nowadays besides the real world. We spend the whole day using it for either business stuff like buying, selling, trading, stocks, and many other stuff that relates to business. You can use social media for personal using like going on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and many other social media websites. Students use social media nowadays to help in studying like for example to get information about the project that they are doing in the class, or to research for their homework and…

Vicki Haddock’s article, “Teenagers Need Policing Online,” is a thorough review of many of the issues teenagers and young adults face on the internet. The boom of social media has only increased parent’s awareness of the potential risks their children could face by having an online profile. To assist in raising awareness to parents and legal guardians, author Vicki Haddock showcased her 30 years of experience as journalist, reporter, editor and columnist ("Author Vicki Haddock," n.d.). Using her…

Why Revolution will not be tweeted, Malcolm Gladwell expounds on the degree of effectiveness of social media in the fight for social injustices. The rights and freedom movements in the southern U.S. in the early 1960s did not require anything like Facebook, Twitter, or emails. The story of four Negro students who were denied service at the restaurant described how revolution and the desire for social justice could be achieved without social media. Gladwell discussed the strength of protests,…

Khalid Alruqi BCA603 11/2/2017 Anticipatory socialization in the use of social media in public relations is an article written by Maureen Taylor and Michael L. Kent (2010). This article discussed public relations tactics and examined the effectiveness of social media on public relations students’ understanding of the value and power of social media in public relations field. Most of public relations tactics data were collected from the theoretical frame of the socialization literature (Jablin…

The Circle’s Warning: A Machiavellian Approach to Mass Surveillance Dave Eggers' s The Circle serves as a warning to its readers against modern-day society's reliance on social media and the virtual world of the internet. The book introduces Mae Holland, a young ambitious woman who has the opportunity of a lifetime to work for The Circle Company. The Circle's innovations such as the SEECHANGE cameras permit anyone visual access to any place at any time. Eventually, these cameras are used by Mae…

In her paper, Left Out? Digital Media, Radical Politics and Social Change, Natalie Fenton tackles the both conceptual and practical issue in critical theory of overlooking the very practice it seeks to study with regard to radical politics. In the introduction, Fenton acknowledges the profound impact of digital media and the internet in building and mobilizing political networks of resistance to counter dominant power structures. She presents her piece as not only noting the radical collective…

Through the use of radio, the internet, and social media, numerous amounts of people are able to be connected immediately. With this, comes the notion that users must be careful of what they say and hear because of the immediate impact it has. In “The Fake News Fallacy”, Chen raises awareness to the fake news that is put out onto social media and the websites of unreliable sources. He creates a parallel with this to radio, by using the social hysteria created in the 1930s and how it has…

In modern society, we live with the constant struggle of people attached to their electronic devices becoming closer to social isolation. On public transportation, realistically, the number of times we would talk to a stranger daily is none. In the article, “Hello Stranger,” Elizabeth W. Dum and Michael Norton argue with the conducted social experiment to show the difference in experience between acting sociable or isolated. The results given proves that the way people act in public…