PERSUASIVE ESSAY ON SOCIAL NETWORKING: CON
In today’s society, billions of people across the world are accessing the internet multiple times a day. Why wouldn’t they? Many people have the internet on their smart phones, and at the touch of a button can check their email, their Facebook, their bank account balance, movie times, you name it. One of these things, however, usually consumes more of the user’s time than the others. Yes, you guessed it: Facebook. Any social networking site or application, actually, whether it be Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, or something similar, seems to easily suck up hours of a person’s day. Young children and teens are accessing these sites while at school, and as soon as they get home from school. Adults
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Furthermore, while people are looking through these sites, they’re probably munching on something and snacking away. Social networking is bad because it encourages people to lounge around and become physically inactive. The second reason that social networking is bad for society is that it makes people less productive at school and work. First, let’s take children and teens. Some of them may not be allowed to log on to these sites at school, but many of them do it from their phones secretly during lunch or break. Furthermore, as soon as school is over, many of them log on all the way from the walk home to the time they do their homework. Many students even go on these sites while they are doing their homework. Say, for example, that a young girl is working on an essay, and stops to reply to a comment on her “wall.” Next thing she knows, she is checking the profile of the friend who left the comment and finds out her friend’s relationship status has changed. Then, she checks the profile of her friend’s ex-boyfriend, and pretty soon, this young girl has wasted two hours cyber-stalking her friend’s friend’s sites and messaging people to get to the bottom of who broke up with who. Who wants to bet that the young girl is going to get a bad grade on that essay? The same can happen with adults at work. We all know parents and adults have Facebook these days. Just imagine is something similar happened to a man who was supposed to have a
Many people have different opinions about social network sites. Some think that social networking is fun and a great way socialize, however, no one really take the time to realize how bad it could be and/or get. Social network sites can negatively impact lives because it can be the cause of missing important life moments, the reason of students getting bad grades, and be very extremely dangerous for anyone.
In final analysis, social media is increasing day by day for young people which can later cause negative outcomes. Social networks will continue to be harmful, unless parents be aware of how much social media is used among their young kids. If there are no regulations or limitations on social networking the repercussion will accumulate. Young people need to know that social media can affect their lives in many negative ways when being stuck on their media too much. Social networks is not a necessity
Nicholas Carr wrote an interesting article about why social media is not good. He does have some solid points about this. For instance the kids of today do not go outside much anymore and do not know what hard work is. Most kids nowadays stay inside on Snapchat and instagram. I believe that kids are getting sucked into their phones and do not go outside as much. I also believe that they do not know what it is like to work hard. But i believe that it is good to be able to keep contact with your friends and family even if they are on the other side of the world. As well as showing them what you are up to. Carr says that this superabundance of personal information can create an oppressive sense of “digital crowding”. I have to say that he
Social network, can cause many health problems. Some examples of these health problems are self-centered, and not being able to talk face to face. It keeps people from focusing on other things rather than social media. It can decrease a persons feelings and make them feel depresed, sad, or anxiety. Daily over use of social media can increase a feeling that a person is isolated from society. Social media can harm a adults or teen education. Studies have shown that students who use social media often have lower grades then other students who don't use social media. This discovery has shown it can damage a students chance to get in to college or to be kicked out. People who work such as employes also often check social media for anything that suites them. This shows workers (employes), can be at the risk of losing their job becuase, they decide to check social media rather than work.
First, social networking removes a lot of face-to-face interaction among individuals. This effectively creates less social beings that rely on social networking for communication and are less competent when it comes to in-person interaction. Social networking also allows for a sense of anonymity, which creates reckless morals and gives people the ability to say harmful things with no consequence. Finally, social networking is a major distraction and a huge waste of time. Children and adults often opt to spend their time on social networking sites rather than being productive members of society. These problems continue to get worse and will escalate if they are not addressed and solved immediately
In todays society,social media is detrimental because it causes distractions, create unnecessary drama, and it can open you up to identity theft and fraud. Social media can end up being the death of someone people and social media is no good at all it’s very bad.
Sure social media makes promotion for events super easy as it expands your reach and its much easier (and cheaper) to promote more frequently. But if thats the only way youre using social media in relation to your event, keep reading because im gonna tell you ways to boost your event with social media that isn't purely promo.
Many small business owners are wading in the waters of social media, struggling to figure out how to use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Snapchat (the list goes on...and on..) etc. to grow their brand. Although most small business owners are using social media in some capacity, it has become clear that developing a social media strategy is not as simple as it seems. It’s easy to believe that since millions of people are using social media, we should just be able to build brand recognition by simply posting content...right? Yet, when we start delivering content, posting well written blog posts, and making offers through our various social media channels, we find out that people may not be as interested as we originally believed.
With various ongoing debates about why social networking may be bad for society, I have found it to be a positive resource. Social networking comes in many forms. It comes in the form of facebook, twitter, and even professional forums such as Linkedin. In such a fast-paced world, I find social networking to be an invaluable way of sharing ideas and interests that allow me to remain engaged. Although some may debate that social networking takes away from face to face and/or quality interactions, I have found it to be an invaluable tool in building community and networks. In fact, I believe it has given us a more
Social networking has become a major part of society. Many people wake up each day and check social media websites specifically throughout Twitter and Facebook first thing in the morning instead of reaching for a newspaper. Since people are spending such a large amount of time surfing social networks, it is important to point out some of the positive and negative effects that social networking can have on a society. The positive effects of social networking sites are allow people to create new relationships and reconnect with friends and family. Increased communication, even online, strengthens relationships. And the other is social networking sites make people share everything that they want and bring people with common interests together, offer exposure to new ideas from around the world, and lower inhibitions to overcome social anxiety.
How can we make social media unique once again? We define social media as a way to communicate and keep up with today news. Social Media like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat are the three mainstream media most of us use now for our daily lives. Although many people may disagree about changing the thing and making something new out it. Creating a new social media app that is made for communicating with communities and around the world with a unique feature.
Wouldn’t you say that online social networking has changed the way society interacts with friends, family and perfect strangers. When someone exposes themselves to these sites, they open the door to allow these people into their lives. Some of them you would have passed on the street and not even thought of befriending. These people you have chosen to interact with, whether they are in your city, another state, another country or just someone you met online have now become a part of your circle. This form of communication will eventually turn their social interaction into non-existence. Social networking has a negative effect on society impacting physical interaction with people.
Posting on various social media outlets such as Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram are outlets that the recent generations are prone to using. Being able to post online about yourself and showing the world who you are is the new thing to do. This also comes along with pretending who you are online getting caught in an unrealistic fantasy world. Be able to get away from your real life and going to your online fantasy life is what everyone seems to be doing. Many of these people will hide the ugly truths about what is actually going on in their lives, trying to prove to the world that their lives and who they are are perfect. Doing so, no one really sees the dangerous side to how social media and technology has been affecting our everyday lives. Between editing a picture of yourself to make you look skinnier or to fix your acne to try and fish for compliments from others they don’t even know seems to be okay. Behind the scenes, social media has been an ongoing issue for teens for decades because of one major issue called cyberbullying.
One of the new phenomena of our generation is Facebook, and with four hundred million users, it ranks first in the 2017 “most famous social media site” chart. Personally, I believe a convenient social media should benefit the people on multiple aspects and Facebook successfully fulfills every category to make a social media pleasing. It all initiated in February of 2004, when Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with the ultimate purpose to create a better communicative and connected world. Not only does Facebook allow its users to create and upload their own profiles with photos, videos, and other information about themselves, but also friends have access to profiles of other friends, allowed to comment on their updated status or write on their profile wall. Facebook successfully meets the criteria of privacy, communication, and keeps the reader informed of current events.
Ask yourself how much time you spend online daily. Now ask yourself what percentage of that time is spent on social networking. For most, I 'd wager at least 75 percent, if not more. According to google, social networking is defined as "the use of dedicated websites and applications to interact with other users, or to find people with similar interests to oneself." While there are hundreds of these sites, the most frequently used and therefore most often thought of when we hear the phrase "social networking" are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr. On the surface, these applications appear innocent; they are merely a means to pass time and chat with friends. But maybe we 've been looking at them through misguided eyes. When you dig beneath the trunk of a tree, you find the roots. When researchers dig beneath social networking, the roots they find all point to one rational deduction: social networking is a threat to our emotional well-being. I tend to agree.