Social Media Is A Waste Of Time

In the article, titled “Facebook in a Crowd” Hal Niedzviecki discusses his experience with Facebook. Niedzviecki started his account and quickly had about 700 on-line “friends.” In his own words, he was “absurdly proud of how many cyberpals, connections, acquaintances, and even strangers I’d managed to sign up.” (Niedzviecki, 958) But he also had a 2-year-old at home, was a workaholic, and liked being left alone. He had very few real friends. So he decided to have a Facebook party to get to know some of his new friends.

In today's time, social media is widely used by most people and most who use it claims that it is beneficial to their everyday lives. Many people argue that social media is bad for others because it is distracting them and causing themselves harm by falling or running into others but that is because they dont pay attention, with the right amount of awareness it is very helpful. For some the only way to stay connected to businesses, familly, friends, and world problems is through places like Facebook and Twitter. Social media is more helpful in more ways than one especially when trying to get communications long distances.

Our journey has brought us many friendships, which will hopefully carry over into our adult lives. As we begin to transition from our high school life to our postsecondary life, I ask you all to remember these friendships, and don’t take them for granted. Because one day, these friendships might not be the same. Your friends will move away, find new jobs, and start families. So, let’s enjoy what we have left together.

“Let’s sign up, sign in, and confess here at the altar of loneliness.” The Facebook

“We don’t have a choice on whether we do social media, the question is how we do it” (Qualman, n.d). According to Merrain Webster 1828, “social media is form of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messaging, and other online (such as video). Technology has involved into something that everyone can utilize effectively just by the swipe of finger or by pressing a single button. We don’t have to go the post office for hand written letter from families and friends abroad, but we can get them through simply opening a chat box online. However, social media has become the addiction to many young people today and even adults alike. We eat with your phones. We study and communicate with others on your various devices. We even go into the bathroom with our devices to ensure that we don’t miss a tweet, recent Instagram post or a WhatsApp message.

A quick check of Facebook feeds shows that bffs Chloe, Zoey and Joey are, respectively, moving to the next level on Farmville, complete with a new piglet; enjoying a “yummmmy” frappe at Starbucks; and updating her status to single and searching. Such is the electrifying information that so many college students today seem to think they must be constantly monitoring or the world will cease to spin on its axis. Statistics show that the average 18-24-year-old Facebook user has 649 friends (MarketingCharts), and while 649 seems like an extreme number of people to claim as close, personal acquaintances, many college students today likely have "friended"

Before I came to Baker Middle School, I attended elementary school in Laytonsville. I had a group of friends that consisted of five people, Olivia Fink, Olivia Pallas, Mason LeBlanc, Kody Johnson, and Stefan Jacob. The Olivia’s both attend this school alongside me, but sadly the other three attends a different school. I became friends with those three because we all had common interests in multiple categories such as cartoons and humor. I still keep in touch with them, but I know we aren’t as close as we used to be. With the Olivia’s we all became best friends in the first week of Kindergarten and we still have been by each other’s side since. We became friends because we all sat next to each other on our little chairs, and talked about anything

The 2000s also featured a positive impact. This positive impact was known as Facebook. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook previously was known for student pictures. Since then, Facebook grew more popular and became available to anyone who’s over the age of 13. “ Facebook’s founders soon made the website available to other colleges in the Boston area. Interest continued to grow, and the website eventually became open to any university or high school student. In September 2006, Facebook opened to anyone over the age of 13 with an e-mail address” (“Facebook

Facebook is a social networking site that is free of charge for its users. It allows the individual the opportunity to stay connected with friends and family, sharing updates, photographs and user status. The company grosses more than $1 billion per quarter in advertising revenue and online games (Ritholtz, 2014). In this respect, Facebook is much more that a social network. It is a versatile and sophisticated corporation that has revolutionized the way people share their lives and communicate. Their mission is “to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the

Today’s adolescents are the first generation to grow up in a “fully tethered life”, and as such must deal with the ‘always on’ feeling that social media sites such as ‘Facebook’ and ‘Twitter’ provide. Now that I think about it, Pretty In Pink would be entirely different if Snapchat was included in the mix. This consistency of information enhances feelings of regret, fear, worry, and anxiety “When we scroll through pictures and status updates, the worry that tugs at the corners of our minds is set off by the fear of regret… We’ve become afraid that we’ve made the wrong decision about how to spend our time”. Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Tumblr sites enhance feelings of regret, fear, worry, and anxiety. “We’ve always been scared of missing out on the occasional party or seeing friends doing other stuff which you’re not involved in, but with social media that feeling has increased in intensity dramatically”. Thus, escaping the universe of social media is battle not easily won; there was one time I wasn’t invited to a party and my metaphorical party bag was the Facebook photos left over. I remember the sinking feeling of disbelief, what was wrong with me? Why was I left out? Even now, looking back, I still would've preferred to not know anything

friendships over the past four years … some with kids I never really knew, others

When we get home, I open Facebook on my computer and the first thing I see is a post by Stephen, one of my high school friends with whom I agree on every major political issue.

“The movie’s final image—Zuckerberg “friending” the woman who dumped him and endlessly refreshing the page to see if she accepts—is presented as pathetic irony. But you could also read it as a sign of hope. In the Facebook world, which is now ours, a new communication infrastructure exists, with no avenues definitively closed.” (Edelstein) The real Zuckerberg had a vision that Facebook would help create communities in an ever-insular world. And now we have seen the evolution. The world is changing so fast that we all get confused and disoriented without knowing what to do next. We like the Facebook: fast, simple, up-to-date...While the

There are things in the great world of Facebook that kids should not be exposed to at a young age, and it also can get quite annoying to older people who are using Facebook the way that it’s intended to be used. Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard undergraduate student, who was into creating websites. He started off with making a website that permitted students to see what classes their friends were in, so that they could see their friends in the class and want to join also. Later he wanted to transform his idea to an even greater website that would transform the world of social networking forever. He made a website that connected Harvard students to each other, in which he called Thefacebook. Thefacebook quickly spread

As a teenager logs onto the internet for homework, the focus is lost. Why? Well, out of like infinite possibilities and opportunities of internet browsing and blogging, the teen is most likely on Facebook. Facebook, or as it was originally called www.thefacebook.com, is a website where users post and share photos, profiles, and basically anything that in a foreign world was considered “private”. Although, it is not only trendy teens surfing this site, business men marketing, musicians