Sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter have become the place to go on the Internet. It does not take a scientist to know that generally a college student devotes more time to social networking sites than research. College students spend ridiculous amounts of time checking up on other people’s lives than focusing on more important things like studying and research. Missing friends from home is difficult, especially for a college freshman who is going through the culture shock of living away from home. However, college students need to understand that using social networking sites religiously is not just an issue about the amount of time devoted towards schoolwork, but that it can literally change how they think.
They might instead skip around, scanning for pertinent information of interest… I can’t get my students to read whole books anymore…” (318). Students are not focusing on reading a book from beginning to end. Instead, students tend to skim through and miss the important information which is a negative impact on them. Carr agrees that using the Web so often is having a negative effect on him because he is having a harder time focusing and reading articles which are more than a few sentences. He points out, “When I mentions my troubles with reading to friends, many say they’re suffering from similar afflictions.
A good solution might be to block the access to websites such as Facebook, so that technology can continue to be a tool for knowledge and intellectual advancement, rather than socialization. Many friends of mine use Facebook on a daily basis for several reasons: to chat with other friends, to see what other people’s lives look like, or to keep in contact with people that live far away. All five of the friends I asked said Facebook is a very useful website, but it is also addicting and a waste of time most of the time. Works Cited Bugeja, Michael. “Facing the Facebook.” The Arlington Reader: Contexts and Connections.
You are a student employee who overhears conversations among your coworkers. While on break, two of your male coworkers usually go off by themselves and smoke a cigarette. These recently hired coworkers are in their first semester and have just graduated from high school. Sometimes you overhear bits and pieces of their conversations. You are concerned that they regularly have conversations that are inappropriate for the workplace.
The friend offers to email Arthur the notes and discussion posts that he used when he took the same course about three months ago. Arthur thinks his friend’s posts sounds better than what he could write on his own. He is not sure if it is right to copy his friend's work, so he decides to change the wording a little bit. He copies and pastes this into his
In this case study she did not act in the appropriate manner and lost the company tremendous profit against this return, by not complying with the “customer is always right” and obliging with his request to receive a full refund and an apology. Instead, she missed the mark in her objective to settle the return process with a win-win outcome and lost the business a profit. The objective is to maintain customer loyalty with the return process. The most effective marketing tool is word of mouth if Sara’s interaction with the custom is unpleasant, the customer could speak to friends and families about his or her negative experience at the retail location and give the establishment a bad name. With the social media taking on such a huge role in marketing, the customers could blog or post his or her negative experience with the retail establishment and hinder his or her future profit.
I feel that social networking give people permission to stalk others. There have been multiple occurrences that people have “liked” pictures that I have posted… four years ago! This lets me know that they are creeping through my profile and that just freaks me out! Sure, one solution would be to delete my account, but I keep it because it is the most convenient way to communicate with my relatives. I was hesitant to get it because I feel that whenever I did set up a social networking account a new networking site was created making the old one obsolete.
An Argument Analysis of “How Facebook Ruins Friendships” In August 2009 Elizabeth Bernstein wrote an article called “How Facebook Ruins Friendships” for the Wall Street Journal. She mentions in the article that social network help people got back in touch with friends from childhood and help them become better acquainted. In contrast, she states, “Here’s where you and I went wrong: We took our friendship online.” She believes that social networking is ruining friendships rather than making friendship closer. Bernstein’s argument also claims that “the problem is much greater than which tools we use to communicate. It’s what we are actually saying that’s really mucking up our relationships.” At first brief look, Bernstein’s argument is effective because she gives good examples that support her argument and most people can empathize with.
Carr thinks that the net makes people dumper because he proved the net makes people scattered and superficial thinkers. I agree with Carr. Until I read this article, I was thinking the internet makes people smarter but the scientific evidence turned my thought. In additional on his thought, I think the net wastes a lot of time of our lives. Carr said that “ People who are continually distracted by emails, alerts and other messages understand less than who are able to concentrate.” (qtd line 9).
New slang words are always being formed on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook and in months or maybe even weeks of this happening, the word will be used by thousands of teenagers across the country. Slang like this is becoming a vast growing trend of talk amongst the youth of today. I believe that my family has had the largest impact on my idiolect. With my parents I often speak to them in my first language, Somali. This has become increasingly harder for me to do