New generation likes to use social media as self advertisement and sometime they share very personal information. By doing this, their future privacy fells endanger and can affect badly in their mind in future which is not a good thing for the society, widely for the nation. Also, social media is hurting our society by spreading misinformation faster than any other media. Author Amanda Thomas shows a statistics in the
The internet today can even allow you to be in a virtual world and in that world you can be anywhere at any given place and time. The internet has evolved into a fast convenience in today’s society, so much so that you can now date online. Dr. Helene M. Lawson and Dr. Kira Leck researched the effects on internet dating in today’s society. They begin their research by asking a series of questions but before we can move on to the questions they asked, other questions need to be answered first. These question are: a) Why do people choose to date online?
“Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become trivial culture” (Postman, 4). Neil Postman, in Amusing Ourselves to Death, compared 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, claiming that the current society more closely resembles Huxley’s
I know that there have been times on my personal account that someone has been able to see my personal information even when they aren’t my friends on Facebook. In the past, I have felt like my personal information was not being protected at all, I tried writing to Facebook telling them my concerns and how I don’t feel protected. I have also gone as far as deleting my Facebook for a period of time to make sure that my personal information is not looked at. When it comes to social networking sites, you can’t expect everything to be private; it is online, but when a website says that everything is protected and private, it disappoints me when I could go onto my profile and see that even if it is set on private that other people can read my email address, phone number, see my pictures, etc. Privacy is everything and with people out there who could stalk you over a networking site, that really bothers me.
Nowadays, within one minute searching with the toolbars, the great databases of the Internet will immediately bring the information to us. Besides, the printed books became the past thanks to the e-book and other online works on the Internet. Writing becomes a real challenge even to a writer since we spend too much time on the media. “Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s
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. I did not feel like trying to keep up, but I finally broke down when I had a biology project due and realized that I did not have my partners’ phone numbers; I did know that they both had a Facebook profile. Although these types of sites do not consume most of my computer time, I do feel that I waste a lot of valuable time of the computer
Neil Postman’s Assertion Neil Postman contrasts George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World to express that Huxley’s vision of society is more accurate today than Orwell’s. His point by point argument of the two novels explains the differences between how each author sees society. Orwell warned that society will be over powered by an exterior enforced oppression, while Huxley believed that people would like the oppression because new technologies will be created because of the oppression and people will no longer have to think for themselves. Postman’s assertion that Huxley’s vision is more applicable in today’s world seems more logical than Orwell’s vision. Postman uses a point-by-point argument to prove that Huxley’s vision is more relevant than Orwell’s.
Of course he'll never know your eye color because you’re on my phone 24/7, but at least he knows your Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr name. And you spend far too much time on Twitter trying to connect with your 1000+ followers. The majority of whom you’ve probably never seen." As a matter of fact, technological detachment is becoming today's reality. Technology seems to be subtly destroying the meaningfulness of human interactions, disconnecting us from each other and the world around us, and leading to a menacing sense of isolation in society.
There have been cases where teens meet people over the internet and have an online relationship, but when they end up meeting it isn’t exactly who they thought it would be. Many males and females meet their online lover and come to find out that their lover is a rapist or kidnapper and things don’t quite workout for that individual. Another reason why online dating is a negative is that you have no visual communication. An individual can be any person they want to portray over the internet because the person on the other side of the screen will never see them; they will only know the person who’s made up because there is no visual communication. Having face to face communication is also good for one’s health.
And is it possible to say that this knowledge is part of this modern literacy? It can be accurate in many ways. Starting with the news, television and radio are no longer the only source of information. It’s crucial to know how to manipulate computers and Internet to study, work, communicate, travel and the list goes on for daily routines accessed by technological means nowadays. And if it happens and we’re still ignorant of how to manipulate those devices, we can find a hard time running a normal life for the simple reason that there’s an unofficial consensus that we’re expected to know.