It’s funny how the universe throws things at you. Over the last few weeks, I’ve come across several different sources that all recommend updating your Twitter account and your Facebook status separately. That was news to me. I’ve been allowing Twitter to post my tweets to Facebook for a long time and thought it was just too convenient to pass up. Of course, I supplemented my facebook feed with additional, more personal information, but I couldn’t see the harm in letting Twitter updates show up there too.
Now, people can have a virtual face to face interaction across the globe in seconds. Because of these new innovations, some people believe that they have ruined how we interact rather than improving it. Natalie is one of them. Although, she makes valid points about the issue, she doesn’t successfully persuade the reader that technology and social network has ruined our ability to communicate. The Huffington post is mostly based as a news blog.
Many everyday people create social profiles as a way to connect with people in an instant. They create them thinking it’s something innocent and harmful and not fully understanding that it can back around and haunt you. Sometimes we post things “in the moment” and not realizing the consequences it can bring to us in the future. I feel that my Facebook account doesn’t represent me as a professional, but more of a student who posts, likes and shares articles, videos and pictures of my interest. I think that my social media accounts, would hinder my career as a professional because people will judge and have opinions on certain topics that are on the accounts and would not take me serious as a professional.
The lack thereof before the 21st century for such an accessible device to be utilized by people all over the world has created a scarcity for such a phenomenon to be refuted. Yet, I have found that in the realm of social media, the benefits do not quite add up to the drawbacks. I’d like to expose the underbelly of social media by proving that it is a violation into each of it’s users lives, exploitation of it’s users for the enrichment of it’s own company, and lastly, the accessibility for fraud to occur through the internet. Social media and the question, “Is social media an invasion of privacy?” can be viewed in different ways through different perspectives -- perspectives that all strive to prove or disprove that social media is a violation into the lives of it’s users. One angle is explained by Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook.
Is Google really making us stupid? Nicholas Carr, a technology writer poses that question about the internet and asks readers to give it some thought. He makes suggestions that the internet is changing the way our mind works and that it has negative consequences on the mind. Carr believes that we should be skeptical of the internet because of the adverse ways it may be shaping the way we think. Thinking critically about his article, I can find some patterns in his writing, such as fact and fiction, presenting evidence with an argument, cause and effect, and tonal qualities.
Digital Culture/Social Media Digital culture had been raised for the last twenty years and approximately ten years ago, it had become popular. However, it was not a huge impact on young adults’ life as today because it was expansive for most of the families. Everything had changed because of the fast upgrade of technology, thus most of young adults starting to have one of them. Therefore, some of the articles had said these technologies had turned young adults dumb because of the over-use and excessive depend. Also digital culture and social media had made they forgot about the reality and live in a virtual life.
Facebook pages advertise certain messages in peoples newsfeeds and also notify friends of a user that ‘become a fan’ of that company. Facebook’s social beacon was not favorable to users at first because it was “opt out” not “opt in” which meant advertisers would display activity without first asking the user and that lead to unhappy users who said it was “an invasion of privacy” .once the social beacon became “opt in” users were much happier with the service. Q.3)
Those tweets or statuses you make have to get enough “likes” or comments, or you won’t “belong” or “be popular”. Neil Strauss wrote an article called “The Insidious Evils of “Like” Culture” about the pressures of conformity. Both Neil Strauss and I believe that social networking, and “like” culture contributes to conformity, and also has other negative consequences. In the “Insidious Evils of “Like” Culture” Neil Strauss states that, everyone who is on Facebook or Twitter or some sort of social networking site isn’t looking to express their own opinion but looking to get the most “likes” and comments. Q: Why is Facebook like a refrigerator?
Firstly, she claims that people's writings now are shorter and have no meaning when the social media are becoming more and more popular. This, as Wright states, is a result of character limits on social network websites like Twitter and Facebook. Secondly, she thinks young people are overusing new technologies like mobile phones and social media, which has a bad effect on their social skills because they don't meet face-to-face but texting. Then, as Wright mentions, the youth's future careers are going to be affected because they cannot handle basic social problems. In Wright's first argument, she fails to convince the reader that people are writing shorter and meaningless because people can still understand each other when they use those kinds of writing.
With this same technology it allows us to communicate around the word in minutes. We would rather text a person instead of calling that person on the phone. When you use the internet the right way it has the ability to make our education better than in the past. Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is having a harmful effect on our brains, robbing us from being able to have deep thoughts and meaningful conversation with other people. "As we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world," he wrote, "it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.” I have noticed for some time now that I have an issue when it comes to writing essays.