But for many employees around the world, they are becoming a sad paralleled reality because of social networking. More than half of our adult population is employed. And with currently 1.2 billion registered users on Facebook, I’m willing to bet that this affects at least one person in this room. Thirty-seven percent of companies report using social networks to research potential job candidates, according to a new CareerBuilder Survey. So what are hiring managers looking for on social media?
Just one click of the mouse and your problems are over. Unfortunately, this feature of online socialization cheats people of the opportunity to learn how to resolve conflict in the world outside the internet and it could retard or cripple one’s social
Most people find reading books easier so don’t some people like me because I prefer researching on the internet to searching for stuff in the library. Some people will support Carr by saying that the internet really makes us dumber but I’m on the opposite side because I defiantly think it makes as smarter especially with this technology that keeps improving as years come. All these things we have today and are able to access to will not be available without the internet because people or researchers wouldn’t have been able to get accurate information about what they were looking
You have to go and turn off the locator function for it not to show where you are posting from. The locator setting shows where you are posting right down to the house number. Some people end up having a dependency or addiction to social media and sacrifice their home life, school, and relationships with other people. Another disadvantage of social media is work production. Social media can distract an employee and take away from work that needs to be completed.
People spend too much time and energy trying to find these relationships. There seems to be a less of a connection with people online. Jung’s article talks of Cornell University's Steven Strogatz who says “ By focusing so much of our time and psychic energy on these less meaningful relationships, our most important connections...will weaken” (par.2). Recent discoveries reveal that people aren’t who they really are online; leading people to “date” the unknown. People make fake accounts and use them to meet other people.
He thinks the students should be taught interpersonal intelligence and learn when, where, and what kind of internet usage is appropriate. Also in his essay it’s pointed out that many students are addicted to Facebook which tally’s 250 million hits everyday and ranks 9th in overall traffic over the internet. That kind of social networking affects all forms of academe. Additionally, online communities have a lot of factious information. It’s easy for a person to create a factitious profile and use these anonymous profiles.
Our culture is changing; every day more people utilize cybernetic ways to communicate which reduces the quality of our interaction. On her essay, “Sex, Lies and Conversation”, Deborah Tannen points out that intimacy is the base of relationships, but how can intimacy exist if our communication levels these days do not even involve having a face to face conversation. Since the Internet and computers became more affordable, more people are becoming part of the cybernetic world. According to Wikipedia, there are over 500 million users on the most popular social networking websites, more than half of them are under 25. This means that most of the young members of our society are growing accustomed to a different kind of communication, perhaps one of less quality.
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.
For example Facebook has brought friendships from the past back together and the increased speed that news spreads (Dawn). So far, only about 2 billion of the world’s population has connected to social media websites (Dawn). Social changed the way I lived by, the way interact with my friends. Before social media, I didn’t always reach out to my friends seeing what was going on in their lives. I felt that I was missing out on some important events that were going on.
Thompson suggests that Twitter is a very useful tool. “…I’m more knowledgeable about the details in her life, than the lives of my two sisters in Canada, who I talk to only once every month or so” (Thompson, 2011). The author argues that social media websites like Facebook have made it possible to quickly see and share photos as well as be updated on what someone is doing or how they are feeling in an instant. In the beginning Facebook was primitive and the concerns about privacy were abundant which made a lot of Facebook users feel uneasy. Zuckerberg made changes to modernize Facebook by creating a News Feed which gave us easier access to what people were doing.