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
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.
Video Case Assignment #2 Questions Questions: 1. a. Some advantages of an online survey of a cross section of Internet households are lower costs, instant results, instant updates, and better responses. The disadvantages are that not all households have Internet access, if the survey is sent via email, it may be considered junk mail. Also, some people just fill out the surveys to get the promotional offer and will just fill out anything. The disadvantages in not being able to reach as many individuals due to lack of internet or lack of email accessibility, provides major negative impacts for research.
Sarah Kliff, author of “Facebook: Why I Hate it…” writes, “I have no idea how many hours of my life I have wasted on Facebook.” I agree with this statement because it is true. We have wasted so much time on Facebook and other forms of technology that we have lost time for other, more important things. Facebook and its counterparts do help us in many aspects like staying connected but we forget that we have real things in life that are right in front of us to stay in touch with instead of wasting time with cyber friends or a cyber-community. Technology does have a good side. It can assist us in many ways.
How many of you think that you are addicted to your phone? How many of you feel lost when you go without your phone for a day? If you think yes you may not know how serious cell phone addiction actually is. Did you ever notice a typical teenager sends about 50 texts per day according to www.npr.org. Texting can affect your health, social skills, and education performance.
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?
Too much of anything is never a good thing. Negative psychological effects are common in individuals who actively participate on social media for hours on a daily basis. In 2008, UCLA conducted a study which revealed web users had literally altered their prefrontal cortexes due to, in part, to the fast pace of social networking sites rewiring the brain with repeated exposure. “In 2012, Medical News Today reported on a study suggesting that Facebook use may feed anxiety and increase a person's feeling of
Mia Woodward Mr. Shrum English Comp. 7 October 2014 Liking Isn’t Helping In the United States alone, sixty-seven percent of internet users are on the social media website, Facebook ("25 Amazing Facts About Facebook - Search Engine Journal”). Although it began as just a site for personal profiles and personal updates, it grew into something much bigger than that. Facebook profiles were made over anything you could imagine, including charitable programs. These pages did not just support these events going on in America, but also in other countries.
Experts have been talking about the negative effects of social networking for the last decade or so. Whether they hinder your ability to formulate complete sentences and spell words correctly due to the abbreviation of everything (or the “Text Talk” as it is called). Others have argued that social network sites are harmful in that they make information about us available to anyone anywhere, at the click of a mouse. But does chatting online hinder our ability to make friends in real life? Or as Alex Wright asks in his essay, Friending, Ancient or Otherwise, “as we stretch the definition of a friend to encompass people we may never actually meet, will the strength of our real-world friendships grow diluted as we immerse ourselves in a lattice of hyperlinked ‘friends’?” (431) The answer is simple: No.