The negative effect of social Networking

A False Sense of Connection

Social media sites can make it more difficult for us to distinguish between the meaningful relationships we foster in the real world, and the numerous casual relationships formed through social media. By focusing so much of our time and psychic energy on these less meaningful relationships, our most important connections, he fears, will weaken.

Cyber-bullying

The immediacy provided by social media is available to predators as well as friends. Kids especially are vulnerable to the practice of cyber-bullying in which the perpetrators, anonymously or even posing as people their victims trust, terrorize individuals in front of their peers. The devastation of these online attacks can leave deep mental scars.

Privacy

Social networking sites encourage people to be more public about their personal lives. Because intimate details of our lives can be posted so easily, users are prone to bypass the filters they might normally employ when talking about their private lives. What’s more, the things they post remain available indefinitely. While at one moment a photo of friends doing shots at a party may seem harmless, the image may appear less attractive in the context of an employer doing a background check.

Watch this link :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GgqCehDlls

Catfish (movie)

Catfish is a 2010 American documentary film directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, involving a young man, Nev, being filmed by his brother and friend, co-directors Ariel and Henry, as he builds a romantic relationship with a young woman on the social networking website Facebook.The film was a critical and commercial success, even inspiring an MTV reality TV series, Catfish: The TV Show. This film push us to realize that people you met on the social network is not necessarily the person you thing he is.

Sherry Turkle : Goldilocks effect

Nowadays, technology is everywhere; it increases the global growth and has many other advantages that impact on our everyday life.

However, the main problem is that we want to use it as much as we can, in every situation and relation. Indeed, we are all so connected that we forget how to have a real conversation.

This situation is that as we forget how to behave with « real people ». When we talk to a person via our phones or computers, it is not a true conversation. We do not say the same things when we are face to face with a person or behind our phones.

 

Sherry Turkle develops in her speech the « Goldilocks effect ». Basically, it’s the fact that nowadays adolescents and young adults do not know how to have a face-to-face relationship. Indeed, they’ve only learnt how to have a conversation threw phones, emails, social networks etc. This is due to the fact that they can decide of what they are going to say, of what is going to happen next.

But the main problem of this effect is that it develops itself very quickly as just like Sherry Turkle cited from an 18 years old boy «…Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I would like to learn how to have a conversation ».

Practically all adolescents do not know how to speak to each other without technology and Sherry Turkle is actually right and I agree with her. We do not know how to really say what we want face-to-face whether it’s due to a lack of courage or because we might say things that we cannot take back.

I think that we should learn how to get more independent and not always count on our phones etc.

 

Do you agree with me? If you’re opinion is not the same as mine or if you agree with me don’t hesitate to post something in response.

Digital identity warning

In order to keep talking about the social media, I would like you to click on the following link. It’s a shocking article on the reality of our digital identity and what it implies ! This article is a warning us about our use of Facebook or any other social network, so just click to be aware of what you do !

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/19/data-digital-identity-cullen-hoback

Definition of social networks

Today, we all use social networks such as Facebook, twitter etc. but what is the real definition of it ? Check out the link and you’ll get a better understanding of it.

http://mashable.com/category/social-networking/

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http://hipparis.com/2012/08/22/a-new-trend-brewing-in-paris-artisanal-beer-at-peoples-drugstore/

 

The social network

 

 

As we noticed it previously, Facebook is everpresent and it is hard to imagine our life without it. In order to complete what we have already said about Facebook, I encourage you to watch the following website. It presents the movie about the creation of Facebook, « The social Network » which is really enriching as we discover how a simple man, in his student room, has had the idea to create what has become the most used social network in the world. Just enjoy !

Go to this link : http://www.thesocialnetwork-movie.com/