In your view, is online social-networking healthy or harmful to people your age? Give 3 reasons why you think so.
I think that online social-networking is harmful to people of our age. Social-networking basically means that we connect with people through the Internet- online. There are several reasons as to why social networking can be harmful.
Youths nowadays are easily addicted to Facebook. They will allow themselves to spend a lot of time just online, either chatting on msn of using the facebook. Research had shown that most of the youths in Singapore are considered 'deep' users, as their social lives mainly exist on facebook: updating and posting pictures, videos and posts on facebook. More than half of the youths worldwide also uses facebook at least once a day. This isn't a good trend as it simply shows the fact of life: that youths aren't spending their time fruitfully. Be it in their studies or time spent with the family. This also means that we doesn't know how to control our usage of time properly. In a long run, it would be really bad for the development of youths as they are too reliable on social-networking for making new friends, and they can even add people whom they have not talked to in real life. Hence, this brings to my next point.
Youths are too 'revealing'. They like to post pictures and videos online, and sometimes, personal information like address and mobile numbers online which can possibly attract unwanted strangers. You can't be sure that you know each and every one of your friends on facebook right? The use of technology is in fact encouraged but not always advisable if it poses threat to our safety. One of the reason behind this is that parents don't spend enough time with their children. A survey shows that "These kids may be the loneliest generation ever" due to both working parents. Yes, i know that teenagers need to reach out to their friends to spent their lonely hours of the day but this doesn't necessarily mean we have to do it via online networking.
Apart from that, i think that this uprising trend isn't favourable because it just shows how much influence the online networking has on us. A simple question: Since when did you stop using Friendster and starts using Facebook? I believe that in some way or another, the decision to create an account is because of your friends' influence and that you doesn't want to be outcasted. We all want to be included in the big family of facebook.
In conclusion, i think that social networking poses more harm than 'health' because at the end of the day, we would only receive a nicer-looking profile with probably more friends and photos in it but ultimately, we will lose a lot of valuable time which i can better spent.
Rebuttal is wanted! :)
Anyway, I love Facebook!
Tuesday, March 2
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While it is true that such social networking sites can be harmful, they have helped many people stay in contact. For example, many people have used such networking sites to find old friends and schoolmates whom they have lost contact with.
ReplyDeleteOnline social networking does bring along with it benefits as well. Other than what Evelyn has pointed out, it has allowed friends to keep up to date with each other as information can be shared to your entire group of friends almost instantly.
ReplyDeleteAlso, we can choose not to post up personal information about ourselves except for our name and emails. Only approving friend requests from people we know is another way of keeping ourselves safe on such social networking sites.
At the end of the day,I believe it's all about how we choose to use such sites. (:
I think that not all social networking sites are actualy "harmful" in a sense that they help us keep in contact with all our old friends, share photos (and tagging haha!) We can actually express our views via our fb status and our friends can even "LIKE" our status! So in all.. facebook rocksssssss (Y) :D
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