Facebook has changed and added a new realm of communication for people all around the world. With the introduction of this website a culture surrounding the likes of a thing poking friends have emerged from this social media site. My research question on Facebook is: With the introduction of social media website specially Facebook, did it change the social paradigm for adolescents negatively? Despite all the good Facebook have done to the world in changing how human being interact and making it more accessible. I believe for adolescents the harmful effects outweigh the good. Facebook has a huge link to pop culture considering the large user base it has and how many companies and other forms of media talk about it and use it. Facebook has been a part of American culture for some time and that will probably not change. I know a bit about Facebook because I currently am a user of Facebook and I know many people who do use it. Over the course of my experience I noticed that I do thing on Facebook that I would not do in real life. I have befriended people on Facebook that I do not regularly talk to or even possibly never even talked to? Why is this a normal thing? Why is this activity not considered weird and not dangerous. Based on my experience I know Facebook has its own culture but I want to focus on the negative affects on adolescents and see if it changes their outlook on social norms and how they interact. Is Facebook harmful to adolescents or is it simply their own fault because they use the website in negative ways? I need to learn what kind of effects using the website has on teenagers in America. Does it change their outlook on life or relationships? Does it breed bad social norms and change how children interact with each other?
I would love your comments on how to approach this question and also your personal experience that you have noticed in yourself using Facebook.
Thursday, November 21, 2013
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Essay 4
February 4, 2004 was the start of a whole new medium for people to communicate their feelings and likes on the internet, Facebook. Since the birth of this website this has been a source for many people to express themselves and stay connected to anyone they wish to. The United States has Facebook largest demographic which is 55 million people (1). Facebook is most popular with high school students and older but although middle age adults are starting to log in daily. Facebook is very harmful to young adults in high school due to the culture created by Facebook. The main three aspects of Facebook that creates a loss of deep culture is the status writing option, Likes, and the instant messaging feature. These three parts creates a total new damaging culture to fourteen to eighteen year old students. "The medium is the message," in the case, Facebook, promotes childish behavior and the loss of human interaction due to the connectivity and loads of information given in the website.
Facebook created several many modes of sharing information to friends and the most common one is the status update. The status update is a way to convey a person current mood or situation or possibly share what they are doing at that very moment. These status updates have been used in childish ways such as to display anger over someone but that person does not name the other which leaves a very bitter message. Another use of status is sharing location and current doings, which leads to less interaction because anyone would want to hang out with that person will choose not to because they already know what they doing and might not want to do that particular thing so they never ask if they want to hang out. Another irresponsible thing that students tend to use status is post pictures along with a status mostly while being intoxicated which is very damaging to their future because potential employers have free reign of their Facebook information. People makes mistakes and do things they regret but having a social media and posting on it makes the decisions permanent. This damages a young adults future in a way that cannot be undone.
Likes were invented by Facebook as a way to share what a persons interest is in. People can like anything on Facebook which leads to a huge swarm of information about a certain individual. Since disliking is not an option on Facebook the only way to dislike something is to like a page that has a title of "I hate vanilla ice cream." Again since there are a ton of information that a person can see on another's page of all their likes they have completely eliminated the need to ask what they like. Young people will always look someone up on Facebook after they first meet someone to get a scope of what that person likes, what they stand for, and possibly who they are dating. Knowing all this information leads to less interaction to others because normally the information would be learned and gathered by asking and talking. Liking on Facebook can create very closed-minded social groups such as liking a page such as "Justin Beiber is Gay" which enforces very negative views and harmful hate speech.
The instant messaging is a handy feature for many but degrades many individual personalities and their communication skills. As as result of this instant messaging and the popularity of text messaging many acronyms and smileys were invented to convey feelings and mood in pixelated messages. The use of "LOL, OMG, WTF, :)" creates a new form of culture that uses less words, which can leak to a students academic writing or everyday writing. This makes other believe they are less intelligent because of their choices of words or acronyms. Smileys are used to show a feeling but it could be done by further writing rather than a colon with a pertensese. This leads to former and weaker version of English that weakens a students vocabulary and their writing skills. The instant messaging also is a source of drama because many can easily spread rumors and backstab their friends over this feature.
Need to do a conclusion i do not know how I want to end this essay.
Facebook created several many modes of sharing information to friends and the most common one is the status update. The status update is a way to convey a person current mood or situation or possibly share what they are doing at that very moment. These status updates have been used in childish ways such as to display anger over someone but that person does not name the other which leaves a very bitter message. Another use of status is sharing location and current doings, which leads to less interaction because anyone would want to hang out with that person will choose not to because they already know what they doing and might not want to do that particular thing so they never ask if they want to hang out. Another irresponsible thing that students tend to use status is post pictures along with a status mostly while being intoxicated which is very damaging to their future because potential employers have free reign of their Facebook information. People makes mistakes and do things they regret but having a social media and posting on it makes the decisions permanent. This damages a young adults future in a way that cannot be undone.
Likes were invented by Facebook as a way to share what a persons interest is in. People can like anything on Facebook which leads to a huge swarm of information about a certain individual. Since disliking is not an option on Facebook the only way to dislike something is to like a page that has a title of "I hate vanilla ice cream." Again since there are a ton of information that a person can see on another's page of all their likes they have completely eliminated the need to ask what they like. Young people will always look someone up on Facebook after they first meet someone to get a scope of what that person likes, what they stand for, and possibly who they are dating. Knowing all this information leads to less interaction to others because normally the information would be learned and gathered by asking and talking. Liking on Facebook can create very closed-minded social groups such as liking a page such as "Justin Beiber is Gay" which enforces very negative views and harmful hate speech.
The instant messaging is a handy feature for many but degrades many individual personalities and their communication skills. As as result of this instant messaging and the popularity of text messaging many acronyms and smileys were invented to convey feelings and mood in pixelated messages. The use of "LOL, OMG, WTF, :)" creates a new form of culture that uses less words, which can leak to a students academic writing or everyday writing. This makes other believe they are less intelligent because of their choices of words or acronyms. Smileys are used to show a feeling but it could be done by further writing rather than a colon with a pertensese. This leads to former and weaker version of English that weakens a students vocabulary and their writing skills. The instant messaging also is a source of drama because many can easily spread rumors and backstab their friends over this feature.
Need to do a conclusion i do not know how I want to end this essay.
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