It's very sad to see this society so warped into technology. It is constantly a discussion in my family. What's worse is how unaware everyone is. I will admit it, I have a Facebook and data phone where the games are severely addicting, a lot of people do, but I still spend time with my family and engage in LIFE.
Social networking in my opinion is not worth the drama or mental shutdown. Most kids, teens, and young adults all revolve around the internet. They have Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn, etc. accounts which is harmful because they are posting the most personal things about themselves online. Kids are posting pictures of themselves doing "stupid" things such as consuming alcohol underage, using drugs, and so on. My sister, back when MySpace started becoming popular in about 2005, had our home address listed, her picture, her full name, her work schedule, her work location, dangerous information our father happened to literally stumble upon on Google. Very unsafe, and as you can imagine he was very upset, as he had a right to be!!!! A parents job is to try and keep their children safe until they are old enough to decide how to do so on their own, but how is that possible when in this 'information age' predators can gain information in just a few keystrokes.
Honestly though it's disgusting how 'checked-out' people are from life. Just as I know that people will check their Facebook 50 times a day, I also know that barely anyone is using the online resources to read the news, catch up on current events, or find out what is actually going on in this world. It's very upsetting to me. Regarding the drama, I do partially blame the very biased media who rather report news about these online networks or about Miley Cyrus's 'twerking' drama instead of people getting killed in Syria and almost going to war which happened within the same few days. WAKE UP PEOPLE.
I was a kid of this generation too, sadly. I had a Facebook and MySpace full of drama, I was Cyber-bullied, I had to delete my profile and start over, change my cell phone number, block certain people from my life online and in the real world, and I learned to be more selective in who I chose to share information with. The best thing people could do to avoid problems is to be very careful who can see your information (public/private/etc), what information is posted and who you choose to be your friends that can see this information. If you wouldn't normally tell them something, if you don't talk to them, don't like them or don't even KNOW them then DON'T be friends with them!!!!
I agree with you that people should realize what things happen in the real world. Also, we should be aware of that so many strangers are out there and they steal our information. Potential dangers are around us, so we need to adjust our information on the web.
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ReplyDeleteMs. carina,
I am very much pleased to read about your blog, that you have mention about your personal thought, and how it has influenced your life, I believe that now you under stand more about social media and social networking than you were known before in your younger age. Well I think most of the kids have been growing through most likely similar situation as you. when they are young they don't think of negative side, they always think of gaming, so they take these social networking as gaming device or thing. where they chat with others, post personal video, and private pictures and etc. but they don't think of how these activities will affect onto their futures life.
Well in my opinion, parents supposed to be watching kid's all activities until kids become decision maker. and that will lead our social networking toward the positive and safe side. that will bring some changes in our youth society...