I have caught myself being glued to my phone many times looking at my facebook and twitter and it has sometimes gotten me in some big trouble, for example, when my mother is trying to talk to me!! That didn't turn out so well but is social media always that bad?
I use social media everyday but not just to chat or creep on other people's profiles. I use many internet social sites to help me with my decorating ideas and I have decided I'm dumping my boyfriend for Pintrest which you should really go check out if your into this kind of stuff!! So in a way I love social media! By the way I really wouldn't dump him for that! ;)
I did some snooping around the "internet" ha, and found that there are ups and downs to this crazy addiction! At the Chron website, the website that i visited, I found an article that shows the many down sides to social media. I can't say that I don't agree with most of the points they made!
A False Sense of Connection
Cyber-bullying
Decreased Productivity
Privacy
These are some of them! Very good points at that! But at the same time is there not up sides to this "social networking"? So I went snooping again! and found another article that focuses on the positive characteristics of social media. The Empowernetwork site covers five reasons that social media can be a good thing! And I favored these more!
1. Staying in touch with others
2. Support group
3. Making relationships stronger
4. Strengthen communities
5. New source of news
This website for sure looked at the brighter side of things! This was more of my taste in social media! Yeah, it distracts me sometimes but the "good outweighs the bad" as my grandma would put it!
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