Anissa Mayhew
Media studies (Mcs)
September 5, 16
According to both articles Social media has transformed the way society gets information. This is a good and bad thing for our society. Both articles agree that Facebook and other social media sites are basic outlets for “millennia’s” to retrieve their news/information. Many young people benefit from social media learning how to communicate and be social. The new technological advances even allow professors to create blogging sites to interact with students. But these social sites also make pre-teens, teenagers, and young adults vulnerable to prey such as cyber bullies, catfishes, pedophiles and “Facebook depression” the need to feel accepted by peers. When parents are not tech savvy, there’s a greater risk for young people to be expose to these dangers. “What goes online stays online” this is important for young people to remember, or what they post online could one day come back to haunt them later in life when looking for jobs etc.
“Roughly once a week people come together in a team to adjust the complex code that decides what to show a user when they first login”, the first article warns us about this the “influence of advertisements on buying” and the same thing for what we read on line, to the suggest friends feeds off your profile and gives you suggestions.
Smartphones has become “needed” to the average young person because of it convenience and abilities such as apps, social media allowing us to connect with people from all over the world, handling bank accounts, internet and so much more. The more traditional means of media such as television, radio, Newspapers are all becoming a thing of the past. Having social media and Internet is a way you can customize what you want to watch and see allowing you to skip and scroll past what you want. So why would you go for the daily news paper when your Facebook feed is like your own “personalized Newspaper”
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