YAHIAOUI Youssef (International Student – France)
October 25th, 2016
How has social media effected us as a society? Is this positive or negative?
Today I will mainly talk about the negative aspect of how social media has effected us as a society and here I would like to talk mainly about Facebook. As Ben Grosser said “The most popular network space for personal representation is Facebook!
the world’s largest online social network. The site has more than 500 million active
users and has become the most visited website in the United States.
Despite the fact that social media has some positive points, like the fact that you can stay in touch with many people that you have met in your life even if they are far away or you can follow many things (like music group, newspaper) on a same page and spend some good times.
But the bad side of the reality of social media is linked to the lack of privacy. Nowadays everyone is sharing pictures, people they have met, their opinion, their religion etc.
With all these informations posted on facebook, it represent a huge database for marketing company or any other organization.
It’s terrifying because all photos and videos that we have posted on facebook belong to facebook as we have accepted the terms and conditions.
My big brother came from France 2 weeks ago and they stopped it at the airport. When he was talking with the customs officer, they asked him his facebook and they try to find some suspicious informations. What I want to say about that is that is not a bad thing that these customs officer asked him his facebook but it’s the fact that they know that there is so much information on these kind of social media that they could find something.
And the fact that everything is on Internet (if you post it of course) can be against you.
People can be depressed because of some pictures on facebook. It exist some case were people have commited suicid.
We have a good example from the article of Jeffrey Rosen In the “The Web Means the End of Forgetting”, with the case of Stacy Snyder who was about to do not receive his degree because of a picture.
Also social media has negative impact on hapiness because a studied has proven that people are jealous of the life of their friends on Facebook.
Anyway we can’t cover everything in one post but I wanted to say that the lack of privacy is the main problem.
A phrase resume everything in the article of jeffrey Rosen is “how best to live our lives in a world where the Internet records everything and forgets nothing”
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