Myspace, facebook, twitter; whatever you might use, social networking has been around since the late 90’s and continued to now. It has developed tremendously, it use to be where you could only email, then came instant messaging and then soon enough came Myspace and Facebook. Social networking is good and should be used for several reasons including keeping people more in touch with friends, family, and maybe even an old classmate you lost touch with and a way for some people who are not the most efficient at confrontation they can display it in another way.
In today’s society especially in America everyone is in a rush so it is nice for people to have other ways to communicate with another and keep in touch and have updates like recent pictures and information on yourself for your friends and family members to see. Also it is really nice for those who are not what you would call the social bugs in person.
Although social networking does have its limitations. Some of these limitations include false identity, privacy, and sensory limits of communication. These limitations make many think social networking is unnecessary and should not be used. The Improper use in social networking are for those using fake id’s to harm another person or rape them. These things have happened to people and it is a terrible thing, but to be honest it has not happened at high percentage. So implying that the majority should lose social networking because of those select few of people who use it in wrong doing should not have it spoiled for the real cause.
In summary, with change comes positive and negative outcomes, but when you compare the positive and negative ones you see why it has changed the way it has people are always going to find ways to do bad things stopping people from interacting online is not going to decrease the rate of rapes or assaults. The significance in today’s culture is huge people like to get to know more people and even have a profile to express their feelings, interests, and even personal life to those who are your friends on your personal page. Therefore, social networking has made huge strides in its way to help people communicate and it should keep doing its job for all of us that like to use facebook and myspace.
Internet Predators and Internet Safety
15 years ago
It is true that the errors of a few people shouldn't impact everyone. I think your right that the majority of social network users do act in a way that they should. It's not up to the sites to police everyone. Sites have limited means of safe guarding against malice people.
ReplyDeleteI would have to dissagree with you. I believe that few errors from other people should impact everyone else. I believe the networking sites should increase their proctection against predators. There are more people being hurt from the site compare to people being hurt on the streets.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you Anthony and I have to disagree with Kathy. Theres only so much the sites can do. Everyone has the options of making their profiles private where only their friends can view, set their profiles to where no one can search them or message them, or even friend request them. You can even set your profile picture to private and only the friends on your list can view it. So if someone chooses to talk to someone they don't know or leave their profile open so the world can see their personal information and meet up with a complete stranger, I think thats their fault, not the sites.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. One person's mistakes should not harm everyone else. These websites make communication easier for many people, myself included. They shouldn't be limited.
ReplyDeleteI'm too tired to research crime stats right now. I have a hard time believing that more people are hurt from online predators than street crime.
ReplyDeleteI think you brought up a good point. No matter what is invented, someone finds a way to misuse it. I also agree on your point that Myspace and Facebook are great for sharing information quickly and effectively. I do think that they should have some kind of screening tool though.
ReplyDeletei agree with you, with the rush in our society it is helpful to have one spot to get recent picture and other updates from friends and family.And yes the positive greatly outweights the negative.
ReplyDeleteHi Anthony,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, social networks can only do so much to keep their websites completely secure. Making the websites intensely secure only takes away the freedom of communication from those that do no harm. People have the option of either being private or open about themselves online. yes people put themselves into harm sometimes, but the other people shouldn't have to be restricted from online uses because of others mistakes.
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ReplyDeleteI don't completely agree. I think that the actions of a few people SHOULD impact everyone else. if those few people are not stopped from doing more damage, who will?
ReplyDeletewell you can do things about it like privacy and stuff like that through those website, but it is the persons and parents responsibility not the website????
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