Growing up in the age of new and improved
technology, I could not get away from social media even if I wanted to. It's
how people interact, meet, communicate and so much more. I personally use the
most popular social network of this age, Facebook. As well as every single one
of my friends, we have all transitioned to Facebook from the now very old
Myspace. It is truly certain that social networks can build or destroy a
relationship or friendship. Facebook in all is a good thing I personally think.
It's the way people can stay in touch by pictures, status updates and e-mails,
but with any good thing there are complications. With social media being all
the rage, it is the norm or "cool" thing to own which means most
people have them including younger kids. With my personal experience I have
noticed people base their lives on what happens on Facebook. A comment can
destroy a friendship these days and it is truly ridiculous! Social media can
grow to a more useful tool the more people take advantage of it and it is what
you make of it.
With the Web
these days, you honestly don’t know what you’re going to get. Many things are
made up, very biased and just plain inaccurate to say at the least. The thing
with the web these days is, it’s every question you have…at the tip of your
fingertips and it’s fast. People now a days seem to choose time over anything
in their busy lives, but the defect in the very fast internet, which will
always more than never give you and answer, is it has been tampered with many
different people making the information incorrect. I have been with Wikipedea
for more than half of my life as well as many other sites just like it.
Facebook and Twitter also give mass information to the public, and many people,
including myself, trust the information to be true. Personally being a college
student in a world full of technology I really do feel user generated content
is a positive things. Out of all the mass amount of different typed of social
media and user-generated sites out there, it’s a great way to communicate and
keep in touch with friends, family, colleges, and professors as well as get the
daily news, but not rely on these sites to be the ONLY form of information.
