There are smartphones, laptops, PC's, Mac's and now cameras that can connect to the internet almost instantly and at anytime where you have 3G. This enables you to do social networking, internet surfing or online shopping. It could be a positive thing as people can share what they see instantly on websites like Facebook or Instagram, so the content they're posting is in real time and you can get reactions in the moment. You can contact people easily and e-mails with attachments don't have to be a slow process. You are updated on other peoples lives instantly, and can see what they may be doing and comment/like/re tweet/favourite it. Images that you might want on someone else's device when uploaded can be downloaded onto your computer, so you can have the copy of the file. You can SMS or iMessage people images and videos as well as uploading them publicly.
The problem is that people become obsessed with social media, and posting the latest picture or tweet distracts them from what they're doing or where they are. Sometimes images are uploaded that shouldn't be, and the problem is that it takes only a matter of seconds for someone to either save it or print screen it. Anything you upload to the internet stays there somewhere forever, so silly things won't go away. For example, if an employee was interviewing you for a job and decided to look on your Facebook profile, he could quite easily find an embarrassing photo that a friend had took years ago when you were drunk.
Overall, I think the internet is incredible and 3G networks are great if you want to share information online instantly. Although there are negative points, I think that if people are careful and pre-cautious, it's a really helpful resource that we can access. Do you agree? What do you think?
I think the negatives outweigh some of the positives in this case, the obsession has gotten out of hand and people are becoming too reliant on social media and sharing all the small things they are doing.
ReplyDeleteI think that social networking is very important in modern everyday life without it everything would be slowly passed around and important information would be missed out because people were forgotten whereas with websites like Facebook you can send important pieces of information around quickly and easily, of course their are negatives but I believe that if people are more responsible with what they put on the internet it is a really useful tool.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you have said, I also believe that a great way to share information quickly is e-mails as you can send links or text or both to more than one person at a time and it is instantly sent to al of the recipients.
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