Friday, March 19, 2010

So Much Cooler Online Intro

Three million people use the internet each day, of those three million about seven hundred and fifty thousand of them are using social networking sites (citation i forgot which one it is from when i wrote it down but will find it). Social networks provide constant connections to friends, family members, classmates and even strangers. The constant contact these sites provide with others, can affect the relationships of the users in positive and negative ways. Catching up after lost time, or suffocating one another with too much information. These sites can help and or hurt you and your relationships with others. Some of these sites are designed to help you find your true love or soul mate. While others are used to post information about everything in your life from pictures, messages, new statuses and more. Whatever the design of the site, caution needs to be taken to ensure safety and also to establish healthy relationships with others. Social networking sites can be used for many different purposes. One of the major attractions of social networking sites is the ability to reconnect with people from your past or that are not nearby. Another major appeal of social networking sites is the opportunity it provides for you to not to be alone or lonely. This lack of loneliness and constant connection to others, can sometimes lead to an illusion of popularity through a popular cyber social life. But is a cyber life a good replacement for reality? What kind of effects are social networking sites having on our relationships with others? The increase in usage of social networking sites causes fake confidence given to the users and affects their relationships with their peers.

5 comments:

  1. I think you should get rid of the commas after "others" in the third sentence. I like the points you present and your question towards the end. :) I think it seems a little unorganized though-the order you put some sentences in.

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  2. I like how you start with the stats. Maybe you could explain what social networking is and examples of it, so that readers know exactly what you are referring too. Like facebook and such.

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  3. Thanks for the help, this is still a draft of course and i'll take all of your advice... keep it coming! :)

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