What impact does social networking and social networking sites have on society?

[Kashmiri Pandit]

I can't make up my Mind .

I think these are important but People should not be exposed to them at an early stage .
There are both Pro's and Con's but I am struggling to make a fixed view on it .

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[Kashmiri Pandit]

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[Zibago]

Quick transfer of news,a way for political movement to quickly spread their message,sharing opinions that are unpopular or unorthodox,hot selfies of famous actresses

 

[Kashmiri Pandit]

Quick transfer of news,a way for political movement to quickly spread their message,sharing opinions that are unpopular or unorthodox,hot selfies of famous actresses

Are social networking sites effective, or are they just a sophisticated means for stalking people?

 

[Zibago]

My little cousin who is like 8 uses fb this new generation is growing up surrounded by things we werent exposed to as children we have no idea how they will affect them

Are social networking sites effective, or are they just a sophisticated means for stalking people?

You can use them to market your products,spread ideas it turned folks like me into live correspondents who are first to inform the world about event in our areas

They made censorship methods of oppresive governments a bit harder

 

[Vapnope]

I think these are important but People should not be exposed to them at an early stage .
There are both Pro's and Con's but I am struggling to make a fixed view on it .

A very important topic at hand and within a few years new technologies and fast internet making inroads and accessible everywhere this topic should be dealt accordingly.
I personally think only good parenting is not going to help but governments will also have to get involved to make sure that younger audience is not exposed to "certain" content. In our societies kids do not reach the age of maturity even after teenage.
The impacts of social networking can be very good and evil at the same time. It will always be subjective.

 

[abdulbarijan]

I can't make up my Mind .

I think these are important but People should not be exposed to them at an early stage .
There are both Pro's and Con's but I am struggling to make a fixed view on it .

@SarthakGanguly @Chinese Bamboo @Chinese-Dragon @Godman @Zibago

You have to look at them as "communication tools" ..

As a communication tool, there is nothing wrong with it ... it's just like your cell phone, telephone, letter, T.V etc. i.e an effective medium, infact as per some -- the most effective of em all.

what you have to be concerned about is the communication that flows through the medium, now I remember as children, you weren't supposed to hang around certain people, you weren't supposed to look at certain material on T.V, there were caps on how old you have to be and only then were you permitted to have a cell phone ... but these things were more controllable ...

With social networking, you have a medium that is not as controllable as its predecessors were. With that, the anonymity and fast two way communication, its very hard to control or monitor at all ... So, yeah it is a very difficult choice ... but a more interesting question would be ... Is there a choice at all ??

I remember, I got my first cell phone after I cleared high school ... and that was considered quite early at the time ... and now I look at kids in grade 4 or 5 with Ipads in their hands and their twitters and facebooks etc. With all this shift in technology and the peer pressure on kids to be "cool" and have all this ... is it really avoidable ... I think that should be a bigger question .. and if the answer comes as "no" ... then we should look for steps that can be taken to deal with the cons and maximize the pros of this communication medium ...

 

[EasyNow]

It is basically the wild west of our times. It is mostly lawless and there is no accountability, which is something that has to change.

I feel that in real life, human societies live by codes of conduct - an dthe Internet should be no different. If you wouldn't say something in person, you should not say it anonymously online.

 

[Khan_patriot]

Call me old fashioned but I believe that technology in general and social media in particular has ruined the generations of the present especially the post 2000 gen, when I think about what I used to do when i was a little kid like running around like a maniac with my lunatic friends, climbing trees, swimming in streams/rivers, breaking into orchards to "commandeer" some fruits only to be promptly chard away by the owner/his dog or both, raising neighbourhood street bicycle gangs when me and my mates learnt how to ride them, going back home with new bruises, dirty clothes and lessons learnt everyday, playing cricket or football or whatever sport happened to be the craze at the time and basically did stuff every boy should do, then I look at the kids of today who are on social media apps I still have no clue about, when I was their age the most valuable possession I had was probably my toy gun or my new cricket bat or something now they have cellphones that put mine to shame, social media and tech has deprived them of their childhood.
I guess one of the good things about being a 90s kid is that we were probably the last generation to have a childhood.

 

[neolithic]

After the Social Media Hype: Dealing with Information Overload

 

[Godman]

Modern Social media is still new so most people don't understand the dangers or unnecesarily fear it.
Social media is actually very similar to society but you are not sure who is the behind the other computer.Children are taught to not to talk with strangers but not in social media.
I think parents should teach that law also applies when using social media


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