As technology progresses, social media continues to have a positive impact on people’s lives. It helps individuals communicate with loved ones that are farther away, become informed easier, and it helps open doors to businesses. Domains such as Facebook and Twitter have truly revolutionized the way individuals interact.
Some people may argue that social media such as Facebook and Twitter are a waste of time. People use social media to kill time or alleviate boredom. Nowadays it has become a common leisure activity that many individuals enjoy. When people say that Facebook is a distraction to others, why is only social media pointed out? There are plenty of other distractions, such as conversations that people in do not take into account. Steven Pinker, a Harvard College professor, says, “the constant arrival of information packets can be distracting . . .especially to people with attention deficit disorder. The problem is that people have to be able to distinguish between work and play. If a person really has their mindset on work, then they will not get distracted. If anyone is really committed to learning or getting work done, then social media should not be an excuse for distraction.
Facebook was originally designed to be a tool which would allow individuals to keep up with their old friends by posting pictures and allowing others to see what was going on in their lives. Some people, specifically teenage girls, exploit Facebook by taking pictures of themselves half-naked or showing too much skin. These individuals are the ones that are not using social media the way it was intended and therefore, causing problems. There are many cases involving sick people that find young girls on Facebook and stalk them. Sometimes the stalki...
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...ccess to many resources in one place. Facebook and other social media are here to stay.
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Pinker, Steven. “Mind over Mass Media.” The Blair Reader : Exploring Issues and Ideas. Ed. Laurie G. Kirszner and Stephen R. Mandell. 8th ed. New York: Prentice Hall, 2009. 220-2. Print.
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Does the internet make us smarter or dumber is a question that has been asked more frequently, especially when referring to my generation. In Nicholas Carr’s article “Does the Internet Making Us Smarter or Dumber?” he adamantly believes that the internet is in fact making us dumber with its various distractions, hindering cognitive development, and affecting our knowledge retention. He supports his belief with studies such as the one conducted at a university where students were divided and only half were allowed to use their computers during class while the others were not (Carr,22) . The outcome showed that those who did not use the internet did better on the tests (22). After reading this article it made me ask the question myself and I believe that the internet is making me smarter in certain ways and dumber in others.
Both Nicholas Carr and Malcolm Gladwell debated how the Internet has affected humankind in both positive and negative ways. Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of Small Change:Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted. Nicholas Carr is a writer who has formerly written for the New York Times, The Guardian etc, he also wrote Is Google Making Us Stupid? Gladwell’s and Carr’s essays identifies how the internet has a damaging effect on people.
Pinker, Steven. "Mind Over Mass Media." NYTimes.com. The New York Times, June 10, 2011. Web. 6 March 2012.
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