Your Career May Depend On It Analysis

In Cal Newport’s zealous article, “Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It,” he claims that social media can cause severe damage to your career. Newport begins talking about how he doesn’t have any social media accounts and how more people should follow in his footsteps because he believes that it is a waste of time and is not a good way to go about making yourself a career. However, I disagree and believe it is not social media’s fault for damaged careers and can actually bring along some good opportunities. Newport starts his article off by making his stand very clear that, “You should quit social media because it can hurt your career” (2016). He claims this because he strongly believes that an individual does not need social media

The only way social media could cause damage to a person’s career is if the individual themselves is the one who is causing the harm. For example, the students who got kicked out of Harvard University before they could even start ruined their own careers because they abused social media by posting harmful things. Another statement Newport implies is that people “…fear that without a social media presence, they would be invisible to the job market” (2016). He states this because he feels that people rely too much on social media to get them somewhere that they fail to be independent and try to make it out on their own without the help of the internet. I disagree with this statement, because I feel that it is not so much fear those pursing in a career feel, but it is that they want to promote themselves in a bigger more reliable way since so many people use social media now. I know of successful photographers, who did not rely on social media to make their business known, but instead they use it to help promote themselves and be more