Pros and Cons of Social Networks

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Are you tweeting constantly throughout the day? Are you compulsively checking your phone while in class? Do you find your phone on your lap at the dinner table? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be addicted to the world’s newest technology. Do not worry because you are not alone. Many people cannot go without looking at their phones for more than a couple minutes. Most of the time they are checking their Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. Neither the less, the misuse of social networking has many addicted to their electronic devices. Electronic devices have mad a huge impact on our culture. Social networks were intended to be positive but the negativities untimely outweigh them.
Today’s society is dominated with many different types of of electronic devices such as iPhones, iPods, iPads, computers, laptops, tablets, cell phones, etc. All these electronics have the common ability to access social networking sites such as, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, etc. When these electronic devices and social networks started, they were just looked at as a source of entertainment for teenagers and college students. This is because even though older people created many of the devices, young adults, usually college students, made most of the social networks. Nowadays everybody, from children to the elderly use social networks. As discussed by Christine Rosen in “Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism,” social networking deprives us of our ability to interact with one another face to face (408-09). Although statements such as this are true in many cases, social networking can be as much an advantage as a disadvantage.
Facebook for example, can allow one to connect with many friends from the past. You will be sure to ...

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