Sit With Us: Social Media Analysis

For most kids lunch is the best time of the day, because they are enjoying time with their friends. But the situation is different for others because they do not have a group of friends to socialize with. After struggling to finding people to sit with at lunch, Natalie Hampton who is sixteen years old from Sherman Oaks, California designed an app called Sit With Us. Elyse Wanshel states that,"Sit With Us helps students who have a difficulty finding a place to sit that is welcoming in their school lunchroom. The reason behind why Natalie made the app was because when she was in seventh grade she ate lunch alone, which gave kids a reason to insult her. Natalie moved schools, and whenever she saw a kid sitting alone she would invite them to join

Paige Fieldsted on Daily Herdal she wrote an article about how social media helped officers spread information to cities. The article said, "Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and others played a role in the dissemination of news and updates during the events in Boston last week (2013)" Piage also said, "It is a great tool that helps spread information quickly." Social media helped in that situation because lots of people have smart phones, and they are always on it and if a message comes up and tells you something you are alerted. An Example is an Amber Alert, they send it to our phones because they can't send it to the newspaper and expect people too known it right away. Some citizens would say that it is on the news and you could be alerted that way. However, people are not always watching t.v., but they always have their phones. Additionally, David Girling explains that social networks have helped places like Ushahidi in disasters. In Ushahidi they use social media platform to locate people after a natural disaster. Also, apps like Snapchat shows the location of other people, and that could be helpful in places with lots of natural disasters. Saying all that, social networks are helping us in times of

For example, adolescents would post a picture wearing an outfit that they would not show their parents, or they took a picture throwing up gang signs. Furthermore, Erick Qualman says, "31% of teens share content on the internet they do not want family or parents to see." According to a Youtube video called Toils of social media it says, "39% have regrets 28% have shared information." This explains that young adults say or do something bad on the web that they wish they did not do. Also, teens share stuff online they wouldn't tell anybody in public. Despite what I just said that is wrong because most parents follow their kids on the internet. In other words, parents are most likely to see what their child does on the web. To add on to that, Erick Qualman said, "69% of parents are friends with their child on social media." More that half of teens that have an account on the web are following their parents. Another thing others would say about social media is that cyber bullying has increased. Well, that is wrong because facts show that cyberbullying has decreased. According to Allie Bidwell she says, " The percentage of students who reported being bullied or cyberbullied reached a record low in 2013." Cyberbullying has not been a big issue on the internet, in fact it has gotten better. Above all of that, adolescents cannot bully or do things they do not want