Social Networking is another easy and convenient way to communicate
one another regardless of where or when a person is,
as long as there is an easy source of Internet connections.
With a number of Social Networking sites appearing
all over the online world, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and many other interesting sites are more
and more common and useful over our daily lives. Believe or not, there's even a 100-year-old
granny uses Facebook to communicate with her children and grandchildren!
But however, as teenagers gains access to these Social Networking websites,
they will soon be addicted to using it, showing signs of addictions such
as using it during situation such as school lessons or during meals,
or constantly staying up late to check updates which can
possibly cause an increase in phone or electricity bills.
Moreover, risks can also occur such as hacking into
stranger’s account, exposing private information that is not meant to be publicly shown.
For example, micro-blogging websites such as Twitter are at even
higher risk of cyber-bullying. This happens when many users,
especially teenagers, tend to set their account as ‘public’,
revealing messages to strangers about their daily life. In return,
rude messages would appear, one of cyber-bullying techniques.
Furthermore, leading to the user being more introvert as he or
she thinks that they are being despised by others even though
they do not know each other in reality.
Even if cases of cyber-bullying are happening every day, not
all social-networking sites are at disadvantage. For example, Tumblr,
a popular site that encourage people to share and interact with people
or, known as ‘followers’. In a blog format, one can either write about
the happenings, post photographs that they took, chats, videos and
others on the page. The site can also be another platform for young
artists to share their artwork such as their own paintings, photographs,
music or stories that they composed to the outside world, allowing their
work to be even more well known as most ‘followers’ are strangers.
Another example, Facebook, with it’s number of members equivalent
to the population of Japan, it is also the most common social network
site that teenagers are addicted to. Mobile phone applications made
for Facebook and Twitter has increase the amount of usage by bringing
the traditional way of accessing it through a bulky computer, to a small,
handy and convenient mobile phone. With another easier way to access
the sites through a mobile phone, it can be a major disadvantage to
the schools; a student in a local school smuggled his mobile phone into
the examination hall and took photos of his exam paper that he was suppose
to be doing, and posted it online via Twitter and Facebook. He was later
caught doing so, and was told not to continue his examinations as it
was considered as cheating.
However, Facebook can also be useful in
organising events, groups and gatherings; even when a person
has graduated from his or her primary school for at least 12 years,
he or she could still stay in touch by searching for their friend’s
account and organise a gathering in real life through the help of the website.
With the increasing number of people being introduced into these
social-networking sites, it is unusual to know a person without
an account on the websites mention before. It has also lead to
the ability of globalisation; instead of taking a 6 hour flight to
visit a relative living in overseas, these websites allow people to stay
in contact without the worry of soaring telephone bills or the money
needed to buy an air ticket as these websites are free, easy and convenient to use.
The sites enable people to get the latest news within minutes or even seconds.
This in return, making the world an even smaller and smaller planet,
with the help of these famous trend that people from around the world are fantasising it.
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