Perks of having a social networking site like Facebook, is that it can connect long lost friends and family like Carrie Kolb finding her biological mother who was lost at birth. She created a Facebook page, and over 1,000 people helped pitched in and helped her find her mother. Facebook was the main reason Carrie found her mother. Another perk of having a social networking site like Facebook, was to help campaign a mission or a goal. For instance, Facebook was a main catalyst to President Obama's presidential campaign. Thanks to a Facebook page "Students for Obama" Barack had an easy speech to give to over 2,000 students all thanks to Facebook. Obama won "the Facebook election" of 2008. Facebook also helps police and law enforcing agencies find criminals, and where they might be. (Effects of Social Networking)1 out of every 12 people in the world has a Facebook account and the number is climbing every day. Facebook has a take it or leave it privacy policy, that you have to accept. If you don't accept the policy then you can't join the site, and that is a hard thing to do, acknowledging that almost everyone is on Facebook. Also if you don't like Facebook, and you want to delete your profile it will take over 3 hours to delete. Facebook has a monopoly on the web, where you can "like" anything on the web. (Effects of Social Networking)
Positive Effects:
Online social networking can also help young people learn how to socialize with their peers; users also show more "virtual empathy."
"It's almost like social networks are training wheels for life in a lot of ways - it teaches you to express empathy and see how people respond" Larry D. Rosen, Ph.D.
Kids use social networking to grow and develop social skills with friends
Negative Effects:
According to studies, middle school, high school and college students looking at Facebook at least one time during a 15-minute study break made lower grades. In addition, many young Facebook users show more tendencies to be narcissistic.
The new research suggests that overuse of media and technology can negatively affect health of children and teens, especially with psychological disorders- making users more likely to experience anxiety and depression.
"Everything you do on social networks, you're doing behind the safety of a screen," Rosen said. "You're not paying attention...there's a real flesh and blood human being at the other end of cyberspace and your words might have consequences for that person."
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/06/kids-and-social-networking-pros-and-cons/
Online social networking can also help young people learn how to socialize with their peers; users also show more "virtual empathy."
"It's almost like social networks are training wheels for life in a lot of ways - it teaches you to express empathy and see how people respond" Larry D. Rosen, Ph.D.
Kids use social networking to grow and develop social skills with friends
Negative Effects:
According to studies, middle school, high school and college students looking at Facebook at least one time during a 15-minute study break made lower grades. In addition, many young Facebook users show more tendencies to be narcissistic.
The new research suggests that overuse of media and technology can negatively affect health of children and teens, especially with psychological disorders- making users more likely to experience anxiety and depression.
"Everything you do on social networks, you're doing behind the safety of a screen," Rosen said. "You're not paying attention...there's a real flesh and blood human being at the other end of cyberspace and your words might have consequences for that person."
Social Networking has made kids have tendencies of not going deep into the text, just read the bold highlights. "140 characters of news is all I need." Students said they had neither the time nor interest to follow up on news that didn't impact them because the sheer flood of information was so great. They admitted they are headline skimmers, rarely diving below the surface into deeper informational or evaluative waters unless somehow pinged personally.
Headline reading is common, but in 140 characters you can't get across a complex thought. Nick and I had a lot of trouble just reading headlines and can't get in depth in a reading.
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/06/kids-and-social-networking-pros-and-cons/
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