New media technologies and Mash -up of social network are providing lot of ease to people but I think some compact negative effects also generated by social media. May be the visualization of those effects is not seen at present but in future these will show its symptoms. Different people argue in different ways, My experience is this, I have left or it seem to me that abilities of the making analysis in depth are decreasing, I mean social activities reduced my physical and educational activities. When you read things on your behalf you have some strong arguments and knowledge, you think more and try to be creative and love to discover some things but new technology and social solutions make the things to easy that we do not feel to use our own skills all the time. So according to my point of view self confidence is lost in previous few years, for example instead reading of some books we trust more on something written on Wikipedia and some blogs and derived some desired solutions , just need of some mixing and base knowledge. Not all but many people are doing so, especially student community.
I have observed that students are sitting in class and they are more interested in the social networks or online social activities than their lectures, now it really a common practice to spend the time to get rid from other. Chatting is positive but excessive chat not only put effects on your mental, physical state but at the same time is source of wastage of time.
If we look in generalized frame we will find that without knowing about results sometime we spend our time on social networks like youtube, on gaming websites that can be used in more productive work and we realize it sometime but ignore every time our developed habits. Now a day’s people are more interfering in the privacy of other on the behalf of social media like Facebook and other, straight forward comments or usage of unnecessary language in discussion mess up other members of social network which can create a social space between the different groups. I have observed it seem that society is centralized on a social network, I think actually people are subdivided into different groups and sects within the network which have strong opposition, feeling against each other and some time they show. This can be dangerous in the future for social networks. Again as we discussed earlier essay we are losing qualities of selection vs. quantity. I have written things on my experiences more which I felt so essay is based on my assumptions.
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Hi Sohail!
ReplyDeleteI must say that it is disgusting habit that some students have when they are using Facebook during class. As late as today I saw a student doing this at one of my classes. It really frustrates me. Why are they even there? It seems that they are at the university because someone told them to and for their own sake. No, this disrespectfulness needs to be addressed. I should have told her. I regret that now. I also get disturb by all these invitations that you receive through for instance Facebook. If you are going to have a party I think that you should put some more effort into that process!
When it comes to self confidence and social media I understand what you are saying (at least I think so) and to some extent I agree with you.
I do however think that there is also a democratic aspect to this that is forgotten. Through the internet each and everyone (except people who are old or have handicaps) have access to the same material. Before, you had to have access to libraries or well stocked book stores in order to be supplied with the latest. This might not be a problem in Stockholm but in small towns and not so crowded areas the reality is somewhat different.
/Johan Östberg