Social networking sites

In modern life, we are surrounded by various social networking sites, such as Facebook, Instagram and WeChat. All of these have become an essential part of our daily life. I believe that those sites play three main roles in our society, enabling people to make of friends, stimulating them to acquire more knowledge and influencing people’s decisions and mind, and the influences are in general positive.

To begin with, take Weblog for instance. It is the Chinese version of Twitter. Thanks to the people’s diligent work, uploading some useful knowledge, such as some basic survival skills, cooking methods and life tips, it can help people enjoy their life. Furthermore, people can get sufficient messages through social networking sites and be more involved in social affairs than ever before. For example, when natural disasters occur or some fatal diseases spread, those media can covey first-hand information to the public, and then the public can donate to victims immediately. Moreover, the contributions of social networking sites to our society are essential. As they can entertain us. We enjoy what social networking sites give to us. Such as, appreciation of pictures of art give people pleasure of living from mental level. Those sites are a result of ordinary people’s need to communicate and their desire to exchange arguments or opinions.

However, social networking sites also give us torment in our life. Actually, some people who are addicted to the Internet, are threatened by the danger of those sites. Facts show Internet addiction has become the biggest cause of juvenile delinquency, as youngsters tend to imitate crimes they have read on these seedy websites.  There are various problems, such as some people upload some sensitive or even uncivil comments on their home pages which are not suitable for juveniles.  Furthermore, some information from social networking sites might be presented in a certain way, because some people on the Internet, have their own opinions and bias or even distort the truth. In addition, others use the new technology to do many horrible things. A case in point is we all know that terrorism has dramatically increased the level of destroying culture and killing harmless civilians. Unfortunately, some terrorists are using social networking sites to contact each other to execute bombings.

To put it in a nutshell, to social networking sites, different people hold different ideas. We all know that social networking sites has exerted tremendous influence on individuals and the society. It has revolutionized people’s original lifestyle and improved the quality of our lives. But many of its negative effects should no longer be neglected. As for me, those sites are an absolutely necessary revolution for modern society.