Today, there are many types of social networking services in society
and these are spreading rapidly. People use these sites with various ways and
social networking sites make these people easy to connect with other people.
Some people believe social networking sites are useful to make good relationships
while other people think these sites have ill effects on their relationships.
This essay discuss both the positive side and negative side in the influence of
social networking services.
It is clear that social networking services changed people’s
lifestyle conveniently. People can keep in touch with their family or friends
easier than before, and these sites developed an important communication tool
which are necessary for them. They can make friends all over the world and they
can learn other languages, cultures and traditional things. They can share
everything such as their photos and opinions, so they can see various daily
lives and it gives them new knowledge. Additionally, social networking sites generated
the new way of information gathering. If they want to know how the world is going,
they can access from on sites such as Twitter and Facebook. People inform
others incidents in different views from other media such as newspapers and
news programs and sometimes news program use videos which is uploaded on social
networking sites because these videos shows us the detail of events. Furthermore,
they can express their opinions or important things. For example some political
parties use Twitter to notify citizens about their manifestos in Japan. Also
Japan experience serious disasters such as flood and volcanic eruption and
numerous Japanese use Twitter to request rescue and inform other people about their
existence. Social networking sites are useful for people when they encounter
accidents.
However, there are ill effects in using social networking sites.
Firstly, there is possibility they will become addicts. Meanwhile, they spend
lots of time on social networking, then they are isolated from real life. Also,
they might be isolated from their virtual world. Most people think it is a
virtual world, so if they feel uncomfortable to talk with someone, they can
break their relationship easily without any apology. In addition, people feel
difficulty of communication with real people because of using social networking
sites. They talk with people on these sites but actually they spend time alone
because they speak through writing words, so they forget how to talk in real
situations. Also people cannot escape from real life even if they are in tough
situation which involve relationship. Real life is harder than virtual life
because people cannot spend time with only their favourite people. Lastly, they
put themselves in danger by these sites. They put photos though which people can
realise their faces and they tag information where they take the pictures.
People who have ill intentions can find individual information easily and they
can find victim’s address and occupation from only phots, so there is a
possibility they will be involved with dangerous incidents such as kidnapping
and stalking.
There are both positive sides and negative sides on influence in the
relationships. I take the neutral position. Social networking sites are useful
for people but if they misunderstand the usage, these sites change into harmful
things. People should consider their attitude to social networking sites, and
use that effectively.
I think that we have to use it while being careful!!
ReplyDeleteHowever, connecting with many people is important.
Good writing Kaho. Are you an addict ? I used to spend a lot of time on Facebook and I realized that it was wasting my time. I stop to use Facebook completely now.
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