Are Social Networking sites good for our society? Social Media can be extremely powerful and helpful and yet dangerously harmful. There have been cases of people taking their own lives over something one person said online, (example: you’re not pretty). Sometimes people look for useful things on Facebook like, the weather, or the news. Sometimes people use Facebook or any other social media app to get in contact with family, if they have no other contact with them. So it is a big impact on our life. On the website called ProCon.org, it showed a lot of pros of using and having social media. One example is Social Networking sites help students do better at school, in my opinion yes they can help but not all families can afford to buy a new computer when the old one works perfectly fine but does not have adobe flash to do I-Ready a con is Students who are heavy social media users tend to have lower grades, they say the more you spend on Facebook the more your grades will be impacted. Another one that I liked was The Law enforcement uses Social Networking sites to catch and prosecute criminals. Some police officers create fake accounts to make sure
there not doing anything illegal a con is that they are invading people’s privacy. According to Mrs. Hochadel she thinks that they are good and bad. In her words, she said “that it is a good idea to have them to contact family members that are in collage or live far away, it is also good to have when they are in an emergency,” After that I interviewed Tanner Kennedy, he says that they are good and bad. “I think they are good and bad, the good in them is that you can ask your friends what the homework is if you were not there. The bad is if you do inappropriate things you may face the consequences of being blocked or reported.”
In conclusion, there is some good and bad if you have a social media account. But there is some good like, getting to know the weather, or if there is a road closure. If any of these have happened and you were not prepared you can be in big trouble.
there not doing anything illegal a con is that they are invading people’s privacy. According to Mrs. Hochadel she thinks that they are good and bad. In her words, she said “that it is a good idea to have them to contact family members that are in collage or live far away, it is also good to have when they are in an emergency,” After that I interviewed Tanner Kennedy, he says that they are good and bad. “I think they are good and bad, the good in them is that you can ask your friends what the homework is if you were not there. The bad is if you do inappropriate things you may face the consequences of being blocked or reported.”
In conclusion, there is some good and bad if you have a social media account. But there is some good like, getting to know the weather, or if there is a road closure. If any of these have happened and you were not prepared you can be in big trouble.