Social Networks and the internet

Social networking and the Internet

Social net working is a huge part of peoples lives now as it helps us to stay in contact with everyone we know also it helps us to make new friends by simply talking to them online.

Social networks like Facebook and Twitter are very popular as we can tell everyone we have as a friend/follow what we are doing and how we are feeling by simply making a status update or a tweet. People use Facebook and Twitter every single day as it is so easy to access on out phones and computers, its also a good way to cope with boredom as you can just sit anywhere and scroll through the timeline of the social networking site.

I love to be on social networks I have both Twitter and Facebook as I think they are useful to me and I am sure that other teenagers think this as well, as they help us to keep in touch they also inform us things like what is happening in the world and I your city, when your friends tweet or post a status about something it tells us what is going on and maybe why so therefore social networks are a source off news as well in a way this could be know as citizen journalism as they are posting new on social networks. With this being said new institutions also have made Twitter and Facebook pages so the public can follow them and be updated on the news and what is happening this is useful as you can access social networks from anywhere with an internet connection, also people can tweet the new institutions and tell them what is going on around them, which is also citizen journalism as the public are informing the institutions so I think this is good as we can get news from places where big institutions do not have access to or where they can not get to.

Social networks also have a bad aspect to them as well as you can get trolls and unpleasant people who are on there, celebrities can get harassed on Twitter and Facebook as people who are not fans can get nasty towards them and escalate things, even for normal people this could happen, this is why cyber bulling is more apparent and people have to be careful of what they post as it could effect someone in a bad way, also there are also law on cyber bulling and what will happen if people do bully people over the internet, as the internet is meant to be safe for people everyone to use.  But with this being said and all the Social networking sites putting security settings and report buttons on the websites they sometimes take to long to react to these problems yes they might having million people reporting things but sometimes its very serious and no action by the site every take place its just left there so how effective are the social networking sites with the security of their users.