I choose to write about the reading “Social media: the Good, the Bad, the Ugly”. This reading was interesting to me cause it shows both sides on why social networking and online communities can be a good thing and also a bad thing. This also ties into when we talked about social identity and what was more powerful the user or the program in class. One thing the article talks about when it comes to why social media is a good thing, is that it opens up a broad spectrum for people to communicate with each other and to show other people media from your life. For people to have healthier relationships they need some other form of communication thats not direct and social media helps tremendously with that. It also is a great way to advertise yourself or a company to other people, hence celebrities and big companies use social media all the time. The reading also talks about how it is a bad things, since people can feel shut out based off of there interest not aligning with the general population. It also talks about cyber bulling and how since social media has grown as a community more cyber bulling has been occurring. For what we talked about in class with the whose more powerful the user or the program? This question really spoke to me since at first I was very one sided with believing the user has the more power, which it does, but also the user needs the program since the user has a need for social media and networking. Overall social media is a great thing for people. What people need to realize is that any community or even online community there will always be conflict and contradictions with people and there ideals. As long as people are careful with there online identity and also keeping up with there accounts then social media can be a great thing.
Below I have Images that relate to what i was talking about in my blog
There is also two videos that talk about how social media can ruin your life and online identity
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