Social networking sites, gaming, virtual environments..Are they harmless fun...a great way of meeting people and keep in touch OR a security risk and a phenomena that undermines our social and educational development.
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Social networking sites have started undermining our society as a whole...to start with I'll show a point which the catholic church argued with last year.
Relationships.
Mainly with facebook, a whole generation of people is being influenced to "show off" who they are dating, and though they are a minority, it's quite frightening how badly people simply date as a sign of respect among friends. For example, one person I know chagnes her "status" on facebook nearlly weekly becasue relationships are pretty meaningless thigns...it's just a way to show off her latest accesory.
However, to counter myself people can find relationships on the internet too - and I don't mean just sex or boy/girlfriends...jsut friends too...
It's a way one can communicate with the whole world and find people who have been through the same experiences...have similar ideas...and as long as they aren't some stupid neo-nazi, it's all good.
In terms of information - it's true that teenagers don't realise how much personal info they put on the web. Not only in terms of jobs, but it will effect them in other ways - for example paedophiles (people on facebook can be SO young and equally naive) and stalkers...though I have met lots of friends on the net. Myself and my friend went to an international meet up of an internet forum - 80 people from all round Europe - and I'm now close friends with lots of people from there...
I guess they'll be an argument about witholding data too. To what extent should we be allowed to look at old data on Facebook? Should major corperations be allowed to judge through that?
No, they shouldn't. But it's the same as mental health discrimination, it shouldn't happen - but here in reality, it always will.
So in conclusion it's up to the individual. I don't put anything on the net that could disrupt my later life - but some people do. There choice, there repercussions. Besides, there are a lot worse socio-political/socio-psychological issues right now...
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