Social Networking
In the first blog "Blogging May Have Positive Psychological Effects For Teens" the research indicated that blogging was a good source for teen morale. It talks about how face book and other media sources are susceptible to cyber bulling but it appears that the feed back on blogging was positive and encouraging. I feel like this is a good tool for teens to express themselves. They can talk about their experiences, thoughts, and ideas where the feed back is supportive and informational. This tool can be helpful for the blogger as well as the follower.
In this second blog "The Positive and Negative Sides of Social Networking [Guest Post]" it talks about just that: the positive and the negative. The explosion of Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc. was created to be fun but has turned into a positive marketing tool. American's spend 22% of their time social networking. The study says spending too much time on "useless conversation" is not a good idea.
Within both of these blogs there are good and evil per say. I feel too many people waste their day away in "junk mail networking" but their are definite benefits to this new craze. Businesses can be productive in many ways through social media and individuals can express many different ideas this way. There just needs to be care taken in the amount of time spent plugged into the network and the quality of the information that you are getting.
In my future blogs I will be trying to explain some of the benefits of being "unplugged" from all of this technology and enjoying the great outdoors. It is an amazing feeling when you find yourself in a place with no phone service or you don't have any electricity to charge your devices for a few days. No one can distract you from what you went to do. How would you cope with this dilemma? Do you think you could survive a few days without it all at your fingertips?
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