#SocialMedia Friend or Foe?
The first article about social media portrays it in much more of a negative light than I feel like it should be. Maybe since I’m a teenager and grew up using social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter, I’m a little bias but I feel like they help us more than hurt us. A person can learn a lot from the internet; it is very important that you are able to use the internet as a “source” in everyday life. I will admit that some people do in fact use the internet too much and rely on it more than they should, but others know how to control their “addiction” to it. I can relate when Steve Pinker talks about training yourself to be able to do one task. You must learn more information about what you want to know. I don’t think some people understand that, I think they feel as though if they are good at solving puzzles and reading, they are going to be good at all reading material and puzzles, which is not the case. I’m a person that loves reading but if the material is boring or unrelated to my life I don’t enjoy it. But I don’t feel like if you use Twitter too much your life is going to turn into a “Twitter account”. People need to know when it is becoming too much, and learn how to live in the moment and not focus so much on how everyone else is going to see them. We should do the things we want to do not live like “How many likes can I get on Facebook” or “I wonder if someone will retweet this”. That’s when the use of social media becomes too much. I was surprised about some of the facts on those videos, for instance how many people are still joining Facebook every day. Maybe because I have had it so long that I can’t believe that so many people still don’t have it, and that such a greater number of people are just now jumping aboard the bandwagon. I was also surprised on how much more hours of video you can find on YouTube, that