Considering that facebook and twitter have had a rapid growth and become quite a big deal in the last 5-10 years, Has their impact improved society or was it better beforehand?
I know maybe a repetitive question but these forms of social media have changed quite a few things and in such short years.
Its a bit of a routine addiction for me, checking my twitter and facebook, in other words maybe a bit of a bad unnecessary habit. You choose who you follow on twitter and who you are friends with on facebook, but I always find myself a little more irritated before I was when I see other peoples facebook statuses. I should delete my accounts then! But for some reason it's not that simple...that's just my experiences using them. Twitter is great for charlton away game updates most of all, I prefer twitter out the 2.
Benefits of social media:
1. Helps police track criminals
2. The news (just the football for me)
3. Interact with mates
4. Naughty stuff
Problems of social media:
1. Crime and lots of it
2. Creates unnecessary news (what Katie price just said)
3. Highlights annoying people
Anything to add?
Does Facebook and twitter alter your mood in anyway and were we better off without them?
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Is the twitter/facebook age good or bad ? ... many (especiallly young) people live for it and by it. People of my age group probably don't fully understand it as previous generations didn't understand electric light or motor cars or powered flight, TV or newspapers. It's neither good nor bad, it just 'is'
Maybe Facebook is the same, is there something about the layout or the way it works that makes it addictive? Instead of unhealthy eating at McDonald's, it's just a waste of time (if you use it as a priority before anything else).
Twitter is awesome, mainly as its great for updates whereever you are Sport, whatever! also follow a few accounts which tweet naked women which always brightens my day
both I reckon!
Problems of social media
Not sure I agree with many of these. I don't think it does really help police track criminals - technology yes, social media I'm not so sure. It certainly helps people report crimes which would not affect them if it didn't exist (ie reporting someone who tweeted something offfensive to someone else).
Porn always existed, it was just previously to be found in magazines in hedges, it is easy to come by now but it was always there. As were annoying friends, they just previously telephoned you to annoy you.
And as for news, if people didn't read it people wouldn't write. And that is as true for social medai as any other. If people didn't want their blogs read they would keep diaries, if they don't gain popularity thy generally don't get updated. So Kate Price may not be interesting to you but she is to sadly so many. In fact she has a page in the Sun so its not social meida that's keeping her around.
It has had a huge impact on society and the way we communicate. But IMO none more so than the developments that went before. Imagine when they first got telephones - being able to speka to someone miles away for the first time. Or when the printed press was developed and you could read what was going on in the city from your living room rather than having to go to the local bar and wait for the stage coach to bring you informaiton.
On reflection I think it depends what industry you work in. I work in sales and marketing for a large data/IT company, so it works very well for my own purposes.
Whether it's people being gullible, spreading malicious rumours or some truly ignorant, stone age views & comments (the comments directed to Mark Halsey, Tom Daly, Evra, Collymore etc).
It's given a platform to those people who would normally be ignored or not heard because they lack the balls & intelligence to say anything worthwhile "in the real world".
On the positive side, Twitter & Facebook should be used to identify these complete and utter imbeciles and make them disappear before they become too big a burden on our nation.
The recent liverpool fans tweets about the ref back this up...
Don't have the social life I used to so FB is a handy and easy way to stay in.contact, see what others are up to and generally use it to take the pee out of myself.
Twitter I'm not overly keen on. Seems to provide a platform for a lot of general bitchyness and nastiness, and dominated by people craving attention and popularity, imo.
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People like that should just be got rid of.
I'm old enough to remember when people actually spoke to each other.