Friday, November 21, 2014
The Internet
Some lives on the internet aren't all bad, sure there are LOTS of cyber bullies, inappropriate images/websites, and...trolls. On the internet, privacy is a big thing. Privacy prevents everyone from knowing your identity,and keeps trolls from knowing every little thing about you. Cyberbullying is a major issue on the internet, it causes the same effects that bullying causes. Cyberbullying isn't as effective as normal bullying though because they can only effect you verbally and not physically because it isn't in person. The internet can be a good source for reading, research, math, talking to friends and family members, but sometimes can be used for terrible things like, false information, spam, and something I dare not to mention. not everyone uses this for...this stuff but there are good things people use the internet.
Frontline-growing up online
During the past few years technology has grown really fast and advanced to. According to the documentary it has grown really fast and people now are growing up to it to.
When using this technology that we are all use to growing up to, we use it in a different way. There a lot of bad things out there in the internet world that no one had ever knew. One of the bad things is suicide, there has been a lot of deaths because of this. It is very bad because this has to do with cyber bullying, and it affects a lot of people out there because they make fun of others to hurt their feelings.
Another problem and bad thing about the internet is that there is explicit content. This is something horrible that is going on the internment. Millions of people are posting explicit content because they think that it is funny to do so. Also they are people who just want to troll others in the internet world so they can feel more powerful.
All in all these where the reasons why the internet could be bad, but at the same time could be very helpful and make lives easier.
When using this technology that we are all use to growing up to, we use it in a different way. There a lot of bad things out there in the internet world that no one had ever knew. One of the bad things is suicide, there has been a lot of deaths because of this. It is very bad because this has to do with cyber bullying, and it affects a lot of people out there because they make fun of others to hurt their feelings.
Another problem and bad thing about the internet is that there is explicit content. This is something horrible that is going on the internment. Millions of people are posting explicit content because they think that it is funny to do so. Also they are people who just want to troll others in the internet world so they can feel more powerful.
All in all these where the reasons why the internet could be bad, but at the same time could be very helpful and make lives easier.
Social Essay: Computers Then and Now
Bradley Craig
Ms. Weisberger
November 19, 2014
Social Essay: Computers Then and Now
How Social Networking has Changed the World
There has been numerous reports of online causing more problems than anyone can handle at one moment. On the other hand, there have also been numerous reports of the Internet helping students and adults alike. People often misunderstand the purpose of the Web, and insist that it is a undesirable weapon that should no longer be used. However, it will be shown that the Internet is not to blame for any of this. In fact, it makes for a speedy new way for people to communicate over vast distances and come up with ideas as a group without necessarily being in the same building.
The first subject I will discuss is how the lives of some teenagers are spent constantly hooked up to the Web. In the video 'Frontline: Growing Up Online' students, especially teenagers, are described as "constantly being hooked up to the Web" and the Web was described both negatively and positively, which is entirely understandable. However, things have changed since that video was created. Back then, XP was the dominant operating system for PCs (which is still the case) and the main phone of the age was the flip phone, and cellular data was the thing of science fiction. With the dawn of the smartphone era years in the past communication on social networks changed. Wether it is for the better or worse we may never know, but it has changed in a major way. People can now communicate off of Facebook literally at any time and PC computers are an antiquated technology. Safeguards are now as prominent as ever, yet cyberbullying has gone down dramatically. Now the only way you will find any sign of the dawn of the Social Networking era is if you were looking for it.
The second subject that I am going to describe is suicide rates caused by social networking. While this does remain a threat, and I am not going to put down how important it is that a child is not bullied to the point of committing suicide, there are worse ways that people have been massacred, and most of the prominent killings have nothing to do with social networking. In fact, they are mostly due to the unrest of the killer, not the victim. Also, of all the ways people are killed, suicide is one of the lowest. Furthermore, the social network can be used as a weapon, and I can say that the entire Internet is very dangerous, just like any major city is dangerous. However, the Internet can actually be a valuable communication resource if you know how to use it. And I have been using the Internet for many years, and nothing has happened to me so far because I didn't talk to anyone I don't already know, both in real life and on the Internet.
With these reasons, it is clear to see how the Internet is helpful and not harmful. True, bad thing can happen on the Web and I know this. However, with more and more people becoming educated about how to use the Web, these issues should decline, and the Internet will be used once again for what it was originally intended to be used for: finding and receiving information from anywhere in the world. People are more responsible about the Web now than they were in the past and I believe that they will continue to become more and more responsible as the Web matures and more and more people become educated about Internet safety. And with this massive decrease in instances of suicide or online societies, I firmly believe that more people will become comfortable with this relatively new way to communicate and will embrace it. It is already a commonality, and with the dawn of new Internet-using technologies such as VR, it won't be too long if people are able to communicate truly face-to-face with 3D holographic images. Will people embrace these new technologies in the same way that they embraced the idea of the Internet, which is, to say, not at all? Or will people look at it differently and accept it far quicker than they did with the Internet? Only time will tell.
Ms. Weisberger
November 19, 2014
Social Essay: Computers Then and Now
How Social Networking has Changed the World
There has been numerous reports of online causing more problems than anyone can handle at one moment. On the other hand, there have also been numerous reports of the Internet helping students and adults alike. People often misunderstand the purpose of the Web, and insist that it is a undesirable weapon that should no longer be used. However, it will be shown that the Internet is not to blame for any of this. In fact, it makes for a speedy new way for people to communicate over vast distances and come up with ideas as a group without necessarily being in the same building.
The first subject I will discuss is how the lives of some teenagers are spent constantly hooked up to the Web. In the video 'Frontline: Growing Up Online' students, especially teenagers, are described as "constantly being hooked up to the Web" and the Web was described both negatively and positively, which is entirely understandable. However, things have changed since that video was created. Back then, XP was the dominant operating system for PCs (which is still the case) and the main phone of the age was the flip phone, and cellular data was the thing of science fiction. With the dawn of the smartphone era years in the past communication on social networks changed. Wether it is for the better or worse we may never know, but it has changed in a major way. People can now communicate off of Facebook literally at any time and PC computers are an antiquated technology. Safeguards are now as prominent as ever, yet cyberbullying has gone down dramatically. Now the only way you will find any sign of the dawn of the Social Networking era is if you were looking for it.
The second subject that I am going to describe is suicide rates caused by social networking. While this does remain a threat, and I am not going to put down how important it is that a child is not bullied to the point of committing suicide, there are worse ways that people have been massacred, and most of the prominent killings have nothing to do with social networking. In fact, they are mostly due to the unrest of the killer, not the victim. Also, of all the ways people are killed, suicide is one of the lowest. Furthermore, the social network can be used as a weapon, and I can say that the entire Internet is very dangerous, just like any major city is dangerous. However, the Internet can actually be a valuable communication resource if you know how to use it. And I have been using the Internet for many years, and nothing has happened to me so far because I didn't talk to anyone I don't already know, both in real life and on the Internet.
With these reasons, it is clear to see how the Internet is helpful and not harmful. True, bad thing can happen on the Web and I know this. However, with more and more people becoming educated about how to use the Web, these issues should decline, and the Internet will be used once again for what it was originally intended to be used for: finding and receiving information from anywhere in the world. People are more responsible about the Web now than they were in the past and I believe that they will continue to become more and more responsible as the Web matures and more and more people become educated about Internet safety. And with this massive decrease in instances of suicide or online societies, I firmly believe that more people will become comfortable with this relatively new way to communicate and will embrace it. It is already a commonality, and with the dawn of new Internet-using technologies such as VR, it won't be too long if people are able to communicate truly face-to-face with 3D holographic images. Will people embrace these new technologies in the same way that they embraced the idea of the Internet, which is, to say, not at all? Or will people look at it differently and accept it far quicker than they did with the Internet? Only time will tell.
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