Christina Berthaud
November 18, 2010
10:30 Class
Personally I love the media. My major is dealing with media, music, television, magazines, internet, and social networks, everything. I live for music and would not mind a bit of celeb gossip. I don’t want to say I’m addicted to social networks but I use them often. The way I see it I use social networks to keep in contact with people and well network—duh. Networking is EXTREMELY helpful, whether it is for my major or just in life. Sadly it is about who you know and not what you know.
In terms of social networks I you facebook and twitter mainly. I know I tweet A LOT, but it’s because I like to talk, and a lot of my friends have and use twitter daily. I originally made a twitter account FOR networking. Let’s just say I was thinking waaaaay ahead. But as far as some of these articles go, some things are totally out of hand.
The Guardian article I think was completely outrageous. These parents in South Korea truly should be ashamed. Imagine being a parent, how can you possibly forget your own child? How can you allow your child to starve? All because you were caught up trying to raise a virtual child you forgot the one you actually conceived. I admit social networks can work like drugs. Drugs can cause a person to forget about their child or children OR cause them to willingly forget or give up their children. In the article Chung Jin-Won said “The couple seemed to have lost their will to live a normal life because they didn't have jobs and gave birth to a premature baby," But goodness, how do you lose your willingness to live? How do you spend 12 hours in front of your computer? In the same article a boy killed his mother because she nagged him about being on the computer son long. HOW do you kill a person for the internet? How do you kill you own mother.
In the time magazine article with the parent obsessed with Facebook i feel it was terrible that the women could not help her young daughter with her homework. Not that she was doing her taxes or something but because she was too busy on Facebook. And then for her daughter to try to catch her attention, having to e-mail her is ridiculous, I understand that the mother checks her facebook frequently, because I do too, BUT I also do not have a child to take care, I’m a college student who has some free time during the day. I can say I am NOT obsessed with Facebook by reading the five signs, I do not lose sleep over Facebook nor do I get cold sweats by not being on it, BUT I do spend more than an hour on facebook and sure I ignore homework spending time on facebook, but anyone would rather do something fun than something that has to be done,
November 18, 2010
10:30 Class
Personally I love the media. My major is dealing with media, music, television, magazines, internet, and social networks, everything. I live for music and would not mind a bit of celeb gossip. I don’t want to say I’m addicted to social networks but I use them often. The way I see it I use social networks to keep in contact with people and well network—duh. Networking is EXTREMELY helpful, whether it is for my major or just in life. Sadly it is about who you know and not what you know.
In terms of social networks I you facebook and twitter mainly. I know I tweet A LOT, but it’s because I like to talk, and a lot of my friends have and use twitter daily. I originally made a twitter account FOR networking. Let’s just say I was thinking waaaaay ahead. But as far as some of these articles go, some things are totally out of hand.
The Guardian article I think was completely outrageous. These parents in South Korea truly should be ashamed. Imagine being a parent, how can you possibly forget your own child? How can you allow your child to starve? All because you were caught up trying to raise a virtual child you forgot the one you actually conceived. I admit social networks can work like drugs. Drugs can cause a person to forget about their child or children OR cause them to willingly forget or give up their children. In the article Chung Jin-Won said “The couple seemed to have lost their will to live a normal life because they didn't have jobs and gave birth to a premature baby," But goodness, how do you lose your willingness to live? How do you spend 12 hours in front of your computer? In the same article a boy killed his mother because she nagged him about being on the computer son long. HOW do you kill a person for the internet? How do you kill you own mother.
In the time magazine article with the parent obsessed with Facebook i feel it was terrible that the women could not help her young daughter with her homework. Not that she was doing her taxes or something but because she was too busy on Facebook. And then for her daughter to try to catch her attention, having to e-mail her is ridiculous, I understand that the mother checks her facebook frequently, because I do too, BUT I also do not have a child to take care, I’m a college student who has some free time during the day. I can say I am NOT obsessed with Facebook by reading the five signs, I do not lose sleep over Facebook nor do I get cold sweats by not being on it, BUT I do spend more than an hour on facebook and sure I ignore homework spending time on facebook, but anyone would rather do something fun than something that has to be done,
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