Kathleen Sanchez
January 22, 2015
P.5
Students
tend to be online more often and some grow up being online. In this quote
"we seldom pause to consider how this virtual society might be different
from more traditional forms of community life". In this quote seldom means
not often or rarely tend to think to ourselves how this society with kids that
tend to be online often can affect them with any type of relationships. I agree
that kids or students being online or growing up online can affect their
relationships, even the creation of one's identity and the nature of
community.
As students tend to use Inter-media pages or social media
pages such as Instagram. Which is where students
can upload pictures and insert a caption to their photo and also talking to
others can affect them by many ways. Not only for Instagram but also Facebook,
Twitter, Myspace, KIK, and Snapchat can effect students and even harm students.
The reason why i think it can effect students is for an example a high school
student can post a picture of himself and his friends drinking alcohol and
tend to find it cool, but a few days later he gets into trouble with his
parents or teachers or even a relationship with their mate because they can get
the information from a family member or friend informing the parents of what
the guy or it can be a random student from his school that saw a picture and
showed it to the teacher or parent. Pictures are not the only things that
affect you but words can also affect you and others, like they say action speak
louder than words, but words can hurt them too verbally because you don’t know
deep down what they went through.
Such as twitter, Myspace, and Facebook, it can affect you
because you can get into some kind of trouble with a teacher, police, even with
your parents and the things by saying something about your teacher or your
parents even that has to do something with gang-violence or drugs... You never
want to put something up because you are putting yourself into danger and others
which can also affect them.
Their isn’t only students that can affect them or others
but other people on social media pages can harm us. Such as “Catfish”, Catfish
is a person who pretends to be someone they’re not, using Facebook or other
social media to create false identities, particularly to pursue deceptive
online romances. There are so many ways they can be a catfish not only in a
romance way but it can also be a threatening way or an enemy that you seek to
have revenge on. Social media can do so many things to a person that you can
reveal a secret about them that they have done in the past. I don’t think in
it’s the right thing that people are a catfish or an enemy or even a random
person can say so much and leak out so many things that it can cause students
to commit suicide and it wouldn’t be an exotic thing either.
Why do you think people pretend to be somebody they aren’t?
Do you think it affects themselves or the person they are talking to? In my
opinion it affects both of these people and there are so many reasons why it
affects them and why people pretend to be somebody they are not. My reasoning
is why I think men and women pretend to be somebody they are not is because
they probably don’t have the confidence to feel secure about themselves, these
people need to embrace their flaws and accept the way they look, and in this
world nobody isn’t perfect. The reason why I say this is because the person
that is pretending to be somebody can lead a person’s feelings and the person
that has feelings finds out that it isn’t the person they really were.
In the passage ‘What You Say Online Could Haunt You:
Schools, Employers, Scrutinize Social Websites Such as Myspace and Facebook”
students don’t find it fair that teachers or schools should use the internet against
their students, such as a student posting something saying “I want to rob this
bank” but when they’re not breaking laws or hurting themselves or someone else.
I do agree that the fact if you are a student and you are attending to UCLA or
Berkley or NYU and you posted something that’s threatening; I think the school
has every right not only because you are making the school look bad, but it
makes your reputation look bad even when you think it’s a joke.
What you can do to make yourself a better person or to do
the right thing is to think about something as this student named Guinn said
“In the beginning, I kind of posted whatever without really thinking about it”
he also said “I could have saved myself a lot of misery, had I just sat down
and used my common sense” this shows you a life lesson not to do anything that
affects you or harm you and think before you do anything.
In addition to this social media can affect you in good
ways or bad ways. The good ways are you can use social media pages to get people’s
attention such as making a page for people that are going through a depression
or people that want to commit suicide can make a page to help teens and adults.
The bad ways that social media can affect you is by leaking private things
about others. Before you post something up in a social media page you should
think what to say and think before you do something.
There are two different types of people in this world which
are people that live their life in technology and people that hardly on
technology are communicative and anti-social with others. I think people that
live on technology should learn how to be more anti-social and communicate with
others because in the future they will need to communicate in jobs and standing
up for themselves. It’s a big life lesson to know what you choose or what you
decide in life.
