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SOCIAL NETWORKING FIELDS (FREE TIME (PRO: meeting people is the best way…
SOCIAL NETWORKING FIELDS
HEALTH
CON: According to a recent study by GFK Eurisko, 30% of Italian population uses Internet to search informations on health, and the 18% of them, receives false informations.
PRO: there are online communities which help a person who is affected by cancer or other diseases, to communicate to other people with the same problems.
FREE TIME
PRO: meeting people is the best way to spend our free time, and if we pay attention on the way we are using the net, there isn’t any dangerous activity.
PRO: YouTube is the website with the highest number of visitors. This is because there, people can post videos, being creative and specially being themselves
CON: “In Italy, every person spend 2 hours and 30 minutes per day using social media”- a blogger said few weeks ago. It’s a waste of time, because in these hours we could do more useful things.
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POLITICS AND SOCIAL INFLUENCE
”Prior to the internet, the adage was -think before you act-, today it’s -think before you upload, think before you tweet-“.
CON: Sometimes privacy borders are simple to pass, so this can expose people users to government intrusions.
PRO: Social media increases voter participation, because people are more likely to vote if they see sites that their friends voted.
PRO: social media sites empower individuals to make social change and do social good on a community level.
BUSINESS AND WORK
PRO: 48% of jobseekers use social media (specially Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn) to find a job.
PRO: McKisney Global Institute studies, projected that the communication and collaboration with social media could add trillion of dollars to the economy through added productivity and improved customer service.
CON: social media harms employees’ productivity. Some Irish workers found that 78% of them use a personal device to access web sites like Intagram during work hours.
EDUCATION
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PRO: Many faculties and societies have attuned to the fact that 75% of students blogs sites as a forum to share contents with others
CRIME
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Criminals use social media to commit and promote crimes, for example burglars use social networks like Facebook to select people properties.
INFORMATION
PRO: even if we read the News paper every day,
internet gives us news in a real time. A report of Michael Barthes,
a famous journalist, says that social media sites are one of the top news sources.
CON: social media enables the spread of false informations.
During the last US presidential election, false news about the two candidates were published on Twitter or Facebook.