Blog Social networking

Social media has many purposes. It can be used to connect people together socially. Businesses can use it to advertise their company. Celebrities can use it to promote themselves and stay relevant. Even the average Joe can use it to promote content that they are creating. Overall, social media creates a community where ideas, thoughts, and new experiences can be shared for everyone to see. Thanks to the news feed invention, Facebook "delivered a long list of up-to-the-minute gossip about their friends, around the clock, all in one place" (Thompson). It's not only your friends you can see but also celebrities, businesses, entertainers, and community pages that you can scroll by. As you can see, social media is a way for a diverse world to become one shared community.

A dark side to social media would be that you might regret posting certain things. Once you post something, there's no going back. Even if you delete it, there's a good chance someone has already seen it and knows what you are hiding. If you're a celebrity, deleting something won't even matter since people will take screenshots of whatever you posted instantly. There's even a chance that someone you are not friends with can see what you are posting even though your privacy settings are set so that only friends can see your posts due to tagging and sharing. That's what happened to Randi Zuckerberg where she posted a picture that someone who wasn't her facebook friend named "Schweitzer saw it because she is friends with another one of the Zuckerberg clan" (Greenfield). Privacy can be an issue in social media.

Overall, I think social media is a good way to create a community and keep in touch with your friends and family. I think social medias will become even less private as new features are added that can help you share your life in new ways. Whether that is a good or bad thing, only time will tell.


Thompson, Clive. “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy.” The New York Times, The New York               Times, 6 Sept. 2008, www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07awareness-t.html.




Greenfield, Rebecca. “Facebook Privacy Is So Confusing Even the Zuckerberg Family Photo Isn't               Private.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 26 Dec. 2012,                                                             www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/facebook-privacy-so-confusing-even-                       zuckerberg-family-photo-isnt-private/320164/.