Since the day my generation was born social media has impacted all of us either in a positive or negative way. To us it’s our way of life, we have become so familiar to social media its second nature. Social media has been a platform where people post their lives and feelings to the point where they post everything about themselves. In our last blog about the internet I discussed how if you’re trying to seek a job but post everything you do on the weekends, most employers can look these things up and you’re likely to not get the job. Your first impression is everything in life that affects you getting hired or not hired. What you post online is equivalent to how people will perceive you. Social media was originally started to meet new people, build new friendships and relationships. One down fall of facebook is that if you want to deactivate your account it doesn’t officially go away, it can always be viewed or searched by many people. When people start to be comfortable with being an open book on social media, the “reasonable standard” of the privacy is being lowered. A downfall of social media is that younger teens are allowed access to these apps just by lying about their age when creating an account. One ,they are not old enough by the app rules and two ,they will experience and see things they shouldn’t.

In the video by frontline The Facebook Dilemma, they discuss Mark Zuckerberg’s reason to create facebook. It was to make a more open and connected world, we soon find that the apps platform had a negative impact on the privacy of the users. When facebook was first created it was known as an online directory for college students. This gave college students a way to meet new people on their campus through an app. Marks reason for the app was to connect different people using one app. After thousands of people started to make an account to facebook app, Zuckerberg became famous quickly. No one knew that facebook would become dangerous to our world. Many people explained facebook to be the greatest experiment in human history. One of the ideas in the facebook app was to have a news feed that makes you want to keep liking and scrolling because your seeing the things you want to see. One thing that stood out to everyone who watched this is Wael Ghonim. He was an egyptian activist who wanted a revolution in the streets of where he is from. He made one post on facebook and it blew up and thousands of people showed up to his event. This shows the effect social media has on people.

Next is the video Machine Outrage this video explains to us how powerful social media is. Most times social media has its advantages either in a good or bad way. During this years Covid-19 pandemic many people turned to social media as an outlet. Social media saved the day during these hard times because we had nothing else to do when stuck in the house. The way people used social media turned monstrous so quickly and all of a sudden we were in the middle of it all. In the other video Generation Like it talks about the same kinds of outlooks towards social media. The video continues to talk about how social media was our worlds biggest transformation. Often if you don’t have millions of likes you dont heard or viewed by higher up influencers.

Question to the class: Do you think facebook is positive or negative to the social media platform?