This weeks reading entailed discussions on where our future is going because of social media. Social media has impacted the way we live in various different ways. Some of them have been outstanding for the way we live but some have been very negative both on the ways we live and the impacts it has had on people.

Social media first took off and not many thought it would be as popular as it was. It first started with Facebook. Started by Mark Zuckerberg. Mark first started Facebook when he was in college and it was intended to be used the way we use it today. Facebook is used for several different reasons today. Some include, selling items to those around you or in a group with you on an extensions called, Facebook Marketplace. Others may be connecting with family and friends that you may not be able to see very often. Mark Zuckerberg was not planning on doing any of this. His original intention of the social media platform was so that he could talk to girls at his college that he couldn’t face to face. Now as crazy as this sounds his idea created one of the greatest social media platforms and he is doing very well to say the least. And you might think, “Who is their right mind would use a social media platform to try and find someone to date?” You would be surprised. There is numerous apps that have a sole purpose of finding someone to date or other things to keep it PG. Some of them include tinder, eHarmony, and bumble. These have become very popular and are very helpful to some people to find someone to be with. Other have different opinions on these applications.

Though social media can be very helpful to connect and give people something to do, social media has also been very negative. With everything great there is always negatives that come with it. Some of these negatives include smaller things such as connecting with people who you do not want to. Weather this be a random person or someone you had a negative experience with in the past. If it were not for social media you could avoid these people very easily. Other negatives can be very serious. These include stalking or cyberbullying. Social media can cover your identity very well it is scary. These allow you to keep up with someone’s life very closely without them knowing and it is wrong. Some use this masked media platform to talk bad or down on those who do not deserve what is being said about them.

My Question to the readers is, Do YOU think social media has been overall positive or negative?