viernes, 27 de septiembre de 2013

Social Networks: advantages and disadvantages

Today it is very common to be a member of a social netwoking site. There are a lot of different types of sites, of people who use them and a lot of diffent points of view about this new way of interacting with other people. What are the pros and cons (advantages and disadvantages) of using social networking sites? Take a look at this video and please, share your opinion with us.

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  1. (Alonso R.)---> I think nowadays, social networks are very useful for people that works for audiences and want to share what is he doing, or what are they going to do. To do that things, also contribute to come near to your public. That´s fantastic.
    With that ,I don´t want to say that the rest of people must use telephone or smoke signals to comunicate, but we exceed using that great tools and we make it dangerous for ourself.
    We must remember that this sites are PUBLIC and anyone can read or see all the thing that we post.

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    1. You are right, Alonso R, everything we do there can be seen. On top of that, every time we upload a photo we have to bear in mind that it will be "theirs" (social network database) and most of the times we can do nothing to delete it, in case we wanted.

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  2. As the interviewer has said, I think if you have an account in some social networking site, you should bear in mind a lot of things. There are many advantages but there is also disadvantages. You can talk and share information with people that you know (family, friends, mates...) but with people who you have never seen too, and that's not so good. If you don't protect you account, anyone could know all about you and it's terrible. You're showing all your life!
    All in all, I think that the social networking sites are very useful because you can communicate with many people without seeing them but you have to take precautions. There are many people who don't use it well.

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    1. I agree with you, Ana M, they are interesting tools, but we should "handle them with care" :)

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  3. It brings over of this topic Im agree that the social networks has its pros and cons as all the things. Its true that we( the young people or the people who is not so young )used to be less careful persons when we go to myspace or facebook and we sometimes dont realise this type of dangerous, for example we add unknown people,upload photos so everybody sees(without having in count there can be unknown people who can see those photos and that can be dangerous) or give them the number,address or add as a friend when we dont know who are they,thinking that we can dependable in that proflie(can be fake)or include they(hackers)can get block you or changed your password to impersonate someone who arent they and over with your account.In my opinion is that if you want to upload something(whatever)in your account,its closed in order that only your friends, family or acquiantance can see your profile untill you have the sufficient head to be able of interacting with another profile out from your environment (I mean ,that the kids can use the social networks but they must have in count this and as long as they dont do what they want). At the same time also I think that we've got the right of using the social networks because in the present people only dont use them for chatting or downloading things, also for creating groups/forums with the pretention of helping to sick or disable people ,poverty or catasthropes as in Japan etc. These types of asosations what they need is the support of people,one way to do it is on the social networks because althought you dont believe it,the social networks or youtube get a amanzing power,you can be a normal person and to the end of a few months to become famous, also its considered a road link,include a route of learning with another culture and of interacting with another people with many things to tell, express and share ideas.All in all,Im to favor of the social networks(always be carefull), besides we are in the century of the techonolgy,we evolve, and everytime the man is changing his way of living,thinking, interctacting with them,and who knows in the future if we will have another way of interacting as happen on the future movies. Im sorry for my opinion is so long that seems the biblie summary:).Id like to know whats your opinion(of the class) and what do you think about it.Thanks. Iñigo Nieto Petinal

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    1. Hello Iñigo. I don't think that it were so long. I think that you did a good analysis of the situation and provided interesting points of view about the issue. I totally agree with you in the idea that we are in the Age of Technology and we should learn how to work with new interaction tools. I think that this types of activities that we do here help a lot in giving Social Networks their true value.

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    2. Thanks for your opinion about my composition:)but i have to summary more because when i give my opinion i want to say it all my problem is that i take doing that since i was a child and when they ask me that i dont write compositions so long that i have to summary and for a person that wants to say it all its really difficult

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    3. Don't worry. Practice makes perfect! ;)

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  4. I think social networks are something good in society because it allows people to keep in contact and meet old friends but as the man of the video said, there are things in social network that could be bad if there isn't parental control like social bullying, that's why I think it's really important to let people get into your account only to only those people that you know and you have met with thouse people before. Carlos M

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    1. Yes, Carlos. This is, more or less, using them as "adults". To strengthen the networks that they already have from the "real" world, opposed to what "children" tend to do that is to create groups of friends from these social networks only.

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  5. Hi, I´m Max J.
    Social networking has a lot of advantages, but it has some disadvantages too.
    Among the many advantages we could consider that lots of people can communicate for free through this social networks. People of diferent countries can chat with family and friends. We can see photos of our friends in some social networks like Facebook or Instagram. We can keep up to date about the world news and amazing things like that.
    However there are also many disadvantages, you should know that many people has fake acounts to try to win money or meet girls and "friends".
    Many students are all day using these social networks, this is not a good thing, because they waste much time.
    Thanks for your time. I´m waiting for your comments.

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    1. Hello Max. I can see two interesting points, one in favor and one against the topic, that you have mentioned. The first one is the decrease in costs (most times even free) of getting in contact with our friends. And the other one is how the social networks promote procrastination, specially among teenagers.

      Good analysis of the topic :)

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  6. Jesús I.

    I think that social networking sites are very usefull for communicating with other people like family or friends, but they are also sites were people usually upload information about themselves that they shouldn't upload there.

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    1. Most of the times, these people that "upload indiscriminately" do it because they have never been warned of the dangers of doing so. That is why this type of activities are so important.

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  7. I think he´s right, because the young people may not know who could be watching their accounts, so there are options so that only friends see their accounts. Carlos A.

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    1. Yes, you are right, Carlos. I think that in the same way that there are books for children, teenagers and adults, and a small kid would never read a Shakespeare's play. In the same way, young people should not get into an "open" social network, where they can meet any type of people. They are just not ready for it, they are not mature enough.

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  8. Belén Molina 1º Bachillerato B8 de octubre de 2013, 19:48

    Personally, I think that social networking sites can be good or bad depending the way you use it. As far as I'm aware it can be totally safe If you don't put personal information and you're careful about what you upload. Moreover, you can keeping in touch with friends and even get back with people that you used to know. As me, I have in facebook friends of my childhood in Barcelona or friends from other countries. And I can share my opinions, my hobbies or support each other if something happens to us. And, the daily communication is cheaper. Of course, it has disadvantages; speaking for myself, based only in my experience, is obviously that it can be so dangerous If you , for example, meet with some unkown person, but the worst cons for me, is that it comes down to a moment where the comunication is only technological. I can see groups of friends in the bench talking between them by mobile instead by them-selfs, and that is really sad.

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    1. I agree with you, Belén. This is something that I have been realizing lately. People tend to value the quantity over quality. They spend a lot of time making comments to other people in social networks and they praise themselves for having a great amount of "friends", but they don't have time to spend "real" time with the people that surround them. It's sad.

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