My critics about SNS

I am going to summarize and share my critical thoughts about the SNS. This article is about the positive and negative things. The link is:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schoolreport/22065333

Everyone knows about the SNS, which is called 'Social Networking Service'. When we talk about the SNS, we always say about those two aspects. Before I start, I found surprising survey about SNS in this article.

The survey found that 37% of those questioned had been left sleep-deprived as a result of social networking and 75% didn't like the idea of phones being kept close by while they slept. 

I am sure you are surprised about the result of this survey. Can't you believe that this internet world harm in your life?

First of all, I would like to share my thoughts on negative things. In this article shows some negative things:

1. not setting your privacy settings properly or liking someone's photo can have bad results.

It means we can access (almost) everything like photo that is not my friend or family. It can cause privacy problems. When you lock your page, it is not safe anymore. Anyone can access someone's page. In the bad way, think your children can access and see some porn picture in SNS. Isn't it bad?

2. Cyberbullying can be a problem as people can take advantage of the fact that there is no one who can effectively stop the bullying when it happens, due to everything being performed behind a screen. 

Actually, the word 'cyberbullying' is a neologism. Lately, it is a really big problem in Korea. When someone wrote something on their Twitter of Facebook page, the cyber hooligans try to find their name, selfie, even their address. It is related to privacy. There is no responsibility on the internet world. If there is a deep conversation, I mean discussion on the SNS, that is good. However, if there is only insulting, that is just "cyberbullying"!

3. It can also be a waste of time as people can visit a site to check on thing and end up spending the whole day 'behind the screen' and as a result, not doing anything useful with their lives.

I try to be fair, but I couldn't agree more. In my case, it was the midterm period, but you can guess, right? I just scrolled down for three hours! That's silly, and I messed up my midterm. I was regret, but it was too late.


Next, I am going to share about some positive things that the articles shows:

1. You can express yourself

I agree with this. Yes. SNS is good place to express yourself. In other hand, you need to know it can cause privacy problem. For example, after you make account on Facebook, they say 'Fill the profile blanks out!'. The profile questions are like 'Where do you live?', 'What is your school name?', 'Are you married or not?' and 'What is your company name?'. Don't you think these questions are too personal? It can cause  privacy problem.

2. easier to keep in touch with family and friends,especially if they live far away

I know there are many people who keep in touch using SNS like Facebook. I think there are many ways to keep in touch like e-mail, but I changed my mind. In the Facebook, we can upload our picture or video. It means SNS store what I upload. So, if one of my family stay far away, and I really miss him or her, I will access their page, and watch whatever they upload. I know we can use e-mail system, but in this point, SNS is more easier than e-mail. 

Overall, I criticize about negative and positive things about SNS. I felt there are more negative things in here, but I agree with some positive things. I just want to say if we use SNS properly, we need to balance between negative things and positive things. Also, the SNS page system has to make some policy. We need to have awareness about it, then we can control.