Sunday, October 19, 2014

Consequences of the Social Media



       Today the media are used for many things, we must accept that without them the world today day did not have much sense. These have different functions such as inform, surveillance, hold society together, entertain, different service systems, etc. Over the years with technology this mass evolve a lot, but as it brings benefits and consequences to. In this paper I will talk about the consequences but more focused on social networks and the well known "bullying". According to the Association of Government (stopbulllying.gov) defined bullying as an unwanted movement, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems. Not many people stop and think as the percentage of persons that suffer from this, its sick how this grow over the years. 



       When I meditate about this theme I immediately think of this movie that win so many awards, for the very positive message they want to present to the viewers. This film is so that even teachers on their classes star using it for projects and just to let the students know that this is real, its called Cyber Bully. This is a brief example of how social networks can be used both positively  to connect with our friends, family, etc but also in the negative way  for insults, false identities, problems in general. A case like this cause just to lower a self-esteem of a person so much that reaches this point when you don't want to be in someones life and even in this world. We have to be very careful on what we post because any photo or information can be used positively or against you. It's amazing the strength that the media have, with the touch of a button you can feel insignificant and that hurts yourself inside. I believe that in general this is a weapon that we carry and use every day. We live in a generation which methods of communication are necessary to survive it is our tool, we do not separate at all of a telephone, a computer, tablet, etc. It is like we  born with them, in the future society reaches a point where it scares me, when we have 80 years old how would be the world? better? worse? That's the real question.


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