Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Social Media Causing you to Lose Friends!

By: Sarah Rafiq

Adapted from http://www.lovetwenty.com
Making friends has been easier than ever with all the new social media sites popping up. You can even be friends with people on the other side of the world from you. But is losing friends, just as easy as making them? It seems to be that way, with all the hiding behind computer screens people seem to have found a new sense of courage. Telling people what they actually think about them without the thought of real life repercussions.

In the article 'Social Media Savvy: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People', Melissa Galt talks about how people can easily lose their friends through social media. Websites like twitter and Facebook allow people to make friends more easily. But it also allows you to lose friends more easily as well. With your public display of everything you post online friends have more access to what you think and say every day. If they see you talking to someone they don’t like or they see you post something there against then this could cause you to lose your friends in real life.

I believe in the future this will continue to be the same. I think that there will be more technology to help keep your “posts” and “tweets” more private but in the social media world there really is no such thing as privacy. I don’t really think people’s perception of privacy will change and everyone will continue to post things that may not be liked by everyone, causing the person to lose more friends in the real world.

References:
http://melissagalt.com/social-media-savvy-how-to-lose-friends-and-alienate-people/

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  1. PersonalReationshipsSocialMedia2014March 31, 2014 at 7:51 AM

    Hi Sarah! Nice post on 'Social Media Causing you to Lose Friends'. I absolutely 100% agree with you on the fact that more and more Social Media-ites don't think before they post and realize the real life repercussions. Some of these areas that are on the rise now and will continue to grow in the future are privacy and cyberbullying. Here is a great link to an article that I found titled 'Hit Send, No Wait: The dangers of a hyper-personal online life', by Tristan Gorrindo.

    Tristan and his team created a tool named mnemonic W.A.I.T. W - stands for Wide-audience, A - stands for Affect, I - stands for Intent, and finally T - stands for Today. This tool was designed to 'try to get teens in the habit of slowing down the entire process of posting, with the hope that they'll think before they post.' I believe if there was a sticky note attached to every teens smartphone or computer reminding them about W.A.I.T. the world would be a different and better place. Have a look and let me know what you think about this tool.

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