Social Media & Technology
Everybody knows that social media and technology is the future. Everyday someone is inventing something new in the world of technology. Everyday someone is posting something or improving something that has to do with social media. Needless to say I am not really all that excited about technology or social media. I am about to tell you all of my reasons (pros & cons) about both social media and technology. First and foremost let say that I do have a Facebook account and a YouTube account as well as accounts on other sites such as blogger. I also use Bonanza.com and Etsy.com as selling formats for my online business. These are some of the pros of having these different accounts. Some of the pros are that using sites such as Facebook are good for keeping in touch with friends and family that may be living far away in another state. Facebook is also good for attracting customers if you are a business owner or trying launch a business. These are some of the key examples that I think make Facebook good. Now here are my reasons why I think Facebook is no good. First of all I don't like it when people use Facebook like its a cellphone. When people rather message you all the time on Facebook instead of picking up the phone and calling you. If you don't have that someone's number just ask them for it since all you gonna do is message them on Facebook anyway. My other problem with Facebook is the people who use it for bullying and causing trouble for other people. I feel like the owners of Facebook should terminate the accounts of bullies but they don't. But if a mother posts up a pic of her breast feeding it's considered offensive and removed. To me that is some bullshit. I feel like I rather see something as pure as breast feeding on Facebook and not that is considered bullying.
I now want to talk about YouTube. As I mentioned above I do have a account with YouTube and I really like it. I love posting videos and reading comments left by the viewers if they choose to leave them. I also love watching and commenting on others videos as well. The one thing I don't like is when yet again when I see videos targeting people and bullying people. I mean this type of actions are so played out. You have the kids bullying other kids and the parents act like their kids are right for bullying other kids. To be honest I would be an asshole to the parents of the kids who bullying my kids. For example if my kids were be bullied and I was the owner of a store and the parents of the kids bullying my kids worked there they would be fired. Why would I fire them you ask? Well if they knew their kids were bullying my kids but as well as other kids and they did nothing to stop it then I would put a stop to it by firing their parents and have their parents tell them it is because of you mommy and daddy got fired today. I mean in reality you can't really do much to stop these things because children have been rebellious against their parents for years I mean even Jesus was a little rebellious. But if we don't try to teach children at an young age about things like this then we never stop it.
Another thing that bothers me about social media is when people use it to contact their friends or neighbors when they literally live a few houses down from you. I once heard a lady talking to her sister about messaging the neighbor on Facebook about getting the families together. Her sister asked her why don't just call her and her response was were to busy to make phone calls. Her sister then asked her why don't just go over her house since she lives four houses down from you. Her then response was because whenever she is home is when she spends time with her family. After I overheard that bullshit I realized that there are some people who is completely hooked on social media that they rather send a neighbor a message then go speak with them face to face. I mean I see people become hermits because they choose not to leave social media alone. I read an article about a woman who said that she was do addicted to Facebook that she said it ruined her life. She wrote about how she would call out work sick days in a row just so she could spend the day playing the games, reading post, writing post, and waiting to see how many likes or comments she get. To make a long story short she lost her job and her family. She missed her own daughters college graduation and her husband divorced her because she became a slob and her got tired of cleaning up her mess she was leaving around the house. After reading that article I thought how can she blame Facebook for something that she chose to do out of her own free will.
Now I would also like to say that yes I know that all of these things aren't caused by Facebook and YouTube but by the people who choose to do these things. I just feel like there are more cons to these sites then there are pros. I also want to talk about technology and how sometimes I feel like why was it even invented. For example cellphones are a blessing and a curse depending your actions. It is a blessing because you can talk to people when your not home hence the best invention since the home phone. Texting is good as well as long as its used as good. Cellphones became a curse when people started to talk on the phone while driving. It got even worse when people started texting and driving. Once again it took humanity to ruin something good for everybody. Just like the invention of the computer. When the computer got better over the years people could send each other messages and meet new friends online in chat rooms. Playing online games was fun and visiting new websites was exciting until......emails turned into stalking and threatening messages from that so called new friend you met in the chat room. Bullying became popular because its easy to be a coward when your hiding behind a screen and no one can see you.
I know have been rambling on about social media and technology and how there's a lot of messed up things wrong with them but like I mentioned before it's humanity that ruined these good inventions. I mean yes there is a lot of good uses in the world of technology and social media but for every good use there is 100 bad uses that follow. So in the end we shouldn't blame technology or social media. We should blame ourselves as humanity for always taking good things and ruining them with our selfish ways and actions. If we would all just think about how much good can be done with these inventions and less about how we can use them to hurt others we could actually just maybe change the world using technology and social media.
I now want to talk about YouTube. As I mentioned above I do have a account with YouTube and I really like it. I love posting videos and reading comments left by the viewers if they choose to leave them. I also love watching and commenting on others videos as well. The one thing I don't like is when yet again when I see videos targeting people and bullying people. I mean this type of actions are so played out. You have the kids bullying other kids and the parents act like their kids are right for bullying other kids. To be honest I would be an asshole to the parents of the kids who bullying my kids. For example if my kids were be bullied and I was the owner of a store and the parents of the kids bullying my kids worked there they would be fired. Why would I fire them you ask? Well if they knew their kids were bullying my kids but as well as other kids and they did nothing to stop it then I would put a stop to it by firing their parents and have their parents tell them it is because of you mommy and daddy got fired today. I mean in reality you can't really do much to stop these things because children have been rebellious against their parents for years I mean even Jesus was a little rebellious. But if we don't try to teach children at an young age about things like this then we never stop it.
Another thing that bothers me about social media is when people use it to contact their friends or neighbors when they literally live a few houses down from you. I once heard a lady talking to her sister about messaging the neighbor on Facebook about getting the families together. Her sister asked her why don't just call her and her response was were to busy to make phone calls. Her sister then asked her why don't just go over her house since she lives four houses down from you. Her then response was because whenever she is home is when she spends time with her family. After I overheard that bullshit I realized that there are some people who is completely hooked on social media that they rather send a neighbor a message then go speak with them face to face. I mean I see people become hermits because they choose not to leave social media alone. I read an article about a woman who said that she was do addicted to Facebook that she said it ruined her life. She wrote about how she would call out work sick days in a row just so she could spend the day playing the games, reading post, writing post, and waiting to see how many likes or comments she get. To make a long story short she lost her job and her family. She missed her own daughters college graduation and her husband divorced her because she became a slob and her got tired of cleaning up her mess she was leaving around the house. After reading that article I thought how can she blame Facebook for something that she chose to do out of her own free will.
Now I would also like to say that yes I know that all of these things aren't caused by Facebook and YouTube but by the people who choose to do these things. I just feel like there are more cons to these sites then there are pros. I also want to talk about technology and how sometimes I feel like why was it even invented. For example cellphones are a blessing and a curse depending your actions. It is a blessing because you can talk to people when your not home hence the best invention since the home phone. Texting is good as well as long as its used as good. Cellphones became a curse when people started to talk on the phone while driving. It got even worse when people started texting and driving. Once again it took humanity to ruin something good for everybody. Just like the invention of the computer. When the computer got better over the years people could send each other messages and meet new friends online in chat rooms. Playing online games was fun and visiting new websites was exciting until......emails turned into stalking and threatening messages from that so called new friend you met in the chat room. Bullying became popular because its easy to be a coward when your hiding behind a screen and no one can see you.
I know have been rambling on about social media and technology and how there's a lot of messed up things wrong with them but like I mentioned before it's humanity that ruined these good inventions. I mean yes there is a lot of good uses in the world of technology and social media but for every good use there is 100 bad uses that follow. So in the end we shouldn't blame technology or social media. We should blame ourselves as humanity for always taking good things and ruining them with our selfish ways and actions. If we would all just think about how much good can be done with these inventions and less about how we can use them to hurt others we could actually just maybe change the world using technology and social media.
