Monday, January 9, 2012
The Voice of Lam
What are the negatives of the new social media that has taken over our society? Well at first there might not be to many negatives, possibly less face to face contact with other people, or maybe its making our youth stare at their cell phones all day. While these are both not good, they are not concerning. However when the social media takes away from societies ability to respond to an emergency that is when I believe we need to be concerned. How will the youth of our newest generation be able to learn that the best way to handle an emergency is not to tweet it or post a facebook status and a picture to go with it, if the generations before them are starting to handle these situations in the same exact way. Should we be concerned about what we are becoming??
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I find your post to be very well written. I agree that there is a matter that should cause us concern about the youth's ability to react to emergency situations; however, I disagree with your opinion on the youth's face to face contact and cell phone usage. This, I believe, is negatively affecting our children. They are unable to pull their faces from the screens of the computer or their cell phones and focus on something for any length of time or talk to one another face to face, which in my opinion is a very important skill.
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