Social media

Social media is now taking over the world. As technology is becoming more important in schools. Many schools now involve technology everyday e.g. laptops, ICT. Schools now promote ICT and children are able to do it as a GCSE, A-LEVEL and in University.  Everyone is now part of the social networking world, they are either on Facebook, Twitter etc. Many people use there mobile devices to access these social networks or online newspaper/magazines.

Although  I believe that these social networking sites can be very beneficial to the educational system, as there are 232 million users on Twitter and 500 million using Facebook, therefore news travels fast on theses social networks. There are many educational twitter users which often post different comments on the educational system which a number of people re-tweet and repost which then gets viewed by a large number of people. Facebook also uses advertising which often promotes different things e.g. different books, journals, magazines.

Many people also visit newspapers and journals online. They are able to access these from many devices, including phones, iPads, laptops. People are now accessing these online instead of getting them from a shop etc.

Although there are many benefits of social networking there are a number of negatives, which consists of children are now unable to communicate face to face, many are unable to write properly as they constantly use the internet and spell check. Even though there are negatives, there are also positives, which consists of more knowledge and information which is easy to access, people are now able to see the wider world from the internet. 

Social media is starting to take over the world, is it bad thing?