With the rapid development in technology today, new media has greatly benefitted our everyday lives with its multi-purpose uses. Today, technology enables us to find information with just a simple click, no matter the place or time. As we begin to able to afford such advanced technology, we begin to rely too much on them on our everyday routines. Before, in order to be an aquaintance of someone, we try to get to know each other’s interests by having a chat. However, this has been replaced by the overwhelming growth of influence of social networking sites that enables people to find out information about other people almost instantaneously. This allows us to expand our social network effectively online and interact with people from overseas. For example, in recent years, Facebook has become a great hit in the world with as much as 400 million active members and this number is constantly growing everyday.
On the other hand, new media such as social networking may be regarded as ‘unhealthy’ acts as people do not directly interact with one another and may eventually end up becoming unsociable from not communicating with others. As people constantly stay home staring into their computer screen, they miss out on their social life and after a significant period of time may lose the interest of directly talking with someone. As a result, I feel that new media has benefitted our lives and changed it for the better.
Pang Chin Wang
why you didnt rebut your OV?
ReplyDeleteI agree that new media can allow us to expand our social circle easily. I also agree that over-reliance on new media can cause people to become bad at communicating face to face. However, you did not limit this OV before concluding that new media is more beneficial to us.
ReplyDeleteI thought we need to support the idea that new media has benefited our life.
ReplyDeleteGenerally, I like the idea of social efficiency and it is pretty interesting to look at that angle where people can interact with internet and make lots of friends in a shortest period of time.
in your second paragraph, u talked about the negative effects of new media. However, you did not rebut your opposing view and just concluded that new media is for the better. This makes your paragraphs contradict with one another.
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