Experiment!

So over this next week I'm going to stay off of Facebook but having one of my friends change my password- then I wont actually be able to get on. After that week I'll talk about how hard it was, if I missed anything...all about that! ALSO! I've heard that its dang near impossible to deactivate your Facebook, so I'm going to make a Facebook under a fake email address and see how hard it really is, I'll tell you about that too!

Facebook

Facebook is the largest social networking site, with 955 MILLION active users, according to Wikipedia. There are lots of people to friend, or defriend for that matter. On Facebook you can let all your friends and family know what you’re doing by updating your status, in return you can see what they're doing, you can message each other, play games and reconnect with people. So why then do people have problems with it if it’s "bringing us together?" Is it because while you have 800 friends on Facebook you might actually talk to 30 of them? Because Facebook can cause immense amounts of drama? After talking to some old people about it…it’s because they feel like the “younger generations” rely on it too much. They think that we don’t make “real” friends anymore. As a member of the younger generation I feel like Facebook actually helps relationships. Being 1,000 miles away from home its hard staying connected with my family and friends back home, I can call them all which according to the older generations is more personal but that gets tedious! Saying the same thing over and over again!! BUT with Facebook I can just post a status or a picture about how my day is going…let my family know that I’m alive. While old people say that Facebook tears relationships apart I think that right now it’s bringing all of my relationships together. Another example of how it’s brought me closer to some people is, I made friends with a girl named Anna while we both lived in New Mexico, well I moved back to Washington and she moved to North Carolina- total opposite sides of the country. We never thought that we would friends again but one day, three and a half years ago, I got on Facebook and noticed that I had a friend request from Anna, I accepted it of course and we reconnected pretty fast and have spent every summer together and talk everyday ever since. Without Facebook we would still be on opposite sides on the country and have no idea where the other person is now. Right now… Social Media helping: 1
Social Media hindering: 0

Hey!

Hey y'all! So the purpose of this blog is to look at socail media and see if its improving relationships or actually making them worse. We all have our own opinions on it, most youth think it helps, and most well old people think that its ruining the younger generation. Well throughout the future posts we'll see which opinion is more correct! This blog will have true stories from conversations that happen through facebook, texting, email, twitter.... and then I'll look at whether what was said was legitimate or if it was said because its over social media so you don't have to face the consequences right away. There are a lot of pros and cons! We'll just have to see if the social media "wins" or "looses" may the odds forever be in its favor!