Exercise #3.2

Impact Has Social Media Truly Had On Society

Author: jenny Q.Ta

Title: What Impact Has Social Media Truly Had On Society

main Idea :

  Social media websites are some of the most popular haunts on the Internet,the negative impact has social media truly had on society, Social media websites are some of the most popular haunts on the Internet.

sub ideas :

• Negative impact on Politics, played an important role in many elections around the world.
• Negative impact on Business, social media presence is a cheap and effective means to enhance brand image and popularity.
• Negative impact on Productivity, lost billions of dollars per year in productivity because of social media addiction among employees.
• Negative impact on privacy,revealing personal information on social sites can make users vulnerable to crimes like identity theft, stalking. 

Exercise #3.1

-Speaker: Sherry Turkle. (Psychologist)
-Title: Connected, but alone ?
-The main topic is basically about technology taking over our lives whether private or social and society prefer virtual worlds than living and socializing in the real world.(allowing technology take us to places we don't want to go)

Sub Points:-


1-Sherry talks about the need to focus on how technology  can help bring us back to our real lives.our own bodies, our own communities.

2-Goldilocks effect: sherry described it as people cant seem to get enough of each other only if they can have each other at distances and in amounts where they control.

3-Cell Phones can be used as tools to inhabit face to face dialogue.




  Some negative effects of social media:

Privacy

·        desire to compare

·        People start to expect more of technology rather than each other.

·        Addiction.