Playing the Believing and Doubting Game

This was from the journal where we had to write from both points of view of an opinion.

Sam Reidy

Journal: Playing the Believing and Doubting Game

Prompt: Facebook is a good way to make new friends.

Believing

Facebook is a social networking site, where each individual has their own personal page including their photo’s, interests, personal information, and current activities. Facebook is a great way to keep contact with people you already know and meet new people, as well. With just the click of a button you can discover tons of things about a person without a single conversation with them. One can easily see if they would have anything in common with someone, because you can easily see how they live out their day-to-day life by looking through their pictures and status updates. Another awesome benefit of Facebook is the instant communication with new people without the awkwardness of formally introducing yourself. If a person accepts your friend request, then you can assume talking to them is fine, too. Facebook is a great way to meet people involved in sports at your new school, job, new school, etc. all with the click of a button and no personal obligations or strings attached. Facebook also makes it very convenient to send out mass announcements and raise awareness for certain organizations or companies. Rather than taking the time to email a large group of people, one can just make a Facebook event page and invite whomever they please. Instead of waiting for an RSVP by email or phone, people can simply RSVP right on the page and Facebook with keep a running total of guests. Finally, Facebook makes long distance contact extremely easy. If you are keeping in contact long distance with someone who actively uses Facebook, chances are you will not feel so far away form them after all. In many ways, Facebook keeps a cyber record of our daily lives therefore our friends and family who live thousands of miles away can see what is going on with us every day. With Facebook chat, messaging, photos, commenting, and much more, contact is extremely face and easy.

Doubting

Facebook is a social networking where each individual has their own personal page that includes photos, interests, personal information, and current activities. It is not, however, a good way to make new friends. Meeting people via Facebook can be very deceiving. WHen someone posts something about themselves online, the reader has no way of knowing wether it is true or false. Certain things people say on Facebook can also be misconceived and can cause more problems for the people involved. When the American youth are relying on the internet and Facebook to make friends, we are losing basic communication skills. Facebook is going to increase our world’s problems with depression, loneliness, and isolation. It is going to greatly deplete our social skills and teach us to spend our time alone only talking to people through cyber space where they feel fully in control. It is increasing our need to know exactly what everyone is doing at any given time, and is teaching us the bad habit of having no alone time. We have no time to ourselves and are constantly worried about the outside world around us. ADHD has become an increasing problem over the years, too. There is a strong chance that technology, such as Facebook, has contributed largely to the increasing amount of people with the disorder. So rather than Facebook being a good way to make new friends, it is actually becoming a way for us to gain a large amount of fake friendships with roots buried somewhat in cyberspace. Which is far from healthy. . .