While reading “virtual popularity isn’t cool- It’s
pathetic” by Ian Daly. Daly is trying to make the society understand, that
anyone that thinks or believes that because you have many friends on social
media is going to make you cool. I believe as well as Daly that is not going to
make you cool, instead is going to make you look pathetic. Having and gaining
friends on social media is really easy to do. Is so easy that people to this
day have competitions on who has more friends, or who can gain more friends in
the shortest time. At this point, people should really think about if social
media is doing any good in their lives. As well as if they should worry about
other things that are more important, like work, homework. Something that
should scared people about social media is who they are accepting and who they
are not. By trying to have a large number or people “followers” on social
media, people accept or add anyone that comes their way. Most people that have
a social media account don’t know 60% to 80% of their social media friends. The
scary part is that they don’t know if this people added them because they have
good intentions or bad intentions. They could be stocking them, or trying to
follow up on their social media life’s so they can know where you go, where you
live, where you eat, etc… Some people can use this information that you put up
on the internet as a weapon against you. Other people on social media cannot
live a day without being on it. This people are the people that are the ones
posting the most information out of everyone else. This people are scared to be
missing out if they don’t check their social media every 5 seconds, and forget
about what is really important.
It's very true that the people you meet on social media could very well be a stalker or another type of dangerous individual. I also agree wholeheartedly that social media has become an addiction to many people. You can see this everywhere with people in social situations living in the virtual world and ignoring those around them. I would like to point out, however, that social media is not what is truly at fault. What needs to change is how we use these social media sites. Instead of creating a new virtual self, we need to use these sites to improve our real social lives.
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