Social Networks : A Great Debate

Nowadays social networks are the subject of a great debate. According to me, we can't say that social networks are good or bad for people.

A family who is talking on Skype. 

They may live far away 

from each others.

Indeed on the one hand social networks can be a way to express yourself, to keep contact with others : Lord Allan a representative of Facebook said during riots in England on September 2011, that there are 30 millions people in the United Kingdom who were using tolls to tell their family and friends that their safe. Moreover students use social networks to help each other when they have homeworks ; they can also catch up lessons that they have missed, thanks to a class's group created especially for this, on facebook for example.

But on the other hand, it can quickly turn dangerous. In fact you can become addicted to social networks or meet some strange people on it. What's more Barack Obama, for example, declared during a question-and-answer session on September 2009, that when we are young, we made mistakes and we did some stupid stuff ; and that he had hearing a lot about young people who were posting stuff on facebook, and then suddently they go apply for a job and someone has done a search. He advised young to be careful about what they post on social networks, because he wants them to think about who can look at their account such as potential employers.

So we should keep our account clean without compromising "stuff", like pictures. Moreover, for our safety we should only add people that we know and don't put personal infomations. Finally, we should be sure to have a social life in the real world and not only on social network. These advices, can show you that we can continue to use social neworks but no without some precautions. 


Serena Scaglioso