Advantages of Social Networks
Robert Patton ENG110, Professor Silvey 30 September 2011 The Disadvantages of Social Network
Sites It is true that social network sites are growing at an alarming rate and that there are many
advantages and disadvantages in using social network sites. If one understands these advantages and
attempts to avoid the disadvantages, then one can use these sites to improve their knowledge, increase
personal relationships with Family and friends, and create a functioning secure social network on line.
Because social network sites play such an important and valuable role in society today, it is
detrimental that one undertstands the disadvantages to using them. Social network sites can cause
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Getting fresh air by attending a sporting event or birthday party is much healthier than watching it on
a LED screen. Just because one protects ones computer, hardware, and software from exposure to
viruses, cyber spying, and spam, one can still be at risk to another social network site problem and that
is a false sense of privacy. When using the Internet we often develop this false sense or anonymity by
thinking no one can see who we are and what we are doing. Doug Fodeman and Marje Monroe
(Fodeman, Monroe) discuss this false sense of privacy that users of social network sites experience in
a web article titled The Impact of Facebook on Our Students that they recently published for the
National Association of Independent Schools. The web article attempts to explain why many students
post embarrassing, humiliating, threatening, and hurtful content in text, blogs, photos, and videos. The
fact that most users feel anonymous and secure in their home, leads to a false sense of privacy. Various
adults are looking at student profiles, pictures, and videos. This could range from a professor, teacher
or parent to their future boss, prison inmate, or local registered sex offender. Nothing one posts on the
Internet is 100% secure. Once this data is released, it is
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