Virtual vs Reality Interactions

In silvers eyes the relevance and key roles that social media plays in our society today has caused far too many people to be consumed by it, and treat it as their only resource to interact with the world. Although a proper balance between interaction with people as well as interactions through social media can broaden a persons experience by allowing them to meet new people, this can also be counter productive if an individual isn’t careful. For example, a man or women can become so used to interacting with people and socializing with people through social media to the point where it becomes face to face contact they are clueless about how to act due to other things that come into play during face to face interaction such as eye contact, posture, and body movements. However, on the flip side of this if a person is able to handle both sides of this then the social media aspect of the world we live in today can prove to be extremely useful. For example, a man could either be attempting to get his face out there for a job or potentially even just trying to impress a girl and get her to go on a date with him. In this case the man can use social media as a way to get ahold of these people without having to go through the trouble of trying to find the person by phone number or finding them in person. If the man then applies his face-to-face social skills he is now looking at the opportunity to arrange a meet up with these people that he never would’ve had the opportunity for without the use of social media. All in all I think social media can be detrimental to peoples lives if they allow it to alter them, but can also prove to be a very valuable asset.

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Introductions + Blog assignment

In eSoc 211 I have already learned a lot more than I expected in the past two classes. We have watched a couple of videos as well as read some online articles that relate to our class. I enjoy how our class is more of a discussion rather than calling students out because I feel more welcomed in this class environment. As a class we have read three articles which include; What is collaboration anyway?, Collective Intelligence, and Social network next-door moves to block racial profiling online. In the first one “What is collaboration anyway?” talks about collaboration is very important when working in a team during your career or education. Collective Intelligence talks about how it is mainly a shared group that comes together to form something bigger. The last article was Social network next-door moves to block racial profiling online and that talked about how many people use this online site that can report neighborhood crime. The site can be ran by anyone who reports to it, for an example if you see someone stealing someones mail you can enter their description and the crime. The article addresses how when people report a crime they only describe their race and they are offeneded. Now they changed the settings where you have to add other descriptions other than their race. All of these articles that were read for this class were very interesting and had many things that needed to be addressed. I look forward to learning more about these subjects.