In the article “Is Social Networking a Waste of Time?”, the author, Bernhard Warner, discusses how social networking does distract many students as well as adults from accomplishing their work, but ultimately states that the creativity, courage, and computer coding used outweighs the bad aspects of social networking. I honestly do not agree with his final statement. I believe that students along with adults can still be creative without wasting valuable work/school time. There are endless ways to show creativity and courage without even using the computer. Not that you cannot use the computer to do so, but I do not believe in using school/work time to accomplish that. Social networking, in my opinion, is an enormous distraction. Warner even points out how adults are wasting valuable work time by checking social media and students are often checking their phones during school lectures. By allowing this behavior to continue, people soon will be more interested in online networks than hanging out with friends. This behavior is already starting to become a norm. In a group setting, individuals are constantly on their phones: texting, facebooking, tweeting, instagraming, etc. rather than making memories and having deep conversations with the other people there. It saddens me how much time people would rather spend on their phones than with people. Now, social networking is not all bad, there are benefits also. For instance, social networking helps friends keep in touch if they have moved far away from each other. Also, the internet is full of information that is extremely helpful for school-related things or if you just want to know about a certain topic. You can see that there are great benefits and distractions regarding social media and I believe that limiting the time that students/employees are allowed on social media, will increase the productivity of both groups.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
"Is Social Networking a Waste of Time?"
In the article “Is Social Networking a Waste of Time?”, the author, Bernhard Warner, discusses how social networking does distract many students as well as adults from accomplishing their work, but ultimately states that the creativity, courage, and computer coding used outweighs the bad aspects of social networking. I honestly do not agree with his final statement. I believe that students along with adults can still be creative without wasting valuable work/school time. There are endless ways to show creativity and courage without even using the computer. Not that you cannot use the computer to do so, but I do not believe in using school/work time to accomplish that. Social networking, in my opinion, is an enormous distraction. Warner even points out how adults are wasting valuable work time by checking social media and students are often checking their phones during school lectures. By allowing this behavior to continue, people soon will be more interested in online networks than hanging out with friends. This behavior is already starting to become a norm. In a group setting, individuals are constantly on their phones: texting, facebooking, tweeting, instagraming, etc. rather than making memories and having deep conversations with the other people there. It saddens me how much time people would rather spend on their phones than with people. Now, social networking is not all bad, there are benefits also. For instance, social networking helps friends keep in touch if they have moved far away from each other. Also, the internet is full of information that is extremely helpful for school-related things or if you just want to know about a certain topic. You can see that there are great benefits and distractions regarding social media and I believe that limiting the time that students/employees are allowed on social media, will increase the productivity of both groups.
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Interestingly many companies can block what sites their employees can use. I think there is a fine line between employees needing an outlet (mental down time) in order to increase productivity and spending inordinate amounts of time playing online. Most companies have found though that sites like Facebook are not worth the effort to block.
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