Ke Ning
Professor Kelly Rowley
English 113A
8 December 2013
Network Communication in Our Society
Network communications are the main
part of our life. According to Experian Marketing Services, Americans
are so fixated on social networks that they spend an average of 16 minutes out
of every hour on them. Many people also use online
shopping, online video call and
online businesses. With the
development of a variety of network
communication businesses, such as
Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, many people are willing to choose to use the
networks instead of the old way of communication. Obviously, network
communication is important in our society. Computer networks are inherently
social networks, linking people, organizations, and knowledge. They are social
institutions that should not be studied in isolation but as integrated into
everyday lives. In “Computer Networks as
Social Networks”
Barry Wellman says the
proliferation of computer networks has facilitated a de-emphasis on group
solidarity at work and in the community and afforded a turn to networked
societies that are loosely bounded and sparsely knit. So the social network’s communication
advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
But the distinction is, some people
think that the network is not reliable. For example, many teenagers prefer
online shopping because it is convenient and saves money, but there is Internet
fraud. Sometimes, a person can leak the information or trust someone’s frauds. It
will bring unpredictable consequences, lose some money, And the disadvantages
of the online date and online chat or video have the same hidden danger that can
leak important information. The networks always have a lot of phishing websites.
The phishing websites means fraud websites, but use and false things to entice
visitors. Then, they put a virus into people’s computers and steal information.
Some teenagers are addicted to online games. Those young men who abandon
themselves to the net games are likely to do some silly things.
I think the social network’s
advantages outweigh the disadvantages. Although there are many computer viruses
that try to steal the information, and we have antivirus software, when faced
with some seemingly unsafe websites links, we should protect our private information.
Do not in any website station fill in us true data. Take care and don't give a
person the important information who we never meet and have a long time
conversation. Guard against various Internet frauds, most people easy to see benefit
leave, which would gradually small homes largest seizure of sesame lost
watermelon.
For some people, especially teenagers,
they would rather speak on the network. In the network, they felt freer and have
better communication. They have greater scope to befriend strangers. Over the
past decade, technology has become increasingly important in the lives of
adolescents. “As a group, adolescents are heavy users of newer electronic
communication forms, such as instant messaging, e-mail, and text messaging, as
well as communication-oriented Internet sites such as blogs, social networking,
and sites for sharing photos and videos. In "Online and Offline Social
Networks: Use of Social Networking Sites by Emerging Adults," Kaveri Subrahmanyam
and Patricia Greenfield examine adolescents' relationships with friends,
romantic partners, strangers, and their families in the context of their online
communication activities. So we need to trust the network to give us to the
benefit more than the disadvantages.
I prefer to use
social networks because I can find anything on them. I want to chat with
friends at any time I want, and I can know their new things from the network. I can also share my things which are interesting
on the network, such as Facebook and
Instagram. They can make me have
more fun and communication and comprehension, Social networks solve a problem with distance.
I can make an online video call for the business or someone who is far away
from me. For example, right now I am living in the US. But I can take the video call with my family, and I can use
Weibo to find out what happened with my friends. Although I’m not living in China, I still can know
what happened every day, and I always like to search the meal online. Sometime,
I miss my country’s dishes, I will search how to make them online, and go to
Chinatown to buy the ingredients. That is really a good thing. That is the
magic of the social network. And around my friends, most of them prefer to decorated themselves on social networks.
This article explores teenagers' practices of social networking in order to
uncover the subtle connections between online opportunityes and risks. In "Taking Risky
Opportunities in Youthful Content Creation: Teenagers' Use of Social Networking
Sites for Intimacy, Privacy and Self-expression." Livingstone, Sonia says while younger teenagers relish the
opportunities to recreate continuously a highly-decorated,
stylistically-elaborate identity, older teenagers favor a plain aesthetic that
foregrounds their links to others, thus expressing a notion of identity lived
through authentic relationships. I can
search the resources on the network and if I have some problems, I can ask the
questions online. There are always some nice people to answer my questions.
Social networks really have many tricks, but more it is for communication and
help.
A lot of people disagree
with the social network communication because they did not get
real contact network and they will not touch the social network. Right now the people who
even though grew up with you, but in the future they would still have lie and
deception. So we just need to use objective thinking to look at social
networks, because the social networks are grown up day by day, in the future we
will need the social networks.
Sharon
Gaudin. "Americans Spend 16 Minutes of Every Hour Online on
Social Nets." Computerworld. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Nov. 2013.
Wellman, B.
"Computer Networks as Social Networks." Science (New York, N.Y.),
293.5537 (2001): 2031-2034.
Subrahmanyam, Kaveri,
Stephanie M Reich, Natalia Waechter, and Guadalupe Espinoza. "Online and
Offline Social Networks: Use of Social Networking Sites by Emerging
Adults." Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 29.6 (2008):
420-433.
Livingstone, Sonia.
"Taking Risky Opportunities in Youthful Content Creation: Teenagers' Use
of Social Networking Sites for Intimacy, Privacy and Self-expression." New
Media & Society, 10.3 (2008): 393-411.
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