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My view on state of Social Media... especially Facebook
For the past couple of months, I have been so indifferent about my views about "social networks." On the one side, I see it as a portal for bringing old friends together and finding new friends together in a centralized location. Yet on the other side, I see it as a place where people of ill intentions have a closer easier grasp on you. And for that, it makes me somewhat cautious about what I personally share online.
I remember in the early 90's when I bought my first computer at the Midwest City, OK Sears. It was an Apple Performa 405 and with that, I bought Hayse 2400 baud modem that got me on the information superhighway which was called AOL at the time. I tried other services like Prodigy and Compuserve and it wasn't until a year later I was on a direct to the internet service like it is today (yet only so much faster.) This initial experience of getting on the internet allowed me to get to know some great people and connect with some awesome people I still know today. It allowed me to grow and become secure in the person I am today.
These days you hear about more and more bait conspirators bringing up propaganda and bring it into places that in the past we would we would hold it to a small lull of a Sunday morning church conversation. But these days we post it in our news feed, sometimes with ALL CAPS TO MAKE IT STAND OUT AS "HEY I AM TRYING TO GET A POINT ACROSS... YA HEAR ME?" What I have found out is that we indiscriminately throw those opinions out not understanding how the importance of a lead into a civil conversation, For Example... you see a headline and it shocks you to want to speak up, how far do you go into that story?
- Do you read past the first paragraph? Often news writers will write in a catchy title to bait you into a story. And it is their job to compel you to read further and further. Its what they do.
- Do you trust the source? In the day of the internet peoples with opinions and something to say can throw a really small amount of money and create a site that looks like an established news source. Although I dont prfess my
I remember in the early 90's when I bought my first computer at the Midwest City, OK Sears. It was an Apple Performa 405 and with that, I bought Hayse 2400 baud modem that got me on the information superhighway which was called AOL at the time. I tried other services like Prodigy and Compuserve and it wasn't until a year later I was on a direct to the internet service like it is today (yet only so much faster.) This initial experience of getting on the internet allowed me to get to know some great people and connect with some awesome people I still know today. It allowed me to grow and become secure in the person I am today.
These days you hear about more and more bait conspirators bringing up propaganda and bring it into places that in the past we would we would hold it to a small lull of a Sunday morning church conversation. But these days we post it in our news feed, sometimes with ALL CAPS TO MAKE IT STAND OUT AS "HEY I AM TRYING TO GET A POINT ACROSS... YA HEAR ME?" What I have found out is that we indiscriminately throw those opinions out not understanding how the importance of a lead into a civil conversation, For Example... you see a headline and it shocks you to want to speak up, how far do you go into that story?
- Do you read past the first paragraph? Often news writers will write in a catchy title to bait you into a story. And it is their job to compel you to read further and further. Its what they do.
- Do you trust the source? In the day of the internet peoples with opinions and something to say can throw a really small amount of money and create a site that looks like an established news source. Although I dont prfess my
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