Social media class discussion

positives snapchat

• Share and view peoples daily lives
• discover events that are happening all around the world
• Different magazines are on snapchat and are sharing things
• Doesn’t save messages
• there is free messaging
• Live Skype/video or FaceTime which can be used all ages
• you can send videos photos and messages for free
• you have more privacy with your friends
• If someone does hack your account they will not find that much, they cannot retrieve any videos or photos
• Funny effects 
• Its entertaining 
• Its good for promoting your business to audiences on snapchat through magazines
• There is also recipes

Cons of snapchat

• If snapchat ever crashed there is  opposability that all the photos ever taken could be spread all over the internet
• Screen shooting can be saved and used as blackmail 
• There is also snap save if people don’t want you to know that they have saved it
• You can cyber bully really easily 
• you can get addicted to it
• You can only see the picture for a certain amount of time with can be a problem 
• Some adds or magazines can give a negative message to people of certain ages. 
• You cannot legally record someone without their permission but on snapchat this happens all the time.
• It comes down to a question of ethics, is it right to record someone else without asking them. 

Facebook

pros

• instant connection
• easy social network to use
• watch funny videos
• educational
• people show their daily life and people can tell what your doing if your say, overseas
• Potential employers
• can promote artists and companies
• can create groups and make it easier to share large pieces of information
• Easy to find people
• Its free to join, easy to use and you can get free phone calls and instant message. 
• you can get many games 
• It is free to sign up
• Business wise it can be very beneficial
• Can be used to promote other businesses
• It can be public or private
• people can share it
• If you have as, lost your dog this could be easily shared
• daily reports weather etc
• The videos give you a good awareness of whats going on in the world
• It can give you good entertainment
• Some videos can be educational
• (Cooking videos)
• To raise awareness about global issues people keel sharing posts
• Freedom of speech
• Quick and easy—> jump on—> status—> post

cons

• Easy access is sometimes a problem
• If kids use your credit card they can spend too much money on the games
• There can be creeps preying on children during the games
• People living through their children with annoying updates
• annoying game requests
• embarrassing old stuff that you delete but will never be deleted
• Freedom of speech is a problem as some people have seriously stupid opinions or opinions that are problems
• People can easily stalk you on social media
• Fake predatory Facebook account 
• If you post photos (like partying photos) They may be great photos and it may have been a fun night but future employers may not like that. 
• Someone could post a video that doesn’t show you in a very good light and if it goes viral you might not like that.