social media

So today we received our documentary assignment where we have to create a documentary on social media and we have to take an angle. Is it good or is it a bad thing?

We were asked to choose three social media sites to research before we properly start out assignment. So I chose instgram, snap chat and omeagle

instagram

- According to one website Instagram has a habit of containing uses that post the same generic annoying things. The Marie Clarie website has taken it upon themselves to create a list of the most annoying ad overdone things they see n social media.

The list includes:
- The classic vacation leg shot (most definitely on a beach)
- Mediocre looking food
- Engagement rings
- Inspirational quotes
- Sleeping selfies
- almost naked selfies
- Pre post or during workout selfies
- pointless collages

I know I have seen many of these and even re created a few myself. So in this way is instagram turning people into unoriginal followers of the trend? Well I don't think so. Trend has been around for years, just look at the anti establishment movement in the 60's.

But there are some real dangers of instagram
- Many preteens who do not know the ways of the world have instgarm and larger social media platforms now a days. unfortunately these children can easily be convinced to give away information that is too personal or even dangerous to give out to strangers online.

- Information can be viewed by literally anyone (that means creeps) unless instagram settings are private

- Location can be revealed on instagram and its not hard to do without even realising.

- Its a site where your teen or preteen an become friends with someone posing as an adolescent

- A common trend on istagram is R4R or rate for rate where young girls and even boys rate each others pictures. It is damaging for other strangers to place value on each other through a silly number. Another damaging thing is TBH (to be honest) where people say something honest on someone elses profile. This is not always an encouraging thing. Even more damaging is TBR or to be rude. This is really ever encouraging and can be very damaging to young peoples self esteem.

Omeagle

- Omeagle is an anonamous chat site. No information about yourself is revealed unless you choose to reveal it.

- One of the main issues though in the site is if people decide to take the chat off omegle on to other social media platforms where it is no longer anonymous

- The thing is they could be talking to someone completely harmless. even someone famous, young people have been known to have their dreams come true on omega by ending up talking to there favourite celebrity, however there is a likely chance that the person they are talking to is not who the young person

- People can also give out fake information as this site is anonymous

- As well as this, this site is also a big risk for online predators

Snapchat

- because you have a list of friends on snapchat it sort of misleads you making you feel as if its a private sharing site but really like everything on the internet, it is public no matter what privacy settings and once its on the internet its there forever.

- Content isn't always saved but ever activity always is

- The thing is snapchat was created as a safe way to sext and as it is all not really private and there forever it really isn't.

- Teens also assume that because the snap or video last only a few seconds it os totally harmless, but it isn't. now it can be screenshot and tracked. It is permanently online.