With the internet and smartphones becoming a huge part of our daily lives. You can find just about anything you want with a quick search or say what ever you like for the whole world to see. Sometimes this is not the best thing though as there is a lot of disinformation out there or just completely wrong. People have always manipulated information to get the outcome that they desire from just taking a small clip of a video that shows what you want it to show but it is not the whole truth and the same is done in some studies where they can manipulate the data to get what they want. So when looking a information you have to make sure that it is the whole truth and not being manipulated to fit the argument. To do this you have to be willing to dig a little deeper and do your own research on the topic or look for more articles on the topic and see if they all have the same information. Sometimes you can pull facts from all the articles and then ignore the information that was manipulated and then be able to put the whole story together yourself. With information at the tips of our finger and on just about every social media app you’re starting to see a lot of fake information and its just a lot easier to find and we have to be more careful what we take to be true. We then have to do our own research and make sure what we are reading is true.
We also read an article called “Longtime NBC reporter quits”. In this article ex NBC reporter William Arkin talks about why he quit. He talks about how the media has become obsessed over everything that Trump does and that all media does not really report a lot on other important information. This has become true since Trump announced he was running for president and since then you can’t watch the news without there being something on the President. From either his tweets or just something that he said there will be something reported on it no matter how small of a thing it is like him saying what he just had for lunch. Now a lot of people say any publicity is good publicity. For Trump this means he really doesn’t have to pay a lot of money for ads as the new stations pretty much do it for him for free and he is in the news every day which works in his favor. This reporter got tired of that and wants to make change and report on more things then what is Trump doing today.
In class this week we had a presentation on the book It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. This book talked about how teens are starting to come in contact with technology from a younger age and the effects of this. Much like the last presentation teens are more trusting and don’t really know what to share and what not to share. They also don’t really have a idea of what is right and wrong and how dangerous things that they post can be to themselves or the effect it can have on them in the future. I think you’re starting to see this more now when people get drafted in the sports world and someone goes and finds an offensive post that they made when they were in their teens. This then causes some negative press for the player or if found before they are drafted ends up hurting their draft stock. Sometimes it does not have to even be a tweet but just a video that someone has of you like what happen to Laremy Tunsil who had a video of him smoking a gas mask bong posted online right before the start of the draft which most likely caused him to drop in the draft. This come with question when is a teen ready to have social media and a smartphone where sharing things is super easy and can get you in a lot of trouble. When were you allowed to have your first smartphone and social media? Do you see this being the same for your kids in the future?
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This article talks about the affects of social media and the smartphone. I thought it was a good article to think about with the discussion this week being on teens and their social lives. It talks about how the common way to talk with a lot of people is on the phone and not in person and how this is affecting teens.
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Hi! I enjoyed reading your blog and what you said about people reading fake information that’s on social media. I feel as though people need to go deep and do more research and not just believe the first thing they read. I feel like a lot of the time what happens is, people read the fake or even misleading information and immediately believe it and even though other information is presented to them that is actually correct, they choose to ignore it. I catch people doing this sometimes and it is actually frustrating because they are misinformed. So yes, great read.
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To answer your question I was first allowed to use a smartphone around 7th grade and I was given one of those bootleg Blackberries and it was fu while it lasted. It had minutes on it and I used up a lot of my minutes just by sending a picture one time. If I have children, I will teach them the importance of the nature first before the ownership of technology. I don’t think if I would’ve learned the truth of nature that I would be as connected to my technology if I were taught nature when I was younger.
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