During the last discussion, I thought generally the time issue of social media had so many negative effects for the users. I first come up my opinion on the guest lecture of media psychology. The guest asked us who bought one CD album since last month? Only one of my classmates put up his hand. And then, he asked who don’t use Facebook? Also the same guy answered he don’t use it. And everyone laughed. Then the guest said are you live in the stone age? Why don’t you use these new media services? The classmate answered because of time. I was shocked. “Time”, it’s usually ignored when we talk about the fantastic new services. People especially marketing or sales person, more concentrate on the value the social media provide to us, these services improve so much efficiency and convenience. While we forgot to consider how many time social media steal from us. Is it worth? I used to set up my personal blog name it “enjoy your life”. But when I face to the screen tired of all kinds of social media services, is that enjoying life?! I doubt about it. I really respect the value social media provide to us. And also I will still use it. But my discussion should go into another level. How to educate people using social media in a right way should be considered. While according to this blog’s topic, negative effects would be raised up instead of solutions. I think educate consumer how to use social media as a useful is difficult. For example, young people and teenagers are easily follow the trends and then addict with social network services and internet gaming. I am not saying, it’s good or bad for the person, but the point is he/she can not get the opportunity to choose whether it’s the life he/she like. Because usually they may lack of judgments, and after be addiction it’s very hard and cost too much to get out of social media. Maybe for us, social media is a choice, we can control ourselves well. It’s really provide us value. But when I study on the internet companies, they try hard to attract the customers, and make people stick on their site. The initial business model is using customers’ time to trade with advertisement. On one hand, it provides low cost or free information to us, on the other hand, we have to cost more time to find something we need. As Mayun (the CEO of Taobao) said, free is the most experience thing in IT industry.
In the end, hope you can spend your time in your own way, and enjoy it.
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First, I feel kind of regretted for not attending the guest lecture last week when I am reading your essay. That sounds very interesting… Secondly, I do feel the same way as you do when it comes to the social media services. The time issue is a very tricky one here. The technology is invented to let our life be much efficient, but the truth is often not as ideal as we expected. The time we wasted sometimes even much more than how much we saved, which is more common among those relatively young people who have less capability of self control. This may lead to very severe social problem, such as internet addiction, decreasing productivity. However, this problem could be viewed from optimistic aspect as well. Since there are lot of “happy accidents” happening every second in this world, so those so called ”waste time” we spent wandering on the internet probably spark your inspiration or broad your view, which might help you accumulate your knowledge base for the future use. It did happen to me a lot, so in spite of various negative effects of internet, I am still being optimistic of internet’s future. I believe that as long as the society disseminate more about internet’s essential advantages and provide more education about how to properly leverage them, the negative effects would be reduced little by little…
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