Social Media

As I have grown up, social media's place in my life has grown increasingly larger. When I was in middle school, the latest electronics to have was a Verizon flip phone. Now I see my younger brothers growing up with MacBook Pros and Blackberry cell phones. Privileges that I thought I had are now being given to kids younger and younger, and society is going to a rapid change.
I would call this century the technology era, because the youth is going to growth up with increased performance and knowledge about technology.
When I was younger, Facebook was not open to kids in middle or high school. It was for a network of people who held jobs, and were college students and older. So the trend back then was myspace. The girls would post pretty pictures of themselves, and everyone would post on each others wall and design their page to fit their personality, and display a piece of themselves open to many people by the click of a mouse.  I feel like this was mostly for attention and it was something to take up kids time when they were bored.

Facebook has become available to people (and sometimes pets) of all ages. Now that it is open to everyone, it has grown tremendously in the number of users.
I personally use facebook as something to do when I'm bored. Now that I am out of high school, it is nice to be able to message my friends and find out about their lives. I like looking at pictures from weekends and events. I am also incredibly busy with schoolwork, so being able to get into contact with someone just by turning on my computer (which I use for the rest of my work) is extremely convenient. I see how it gets out of hand for some people, who post their lives away on facebook and spend great amounts of time updating the status of what they are doing and where they are. Its a true social network.

I've learned that all types of relationships through an internet social network can be pretty sketchy and risky. I've seen girls and guys talk a lot of trash on facebook. Weather its about sports or who cheated on who, its most defiantly a lot easier to yell at someone behind the safety of your computer screen. I've also  witness people make "fake facebooks", where they either try to steal someone else's identity and just make up one on their own. I feel bad for these people, and it makes me realize that people who spend a lot of time online hiding behind their computer, probably has something to hide from in the real world.