Tuesday, May 25, 2010
QUANTITY OR QUALITY?
Sites such as Facebook, Twitter has made people to communicate more frequently and faster than ever before had thought, for example before Facebook I only had contact with two high school classmate (Alex and Humberto), after facebook I have contact with my whole class and now I can look from any place in the word what they are doing (if married, divorced, etc). But I wonder what price we are paying to have much information. Despite of that social media has helped in increasing the writing It is also helping to destroy it, it is becoming harder to find people with good writing and that because new generations are writing without any kind of professional supervision on which would help avoid making grammatical errors. Another negative point is that social media is supplanting face-to-face dialogue and the conversation in society, before my friends and family call me or passing by my house to congratulate me, now They just leave me a message saying “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” and that's it, a special day happened to be a reading of hundreds of messages without any attraction or feelings involved and increasingly restraining the relationship of person to person. I honestly don't know what will be best if the quantity (with social media) or quality (without social media) but if you have any idea you can write on this blog or on my facebook (landys Castillo) or you could wait for my twitter address that I will open soon.
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Landys ... From a personal standpoint, I opt for Quality over Quantity. I would prefer to have a meaningful conversation with family and close friends rather than be the recipient of a mass posting meant for many to read. Realistically though, most people do not have the time to engage in lengthy one-on-one conversations with everyone they know. Prior to these social media networks, people just lost touch with many of their friends/acquaintances due to lack of time. The social media outlets are considered somewhat impersonal, but they have enabled millions of people to re-connect. Considering the alternative, I think it's better to maintain a less "personal" relationship with friends, than to not have a relationship at all. Even though I think most people would vote for quality over quantity, the increasing popularity of these social networks proves otherwise.
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