Alarming and Deviating: A Quick Look at Social Media

Catching my favorite shows on CNN and BBC is now an impossible thing for me. Rigid work schedule generally is killing my time and lifestyle, and to be updated appears like just a farfetched dream Adin Ross. Even my subscriptions to these shows' websites appear senseless; I cannot even open our emails at the job, leaving me clueless about the outside world. I spend my weekends making it as much as my kids, or spending your day to catch up on some lost weekday sleep.

That's why I'm so grateful to own Twitter and Facebook. Although I still can't open it regularly, having an iPhone to catch all important "tweets" and "updates" keeps me updated at least every break time, the only time I'm permitted to take a peek of my phone.

My only problem with social media-especially social networking sites-is they tend to provide you with wrong information, usually bent and distorted by regular users. Moreover, watching world news makes me question which to believe-the news I have read on my iPhone or the people I'm currently seeing on TV?

So that was when I decided to use social networking organizers. These organize my favorite sites' feeds, keeping me updated in an exceedingly positive way. Now, I do not need to bother about misleading Facebook message or Tweets produced by irresponsible, attention-seeking followers. Although the important thing continues to be focused reading, their addition to my "knowledge arsenal" is halfway to having a hundred percent unadulterated daily news update.

Little Social Media Happiness

However, sometimes, these social organizers are still not enough to own deviation-free feeds. The Osama bin Laden incident kept my iPhone busy for just two straight days, accommodating overflowing tweets and Facebook updates and messages. The terror leader's death, Obama's speech and everything about the happening gave me a significant headache. Countless identical posts and repeated articles bombarded my social networking sites, and the only thing I possibly could do was to shut my phone down.

I have observed a not-so-surprising update from my favorite tech site Mashable about the huge load of Tweets generated by the website on that day alone. As yet, it is not as surprising for me. I still have the tweets, updates, and news feeds recorded on my phone, and seeing it first-hand still gives me exhilaration. I'm a beginner social networking user, and experiencing the social networking phenomenon (as described on TV and news articles) for initially is a lot more than happiness. It's like experiencing Disneyland for the first time.

Back to Social Media Errors

Looking on another side, what's exciting for me may be alarming to others, especially to my kids. I now begin to wonder how these social networking errors can impact my kids' future. If these social networking sites can be quite a channel to supply a wrong message or deviated knowledge to adults like me, simply how much more to kids who spend more time on these sites than we do. I cannot even recall how often times I have given my boss wrong reports about current events and issues as a result of my overdependence on social networking sites and RSS feeds. Moreover, if our children today pick the Internet and social networking over physical libraries and bookstores, odds are, they'd wind up over-dependent on this alarming websites. I cannot imagine my kids finding yourself like moronic geeks with dislocated information about our history and general matters just because they soaked themselves with wrong info from these sites, and because I let them do so.

Well, I don't desire to appear to be some Parenting Expert here, but our kids' future isn't a joke, and seeing them unknowingly attach themselves to these sites alarm me. More to the level, even their "alarmed" Dad is finding it difficult detaching himself from it.