Social Networking

I believe social networking has had a negative influence on today’s society. Many of these sites have millions of followers; people can connect with friends, but they can also connect with sexual predators, and meet hackers. Personal information can be displayed on theses sites causing privacy issues, there are several accounts demonstrating the harmful outcomes of this epidemic, “three local men, Mario Rojas, Leonardo Barroso and Victor Rodriguez, have burglarized more than 18 homes in the Nashua area of New Hampshire simply by checking status updates on Facebook and then pillaging the houses of victims who announced on the social network that they were not home” (New York Times). This is one account that demonstrates the depressing impact these sites can have. Overall the social networking sites are a negative impact on this generation and those to come.

-Hannah Beilman