Assignment 11

Part1:

            When reviewing the feedback I received from those who reviewed my research paper to this point, there were a number of things that were brought to my attention that I need to work on. However, all of these issues that others brought to my attention are things that I can fix, and things that are easily able to make the proper adjustments for a great research paper. One of the things that were mentioned more then once was the fact that I need to work on my analysis. Another thing that was brought to my attention was that I need to work on is critiquing. I also need to work on pulling all of my points back to my research question, and the topic of my paper in general. Another thing I want to make sure to work on is how I define my headings such as “positives”, “negatives”, and also how I define the word “importance”. All of these are fixable, however they will all need a little bit of revision and rethinking what I want the premise of this paper to be.

Part 2:

• What is the main purpose/claim you want to make? Why is this important to say?
• Why is social networking important in our daily lives, and how are its affects positive and how are they negative?
• I think its important to bring up the positive parts of social networking such as connecting with people, business improvement, and for academic purposes because these are all things that can help a person or a business to improve. However, because I mention the positive aspects of social networking, I need to include how sites like these can be negative, such as cyber bullying, distractions during homework, and lack of privacy. Its important to bring both sides up for the reader that way they know that I’m in different to the use, and that I’m focused more so on why it has became important.
• What sources did you use? Why?
• The sources I used were a combination of articles from scholarly magazines as well as a number of articles that were either studies based off of social networking or psychological articles.
• I used these articles because I thought they would show a great range of information, as well as a few different perspectives on how social networking is seen, which would then make it easier to exemplify the positives and negatives of social networking that I wanted to focus on.
• What additional sources can you use in your next draft? What ideas will they lend to your paper? Why will they be important? (Be very specific here – what exactly will you include and why?)
• For my next draft of my research paper I plan on including more articles from popular magazines and even news articles, which can help to exemplify how those sides are important to my topic.
• By using a news articles and popular magazine articles in my research paper to bring a real life feel and a connection to how that side is important to what I’m trying to get across.
• They will be important because I can include articles on how social networking has improved knowledge as well as spreading news to a large amount of people in a short amount of time (Kony 2012). But also by using these articles I can show how social networking can negatively affect something, such as cyber bullying, and how students are bullied which may result in suicide.
• How have you set up your sources to offer their perspectives –along with your own – about the question? What do you need to do in order to better address these perspectives and what they tell us?
• First I have categorized my paper as well as my sources into whether they look at social networking positive or negative, as well as how they differentiate genders and how they respond to social networking. With the current perspectives that I have included I think I need to go into greater detail as well as give examples of how social networking can be a positive or negative or how it is differentiated between the genders. I think with this it will be much more clear what my objective is, as well as connecting better with my main research question, and in the end it will help me to ultimately answer the question. 

Assignment 9

Patton, C. (2009). The social networking express. Professional Safety, 54(11), 5.

           

            Social networking, it’s all around us, it’s in the doctors office, it’s on the bus, it’s even in our classrooms. Today social networking can be accessed on any number of technological devises such as smartphones, tablets, book readers, computers, and even music devises. The reality of the situation is that social networking has come, conquered, and it’s here to stay. With social networking the idea of networking has been presented itself greater then ever before. At one time you had to physically meet a person before you found out all the mutual friends you may share, today it’s just a simple click away, it’s instantaneous.  From a source I found, which was located in an issue of Personal Safety talked about exactly this.

For you and for ASSE (American Society of Social Engineers), social media presents tremendous opportunities for networking, collaborating, sharing best practices, communicating and connecting to a nearly unlimited pool of people with similar needs and wants, as well as to information that may benefit you. The world truly is getting smaller. Instead of reaching out to single contacts, you can now create networks of hundreds or thousands of people located around the globe—and you can do so almost instantaneously.

         When first viewing this passage I simply viewed it for what it was. Talking about getting connected with people. However after further review I have found that there are so many things within this three-sentence paragraph in which I can pull out, and bring to attention within my research paper later on.

         The first part of this passage that stuck out to me ever so much was the sentence where author Chris Patton says, “The world truly is getting smaller.” Due to the large popularity of social networking sites, information travels much faster, whether good or bad. Also the chance of knowing other people in which someone knows is extremely popular. You may meet someone, and add him or her on a social networking site, such as “Facebook”, and before even doing so you can see the “friends” that the two of you have in common. Often times these are the people you would least suspect knowing each other, and somehow you have found yourself knowing both, in return closing in your world, and making it that much smaller then you ever thought of it before.

            The joy of social networking is within its instantaneousness. Having the ability to connect with people within a matter of seconds, being able to share something as soon as it happens, this is what the world of social networking has allowed us to do. This article only looks at the bright side of social networking and instantaneous contact and updating. By seeing these aspects as a way to connect, and a better way to get in contact with people as a good thing.

            When reading this article, and this passage I am able to see the positive aspects of social networking that Patton is talking about. The opportunities that people are able to receive with the use of social networking. As I talked about before, the opportunity to connect with people instantaneously as well as seeing mutual “friends” is a positive to social networking, however it isn’t the only way in which it is valuable. Social networking isn’t just for friends trying to connect with each other and pass along information. When on a social networking site like “Facebook” it is also a great way for people to advertise and grow a business, by simply getting their name out there. Whether it’s an advertisement on the side bar, or having a profile page in which people can then “like” to show that they have been and approve of that institution.

            One of the many, and personal joys of social networking is being able to see others that have similar interests that I do. This article has helped me to see the many things that I feel are good about my social networking addiction I have with “Facebook”. Having the ability to see what my “friends” are up too, sharing pictures, updating statuses or adding family to the “family” section on a profile (Facebook). As Patton talked about within his article, the information viewed on social networking sites typically benefits the user, whether it is a comment, a picture or another other feature that appears on one of these sites.

            No matter what you use a social networking site for, or whether you view them to be a positive or negative to today’s society, they are here to stay, and it has became harder and harder to resist connecting to those you know from such a site.