We have a tendency, as human beings, to want definitive answers. Answers that rid us of our cognitive dissonance. Is social media bringing the world closer together? This is a question we’ve all discussed at the Thanksgiving dinner table when Aunt Deb just can’t seem to understand “all the kids and their phones.” Well, Aunt Deb […]
Read more "It’s Not Black and White."Not even 100 years ago, people wrote letters to stay connected across long distances. Today I can write and talk with my boyfriend in Germany in real time. Social media helps us to weather long-distance relationships but also turns everyday life in one. While social media makes it such easy to connect with other people […]
Read more "Social Media: A Long-Distance Relationship with the World"Both of my parents went to Syracuse, therefore I’ve been bleeding orange my entire life. What anyone who has experienced this school understands is that it isn’t just a college you attend for a few years and then forget about; it’s a lifestyle. I’ve found through 22 years of admiring SU that it harbors incredible […]
Read more "How Facebook United Kanreki and Peter After a Long Dismissed Orange Friendship"Theoretically social media is bringing us together. It just passed porn as the most popular activity online. It is an incredible, plus up to our daily lives, but I feel like sometimes it is too much. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good Facebook connection, I’m on Instagram about 6 times a day (the […]
Read more "Too Much is Too Much"Personally, social media has impacted my life in many ways, particularly regarding my self-esteem and mental health. Growing up, I was cyberbullied quite a lot through social media platforms such as Facebook and ask.fm. And since this happened during such a critical point in my development as a young woman, I still suffer the repercussions […]
Read more "The Impact of Social Media on my Life"While growing up, I was encouraged to experience the world around me. No matter where my strengths and passions lie, I will never turn down an opportunity to learn more about something or gain another perspective. While I think every aspect of social media has impacted my life in some way, I think Pinterest had […]
Read more "Seeing the World Through Social Media"Social Media has become as intrinsic to modern American life as Football and Apple Pie. In all honesty, social media has changed me for the worse. I am embarrassed to even think about the amount of time I spend bouncing from one social media forum to the next. I believe that despite how much social […]
Read more "How has social media changed you?"Even after self-reflection, I cannot decide if social media has changed me for the better or for the worse. The first time I interacted with any form of social media was when I created a Facebook account. After that, the social media landslide began. Out went the hot pink razor phone and AIM and in came […]
Read more "From AIM to Snapchat"Sitting in my Space and Race, Body and Diversity, and Political Theory courses this semester, I found myself constantly filtering my thoughts as a means to find the ‘right’ words. It’s hard, for the same reasons why Socrates response to Thrasymachus and Glycoth on justice and happiness, the Harvard Implicate Biased test, and Rattansi’s “New Racisms?” have […]
Read more "Filter"If I’m being honest, when I first thought about the affect that social media has had on me, I tend to think negatively. I do think that in a lot of ways, social media has made many people, myself included, more ignorant to our physical environments, antisocial in nature, and grammatically challenged. However, when I think of all […]
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