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The effects of social network on the young
Đào Thanh Mai
CityU K6C
CA 6065
Banking Academy
City, 2nd February, 2018
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Research Outline
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Introduction :
A. Topic : The effects of social network on the young.
B. Issue : Social networking which is playing an important role in the development of information
technology, including in the improverment of life quality.
C. Thesis Statement : Positive and negative effects of social network on young genereration today in order
that youngster have overview of social media and use it right track.
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Body:
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The development of social network :
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In the 1970s, there was a significant rise of information technology and social network
which help sciences and technical data recovered frameworks to be actualized.
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Human tried to create socialnet work based on information technology for centuries by using
their knowledge.
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Now social networking is becoming mobile and can be accessed through the use of a cell
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phone => many people brings cell phone all time.
The positive effects of social network :
a. On education :
• The use of social networking helps improve technological skills of student, and exposes them
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to many diverse views about things.
Schools are starting to look at it an education tool. ( Thelwell , 2006 )
Communication skills.
Allows the learning of cultures from users all over the world.
Student use social networking to discuss homework topics with peers online, and get help on
assignments ( Reid , 2009 ).
b. On heath care :
• Increase a person’s quality of life and can reduce health risks.
• Easily access to information by many professionals, research projects and some companies of
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drugs.
Many social network involve to health care professionals ( HCPs ) are public.
The young will have more opportunities to know about their health and can connect to their
doctor easily.
The negative effects of social network :
a. Time comsuming.
• Waiting their time ‘behind the screen’ and doing noting useful ( BBC 2003 ).
• Visit the entertainment pages instead of learning or finding knowledges.
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Many students who online in the classes got bad mark in test because of being distracted
( McGilliray 2015 ).
b. Privacy lost
• Social media is invading orther areas of human life such as school, work, and relationships.
• Vulnerable to security attacks such as hacking, leaking sensitive information, and sending
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viruses.
Cyber bullying online such as Facebook, Twitter, Ask.fm => feel annoyed and disturb.
Discussion :
Albert Einstein, one of the most astute figures in the 20th centery, quoted : “ I feer the day technology will
surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots” ( Eintein )
Conclusion :
1. During several decades, with the development of humankind, social network had been created to serve
for a large number of purposes. It affects to peoples a lot, not only the young but also adult. Beside
many of advantagesthat it bringsto adolescent’s life, it also has some bad effects to them in other hand.
Information technology does not cause the change of our life, but without it nothing can be change
through our living.
2. The young should be educated about how to use sdocial network in a right way to avoid bad results.
Moreover parents, whose children joining social network , should control the time their children spend on
electronic devices and the government should exercise imperative solutions to warn and prevent bad
effect from social network.
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