Someone To Watch Over Me Summary

In Stites’ article Someone To Watch Over Me she discusses the role that social networks play in her life. According to her she spends a good amount of free time on various different social networks. She says that she would rather spend her time talking to people online than in person. Stites then goes on to explain how she finds a thrill in finding new friends online. In my opinion social networks overall have a negative effect on your life. They create people afraid to talk to others in person, they make it easy for people to bully others and they waste your time.
First off social networks create people that are afraid to interact with others. It’s no question that public speaking is hard. In fact it is the number one fear according to The Washington Post. But there is a difference from being afraid to talk in front of others and not being able to talk to others. Many kids
For instance you can quickly and easily contact others. Speed and ease can be a double edged sword though, going back to the first issue, sometimes it is too easy. When people can get instant feedback online why spend the time to meet up with someone, it’s easier to just stay home. Social networking can be a huge time suckers, like Stites wrote “I constantly trade actual human contact for the more reliable emotional high of smiles on MySpace, winks on Match.com and pokes on Facebook.” In other words, social media is so easy that people prefer it to real social interaction. People find themselves spending hours on social networks without any gain.
All in all social media is used everyday, one person that uses it is Stites. In her article Someone To Watch Over Me she discusses what she does on social media. In my opinion social networks have an overall negative effect on your life. I think this because they create people afraid to interact in person, make it easy to bully others, and can waste hours of your day without any