Technology

As technology is developed, our life standard and communications change drastically. Teenagers especially increasingly attach and depend on it as it’s the only way we know to do things. We do not write our parents letters but instead send them an email or a text. That doesn’t necessarily means it’s a bad thing because technology especially the social networks get people connected to each other from around the world. Social network is a community on internet where people have their own profile to communicate with friends and family. Nowadays, there are so many social networks that teenagers are in depended on their interests and social references, for examples, twitters, face book, instagrams, or pinterest. These are great ways for people to express themselves and find friends with common interests. However, social networks also have negative impacts on teenagers as many of them take these as virtual hideouts where they can pretend to be someone else. These lead to crimes such as bullying, discrimination and private invasion. Facebook is widely known as a social network where each person has his or her own profile storing all the photos and comments of their friends. The more popular the person is, the more friends and subscribers that person has. There was a situation where a fan of a famous Vietnamese singer, named Ho Ngoc Ha, pretended to be her on Facebook since all that fan needed to do was to post a lot of that Ho Ngoc Ha’s photos and comments as though it was the singer herself. The Facebook received hundreds thousands of subscribers because everyone thought that they were following Ho Ngoc Ha. It seemed harmless at first because Facebook after all is only internet based. However, Ho Ngoc Ha’s career and image were greatly damaged by a status posted on that Facebook profile. The post was complaining about a disruption during her performance because of an updated news on a disaster in Central Vietnam. An outrage broke out on internet criticizing the