Wood supports social networking, and cites some benefits as people research via social networks for their work or studies. People are able to connect and ask questions to increase their knowledge. Social networking allows individuals to collaborate in order to successfully accomplish whatever task they might have at hand. Social networking puts people together for the benefits of the users.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Social Networking Bonds
While Norah Wei Tang, an opponent of social networking, and Elizabeth Anne Wood, a proponent for social networking, disagree on the benefits of social networking, they both make a common assertion that social networking does in fact connect people. While Tang berates social networking and sees it as a waste of time, she still asserts that people are in contact with one another. She mentions the installation of twitter and facebook apps on phones as a means of "instant gratification," yet individuals are still in contact with one another.
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This is clearly a viewpoint that the two authors shared: social networking sites make it possible to connect with more people. Ironically, this is the basis for both of their opposing arguments. I think this is the most important and most visible commonality that Woods and Wei Tang share. It seems strange, but looking deeper, maybe it is more common than one would expect for authors with opposing viewpoints to share similar viewpoint as the basis for their arguments.
ReplyDeleteThis is a common assumption that i did not think of at all. I think the reason that it did not cross my mind is that it is both hidden and somehow quite obvious. Both authors do indeed emphasize and illustrate the fact that social networking sites do bring people together. I like how you described their different takes on this fact about social networking, and how Wood saw it as an advantage and an opportunity, and how Tang saw it as a disadvantageous distraction.
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