Group Assessment LSP300

During the last ten years, social networks have evolved, creating and changing industries, and transforming people’s lives. Just couple of years back, many people dismissed Facebook as a place for kids to share their pictures. Today, more than 600 million users worldwide are active on this website and approximately 200 million people are active on twitter. How 140 characters have defined our world? For better or for worse, Twitter has become a huge part of our daily lives. Political campaigns are judged by it. News is spread through it. Embarrassing images can go viral. However, social networking sites have massive effects on the lifestyles of everyday people. Some of the effects are positive, which is great, but sadly, many have negative effects on people. They can affect your family, relationships, and even your job. Social networking has a massive effect on family. Many parents have noticed their children becoming more separated from their family, and much more attached to their computer. You should know that you and your children have a problem when it affects how much you see each other, or speak. You don't want to lose relationships with your child just because of Facebook. Besides that, did you know that your work-place has the right to fire you because of something that you post online? If you post a picture of yourself with an alcoholic beverage, and your boss finds it, you could be fired. This fact is especially important for school teacher as well, because students are curious about what their teachers do all of the time, and research them online. If they find any picture, then show their parents, the parents could easily become angered and tell the principle. Furthermore, bullying arises constantly from things posted on Facebook or Twitter. Children harass, and bully people over Facebook by posting hateful and cruel things. There are some teens that even start hate groups on Facebook for other people for no reason, except to be mean. A