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Some people think that sharing their daily lives through social-networking sites brings benefits to their social life, while others don’t. Both sides may have their own reasons to support their views. If I were asked to choose one, I would say that recording one’s life on online is not really a good idea in terms of security problem and wasting one’s time.
To begin with, recording one’s life on internet can give rise to victims of crime. The uploaded pictures or information which can give clues for personal tastes, habits, schedules, and dwellings have a chance to be abused by criminals. For example, one of my friends, who like to share her daily life on Facebook, posted her traveling pictures while she traveling Japan in last summer. After she came back to home, she found that her house was robbed. Fortunately, she could catch the criminal through CCTV in front of her apartment, and astonishingly the criminal was one of her Facebook followers. He knew she vacated her house through her SNS post, and made plan to rob her house. This implies that the dangerous aspects of uploading personal life on online.
In addition, sharing one’s personal life on internet wastes a lot of time. Since hundreds of online friends are watching their posts and the social networking service serve as self promotion, people tends to cautiously select which information they should show to people. If they don’t put energy on social networking service, they are able to save their time and use time more productively. For example, Tokyo University found huge different between two groups of college students in academic performance. First group consisted of those who do not use social networking service, and the other group is made up of those who enthusiastically recording their lives on social networking sites. The first groups tend to get higher GPA than the second group by 30 percents. In particular, the second group had troubles on time management for their studying, and were distracted easily owing to checking social networking sites. This implies that recording their lives on social networking sites bring demerits on one’s time management.
All things considered, I strongly believe that recording one’s life on online is disadvantageous for the reasons I mentioned above. All in all, the usage of social networking sites should be restrained for one’s successful life. |