Wednesday, 3 February 2016

EX 3.2 / Negative effects of social media

Abdulla Yahya Al Karbi             H00308783

Negative effects of social media

·         The author:

·         The title: 5 Weird Negative Effects of Social Media on Your Brain.

·         The main topic: How can the social media might be negative.

·         Sub details:

ü  It might make you spend more money, for buying some programs, games.

ü  It alters your appetite. There is a study suggests that even looking at food images after a meal can trigger hunger.

ü  It can "butcher" real-life conversations, by making you strong in conversation behind the screen, but weak on real-face to face conversation.


ü   It hurts your self-esteem. The researchers discovered that one in three people surveyed felt worse when comparing themselves to friends in the internet.

EX 3.1 / Summary of the social media ( positive ).

Abdulla Yahya Al Karbi             H00308783

The Social Media

·         The speaker: Clay Shirky.

·         The title: How social media can make history.

·         The main topic: the speaker agrees that social media is good, and the moment we are living through is the largest increase in expressive capability.

·         Sub details:

ü  The Printing the newspapers, conversation media (telephones, telegraph), revolution in recorded media (photos, recorded sounds, movies), harnessing of electromagnetic spectrum (radio and television), and those are helping in doing a group conversation.

ü  The social media has free of speech and wide world.

ü  All media gets digitized the internet also becomes the mode of carriage for all other media.