Are social networking sites good for our society?

The online communities promote increased interaction with friends and family; offer teachers, librarians, and students valuable access to educational support and disseminate useful information rapidly. However, this sites prevent face-to-face communication, it produce waste of time on frivolous activity, it may alter children’s brains and behavior making them more prone to ADHD; it also spread false and potentially dangerous information.

Daniel Novoa wrote:The online communities promote increased interaction with friends and family; offer teachers, librarians, and students valuable access to educational support and disseminate useful information rapidly. However, this sites prevent face-to-face communication, it produce waste of time on frivolous activity, it may alter children’s brains and behavior making them more prone to ADHD; it also spread false and potentially dangerous information.

Well Daniel, I think that nowadays social networks are essential for our daily life; Unfortunately, due to the misuse of these tools, we have some of the world problematics such as cyber bullying and sexting. If we use these properly, we could have a peaceful life and not suffer from any pressure from your friends or any foreigner.