Social Media Manna from heaven, a necessary evil or avoidable nuisance?I know it's a very hackneyed subject, but one that's still very relevant. In my case, the progression was approximately in the or

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Manna from heaven, a necessary evil or avoidable nuisance?

I know it's a very hackneyed subject, but one that's still very relevant. In my case, the progression was approximately in the order indicated above. I accidentally landed up with a Facebook account in 2008 and kept it for about nine years. It went from being just something I was on to absolutely fascinating to fairly boring and finally to an irritant.

It was wreaking havoc on my concentration span and it was a time wasting addiction. It was also preventing me from concentrating on my languages, something that I really like. So I deactivated my Facebook account some two years ago. I also deactivated Twitter at the same time though I had hardly ever used it. Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit etc have been and thankfully still are just names to me.

WhatsApp is the only thing I still have and there too I'm not a member of any group except for a few professional ones. For me, the end of social media in my life was my best decision ever. I was never a sociable guy and now my concentration is getting back to where it used to be before the social media craze got us all by the scruff.

How would you describe your own social media experience?

2020年1月10日 17:42

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I quit social media altogether when I broke up with my boyfriend except YouTube and I never signed up in any of them. I wouldn't say I was addicted to social media like checking my phone right in the morning and counting likes etc, but I have spent a considerable amount of time checking random stuff. Italki is indeed a social media as people connect each other here but it has a purpose which makes it different from other social media platforms.

2020年1月10日

For disabled people like me social media can be something realy helpful and useful for staying in touch with people and world.

2020年1月10日

Italki is also social media, so you’re not completely absent from social media....

Maybe you find this article interesting: <a href="https://www.italki.com/article/1362/like-or-dislike-using-social-media-to-learn-a-language" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.italki.com/article/1362/like-or-dislike-using-social-media-to-learn-a-language</a>;.

I like using social media for language learning. It helps to connect with like-minded language learners, find resources, follow websites in my target languages and practise my target languages. I’m a member of several language learning groups on FB and honestly, they’re more helpful than italki. It’s much easier to find like-minded people who are interested in indigenous languages and linguistics and who are willing to write in other languages apart from English.

2020年1月10日

I think it's all three, and nothing new. "Social media" is just part of human nature; it's what happens whenever human beings communicate.

"We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.... We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the old world some weeks nearer to the new; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough."

--Henry David Thoreau, 1854: <em>Walden: or, Life in the Woods</em>

2020年1月10日