Synthesis paper

Awlia Fadhli
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Writing 3 / Synthesis paper

TECHNOLOGY SOCIAL NETWORK FOR A BETTER LIFE

            When you wake up in the morning what are you doing first? pray, urinating, or looking for your phone. I think you will looking for your phone first, especially for Blackberry owner weather they have new E-mail or new Blackberry Messenger Message, That habit is one of the sign that you are addicted to this kind of gadget especially Blackberry. Furthermore you even forget blackberry is a fruit that is the worst. That is what happened to many people today, they are kind of addicted to this kind of clever phone, they can’t live without it, can’t think without typing a message. With this smart technology, we can easily go on line everyday. Just like facebooking, twittering, and other activity from social network site.

“A social network is a social structure made up of a set of actors (such as individuals or organizations) and the dyadic ties between these actors (such as relationships, connections, or interactions). A social network perspective is employed to model the structure of a social group, how this structure influences other variables, or how structures change over time. The study of these structures uses methods in social network analysis to identify influential nodes, local and global structures, and network dynamics. “

“Social networks are distinct from information, biological, or electrical networks, but theories and methods generalizing to all of these complex networks are studied in the emerging field of network science.”

Nowadays, social network in Indonesia has become the need in teen realm. Teenagers who likes to socialize in space world, such as facebook, twitter, and other social web that is trend today. For me social network is very helpful in many cases especially in socialize and get more knowledge from people arround the world. However people don’t know whether they addicted in or not.

The social network technology shoud be used as it is function. It is true that social network can help us find our old friend, who is never we met for years, and also we can chat and change our knowledge from other people from different country all over the world, however many people can’t put social network in the right place where we can get many benefits from it. People tend to use facebook for example, to tell what happened with them, what happened with their heart and also teased other people.

Whereas Facebook or any other social network is a good technology to earn money, is not only to tell what is on your mind and what do you feel now. In this Synthesis paper I will try to make people realize that there are many beyond advantageous of social network by explain the social network in Health aspect, Economic aspect and Social aspect.   

Social network “health aspect”

            When you spent your time for hours in front of the computer or in front of you hand phone, do you realize what kind of disease can you get from that kind of activity? Many people did not realized, what the bad effect of spending time for hours in front of the computer or hand phone.  There are so many bad effects that will affect our body if we can not control our behavior in social networking life. This essay will show you what are the bad effects or could be the good effect of social network in “health aspect”.

            If you are really addicted to kind of social network, you will forget about time, forget about your girlfriend and furthermore you will forget about yourself.  Social network just like Facebook or twitter, this condition will create and caused many kind of diseases. One thing for sure is when you forget about time, you will prefer to play in the internet than eat something, you obey your mom’s call to eat, even you obey your stomach’s call. You will not realize whether you have already eat or not. Of course the disease that will come is stomachache, furthermore your lambung will become smaller and can not accommodate more food anymore or the worst you will get cancer.

            Automatically, if we have addicted to social networking, forget about time, don’t care if it is midnight already, of course your sleep time is reduced or could you don’t sleep a day. That is very dangerous many diseases will occurred if we don’t have enough sleep. The first one you will be tired all day because you don’t have any rest, and furthermore you can get a heart attack. There is one case in china, a boy who never stop playing games online in front of the monitor a full one day without eat and sleep, after that he died.

“The impact of social media on medicine could arguably be compared to the impact of the industrial revolution on the human condition. Access to newer means of technology at the turn of the century changed most of society from primarily agricultural, to flourishing manufacturing centres. At the end of the 20th century, with relocation of manufacturing centres and the birth of the digital age, the concept of the American dream continued with the ideal that wealth was accessible to all.”

“A prime example has been my own experience with the physician assistant profession. My initial interest in the physician assistant profession was during a time before the first class of civilian PA student had graduated in Canada. Any information about the profession would be from the US. Access to the PA forum, Facebook groups, blogs, and websites of American PA’s allowed me to make an informed decision. As a graduate now, I continue to appreciate all the resources available to me, as well as the impact I can have on my profession by engaging in social media. I have been able to build my network, access educational and mentoring opportunities, as well as garner interest from patients and prospective students about the profession.”

“The power of social media networking is vast.  Sharing thoughts, ideas, viewpoints, posting updates, collaborating with consumers and colleagues is immeasurable. Tapping into a community of users whose word-of-mouth influence in the social space is fierce, and it goes beyond the standard role of social media networking. Facebook, Twitter and Google plus are only a few of the social networking platforms utilized, and the millions of individuals who use it have the capability to spread information like wild fire.  They can reach and influence others in their social circles at lightning speed.”

“Individuals have the capability to influence their friends about their favorite restaurant, movies, electronics and TV shows; but imagine the power that individuals have to influence their circle of friends, and their friends and so on and so on, about better health. Within the circles of social networking, trust and relationships are formed.  Individuals can take an active role in promoting health and wellness.  Social influence develops based on the trust within the circles of the social network.  Family and friends can help inspire and motivate each other.  They can also hold others within their circles accountable for their actions.  People with influence and trust can help others achieve their health goals.”

Stay connecting in front of the Monitor of course will hurt the eyes. The light and the radiation from the monitor is very dangerous. The eyes should at least 30 cm from the monitor, if not it will make your eyes age shorter. Our eyes is reduce its function and we will need a glasses. Furthermore eyes cancer will attack you if you still let your eyes unsafely in the monitor.

            If we use phone to social networking is not also really safe the radiation phone caused is also very dangerous. A simple example, if we put an egg in the central of 4 phones, and we call all the phones, and the egg will cooked  without boiling process, can you imagine what will happen to our brain??.  Moreover if our phone is located near to us we will get low function of our brain we  will become more stupid and foolish.

            All above is the negative effect that will caused in health aspect, beside the negative effect social network is also have the positive effect. First, social networking will reduce our stress level. when we fell stress, tiring with all the works with social networking we can share our problem to friends, just like chatting on facebook, approximately will reduce the stress level.

            So that social networking in the health aspect is really dangerous if we can not control it, will caused many dangerous diseases and even the death however if we can understand what the social network function actually, it is will give the positive effect to us.

           

  

Social Network “economic aspect”

            In this high tech era, money is not only earned by working as a civil servant, work in an office, work in an industrialism, however we can earn money using technology especially social network technology. Even earning money from social network is easier and practice, we do not need to have own shop, we only need to have online shop, that is one of the example. However, if we use social network as a use less activity such as playing games or even we did not be careful someone can stole your money and even fool you. I will explain the economic aspect of social network in this essay.

            The negative effect that will happen to you if you can not control the social networking habit, the first one is you will lose your money unrealized. Such as, many children Steale their parents money in order only to play games online or social network.

            After that, if we are not be careful social network such as facebook, there are so many deception case happen in facebook. For example, my teacher told me that there is someone who have a friend in facebook, and they are love each other in the facebook even though they never meet each other. One day the man from India wanted to visit the girl to Indonesia but the man told that he is stuck in the Malaysia, he needs more money and ask the girl to send about $3500, the girl send it but the man said it is still not enough, he asked more. My teacher told her that is a deception, the girl shocked and they lose contact. The girl had lost $3500 money.

            That is what will happen if we not careful, there are many bad people out there using many crime motive. Don’t get trust easily from someone whom we never met before. Other case is deception in online selling product. We know that social network also give a space to people selling their product to people we called it as online business. However if we not be careful, we will also get tricked by someone else. We can see that an online business sell a blackberry or a laptop with a low price. We should be careful with that, don’t get interested with the low price, it could be a deception. One case show that a girl buy a laptop and she has sent Rp. 4.000.000, however she has wait for a week but the laptop never come, she called to the police and she finally realized that she has done brown by someone. That is why we need to be careful before buying something in the internet, check whether the site is trustful or not.

            Now let’s talk about the good effect of social network in economic aspect. First if you have a good business soul who dare to take risk, social network will be a good media in order to promote something you want to sell. “Social networking sites also offer ample opportunities for small business entrepreneurs as they are easy to use, and involve least monetary obligations in most cases. In comparison, creating and maintaining a commercial website might be a costly proposition for small business set ups. Social networking sites have also established themselves as reliable and effective outlets of advertising. The biggest edge that online networking has over other socializing media is that most of these sites provide free networking avenues, hence making it well within the reach of common man.”

            Most of the internet café is full with people who play a social network, just like facebook and twitter. Twitter is not really common but facebook is the most common. Indirectly it gives a good profit for people who want to have a business in internet café. Beside that we will also open the new job field and automatically will reduce the unemployment in this country.

            “Few social networks currently charge money for membership. In part, this may be because social networking is a relatively new service, and the value of using them has not been firmly established in customers' minds. Companies such as MySpace and Facebook sellonline advertising on their site. Their business model is based upon large membership count, and charging for membership would be counterproductive. Some believe that the deeper information that the sites have on each user will allow much better targeted advertising than any other site can currently provide.”

“Social networks operate under an autonomous business model, in which a social network's members serve dual roles as both the suppliers and the consumers of content. This is in contrast to a traditional business model, where the suppliers and consumers are distinct agents. Revenue is typically gained in the autonomous business model via advertisements, but subscription-based revenue is possible when membership and content levels are sufficiently high.”

“Social networks connect people at low cost; this can be beneficial for entrepreneurs and small businesses looking to expand their contact bases. These networks often act as a customer relationship management tool for companies selling products and services. Companies can also use social networks for advertising in the form of banners and text ads. Since businesses operate globally, social networks can make it easier to keep in touch with contacts around the world.”

“Two examples of social networking being used for business purposes are LinkedIn.com and Youngblackprofessionals.org. LinkedIn aims to interconnect professionals. LinkedIn has over 100 million users in over 200 countries. Youngblackprofessionals.org or YBP aims to do the same thing, but is targeted toward professional minorities”

So that, it is all depend on us weather we want to use social network only for communicating or only to play it is up to you, the most important one is there are many benefits that we get if we can catch the chance that will come to us from economic aspect.

                       

           

           

      

           

Social Network “social aspect”

For people who is a little difficult to socialize, they will prefer to use social network as their way to communicate. It will create an anti social paradigms. People like that, tend to be a shy person, difficult to communicate directly to the person however they are not shy at all when communicate in social network, they free to talk anything what they want, even if they want to lie they can easily do it, without knowing by other people. On the other hand social network will also help for people who have a busyness and don’t have much time, or they are in different reign of world, it will be easier for the to communicate in social network. This essay will show you how social networking affect us In social life.

“Put simply, social networking is a way for one person to meet up with other people on the Net. That's not all though. Some people use social networking sites for meeting new friends on the Net. Other's use it to find old friends. Then there are those who use it to find people who have the same problems or interests they have, this is called niche networking. Following this trend is the emerging trend of people meeting online to meet offline. More and more relationships and friendships are being formed online and then carried to an offline/in person setting. Experts in relationships, such as the German psychologist Erich H. Witte, say that relationships which start online are much more likely to succeed, and he goes on to say that in less than 10 years, online dating will be the most widely used way to get to know someone for a possible relationship. One such popular site accredits that's 2% of all marriages start off its site which is equal to 236 marriages a day. Other sites claim 1 in 5 relationships start online. Social networking sites play a vital role in this area as well, being able to meet someone as a "friend" and see what common interests you share and how they have built up their friend base and "likes" you can truly see a more whole picture of the person you are talking with and most sites are free instead of being pay based which allows younger people with stricter budgets to enjoy some of the same features. While not the intended or original use for these social sites a large area of their current function has stemmed from people wanting to meet other people in person and with so many of us so busy it is a fast reliable and easy way in which to do so that costs you little time and money.”

Social network technology also has politic function as an effective media communication for government to get a direct input from people. The government can directly hear the aspirations from people. As we can see before in Prita Mulyasari Case, we know that Prita get a mal praktek from the Omni hospital and she is not get a well justice from the government. After that people in facebook made a group for her to support Prita to get a justice, and it is work. It is called 1.000.000 facebookers support Prita. It is not only happen at once, there are many cases like this happen, and the government will only move if people give a support in facebook.

“Social networking sites have recently showed a value in social and political movements. In the Egyptian revolution, Facebook and Twitter both played a pivotal role in keeping people connected to the revolt. Egyptian activist have credited social networking sites with providing a platform for planning protest and sharing news from Tahrir Square in real time. By presenting a platform for thousands of people to instantaneously share videos of mainly events featuring brutality, social networking proves to be a vital tool in revolutions.”

“Web-based social networking services make it possible to connect people who share interests and activities across political, economic, and geographic borders. Through e-mail and instant messaging, online communities are created where a gift economy and reciprocal altruismare encouraged through cooperation. Information is particularly suited to gift economy, as information is a nonrival good and can be gifted at practically no cost.”

“Facebook and other social networking tools are increased the object of scholarly research. Scholars in many fields have begun to investigate the impact of social-networking sites, investigating how such sites may play into issues of identity, privacy, social capital,youth culture, and education. Several websites are beginning to tap into the power of the social networking model for philanthropy. Such models provide a means for connecting otherwise fragmented industries and small organizations without the resources to reach a broader audience with interested users. Social networks are providing a different way for individuals to communicate digitally. These communities of hypertexts allow for the sharing of information and ideas, an old concept placed in a digital environment. In 2011, HCL Technologies conducted research that showed that 50% of British employers had banned the use of social networking sites/services during office hours. “

After that still the positive effect of the social network, Justin Bieber a singer from USA, we can say that he is the singer from a social media, YOUTUBE. You tube is a social media where we can upload the video and let people know about it. Justine bieber is one of them. Justine’s mom, record his son when singing in their home and then upload it in the youtube. Voila..!! Justine bieber now is very famous everybody knows him. So, social media also give a good effect in life.

On the other hand, social network also give the bad effect in sociality. Many people forget what social exactly, what communication exactly, people become more individualist. As we can see in the street, in the bus, or in the station, people busy with their phone, only see to their phone, without thinking and trying to talk to people beside them. We saw many people say hi and easy to talk or chat with someone in facebook than talk directly face to face. Technology development that should help people easy to talk with undirectly make deterioration in communication. Direct communication nowadays become decrease and reduced  because of the social network. 

I went to the internet café and I see the first thing people do when sit in front of the computer In the internet café is open their facebook account and check whether there is a new notification or not. 99% of all my friends have a facebook account. Undirectly facebook or social network has become the need in this life. People who doesn’t have a facebook account will get left behind and joke by other people.