CCT205H5S+Lab+4


 * Connect or Disconnected?**

The online community such as facebook and twitter helps people stay connected to their friends and for those that wonder what their friends are doing. Very often, businesses use these online community to setup web pages which allow the users to join their group and be the first to know the special deals being offer. These online community also allow users to stay updated to the most current events of their friends such as who their new boyfriends are, what trip did they visit and many more. Even users without friends can browse within the online community and start their chat with other users that they don't know, maybe they would get a reply and become friends. Many people do not have friends in reality but when they are online, it is totally different.

In my opinion, I believe these online communities harm the society because people would be focus and wasting their time checking their friends during work or school hours. This could be a harm for the economy as it waste the productivity of employees. People would be wasting their time browsing the internet and leaving messages online for their friends meanwhile they can call. Calling their friends would benefit them through their communication and interactive skills rather than only doing it through words. Currently calling long distance is not as expensive as before thus it is not an excuse for them to interact with their friends through verbal communication. Verbal communication often gives "warmth" and allow the other party to feel excited and happy when they call.

All in all, if I had to choose between I would go for connected but if the third option was neither then I will probably go with that case. People will just become nosy about other users through these community and privacy can also be a huge factor.