The Effects of Social Networking

  PBS made a documentary named "Growing up online", that spoke about how this generation is being raised way differently than previous generations due to technology becoming more readily available and cheaper. Super computers would take up lots of space but since they were made smaller, by the 1990s most household had a computer in it. The internet that was introduced and came out to our parents now belongs to us, the younger generation. A new way of communication has been introduced, by way of social media. Social media allows people people that you may not personally know to get you on a whole different level. Things that should've been private can be made public knowledge, which in a way is bad and really dangerous. For example with a simple stroke of the keyboard your address can be found in less than 30 seconds. Isn’t that crazy ?

Throughout President Barack Obama's eight years in office he accomplished a lot. He is accredited with bringing an end to the United States recession. We saw a drastic change in the unemployment rate, falling down to 4.7% from the previous 10% in a period of just six years. His biggest accomplishment, which is the reason why he got elected was his tech savvy way of campaigning. Hillary Clinton used over 20,000 volunteers to aid her in her campaign in Texas, while Obama used a social networking site to gather over 104,000 Texans online. This site allowed for easy access to all that the future president would be doing during his campaign as well as bring in support for him. Being it that Obama wasn't the first candidate to use social networks to campaign, the way that we did it was unseen. What he did was use MyBO database to get volunteers from different locations and task the with different things they could do to further his campaign. The volunteers would receive names, addr