Many opponents of social media products/tools claim this technology is too intrusive into the personal lives of their users, albeit, on its face this seems true, however there exists several logical, ethical, and emotional arguments to disprove this assertion. Here we are, collegiate student submitting work and college professor examining it for validity. This in itself is an example of the support of why social media, (SM), is not too intrusive into the lives of its users as will be disseminated later. Many issues and demographics related to SM revolve around teenagers. Teens heavy use of SM is addressed as being negative by opponents of SM, over 89% of teens have used FB and over 50% use Twitter regularly. Malcolm Gladwell, author of "The Tipping Point," points out that he believes that the SM activists of today are not capable of the hard work and results produced by activists of previous non digital eras. Clemmitt presents several other issues that opponents use to bash SM products such as: teens at camp having two phones parent's gave them, in order to be able to turn in a dummy phone, the use of tech breaks in school is representative of lazy students, children waking up and interrupting sleep cycles due to answering text messages, additionally, deans of admissions at medical schools and medical residency programs use SM information as fodder to block admission, that AOL started this trend of depersonalization in the 1990's with chat rooms and instant messenger. The unfair advantages gained in elections via the use of SM information and the relentless use of SM to gain personal information, which is then used to create tailored ads in the form of pop-ups are symptomatic of SM problems.
In addressing Randi Zuckerberg's picture situation, she actually had her FB pics set to private, but she did not understand that if one was tagged with her name then her friends friends could see the pics and repost them.
