Topic Are social networking sites useful or harmful to people?

Yurani Andrea Duque Santa and Libardo de Jesus Montoya Soto

Good night, opposition and audience.

the topic for today's debate is: social networking sites useful or harmful to people?

I will be speaking about...

● How technology has contributed to our lives

● Digital age

● Positive aspects of Social Networks

My first point is How technology has contributed to our lives

It is probable that on more than one occasion, we have been able to think that many young
people, also adults, live in a real world, which at the same time overlaps with a digital world.
The Internet has contributed to making us all "connected" to any type of information with
people whom we cannot see. We can also work without leaving home, buy without going
to the store or enroll and even take a course remotely. Years ago it might have seemed
impossible to us. It could even be the plot of a science fiction book. However, in our days, it
is as simple as pressing a key.

According to recent data from the Ministry of National Education, the number of higher
education enrollments, virtual modality, has shown a growth rate from 2011 (13.6%) to
2018 (90%). Although in 2019 the growth rate of enrollments moderated, in 2020 it
rebounded to 98.9%. The reasons that have influenced are diverse.

We can also see digital platforms such as UBER, RAPID, AMAZON and many more where
we do many things digitally.

My second point is digital age

We are in a new era and that is that we are fully immersed in the digital age, despite the
fact that many of us were born when everything was analog.

This new digital age revolves around new technologies and the Internet and is carrying out
profound changes and transformations in a society that is moving in a globalized world.
These profound changes represent a true revolution that we have to live; despite the fact
that - still - many people have not realized what is "above us".

The digital age has come to stay definitively among us and is manifested through a true
technological revolution (Internet, computers, ICT devices and tools, forums, chats, blogs,
media, etc.) that is clearly and clearly transforming deepen the habits, language, life and
customs of many people to create a new culture "digital culture".

Netflix made that there are almost no video clubs left, bookin, it has in check tourism
agencies, Google disabled the yellow pages, Airbnb is frightening hotel owners, whatsapp,
threatens landline and cellular operators, social networks to the media, uber to taxi drivers,
olx is putting an end to classified ads, smartphones condemned photography houses, email
condemned postal mail, waze ended gps, the cloud makes more and more useless to pen
drives how long do you think your job will last in its current form? In addition, you want to
continue living as you lived ten years ago.

My third point is Positive aspects of Social Networks

1.1 1. Speed of information

1.2 2. Knowledge of profiles of interest

1.3 3. Ease to resume contact

1.4 4. Access to all kinds of content

1.5 5. Self-promotion capacity

1.6 6. Source of entertainment

1.7 7. Online sale

Give examples, facts, figures, etc.:

Despite the fact that social networks only exist in the virtual environment, it is a place
where people share all kinds of information, that is, they promote interaction with other
people and are linked to the 3 Cs as mentioned by Morduchowicz, et al (2010),
communication through dialogue, community through the integration of related groups and
cooperation through the promotion of shared actions.