Hello everyone,we are Achraf, Fay, Lucas and Britt.Our subject is social media use/ social networking.
Achraf Hello, my name is Achraf. I am 13 years old. My hobbies are playing soccer and in my free time I like to be outside with friends. That is what I love to do. My ambition is to have a good job in the future and still my dream is to become a professional soccer player. Lucas Hello, my name is Lucas. I am 13 years old and I like to play video games and playing water polo, I most of the time do nothing else if I have free time. My ambitions are to have a good future with a normal house and a normal family. Also a normal job so I can live a normal life. I also want to have friends so I am not a loner Britt Hi, I’m Britt. Im 13 years old. My hobbies are playing soccer, making fun with my friends and reading. In my “free time” I mostly do homework, but when I really have free time I watch netflix and listen to music. My ambition is to explore different countries in the world and to see different cultures. And taste different kinds of food. Fay Hello I am Fay. I am 13 years old. My hobbies are drawing and watching Netflix. I am watching a show on Netflix called Rick and Morty. It is an animated series.I also really like listening to music. My favourite song at this moment is Sorry from Nothing But Thieves. My ambition for the future is to be a famous actress in America. I would like to play in a movie with Zac Efron because I think that he is a good actor and he is cute :).I have a dog named harry and he is very cute.He is 2 years old.
This is our living space. It is called Schoonhoven.
Social Media is a big thing nowadays, Some people live with it and can’t live without it anymore. Some people use it too much others don’t even like to use it. I think that when you have read our story, you will understand a little bit more about the overall use of social media.
What is the availability of WIFI networks in your area? The WIFI network is very good in our area except for places where many people are on the WIFI-network like on school. Our school WIFI also blocks games and some social media like instagram and snapchat. That is something most students don’t like but we understand why school does it.
Which social media do students prefer the most? Students like mostly Snapchat, Instagram and Whatsapp. They don’t often use Facebook, Twitter or something else like these things, because it is isn’t that nice as the apps that are used. At least this is what the most students think.
How is social media helpful for students and teachers? Social media is useful because it’s an easy way to communicate if the student is at home and the teacher someone else. Because if they think of a question at home of their homework or if they have questions about a test they can mail or whatsapp them the question.
What is the impact of the social media on the two groups – students and teachers? Most of the teachers think that social media is overused and that it is used in the wrong way. They say that you should use it if you want to ask something to someone else on for example whatsapp. Students think social media is nice and they use it a lot.
What is the impact of social media? interview with person 1 “I think social media is something that everybody is using nowadays. It has a big impact on many people because people are changing because of it. I did not really change because I only use it for fun and I do not take it that seriously. I like it but the impact is not that big, I don’t post weird things or something like that, but just normal and nice things.¨ What is the impact of social media? Interview with person 2 ¨I use social media every day. A friend of mine was hacked and everyone was posting weird stuff on her account and that really sucked. So I like it but this shows that social media can also be stupid and very dangerous.¨
What are the positive and negative sides of social media? How have people experienced these aspects of social media? The positive things about social media is that you can make new friends and you can communicate with other people.. The negative thing about social media is that other people can judge you whenever she can and on some sites people can anonymous drop their comments about you.
How does social media help students and teachers feel connected with their school and the people they know? You can communicate easily, even when you are both in different places. E.g. when you have a question about an important test, you can send a text message to the teacher and ask your question. Also you can have contact with people all over the world.
Conclusion the conclusion we made is that Teachers like social media because it can be handy but they like it less than students because students like it very much. Teachers say that students overuse social media and that they use it for unnecessary things. of course even some students don’t like social media because for example they get bullied or they just don’t use it very much. The students that don’t use social media because they get bullied agree that social media is used wrong, and the kids that just don’t use social media agree with the teachers that say it is used to often and unnecessary. Of course this is also the other way around, Teachers who do like social media and they use it very much and these teachers agree with the students so also some teachers, especially younger teachers.
We interviewed a police officer and asked him about social media.
Do you often have people at the office who complaint about social media? Like saying their social media page is hacked.
“Yes we do. A lot of people come to us and ask if we can do something about it. We try to track them down and talk the victim about what he/she can do but we can not always find these people. We also have a page online to ask us questions about it. The most common complaint is about having their accounts hacked. But we do not only get people here for having a hacked account but also for having other accounts using their identity.” 2. Do you think people protect themselves enough against hacking and against people stealing their pictures? “No, I don’t think so. People do not check their settings after an update or getting a new account. Most apps refresh everything so none of the settings are like how it was before. People should try to watch out with this. Also people do not know how easy it is to hack someones password. 3. What is the police doing to avoid any of this crimes in the future? “The police is giving cursuses at schools to inform the students why they should protect their social media page and what the consequences are if you hack someones account. Because hacking someones account or stealing someone's identity is a crime in the Netherlands. We do not only give these cursuses to students but also to grown-ups to warn them to sometimes check on their kids and tell them to watch out for creeps. Also to have people watch out for people to give their bank data and to buy things off the internet.” 4. Do you use social media yourself? “Yes, I do use facebook myself but I keep it save by using a password no one will ever guess!”
What is the impact of social media on your life? For students social media has a bigger impact on their lives than for teachers. We think that is because of the age difference. Younger people usually have snapchat, instagram, whatsapp and sometimes twitter. Older people usually only have whatsapp and facebook. For all the people we interviewed, they all said that whatsapp is a life changer. Because now you can communicate with people without being together.Also, some of them said that social media can cause a lot of trouble. Because when you get hacked, it can have a big impact on your life. Also, you need to be careful with what you say and post on social media. Because it will be on there forever. Is social media good or bad? It can go both ways. Some teachers say that social media is a bad thing. Because you could get addicted to it or you can have arguments with people about how much you use social media. but they also think that it can be good because you can meet new people. but that can also turn out bad, because maybe the person is not who he says he is. Also, they say that whatsapp is good because you can communicate easier. The students said that they think social media is good but that sometimes it can be bad. they really like social media because you can meet new people and communicate easier. also it is entertaining to look through instagram when you are bored. some of the girls said that when you have a crush on someone, that it is nice to have social media because you can look at them on their accounts.But also, their parents have told them the negative sides about social media and they look out for that. they do not post weird things because they know that people can just screenshot it. Also, they know that not everybody tells the truth about who they are. Over all, all people said that whatsapp is a really good part of social media. How often do you use social media? Most teachers don’t use social media that often, because they they want to spend all of their time on using it and instead of that they do more useful things. On the other hand students use it more often. They spend a lot of time using social media. most of the time they use social media at school, because at home their parents tell them to put their phone away and then they make homework or they study. What social media platforms do you use? The younger teachers used whatsapp and instagram. Some of them also used snapchat, but only a few. Most teachers are using the most Whatsapp and some of them use Facebook but not much. The students are a little bit more active on these social media platforms. They use a lot Instagram, Snapchat, Whatsapp and the rest isn’t really being used a lot. So the 3 main platforms that are used under teachers and students are number 1. Whatsapp 2. Snapchat 3. Instagram.
Do you think people should use less social media? Some people should indeed, When it really bothers you and when you are addicted, you may should use it less when it bothers you. But you can’t say to yourself whether you are using it a lot ot not much, or if you are really addicted to it, so you should talk to someone e.g. your parents and when they say that you use it too much then you really should use it less. But if you are only a few times a day checking whether someone send you something important or something like that then it doesn’t really bother you, so you don’t have to decrease in using social media. What is your favourite social media platform? The main used and favourite platform out of every platform is Whatsapp. This is the app where you are able to communicate with people. It is one of the most handy platform that is used a lot. The students are a little bit more different in this subject but overall it is right that whatsapp is the favourite used platform. Then secondly and as third favourite as you may expected Instagram and Snapchat are also used a lot in the social media world.
Awareness activity We have thought of a activity every school should do and can do easily. At some schools in your first year you get a lesson about social media, but my idea is that you get a lesson about what social media can do with people their lives every half a year on every school in the whole Netherlands
A plan to fight against social media bullying: A plan we thought of against social media bullying is to have the owner of an app, like instagram, make special filters against curse words or words who look like it. This will be handy because there is almost no way that people can feel bullied anymore when there are no curse words used. Also that at popular accounts there should be someone who watches the account once upon a time. Because some accounts have so much followers because they have unacceptable videos on it. And when something goes wrong and they got a message from an account who is using someone's identity they should get an separate office to especially work on this messages. Then they should send a message to that account or immediately delete it.
Fay
I think that it went very well. We worked well together and we divided the tasks so that everybody would do the same amount of work. I would divide the tasks earlier next time. Lucas
I think we worked very well as a group and that we made a good project. The teamwork was very well because we made all decisions together and we divided Britt
I think that it went very well. Next time we should divide the tasks better. But it was really nice to work with them and we have the result we wanted. Achraf
I think that everything went very well. The teamwork was very good. We didn’t have any trouble, we are happy with our end results, so that is a very good point.