Blog Post 2

The other day on campus, I heard a girl talking about how she loved the app tinder because she could control what her first impressions to guys were. As the conversation escalated, she then said, "sometimes when i see guys walking on campus, I even think 'swipe right, swipe left' based on if i think they are attractive or not". The culture of BYU is changing indefinitely due to social media network sites brought about by globalization, and this conversation is a pure example. Students all across campus have shifted their approach of gaining status and interacting with others, from person to person, to building a seemingly media empire. For my opinion editorial topic, i want to address this issue because i believe it exposes whether these new social media network sites are influencing our society for better or for worse (in my case for the worse). I think it is important to express the usefulness of these sites, but show however, that they are pulling social activity to the extreme and are causing negative effects on society. In order to be persuasive in writing this paper, i plan on making the reader realize how much they really use social media network sites and give examples on how i've seen it affect others lives, including my own.