Social problems of "SNS"
About SNS
Today, SNS (social networking services) gradually became essential for everyday life. Following ICT Research and Consulting’s report, 60 million or more people use SNS in Japan. Its utilization accounts for nearly 60 percent of the networking users. You also use Twitter, Line, Facebook, and more other SNS, don’t you? SNS is also used by individual but also by company and organizations. Now, we can get large amount of information than before. A lot of information is coming into our eyes everyday. But at the same time , its speed of diffusion and ease becoming cause many problems.
Social network services and threat of terrorism
There are many problems with social network services. For example, privacy concerns, problems of data mining, potential for misuse, and risks for child safety. In addition to these problems, there is more serious problem. SNS can be entrance to terrorism for some people. Have you heard about "home-grown terrorists?" They live in Europe or northern America, and carry out terrorism where they lives, affected by radical groups. Usually they carry out terrorism by themselves. The internet often plays an important role in these cases. Today, all types of radical group use social media to recruit, radicalize, and raise funds. They use the internet and SNS to propagate their activities and to educate people who plans to do terrorism. People alienated from society co
uld be easily radicalized through such a propaganda because they are disappointed with their situation and their society. This is a serious threat against our society. Some measure should be taken to deal with this. Steps of SNS by public organizations
In some countries, each government takes measures. In general, one step is that children are told to limit using mobile phones and smart phones. Another step is that parents utilize filtering service for children. South Korea introduced the latest systems. For example, a hot line by which people addicted to the Internet can receive counselling 24 hours a day. In addiction, this government prohibited the play of all online games by under age 16 after 0 o'clock. In Europe, TV commercials show that people are encouraged in restrictions of using phones. Japan might have to follow these examples.
What can we do? As you can know from our article, there are a lot of problems around us with SNS. Then we tried thinking about some solutions that we can do by ourselves. Firstly, we suggest develop our “Net Manner ”. Do you mind whether your tweet is appropriate when you tweet on twitter? Your tweet may not only heart somebody but also turn to be big incident. To avoid such accidents, keep mind your tweets are looked by many people. Secondly, we suggest the life not using much time on Internet . To do this, we suggest going out and talking face to face with people. These are our solutions and we hope that SNS problems will decrease by our actions.
References:
Social networking, Wikipedia. Retrieved from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_service/
ISIS and the Forgotten, Deadly Threat of Home grown Terrorism. Retrieved from
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/09/will-obamas-isis-strategy-actually-worsen-the-terror-threat/380465/
How ISIS Games Twitter. Retrieved from
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/isis-iraq-twitter-social-media-strategy/372856/
Public Security Intelligence Agency. Retrieved from
http://www.moj.go.jp/psia/ITH/topic/201401_column.html
The step in Korea. Retrieved from
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXNASFK0100W_R00C13A8000000/
I forgot my phone. Retrieved from
http://www.excite.co.jp/News/column_g/20130827/Terrafor_news_qI0qofLUTq.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QNUIVEwpgE
ICT Research &Consulting. Retrieved from
http://www.ictr.co.jp/report/20140821000067.html
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Youtube.svg?uselang=ja
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Young_girl_with_smart_phone.jpg?uselang=ja
Thank you for reading.
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