ALL THE COOL KIDS ARE QUITTING FACEBOOK by JENNA WORTHAM

 Jenna Wortham is one of the technology reporter from New York Times who had shared her opinion about why Facebook’s popularity decrease although before this Facebook continuing to grow drastically in United States. She also stated that it is cool to quit Facebook than joining Facebook.

Jenna Wortham

             In this era, there were many types of social networking. One of them is Facebook. Facebook itself was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his friends. One of the reasons why Facebook became the best selling points is that it can build closer ties among beloved family and fellow friends. Every human being around the world of course, has at least one Facebook account so that they can communicate with their long distance family and friends. As a normal human being, I also have one Facebook account for that same reason.

Mark Zuckerberg

          Based on the article that was written by Wortham title “All The Cool Kids Are Quitting Facebook”, Facebook also can ruin someone’s relationship such as the relationship between woman and her closest friends just because one small matter. Trust is the most important thing that contribute to this kind of issue. Amanda Lenhart, who had study research on teenagers, children and families at the Pew Internet and American Life Project said that people who used Facebook tend to have general sense of others and also institutions or organization. People made decison to not use Facebook because they afraid about the effects of Facebook towards them.

        On the other hand, people also afraid to open Facebook account because they did not want something bad happen to them in the future. For instance, nowadays, there were lots of stalkers get involve in social networking. Because of this stalkers, people especially teenagers always become their victims of fraud.

       Yes, Facebook is very helpful because it can act like a connecter to you so that you can always communicate with your family and colleagues although they live far away from you. But, you also have to think about the side effects of Facebook towards yourselves. As we know, there were lots of criminal problem reported by newspaper. The criminal problem such as fraud often manacle the Facebook’ users.

       People think that by using social networking, it can increase your popularity and social life. It is totally different with my opinions and thought. What the use of having thousand of friends in social networking sites if you have no privacy at all ?

Just picture :)

THE DEGREE OF HAPPINESS by BETRAND RUSSELL

Bertrand Arthur William Russell was born at Trelleck on 18th

May, 1872 and was educated at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He was a British philosopher, mathematician,logician,historian and also social critic.

Betrand Russell

       He has shared his opinions and thought about happiness  in article title "The Degree Of Happiness". Actually, this article was an excerpt from his own book named “The Conquest of Happiness”.

The Conquest of Happiness 's book

      In this article, Russell said that happiness can be divided into two sorts. Firstly, happiness is open to any human being. Secondly, happiness is opened to those who can read or write. He also has included his childhood memories in this article as an example. When Russell was still a young boy, he knew a man whose business was digging wells was bursting with happiness. But, in the year of 1885, when that man got a vote for parliament, he learnt for the first time that happiness was not only depends on intellectual sources but also based on the physical vigor.  The meaning of this physical vigor is sufficiency of work and the overcoming of not insuperable obstacles in the shape of a rock.

       Then, Russell also claimed that there was other sort of happiness which are scientist and artist.  He said that the happiest people of the present day are the men of science. Many of them are emotionally simple and they can simply  obtain satisfaction through their work so profound that they can derive pleasure from eating and even marrying. It is really different from the art people who found the hardship in finding a happiness. For instance, if the public cannot understand the picture or a poem that was produced by them, public can just conclude that the picture or a poem as a bad one. Thus, these circumstances prove that artists are less happy than scientists because they are having a difficulty in choosing between being despised and being despicable.

Be happy wherever and whenever you are :)

        As conclusion, this article discussed about why some group of people easy to find happiness in their life, while some group of them not face the same situation. It seems that everyone has different degree of happiness in their life. Happiness is a feeling and  it cannot be determined through someone’s position and wealth.

       In my opinion,this article is quite difficult to understand because the writer himself wrote many kind of advanced words in sharing his opinions about happiness with the readers. However, those kind of advanced words are actually very helpful since I can use it in my future essay. In any case, this article still is an interesting article.

HELLO READERS

Welcome to my new blog. This is an educational blog and I did it for my Critical Literacy subject.  I am still in semester 4. Critical Literacy is a course that is fundamental in understanding how to read and write for academic purposes. The knowledge and skills that I require through this course can be applied to text in any field of study. I expect to have more followers to follow this blog and feel free to leave comments after you read my post. Your comments will be very helpful in terms of my marks. Last but not least, I am very sorry for my vocabulary and grammatical error. Thank you very much. :)

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts." - Albert Einstein