Social Networking The Best Guinea Pig - 2083 Words

The purpose of social networking was originally meant to open our eyes to the world, not blind us from reality. As the first generation to grow up with social networking, Generation Y is the best guinea pig to observe how humans begin to interact with one another while in constant global communication. Social networking has enabled the world to unify, spread ideas, communicate, and spread news quicker than ever before. Humans are now able to stay in touch while in completely different places. There is no more need to send letters or wait until the next day to read the newspaper because social media offers an instantaneous ability to inform the individual and the public. Additionally, people are now able to meet new â€Å"friends† through†¦show more content†¦This is where social media came in use. In order to spread the word for help people began tweeting out to map coordinates to inform the rescue teams where a person in need was. Also, the survivors were able to uti lize Facebook in order to link up with loved ones who were separated from the natural disaster (Howerton). Due to social networking many more lives were able to be saved that may have been lost without it. It provided a fast and easy ways for rescue teams to locate people in need. Social media is important because it always a quick response to emergencies. Also, it provides an emergency prompter to inform the general public of a possible incoming disaster. Next, scientists have been able to use social networking in order to share their experimental data. In the effort to find all the mutations associated with cancer many scientists felt it better to work together in order to share data. As a result, when â€Å"sequence data would come off the machine†¦ it was immediately posted on internet accessible data sets that could be accessed by all the investigators in the project as well as other scientists interested in looking at the data† (Sawyers). Without the ability to ins tantly share information scientists would not be able to have the most up to date information at all times. Investigators are now able to share their information, successes, and failures with others in order to keep modifying science. Medicine is at a great advantage because now doctors can easily