SOCIAL NETWORKS ARE ANTISOCIAL Maria M. (2n BATX A)

SOCIAL NETWORKS ARE ANTI-SOCIAL

Social networks are becoming every day more important in our daily life. We don’t just use them to meet new people with who we share interests, activities, origins or connections. We also use them to talk to people we have in our closest environment. But do they make us anti-social?

First of all, I must clarify what the term anti-social actually refers to: unwilling or unable to associate in a normal or friendly way with other people. That’s the first definition we get when we look for “anti-social meaning” on Google. So, my answer is very clear: social networks AREN’T anti-social.

When we use social media, we interact with many other users. For example, on Instagram we can share our own photos and stories, like, comment, answer to others, tag, message and follow everyone we want to. Obviously, this isn’t such as real as communicating face-to-face and, of course I’m sure that if we didn’t follow that amount of people on Instagram, we wouldn’t know about them for years and life would keep walking by. That makes me kind of sad and dependable of Instagram, but it doesn’t mean make me anti-social, because I can keep talking to people face-to-face and also, talk to people I don’t necessarily see every day. Social media gives us a lot of content to comment and share with our friends and followers, which sometimes, opens discussions. In fact, they allow us to talk from, literally, any part of the world.

I have a friend who is staying in Perú for two months and social media are a free way to communicate with her. I mean, you only need Internet and an application that works, but that’s everything. That facilitates so much communicating with her, and I’m sure her family appreciates it a lot. And not just that…, you can also become friends with someone you would have never met in real life through Internet.

I can tell, by my own experience, that social media gives us the chance to make new friends and meet people. I joined Twitter many years ago and there I met online people from all ages which shared interests with me, such as following a concrete artist which no one near me followed. That’s what we call “Internet Friends”: people you meet online who you become friends with. For sure it is dangerous, and my mum has always warned me about people I’ve talked to, but if I hadn’t met as many people as I have thanks to social media, my life would be so different now. I mean, I’ve listened many times to the quote “Distance means nothing when someone means everything” and social media do really maintain us connected with people all around the world! Isn’t that something amazing?

However, it’s everyone’s decision whether to meet a friend and talk face-to-face to them or to keep looking at their phone-screen; it’s not Twitter’s election. It’s you who decides to use less or more a social media, even when it is obvious, they are a vice. It’s you who decides to write a stranger a message or to avoid them at all costs. It’s actually you, who is anti-social.

And there’s a thing you can’t deny: social media allow us to have someone near us when we are really, really far away. And that’s simply unbelievable.

Maria Maroto Amigó

2^nd BTX “A”

“SOCIAL NETWORKS ARE ANTI-SOCIAL” Sandra S. (2nd BATX A)

These days, almost everyone has at least one smartphone with its own social networks, which are becoming trendier around the world. First and foremost, what is actually a social network? We can define them as chains of individuals and their personal connections; however, they pull apart people more than joining them.

It is worth considering that social media is extremely useful to communicate with others, but in consequence, we are losing our abilities to interact with the ones who surround us. Few decades ago, when people wanted to talk with someone, they sent letters, phoned one another and later on, SMS appeared. Nowadays, we prefer chatting or posting photos on our social media, rather than calling our friends or relatives. This is quite awful because we are becoming more anti-social. In other words, lots of persons are connected to their smartphones the 24 hours of the day, and they are losing the chance to be with their friends and family because they are stick to the new technologies. I personally think that we have to realize how addicted to smartphones we are, and we have to stand up and leave away those screens.

On the other hand, influencers, which are those persons who promote different brands and products on social media, are growing faster and faster. The amount of these persons is unbelievable, and today’s teenagers follow them in every single social network, such as Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, etc. At first, it doesn’t seem a huge problem, but influencers have thousands of followers and they show an unreal image to them. In fact, a lot of kids and teenagers believe that if you don’t have lots of likes on Instagram or anyone follows you, you are not “cool”. Moreover, the existence of influencers has serious consequences on self-esteem and the way people act, and it’s also a reason why social media is anti-social.

In conclusion, I would say that social networks are essential for our daily lives, they help us to communicate with others, thanks to them we are able to post everything we want and it’s a good way to know more people. However, I personally think they suppose a problem for the society because we are becoming anti-social and increasingly, people tend to use their smartphones to talk with someone instead of hanging out with them. We should consider these facts and try to be more social and decrease all the time we spend chatting, browsing on the Internet, posting photos and videos, and set aside social media.

SANDRA SALVATELLA

2nd BATX A

Social networks are anti-social. Andreu O. (2 BATX)

Social networks are very common around the world, people use them daily and they are becoming every time even more popular. They have lots of different uses, to share photos, to talk with your friends, or maybe to meet new people.  And, like everything, if you don’t use these sites properly they can be bad or even harmful. But anyway, I completely disagree with this statement.

I disagree because they are designed completely to be used the other way around; they are very useful to meet new people or to keep in touch with old friends or the ones you make occasionally like in a party or concert. For example 4 years ago I went on a cruise where I met lots of new people from other countries and right now we are still following each other in Instagram and sometimes we even talk.

But as I said before, they can also be harmful, if you do an abusive use of them and you use them just to look at mems and stuff like that, as videos or any other useless game.

But even though some people use them incorrectly, most of the people give them a profitable use like for watching the news or to work. So in general they are very beneficious for our society and the statement of “social networks are anti-social” can only be applied to a part of it.

ANDREU OLLER

2nd BATX A

DISCONNECT TO CONNECT (Dante S. 4ESO)

Hello my name is Dante and I’m going to comment the video Disconnect to Connect.

In this video we can see some real-life situations like a girl in a meeting, a boy walking in the beach, a girl in a car… and more. What these situations have in common is that there is one person using the mobile phone and this person is ignoring the things that happen around her or him, and as it is illustrated in the video the things around them are invisible. At one point these persons realize that they are ignoring other people, so they turn off their mobile phones and they interact with them, and doing this they have a good time.

What this video is trying to say to us is that lots of people are on the phone constantly and don’t enjoy real life like the other people, and the video tries to raise awareness against the people that are addicted to the phone, to try to change their minds about using a lot the phone and change it to leave the phone some minutes to enjoy other things.

My opinion about this video is that yes, sometimes we have to disconnect and enjoy with other people (Haven’t you never found you in that situation where you try to talk to a person, but that person doesn’t listen to you or answer you because they are with the mobile phone? I have, and it makes me very angry) but using the phone sometimes isn’t bad at all, we can communicate with other people that aren’t with us, we can see what people are doing, we can have fun with games… the mobile phone is a great invention, and I’ll say one of the best of all times.

So in conclusion, mobile phone isn’t bad, but in some situations (especially in situations where we are with people) it can affect us negatively.

Thank you!

DANTE SPERTINO

4th ESO

CAMBRIDGE DIPLOMAS

We have already received the diplomas of the 

CAMBRIDGE EXAMS

that some of our students took last year

#KET #PET #FCE #CAE

Congratulations to them all for they good work and effort!

Well done!!!

NEW SCHOOL YEAR 19-20

After our summer holidays, we have begun a new school year. Sure it will be full of emotions, new things to learn, new classmates... 

We have begun with different icebreakers.

In 1st ESO, our students have talked about themselves using emojis

In other levels, we have used post-its to talk about our goals and expectations 

for the school year.

With our 4th ESO students  have already begun revising. 

First thing, MODAL VERBS!!

Sure it will be a good school year for everyone!