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W hat is a social network? If you look up the definition of network, you will find it is a group of interconnected people or things. And that is exactly where we are now.

Let me back up. When we first discovered electricity, it opened limitless opportunities for communication. Starting from the phone, and on and on. Today we live in a world where anything we want posted or watched can be seen by millions in a matter of seconds. Now think of the sheer power we all hold.

For example, remember the show TRL? The MTV show was the best way in the early 2000s for artists to promote their music and get in touch with their fans. Then MySpace, Facebook and Twitter came and rendered the show useless because people can promote their stuff through computers.

Those are some of the positives of this network, but is it really social? What I mean is, doesnt it feel that with all this accessibility to one another we still seem isolated from one another?

When people didnt have phones and they wanted to talk to someone, they got up and walked to the persons house. Now when people want to do something, they call the person or text a message. It takes away a bit of the social part of the so-called social network.

So is it just a network that gives people the illusion of communication when its really just more isolation (I know tone it down over-thinker, but thats just an extreme viewpoint I wanted to through out there). What the network is going to evolve to next I have no idea (hopefully teleportation machines that beam us where we want to go like an email), but who knows? If youre still reading and havent moved on to the next page (thanks), you might have noticed I just showed the negative effects of the social network. Everyone knows the positives because we use it every day. You have to look at it from both sides.

So next time youre on Facebook, Twitter or whatever else is included in the social network, think about where its going and if it will benefit us? Or will it set us back?

Max Fisher is a junior at Leonardo DaVinci High School.

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