To some, Social Media has made our generation small minded, lazy, and likely to run into a pole while walking because of constantly staring at a screen smaller than a piece of paper. This topic is interesting to me because not only am I a part of this generation that the critics are talking about, but also because in some ways it's true. This question affects me because my generation has been the one to make the new languages, to make the "Six Degrees" challenge not a myth, and lastly to change an electronically free world to a completely electronically dependent society. My personal experience has gone from twitter fights, to Social Media creating easier targets for sex offenders, and even to sex tapes being released. The fact that I have and am currently living through the Social Media era makes me qualified to write about this topic because I not only have Social Media of my own, but my friends and family do as well. Social Media may be a way to keep in touch faster with your friends, but it must be taken more seriously.

"How Social Media is changing language," by Jon Reed, starts out by claiming how Social Media has completely changed the world's language in a few aspects. That every word or phrase that "normal" people would type out has been abbreviated to things like "LOL" or winky 

faces, ";-)." It uses the "hashtag" as evidence for this claim in Twitter and "trolls" on Facebook. The major values and interests at stake for this would be that "LOL" is actually celebrating its 25th birthday making it not necessarily a new language for this generation. And also that Facebook has been around for a lot longer than my generation has, so the source should probably use more recent media sites such as Instagram or Snapchat. This source is by far credible because Jon Reed has been publishing for almost more than ten years on different websites such as this one. He even runs his own website called "Publishing Talk," in which he has many creditors post on. Jon Reed has only ever published about Social Media, so after ten years of hard work, looking through all the flaws within his arguments, I think he doesn't have a biased opinion because he has done nothing but figure out what the real facts are.

"Kevin Bacon on 'Six Degrees' game. 'I was Horrified'," by Brandon Griggs, talks about how there are 6.7 billion people on this planet and within six handshakes, you could be shaking anyone's hand. Social Media plays a huge role in this because it created a website online that allowed anyone to access and determine the number of steps between two people. The major values within this resource are that you could literally type in anyone's name and find out how far away you could be from them. This could perceive many problems because serial killers may feel that they're somehow close to you, or even related if your name pops up. The credibility of this source is phenomenal. Google even has a way of letting you type in a code and find a match just as easily as going to the website. It's not biased because almost everyone is aware or this game, making it hard to bias an opinion.

"Americans can't live without the web- but Social Media is different," by Katie Rogers, claims how internet and Social Media are completely different things. By making charts and having research done on this, it claims that Americans proposed that the internet is easy to give up, but as far as Social Media goes they aren't sure if they could live without it. The major values and interests at stake is that how old were the participants within the poll because most teens my age have Social Media, but my grandparents would have no clue what I would be talking about. Also the poll could be wrong due to the fact some people don't always answer all the questions whole-heartedly. This source could be biased because depending on the age range, some people could have no clue what Social Media is. Not to mention, it could depend on if they're in a big city where Social Media is a must for jobs or work or is it within a small county where everyone knows everyone and there's no need for Social Media.

The research question is arguable because everyone has different lifestyles. Depending on whether or not you live an urban or rural lifestyle, Social Media's impact could differ. For example, the TV show "Gossip Girl" is from an upstate high school in New York where all the drama happens within text messages that get sent out throughout the school. Or from my personal experience, coming from a small town where nobody really has to use Social Media because we're always together doing the same things. Some agreements would be how scientists are now starting to ask whether or not our thumbs will slowly be deformed through the next generations always texting, or how the Universal obesity rates have gone up because kids nowadays are never really outside playing, instead they're inside on Social Media, or how texting and driving is responsible for millions of deaths. A disagreement could be that Social Media keeps us in contact with old friends from school that we'll never see again other than on a screen in a picture. The different perspectives affect my own by helping me understand that there is two sides to this research question, but that I believe there is more agreements than disagreements. My research question can be critiqued in a few ways because yes Social Media has changed the world, but not in third-world countries. This type of question could easily be answered because third-world countries don't have all of the technology that we have today. 

