For the beginning of this article,
it introduce the background of this author: S. Craig Watkins. He was doing a research
about the dynamics of online spaces. In the next paragraph, the author talked
about the young people like to use network to have communication with each
other. In the eighth paragraph, it talks about that “women use social-network
sites more frequently than men.” The reason why women like to use the social-network
sites is that girls are more likely to talk about all kinds of things on the
Internet. For example, when I saw something interesting online, I will posted
in my social-network sites and @ my friends to read them. I like to share these
funny events and news together. We like to have communication through this way.
When we have the face meet next time, we even will discuss these events and
news together. In Chinese opinion, we think that men should work hard to
support families and women should stay at home to take care of children and do
the housework. From this perspective, we can know that the women have more free
time to use the social-network sites than men. Nowadays, Internet has become
the most important part in our daily life. Some of people even think that they
cannot live without Internet. More and more people like to use the Internet to
finish everything instead of going outside.
Second, later in the ninth
paragraph, it talks about that “ students whose parents have less than a high school
degree are significantly less likely to be on Facebook and are significantly
more likely to be MySpace users. “ The author think that it should rely on the
young people’s engagement with social-network sites. However, none of
researches can answer the influence of social-networking sites on young people.
In addition, young people like to
describe the Facebook positively. However, the words to describe the MySpace is
strikingly hostile such as creepy, crowded and so on. I think this is fit the
pervious opinions the author talked that high educated young people like to use
Facebook instead of MySpace. I think more high-educated people like to use the
Facebook which can make a positive and polite atmosphere. On the contrast,
low-educated people like to use the MySpace to express their thoughts which
means they created another kind of atmosphere. I think maybe this is the reason
why high educated young people like to use the Facebook.
Last, I really like the sentence “Social
and mobile media may be changing how we connect, but as we move into the digital
future, it does not appear to be significantly altering who we connect to.” No
matter how the world change, the person who we connect is the same.
