Guaranteed Meeting Places
When attempting to plan meetings with colleagues or friends, having access to social networking sites expands the available times and places in which meetings can occur. Individuals can meet each other and chat over Facebook, or open a video chat through Google+. Rather than having to travel to specific locations, or try to work times out in which everyone is near a central location, people can plan to meet at times that work for all of their schedules.
Keep in Touch with Family
Keeping in contact with family through the phone or even over email presents a challenge. Instead, social networking sites allow the individual to share their day to day life in a secure but public forum, which family can watch and experience. Facebook, for example, allows people to share events, images, and thoughts in real time, during the course of any day. Family and friends can then experience all the things that someone does, and comment on them. Then, they share in the experience, rather than just being "informed" about them during weekly phone calls.
Professional Networking
For professionals and academics, social networking sites allow users to create networks of like-minded people. Academics find other scholars to share research or ideas, or simply to talk to and "get their name out there." Professionals find mutual friends and possible clients, employers, or business partners. Social networking expands the horizons of what sort of contacts people can make in their professional lives.
Staying Informed About the World
People on social networking sites share what interests them, such as news on current events. People who share those interests, or who just want to stay informed, can read these stories and share them as well. Eventually, these stories make their to users who may have never read them. Since stories are shared through "word of mouth," smaller news outlets such as blogs can get exposure, and social network users are overall connected to a larger pool of new information and opinion.
My Opinion
I chose this topic because as you know social networking sites have great importance on our lives. For example, even a child has a Facebook account nowadays. I find social networking sites useful as long as they are used properly.
Hello Büşra. Thank you very much for this informative and expressive reflection of yours. I really enjoyed reading this reflection. It provided me with deeper insight into the use of social networks. Your writing seems to be well-organized and well-structured, which makes it very easy to follow the main and supporting ideas. Moreover, you use linkers in an appropriate manner, which also provided coherence and cohesion in the text. Also, your use of such idioms as “word of mouth” and “get their name out there”, which are usually used by native speakers rather than learners, adds authenticity to your paragraph. However, in terms of grammatical structure, you should revise a few parts of your reflection. For instance, this sentences seems to be incomplete due to lack of a word: “Eventually, these stories make their to users who may have never read them”. You should insert an appropriate word to provide the complete meaning that you meant. Another problem is with the use of parallelism; that is, you should use the same category for the both parts when using “rather than”. Thus, you should revise your sentence: “Rather than having to travel to specific locations, or try to work times…” You can use either gerund or infinitive on both sides. In terms of spelling and punctuation, you seem to have no mistakes. Overall, your reflection is well-written and coherent.
YanıtlaSilHello Enes, thank you for your comments on my task :) I will edit them as soon as possible :)
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