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Internet and Social media

• Internet and social medias have recently revolutionized our day-to-day way of living.

• Most of the people have now a facebook, twitter, instagram or pinterest accounts.

• In some way, communications become faster and more efficient.

• We have friends in multiple part of the world.

• I keep in touch with friends who actually live in Chile, USA, Germany, Russia, Morocco and Turkey.

• In fact, they aren’t only virtual friend.

• I have met them in real life.

• I have sometimes some news from them, and then if they or I travel, we’ll meet again.

• In this way, social medias are allowing us to be more curious and open to other people, cultures, and ways of living.

• Thanks to social medias, we become more and more cosmopolite.

• And to my mind, it is one of the most important benefits of the use of the new technologies.

• However, some well-founded criticism are nowadays arising for the changes that involving new social medias.

• For example, a recent research-study reveals that the proliferation of virtual friendships doesn’t erase, even cause, real loneliness.

• Being more virtually connected with other people may lead to the multiplication of superficial contacts and weak relationships.

• More than that, the recent politic events (the “Brexit” and the American election) have demonstrated how deeply could the news being manipulated and distorted.

• Despite these problematic changes, I think that live without the opportunities offered by social medial should be a mistake.

• But we have to be conscious that all we say, write or publish on the Internet is in some way public.

• A really simple way to have an appropriate virtual comportment: behave yourself on social medias as you behave in the street or in another public space.

• You will certainly not show a picture from you doing a weird thing to everyone in the street.

• In the same way, you will not insult in front of 400 persons someone who doesn’t please you, or have different opinions from you.

• This little tip helps to keep silent about private opinions and avoid emotional inappropriate reactions on social medias.

• In addition, we must be careful with any information we found online, and be conscious that we need to search contradictory sources to really understand something.

• To conclude, Internet and social media have moved the frontier between public and private spaces, and we must adapt our behaviour to this major evolution.