Ashley, Heather. "Don't Get Trapped By Social Media." Education Digest 79.9 (2014): 32-36. Education Research Complete. Web. 15 Aug. 2016.
Ashley Heather in the article, “Don't Get Trapped By Social Media” argues that some people use social media as their vent out. Ashley start her article with explaining the purpose of social media has become very popular nowadays and it's increasing each day. Due to fact that we're educators, we accept to use new learning tools and we quickly realized the many positive uses social media offered for the students. Ashley claims that it's certainly some teachers are making social media missteps, they creating problems for themselves and bringing their careers to premature ends. The urge to comment or post frequently
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The author supports his explanation by mention William Haynes, a 22-year-old he is a comedian who hosts the SourceFed show "People Be Like," said that he liked the fact that his generation love to share. He believes that the point of vacation is to shear it immediately. Another support to his explanation is Marla Vannucci, a clinical psychologist at Adler University. She presents a type of client that when people don't respond to them, he feels very lonely. So he posts more images. It's a cycle like any interpersonal cycle in which we're doing something that people hate but we're doing it to try to make people like us. The author suggests a solution that was to get three photos per location. In addition, the software company CyberLink In 2014 they sponsored a poll of 2,268 adults in the United States, "That some people have a tendency to post photos on social media just to gloat and annoy their friends and colleagues." The study found that one in seven who own a smartphone and who use social media would unfollow or block someone who posts a vacation pictures. A vacation photo of your ex with someone else is a good example, the two of them in the tiny fishing village in Portugal that would definitely unfriend your ex. In 2014, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published an article about a couple that received an anonymous letter about their Facebook posts. The letter read, in part, "It's a little upsetting seeing, hearing and reading about someone's vacations all year while we all can't afford one." Yet one of the trips the couple had taken was a trip to New York that they had bought at a breast cancer benefit, not to mention the fact that the wife of the couple works as a psychotherapist who specializes in helping sexually and physically abused children. The wife responded to the letter with instruction saying, "Please feel free to unfriend