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Can you please give me a good thesis statement on should teens use twitter?
03-24-2014, 10:54 AM
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Can you please give me a good thesis statement on should teens use twitter?
Only 11 percent of teens use Twitter on a daily basis, according to a 2012 report compiled by Business Insider. On the other hand, every day, 51 percent use social networking sites and 68 percent send and receive text messages. Furthermore, 72 percent of teens that have signed up for Twitter claim to never use their accounts. Some commentators even propose that the microblogging service appeals more to grownups as a way of communicating. Andrea Forte, an assistant professor at Drexel University’s College of Information Science and Technology, describes Twitter as being more adult in interaction compared to Facebook and other social networks, in which users create profiles with details about themselves and their interests that foster a sense of belonging. “Your identity on Twitter is more your ability to take an interesting conversational turn, throw an interesting bit of conversation out there,” she tells The New York Times. “Your identity isn’t so much identified by the music you listen to and the quizzes you take.”
Others contend that as a source of breaking news and current events—such as the first reports of ice on Mars and real-time updates on the 2009 election riots in Iran—Twitter does not generally capture or sustain the interest of teens. “Teenagers are notorious for being terrible at social engagement, voting, and keeping up with the news,” asserts Ben Parr, a technology journalist. “While I don’t want to typecast an entire age demographic,” he adds, “I can say this with confidence: Teens, more than any other age group, care about their friends. It’s the continuation of real-life friendship (and the creation of online ones) that has driven the tremendous growth of MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, etc.” He further explains that teenagers do not seek to generate publicity or promote themselves, which Twitter is tailored for. “Twitter is a huge promotional tool—for businesses, for bloggers, for self-described experts—but teenagers aren’t as concerned with these things as a whole.” To attract more young users to the site, Parr recommends that Twitter grow itself large enough that youths feel pressured to join and add features and third-party applications that emphasize social circles.
Nevertheless, some experts note that a growing number of teens are gravitating to Twitter precisely because many of their friends and family are not on it. “It removes the pressure to post on a Facebook wall where friends of friends may see it, not to mention Mom and Dad. In a sense, Twitter is the privacy from Facebook,” blogs Hessie Jones, vice president of marketing at Jugnoo, a company specializing in social media and customer relations. For instance, not only can tweets be hidden from public view, Twitter users can create accounts under pseudonyms known only to a select few. “I love twitter, it’s the only thing I have to myself … cause my parents don’t have one,” declares seventeen-year-old Britteny Praznik of Wisconsin in a tweet. Observers also propose that there is less social pressure on the site, which is more about telegraphing thoughts, emotions, and ideas in short bursts than socializing and establishing connections, which requires more effort and obligations. Mary Madden, research associate at Pew Internet & American Life Project, states that young people do not worry about “friending everyone in your school or that friend of a friend you met at a football game” on Twitter. Supporting this trend, some statistics on its popularity among the age group are encouraging. A 2011 Pew survey indicates that its use among twelve- to seventeen-year-olds doubled to 16 percent that year from 8 percent in 2009.

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03-24-2014, 11:00 AM
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yes they should be allowed

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