Essay About Social Networking Case And Social Networking

Social Networking Case
Social networking is everywhere, almost everyone does something everyday that involves social
networking. To most people social networking is a burden, but to me social networking is a gift. Social
networking gives me the opportunity to communicate with family members who I would not be able to
communicate with regularly. Social networking is so important because without it I would not have been able
to keep connected with my soldiers while they were overseas serving our country. Also social networking
has helped me through many rough times because I had the support of my family and friends with just the
click of a mouse. Without social media I am not sure how I would have made it through the last four years of
my life.
Communication thrives off of social media, if it were not for Facebook and MSN I would not be as
close to my family members as I am today. Social media give people who live large distances from each
other the opportunity to communicate and stay connected with each other. I know this from experience
especially because I had an uncle who was deployed in Desert Storm and the Iraq wars. Every single
Sunday at eight a.m., my family and I would get on MSN live chat and we would group chat with my uncle.
The feeling of relief that overwhelmed all of us when we would talk to him and know that everything was okay
and that he was okay. It was extremely hard on Christmas because he was not there and we are such a
close knit family. But thanks to social media and the ability to video chat we set l a video chat in the living
room so that we could all be together. It was very hard to look outside and see the blistering snow and to
smell the sweet apple pie in the oven cooking, and then seeing my uncle as he is sitting in a tan temporary
tent with a sand floor and knowing that it was 100 degrees out. But there was this sense of relief to be able
to see his smiling face. Social media made that Christmas dream a reality.
Social media also helped me get through another hard time in my life, when my friend Tyler was
deployed to Afghanistan for nine months. This tour was almost as hard as when my uncle was in Iraq. Tyler
and I worked out a deal