Category:Spending Your Time

With people spending most of their time working, commuting, and trying to make money or a living many people want to be lazy when it comes to social media. They want to destress by using Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and other websites that involve as little brain power as possible. While others prefer to use that time to help support websites that benefit special causes, diseases, or other such organizations that help people.

There was an ongoing question in class on what is considered good or bad cognitive surplus? Is getting on Facebook and Twitter constantly with our extra time the worst thing in the world and is that considered a waste of our cognitive surplus? I think Shirky gives alot of positive and negative points when it comes to making an opinion on social media. For example, the chapter on "Looking for the Mouse" gives us an outlook on the intimacy level, adapting, trying, clarity, and learning. Social media is a work in progress. It's constantly growing, moving, reaching out, and changing the way we live our lives. What we do with it is up to us and I believe it's different for everyone. We use our cognitive surplus the way we feel works best for us. Is it bad or good? I don't think that's for us to decide. If you're going to use that time for other things such as helping the planet or shelters than you're going to do it. If you use that time to join together to protest against something, you will. I think those who have enough cognitive surplus to be using social media will do it as they please and the outcomes are endless and growing.