Boyd & Bennett Reading Response

     Boyd and Bennett both had very different views on how social networking can benefit society today.  Boyd feels strongly that social networks hinder our society and offer little benefit to its progress. She described how anyone can be someone they're not on the internet because it allows for 'attention-seeking people to do their thing." (113) She said that the internet is full of egoists trying to get attention for anything.  Boyd takes a much more negative stand on social networking throughout the reading. At one point, she says that the social network sites work as "echo-chambers" in which the same information is passed among friends but goes no further than that.
     Bennett's approach sees social networking in a more positive light and he thinks we should take what we have, and use our resources to create a better society. He thinks the technology of today can be of great benefit to us.  He says that the youth should be more involved with the internet and such in order to move forward.  Since the world today is so technology-based, we must learn how to make use of these tools.
     Bennett seems to take a much more ideal approach to this subject because we are only becoming more and more engaged in the technological society of today.  To ignore this fact, or bash it is unrealistic because we are now a technological society.  We must accept this, and utilize our tools to the greatest extent to keep moving forward.