Forum Contributions by Minerva Ocolisan https://padlet.com/mocolisan/3ryw7sanyk1wlllr Write about how different social media apps have helped you in day to day life and study. Organize text in a semi-formal way. Use connectives in the same way as you saw in the video. You are writing to respond to Bilal and Jack. en-us 2020-05-21 14:54:36 UTC 2025-09-24 21:24:59 UTC hello@padlet.com Minerva mocolisan https://padlet.com/mocolisan/3ryw7sanyk1wlllr/wish/587194969 Use the samples from the video to organize your own semi-formal contribution to a forum on the topic of how you use social media websites. 
Use discourse markers such as 'first of all', 'as a matter of fact', 'besides', 'what's more', 'on the other hand'. Structure in 4 paragraphs. Use other informal expressions from the text such as: 'this looks like', 'join in', 'there you have it']]> 2020-05-21 15:17:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mocolisan/3ryw7sanyk1wlllr/wish/587194969 mocolisan https://padlet.com/mocolisan/3ryw7sanyk1wlllr/wish/587201363 2020-05-21 15:20:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mocolisan/3ryw7sanyk1wlllr/wish/587201363 mocolisan https://padlet.com/mocolisan/3ryw7sanyk1wlllr/wish/587210344 2020-05-21 15:23:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mocolisan/3ryw7sanyk1wlllr/wish/587210344 Khadeera Ghaleb https://padlet.com/mocolisan/3ryw7sanyk1wlllr/wish/589578940 Hi Minerva
This looks like a fascinating discussion on 'Social Media Websites'. I would love to share my opinions and ideas if i may. As i have very valid points, I have a very strong capability for this.

First of all, I agree with all the teenage students as social media websites are very fun and relaxing. Moreover, they have a variety of options and games so teenagers and others won't get bored. Moreover, it keeps them concentrated on good things and it gives them education as you can sign up for educational games.

Another reason is that, adults can send quick messages to students and they can start meetings online, so all students can still communicate on phone. It helps make new social friends and its all free some stuff are expensive but educational stuff are mainly free. Furthermore, it is easy to submit work from home.

On the other hand, social media can make people self harm because the hate has a big impact on the student and so does body shaming, makes them lazy, have health problems , causes addictions etc. Next, it wastes time when you can do other things i life. Lastly, it has some negative impacts because it makes people want to use money and not all sites can be trusted.

In conclusion, i believe that social media websites are more good than bad, as fun games help pass time in the hard time and its all free for good so it hasn't got that big of an affect on people except the self harming and body shaming. Just don't forget to take breaks.

There you have it- they are my opinions and i am looking forward to hearing from you thank you for taking interest in my opinion!
Bye for now!


]]> 2020-05-22 18:52:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mocolisan/3ryw7sanyk1wlllr/wish/589578940 LAVI MUHAMMED https://padlet.com/mocolisan/3ryw7sanyk1wlllr/wish/590507747 Hi Minerva,
This looks like a very interesting discussion. I would like to join in, if I may. Nowadays, social media websites are play a very important role in everybody's life. I would like to give my opinion.
First of all, I believe that social media has a lot of advantages, such as connecting to millions of people. it's a great opportunity for every one to share ideas, to know the latest news in the world. In the past people weren't able to communicate,but know you can easily communicate with your friend or your family especially those who lives aboard.
Another reason is that, people can use social websites to learn foreign languages, to communicate with friends e.g. making groups or online lessons, to search out on internet to get information.
above all, social media can be used for your business to reach larger pool of people that are interested in your product. you can discus about products with your audience, this means you can make your own business.

On the other hand, social media has a lot of disadvantages. for examples, people are not as clever as before because they depend on internet, they don't read like book before. Moreover, wasting too much time on looking useless things, affecting their health especially children and teen, cyber bulling, and bad affect of communication as they have lack emotional connection with others.

In conclusion I believe social media has a lot of benefits in our life. everyone should use social media. However, it should not be wasting too much time.

There you have it - that's my opinion. I would be interested to hear to have to say, so please carry on this great discussion.
Bye for now! 


]]> 2020-05-23 16:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mocolisan/3ryw7sanyk1wlllr/wish/590507747 Neelam Bi https://padlet.com/mocolisan/3ryw7sanyk1wlllr/wish/602321564 Hi Bilal and Jack,
This looks  like a riveting discussion! I would like to join in, if I may. I have quite a strong opinion on this subject.
First of all, social media websites play a vital roll in our life. These websites are  beneficial for students as well as for businessmen. Students could learn ; new technologies,different languages and skills because on some social media websites you can have groups of study. For example, on Facebook, you can take part in a group for learning English or Maths. with the lockdown situation nowadays,  students are really getting benefits of apps such as Zoom: they continuing their studies through apps. Moreover, business  men introduce their products  worldly using Apps such as Linkedin and YouTube and much more. If we look at individually pros, we could contact everyone who uses social websites everywhere  in the whole world. So, the world is like a global village. 

On the other hand, it’s very hard to judge true websites as theses days people are deceiving in many ways. Sometimes, students pay a big amount of fees to learn online but at the end they know this degree is unacceptable. Furthermore, buying online in the Facebook market place may be risky because you may end up with a product which is different from the one advertised online.

There you have it - it’s my opinion. I would like to hear from you because Iwould be interested in what you think about my opinion, so please carry on this great discussion.
Bye for now!


]]> 2020-05-30 10:31:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mocolisan/3ryw7sanyk1wlllr/wish/602321564 Shno Ali https://padlet.com/mocolisan/3ryw7sanyk1wlllr/wish/604453111 Hi Bilal and Jack
This looks like a very interesting discussion. As someone who has used social media websites a long time ago, I would like to share my experience and give my opinion on the topic.

First of all, we live in a world where we all have access to advanced technology which is great. In terms of social media apps, there are a wide range of them available around the world. Despite some disadvantages of using social media such as wasting time, I believe that social media websites are really useful tools to make life easy going.

I personally, have been using many different apps and benefited a lot from them. Since 2003, I have lived far away from my family and friends and have been using MSN and Yahoo to keep in touch. At the moment, I am on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and  Pinterest. These advanced apps have helped me to follow the daily news, get inspiration and organizing educational activities for nursery children as well as my own kids. In addition, I was able to improve my English by following some qualified teachers on YouTube on a daily bases.

In conclusion, I believe that social media websites provide us more positive aspects than negative. However, it depends on how we use it in our daily lives. Don't miss out on using social media because it can be great fun!
Nonetheless, don't spend too much time on it.

There you go, this is how I take advantage of using different social media apps for  my life and study. I am interested in what else you guys will be saying about this important topic, good bye!]]> 2020-06-01 09:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mocolisan/3ryw7sanyk1wlllr/wish/604453111 Nasra mocolisan https://padlet.com/mocolisan/3ryw7sanyk1wlllr/wish/610860008 Hello Bilal and Kirsten,
This look like a very interesting discussions. As someone who has used  some social media websites for a while, but have little knowledge of it I would like to contribute to my opinions and share my experience with you.

Social media make it easier to contact people  around the globe as  within minutes we know what happened around the world.  and that's significant changes as before it was hard. This is a significant change by comparison with earlier days, when people could not communicate online. Social media has great advantages.  and disadvantages.  For example, here are the list of advantage you can have friends who live in another countries, you can also doing businesses without you leaving the house or even the country and you can have your conference meeting in your office with people who mult countries.
Here are  some disadvantages of the social media.  Most of the young people forget the outside world, they forget to interact with people face to face, which cause them to be become unhealthy.  As a result of spending too much time on social media many young people become depressed and obese. Furthermore,  some of them think if they builed people on Facebook, hiding behind a false name, scene the social media website and they are anonymous, they do not see consequence of their actions.  In addition, social media has a negative impact because it decreases family time, as these days everyone in the family has a smartphone and spends more time interacting online than with people in their family. So, do not spend too much time online, allow time for yourself and family!
I personally  use Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.  email, Google classroom, zoom and pledet some use for study and others for personal communication with my family and friends. I believe everyone who are using the social media websites should only use for great things and encouragement to others otherwise they shouldn't use it.   
In conclusion, I think social media websites provide us with very significant support  as some of us use them for studying and  communicating with friends and families. Despite the disadvantages I mentioned above, I believe they are a very important tool for communication, study and getting information and that they should be used by everybody. 

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