TSABITAH MUTTAQINAH

GRADE 8
ENGLISH COMPETITION
FROM
AL IHSAN ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOL JAKRTA
Assalamualaikum wr.wb. praise to be upon Allah our Mighty God.
Hi everyone, Im Tsabitah Muttaqinah from Al Ihsan Islamic Boarding
School, South Jakarta. Good morning to the honorable judges, UIN Jakarta as our
beloved host, all of the participants and audiences. Before I start, Id like to thank
you for the opportunity given to me.
Ladies and gentlemen Today I am going to deliver speech about How
social networks are bad or good.
In this era, social media has been popular among teenagers. Some of
them do good things there and others are blinded. Actually social network is
good since it can connect us to people and help us to always get connected with
friends and family who are not close with us.
So, do you know why the founder of Facebook made this kind of social
network? If we are trying to know the purpose why Marc Zuckerberg made
Facebook, we will know how good his purpose on making such social media that
now has been so popular and stand more than 9 years since its first release on
2006. He wants to help people to get connected their far away family. We still
remember a story where there was a young woman that finally met her family
after years they were separated. Through Facebook they met.
I cant say that social network is bad because it depends on people using
it. When we decide using Facebook for lying, thats bad. When we decide using
Facebook to connect and share good things, thats good. There is no exact
measurement and research to judge that social media is bad. Thus, let me tell
you how social media can work good and bad things for us. Lets start from the
bad one.
The first is social media will waste our times. In 2009, social media is
popular from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Those three social media may be
the most popular but it has been mushrooming since everyone has such a
common sense in making new friends and connection so now it is not only
Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
In last three years, there were at least 7 social media that are
mushrooming and growing so popular. They are Facebook, twitter, Instagram,
Whatsapp, BBM, Snapchat, Periscope, Ask fm and many more. We are too busy
on updating status and updating the popular social media. At the end, study has
no place in our schedule.
The more times, there will be more social media and Indonesia must be
going to be the first leading users. Almost half of Indonesians are using
Facebook.

The second badness of social network is when we spend more

times on social media, we lose our real social connection with
surrounding. Existence is more important than drinking. Even when we are
thirsty, we are not drinking but we will say to the world with social media that we
are thirsty, right? Thats silly but funny at once. Another example is when we are
going to have lunch with family or friends, the first thing is not ordering menu
but taking selfie and publishing it to social media. And yes we lose our quality
time because we are busy with social media. We are not robot, right? It is strange
when we are facing each other but we are just busy with phones.
The third is that we are often blinded with new friends. We are
happy because we have good friends in social networks, we think that they are
good but fact is different. Not all people are going with good willing on. In 2014,
a 14 years old teenager from Sulawesi was kidnapped by her Facebook friend.
Just because the man looks good and wise, it does not mean that we can trust
him because we have to be careful to new people.
It is not fair if I only tell the bad things about social media but we have to
be honest and admit that there are many positive things we can take from social
network. There are many examples too that we can see and do the good things
with Facebook and other social networks.
The first good thing is social media can help us to entertain
ourselves when we are so tired with schools and the duties. Since we
have class mate in our friend list, we can share anything with them and funny
things in social media. Sometimes when we have followed some channels and
idols, we get entertained by their post. The exact example is in Instagram and
Facebook where now idols and fans can meet and look close in social media. It is
good for teenagers who have great fandom and want to connect with their idol.
The most important thing on this good thing is that we have to control times so
we can manage our studying schedule and playing social media.
The second is we can connect with teachers and others. In school
the relation between teacher and student may seem far. With social network, it
looks close. We as students can connect with teachers and make our relation
better. In some cases, social media is used to organize home works and school
events. Through Facebook, sometimes school can spread important information
in social media so students do not need to go to school to access that
information.
Third is sharing good information and learning many things. To
know whether we can use social network in good way or not is to see from the
numbers of the following list. For example, we follow Mario Teguh, Science page
or news page. It can widen our knowledge just from a single Facebook post that
we follow. It is good, isnt it? It will be better when we can select friends and
pages wisely.
The last but not least is social media can be good place to show
our ideas. Spread our ideas and reduce spamming. For us who love writing, we
can publish status that has good words and motivation quote. It can be useful for
others who read our status. Once world sees our ideas, impossible thing can
come true. The fact tells.

It is good when we students can use social media for goodness but it will
be dangerous when we cant manage times and use for bad things. It is common
that a thing has plus and minus. It will be plus when we can use proportionally
and it will be minus when we cant control ourselves in social media.
So, my friends, let us be wise to manage our time. We have to decide
when to study and when to having connection on social media.
Thank you for your attention and God bless you all.
Assalamualaikum wr wb.