...Chanie Withers Written Assignment #10 SOC 101 – October 2015 Social Media & Technology Technology has changed the way we communicate with others tremendously. The advancement in technology has given us numerous ways to interact with one another. Some of the ways consist of email, social networks, online chat, blogs, video calls and cell phones. Sometimes communicating via methods that don’t involve visual aid, comments could potentially be taken the wrong way. This could lead to a misunderstanding or a conflict within communications. Emails are typically used for business or professional communication. Social networks like Facebook offers a plethora of ways to converse. Facebook offers video calls and online chatting. “Yet with the rise of social media, there are many concerns that people appear to be substituting virtual , online connections for real-life , social relationships” (Bonanno 2015). Blogs are not a direct means of exchange, however people use blogs to network and express their opinions. Cell phones give you the capability to send text messages, leave voicemails and access social media to interact with others. Methods of communication that do not involve visual aid, create an opportunity for conflict or misperception. There is also the chance that people will portray themselves on a grander scale, better than what their life actually is. “Even when we fulfill this urge to make ourselves feel better bragging via an Instagram picture about a great...
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...are involved in social networking and texting. I feel that the issue can be narrowed down to a past, present, and future where the middle-age is the past, my generation is the present, and the youth is the future. Each of these age groups have a different stake in the issue, but are all connected together within our society through the extended use of technology. As our society evolves, so does our technology. These technologies are made to make our lives easier and more enjoyable, but are they really just making us socially inept? While the advance in technology has been proven to be a benefit in communication, medicines, law, and education, maybe it is a curse within itself. Social media and texting offer ways for people to communicate globally, practically simultaneously, but our society is becoming completely dependent on these technologies, struggling to communicate outside of them, and it is ruining the social capabilities of the youth. Younger Generations The youth may have the most to gain or lose with the advance in technology. Their lives are beginning much different than those of their parents or older siblings. Kids are getting cell phones, social media websites such as Facebook, and video game consoles with internet capability at a much younger age. When used for education, the advancing technology is a huge positive influence on the brains of kids. While these are all ways that people communicate with each other in today’s age, the question...
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...have cellphones. These days, people and their mobile phones seem to be inseparable. Texting or calling someone when we wake up has become a usual habit just like brushing our teeth in the morning. For many of us, it's hard to imagine a time before cellphones. Having a cellphone has changed our manners, the way we communicate, and our safety. Before cellphones there seemed to be more peace and quite. People seemed to have manners. Today people don't always remember their manners when using their cellphones. People constantly carrying on personal conversations in a public place can be very annoying. Some people talk really loud and don't care that everyone around them can hear every word they are saying. It can be extremely disturbing to someone when they are walking in a mall or down a street and someone starts speaking right beside or behind them. They turn to respond, only to find out he or she beside them has an earbud active. Before we had cellphones people would actually write letters. During my elementary school days it was “cool” to pass notes. We actually used complete sentences and words that were in the dictionary. Also before cellphones if someone was to leave the house, they didn’t make a phone call unless they popped 10 cents into a pay phone. People never received any calls away from home. People actually had to be out of touch with friends and family when they weren’t at home. Now that we have cell phones letters are rarely sent. Today note passing is rare...
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...vulnerable to predators, addiction, and lack of social interaction. The beginning of social networking started with a site call BBS (Bulletin Board System). This was a site that allowed user to use text only exchange. This was a popular thing in the 1980s and late 1990s. (Nickson, 2009) The Internet was still new at this stage and did not catch on until AOL (America Online) ventured around in the mid-1990s. Soon sites such as Yahoo and Amazon came alone catching the eyes of the young generation. In August 2003 the popular network MySpace started a frenzy allowing young people to interact more closely. This was in part because the site made it very easy to post videos. This was the start of the downfall for how teens interacted with society. One question comes to mind if it were also not the very thing that destroyed a generation. One of the ways this could be deemed a generation destroyer, is...
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...I September 28, 2015 Essay I Final Draft The Usefulness of Mobile phones Most people believe that Mobile phones have taken over people’s lives. Some even say that they are ruining social skills and relationships. None of that is true as long as people can be responsible with their Mobile phone and their time. Phones do not ruin social lives, if anything; they actually enhance our relationships with our peers. Mobile phones are used for a variety of purposes, including keeping in touch with family members, conducting business, and having access to a telephone in the event of an emergency. Some people carry more than one cell phone for different purposes, such as for business and personal use. Multiple SIM cards may also be used to take advantage of the benefits of different calling plans a particular plan might provide cheaper local calls, long-distance calls, international calls, or roaming. Mobile phones are more useful and needed now more than ever before in their history. If I need to ask someone, something then I can just call him or her. If I need to know something, I can search it from my phone and know the answer within just seconds. Mobile phones are more wanted in society because they are such a useful asset in our everyday life, they are only a burden to us if we let them be one. Mobile phones have improved our lives since their invention. The ability of communication with Mobile phones has made our lives so much easier than we did before. If I needed to call...
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...myself, rely on technology a lot. Whether it is with school related, work related, or just personal use. With technology advancing everyday, we can virtually do anything with cell phones or computers. By knowing that there is an alternative and much easier way of doing a task, individuals become accustomed to keep using the source(s) for the easy way out. Not only is it a much easier way, but people lose many other factors and the main purpose by not doing it first hand. Younger generations are the ones that are being affected by the technology the most. In most schools around the world, technology is now being fitted into the school's curriculum in order to lead the students into a successful path. However, it is only giving the students an easier way to find the answers without them actually learning and comprehending what the main lesson(s) or purpose is. For example, when a student is writing a research paper, all he or she has to do is go on a computer, type in a couple of words, and the research is done. Instantly a student can have information and answers without doing any actual research themselves. Technology is not only giving the answers directly to the student but it is putting them down for failure in the outside world when they face the challenge of not being able to rely back to the computer or phone. The teachers rely on technology just as much as the students do, causing not only harm to students but the entire school. Due to the technology advancing rapidly and taking...
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...People in the modern day use texting as a means of communicating with friends and family. It is typically thought that teenagers are the only people that use their cellular devices to text but it has become more common now for people of all ages to text, including people well into their 50’s. Many people will argue that texting is ruining the way that others write papers and essays, but does it come across to these people that maybe our language is just evolving just as it has over the last 80 years? When writing papers and essays, people should have the common sense not to use terms such as “LOL” or “BTW” as they do when they text. Texting is not something that is affecting language and proper spelling and grammar, it is an adaptation of language. Texting is a positive change in society because it provides the younger...
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...Charlene Henderson Professor Davis English 102 13 November 2014 Fahrenheit 451 and the Society of Americans Bradbury’s novel, Fahrenheit 451, illustrates a future that is remarkably similar to our current society. His science fiction novel tells the story of a community that relies on technology advancements to guide them in their everyday lives. His characters live in a fast passed society where they don’t read books, watch a lot of TV and drive very fast just like the people today. Bradbury does a nice job at predicting what the world would be like. We are always demanding more advanced machinery, and from the past, we have grown into a much more technological society. Lately, more and more people not only want more technology, they want it to be faster and faster. Faster computers, faster internet connections, better and faster cell phone connections, faster phones, and faster and more powerful cars, just to name a few. People don’t want to waste time anymore waiting for things to load even though they spend hours and hours doing meaningless things on their phones and computers. We want things done quicker without as much effort. We want things to take less to do them so we can have more for other things. Although Bradbury’s technology is more advanced than ours, we too are becoming a world consumed by technology advancements. Our society is similarly addicted to television and many people aren’t choosing to read for leisure anymore. Especially when TV...
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...Cell Phones and Social Media: Keeping in Touch with Everyone but Ourselves John Doe University/College 04 May 2014 Abstract Technology developed in the past decade has been life-changing. Cell phones have become the most quickly embraced consumer technology in history. Because of this boom and the monumental popularity of social media; have we lost the ability to communicate without this medium? Smartphones and pocket-sized mobile devices have allowed us to do things that were only dreamed of a few years ago. These new technological marvels combined with the overwhelming wave that is social media are reshaping the way we communicate, and with whom. Smartphones and social media are changing the way we relate to people and lessening the depth of our face-to-face relationships. Additionally, while trying to save the moment for the future, we are losing our opportunity to experience and enjoy that moment in the present. Twitter. Facebook. Instagram. Snapchat. Repeat. Ever find yourself performing this ritual over and over again during the day? Perhaps on the way to work, waiting to be seen for an appointment, or while relaxing during a meal. Glance around a restaurant and try to find people who don’t have their heads down using their cell phones or mobile devices to text, Tweet, or update their Facebook statuses—all while supposedly sharing a meal with others at their table. Because of the proliferation of cell phones and the monumental popularity of...
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...I SEARCH DRAFT What I already knew/what I wanted to know Technology is a major crisis, increasing day by day. Many of us deny this, or many don’t want to believe this actually. Unfortunately, yes; it is causing a lot of trouble around our societies. We are suffering from a serious disease called technology. Every day, while I am seeing this virus spreading, many questions started coming to my mind. Aren’t teenagers and kids too small to hold a smartphone? How did our lives change (to worse or better)? Which is better now or then? I already knew that technology is the simple idea to do complex tasks, but in a way or another it has its own side effects. It can be beneficial in many ways, but on the other hand, it can be more...
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...economic prospects, people had limited connection between each other. A social network is made up of people, are connected to each other by specific type of link. Basically, social network operates at different level which happens in family functions where all family members and friends accumulate under one roof. Social network has always been in use, but it is just that the image /form or face of social networking has changed nowadays, whereas in back age there was long process which involved a movement of chain in which people led to each other through social contacts, but today the process is highly advanced. Communication has always been a medium for growth of social networking. With the appearance of internet and today's advanced cell phone, the way of social interaction has been changed which transformed into email and text messages. Nowadays there are plenty of social networking sites where people help themselves regarding get more information and establish contacts. Social network allows the people to share their point of views about any concern. Social networking became more advanced since social networking sites came in which made quick and easy for people to share their thoughts, ideas or opinion. Even though social networking companies do different level of marketing in which members of company add new members like making a team in form of chain where, by selling company’s product online members get benefited with certain percentage as a...
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...materialistic in this modern society. We are competing with each other. People buy useless things because they see others or they wish something. In the article “Spent: America After Consumerism” the author, Amitai Etzioni, discusses two problems: consumerism and capitalism, which is causing an economic crisis. Etzioni explains how consumerism has become a social disease, where people are spending money on useless things to acquire higher lifestyle to fit in the society. He also suggests solutions, to control consumerism by following communitarianism or transcendental pursuit. However, many people feel that consumerism is part of life. They feel as if they acquire more materialistic objects or money it will bring happiness in their life. I do agree with the author that consumerism has become a social disease and people will do anything to acquire vain desires. At first, I have seen many people working extra-long hours to acquire their desires without thinking how restless life can affect them physically and mentally....
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...is this place with real grass and actual sky instead of a bunch of megapixels being put together to create fake ground. I mean seriously, do they even know what grass feels like anymore? I have two younger cousins and let me say, video games are their life. If they see a new game in an advertisement on TV its all, “Mom, Mom, Mom I absolutely need this new Pokémon game, like look at it NEW Pokémon are on this game.” Instead of playing video games you could easily have just as much fun on the playground or on your bikes, but no kids are too attached to their games to notice the world. Kids aren’t the worst with all the new technology though, it’s the teens that are most effected. All those gossip girls standing in their circle on their phones not even talking to each other. Why even bother being together if your too busy texting someone else to pay attention to everyone around you? Then theirs that one friend you have on Facebook who is constantly ranting on and on about how life sucks, or how their friends are SO mean to them. I mean just shut up no one wants to hear for the millionth time that life sucks for you. If you want so much attention then why don’t you just talk to people? It really isn’t that complicated to move your lips and speak words. Whiners like that can get attention so easily with people constantly pressing the “like” button. If people would just stop pressing that button all these attention seeking losers wouldn’t even exist. The parents don’t even understand...
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...Louis Thayer Professor Carpenter CRJ 212 April 7th, 2011 Generally when people are talking about evidence they are thinking of physical evidence or a key witness of a specific crime described. In some instances this is not always the case. As technology becomes more advanced and readily available in today’s society so isn’t the rate of cyber crimes and how they have increased. A cyber crime could be defined as a crime using the technology, usually over the internet and other technological devices. It is important that our generation and then future generations understand what is happening in today’s society. There has been a growing trend that probably started up a few years ago. “Sexting” is the form of texting for the young teenager generation to show them self in the most unwanted manner. The evidence of sexting could get you very serious trouble and then you could be facing like long threatening outcomes as a part of it. The purpose of the article “sexting” found in the Federal Bureau of Investigation Bulletin is to show the risky actions and overreactions if you get caught (Bowker and Sullvian 1). The authors of this article take an approach in multiple areas of this article. It gives the consequences pending what actually happens and then the horrific stories and why you should not do it in the first place (1). The evidence approach to this article can be interpreted as so. There are two ways that the evidence of sexting can be seen (Bowker and Sullivan 1). The...
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...In the society with technology, there are more and more people depend on their phone. In the influence some people will be silent due to they depend on smartphone. Another influence that people always use smartphone, and they will develop some abominable behavior in their life. Finally, whether adults or young people, there are a lot of people’s life system are destroyed by using smartphone everyday. Therefore, smartphone bring some negative influence to some people. Some people always using smartphone will reduce communication face to face is the one effect about smartphone will let people communication ability get weak. Cell phones are affecting people’s life. “Extraversion may have a significant relationship to mobile phone usage behavior. Specifically, extroverted people spend more time calling and send multiple text messages” (Hong 2153). In the other word, extroverted people will spend more time on their phone, rather than communicate face to face with other people. Sometimes, the social anxiety also influences people’s communication. “People with higher social anxiety scores tend to not overuse mobile phones in voice-calling (Whiteside & Lynam 669-689); rather they spend more time in indirect communication through text messaging with others” (Bianchi & Phillips 39-51; Billieux et al., 1195-1210; Butt & Phillips 346-360). In the other words, people who have social anxiety are more likely to text messaging with others, they even do not calling with other people...
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