24 Hour Unplugged Challenges

Social media can become an addiction and it can affect community and people differently. For example, I personally use social media as well and it affects me in many different ways. Over the past year, social media has grown to be a miracle in today world. Social media is something that most kids, teens, and adults use every day. Having people on the phone all the time is the disappointment and instead of talking face to face, they choose to text or using social media. Social media shows a huge role in today modern society. Social media influence us in many negative different ways and it is the major problem in my family and community. If people know how to use social media wisely they will make a better society. I personally use social media every day and it distracts me in many different ways but I would like to point out three thing that affects me, which are my health condition, education, and relationship with God. My doctor said, “sleep makes your memories stronger.” I trust what he said to me because when I sleep more I feel fresher than I sleep less. When I feel fresh I finished my homework done easily. In 2014, I did a presentation in our church about how social media effect on our health situation. I had spent too much time on research about it and it gave me so many reasonable statements. One thing that I found was, it leads us to increase neck pain because when we watch the phone while we sleep it hurt our neck and we keep doing it every day so it will outcome in a negative way in one day. “40% more likely to have tried cigarettes, two times more likely to have tried alcohol, 43% more likely to be binge drinkers, and 41%more likely to have used illicit drugs compared to their non-hyper-texting peers. In addition, these students are 55% more likely to have been in a physical fight.” (page-8) People should concern about their health, if they want to live longer they should stop doing drug and a physical fight. Social media associated with risky behavior because people are bullying through social media so it makes them angry easily.

Within Jenna Wortham's article, "Turn Off the Phone (and the Tension)," Wortham discusses the impact that social media possesses, in which Wortham believes that technology is responsible for shaping people's lives negatively. From Wortham's previous experiences, she shares a moment in her life that made her realize that people often compare their lives to others excessively- one of the reasons why people have social media attachment issues. Wortham also expresses how social media users brag about their lives being better than others through exaggerated posts- something that shouldn't be encouraged. With effort to resolve this issue, Wortham considers and suggests Mr. Hofmann's advice to readers: go screenless for a certain

On October 10th, I successfully completed the arduous task of not using any media for eight hours. Before I started the media fast exercise, I thought this was the most horrible thing that could happen to me. The entire summer, I was on my computer and phone communicating with my friends and watching videos. Being a college student who has a lot of reading homework, I was angry that we could not read because I wanted to read the books for my classes so I would be able to do some of my homework. As I said before, accessing the media is very typical of teenagers and college students. My generation has lived with technology our entire lives. Growing up with technology accessible to us made this exercise so much harder. I later thought about how I worked at a summer camp in the mountains for three summers. At the

Societies are always adapting and making new advancements. Most recent technological advances are inescapable whether that be smartphones or electric cars. With the internet’s widespread accessibility increasing, the media available online feels endless. We currently indulge in a consumer based society, and our needs of craving more leak into our media. In The Information Diet, Johnson explain, “computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with

The study pointed out that students are addicted to social media and digital devices including smartphones, computers, and MP3 players in the similar way of drug and alcohol addictions. They do not feel comfortable without texting. Likewise, without connecting with media, students feel disconnected to their friends and family. Moreover, they feel extremely anxious when they have less information than other people. However, the study shows that there are not many students watching TV, reading newspaper, listening to radio, or checking mainstream media to update news. They tend to prefer to receive news via narration and personal interactions. This article will be helpful in supporting my argument in my research paper because the information can be used to support my stand, which is how social media affects mental health and social behaviors.

People today of all ages are more media centered than ever before in our country’s history. There are more TVs in homes than people (Nielson, 2009), 64% of American adults own smart phones (Center, 2014), 74.4% of U.S. households are connected to the Internet (Ryan, 2014), 87% of adults regularly use internet (Maeve Duggan, 2014), 36 % of teens have a computer in their bedroom 33 % of which have Internet access. Youth spend nearly an hour and a half (outside of schoolwork) with a computer each day (Bank, August 2014), and the average American spends 60 hours a week on multiple media devices (Nielsen, 2014). This constant availability to various forms of media makes it nearly impossible to measure the full affect that TV alone has on American

Mental health has been shown to be negatively affected by heavy use of social media. A recent study from the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine examined depression rates in younger adults, finding significantly increased odds of depression among those spending the most time engaged in social media (“3 Ways Technology Can

Mr. Kord Campbell almost missed selling his company for $1.3 million because he was in an electronic flood. While almost everywhere people are using technology and social media, it can change how people behave and distract from people’s lifestyles. An overload of technology and social media causes people to lose focus, isolate themselves from others and become addicted to information. We should shut down our screens for a week in order to avoid the overload.

“Participating in the Always-On Lifestyle” is a fascinating read on what it means to be truly online. Boyd discusses her views on the antiphone phenomenon and the idea that technology is an always negative thing. She believes that technology can enrich and energize our connections that we make in contrast to many negative views. However, while making a case for the good that technology has to offer she also states that sometimes she “[struggles] to find balance” and becomes overwhelmed. Technology is becoming ever more present, more than ever technology uses need to seek to find harmony between digital pleasures and our everyday lives. Always- On lifestyles do not uses technology for “instant gratification” but instead use technology to enhance

The addiction to social media use destroys our mental health just as much as it does to only avoiding the urge to look at it. Social media addiction is a classified mental health issue that can require professional treatment. Researchers at Nottingham Trent University in 2011 concluded that this issue leads to an assortment of problems such as relationship dilemmas, academic decline, and less participation in physical interactions in which our social media will replace our ties in real life (Brown 6). In the article “Smartphones: Uniting the World’s Children for Better, or Worse?”, an addictive behavior is defined as when one compulsively repeats the same behavior that subjects things in his or her life to. The addictive behavior social media can bring upon a person is as detrimental as drug or alcohol addictions (Smartphones: Uniting the World’s 2). Being addicted to this will impair your mental state and your sole desire will be to log back onto your feed. Your mind will become bogged down with social interactions 24/7 and your mental health will deteriorate from social media

Media technologies were embraced by people as the means of easing their lives. However, if one does not know or take measures to use this technology properly, then one risks his life being abused by technology (Doyle, 2010, p. 4).

The utmost, overriding facet of our society has been placed in our hands, perched on a stand, and then plugged into a socket: modern technology. Today, individuals without up to date technology are christened anomalies that are late to the ‘smart era’ of smartphones, smartwatches, and smart televisions. In Is Google Making Us Stupid? by Nicholas Carr, and Be a Gamer, Save the World by Jane McGonigal, it is made comprehensible that, as a society, we have begun to intertwine ourselves in the tangles of our electronics, which we cannot seem to relinquish. Our generation has been advancing with technology nonstop to the point where a new gadget is practically released daily. Recently, the latest technological fixation that has rapidly spread like wildfire is video streaming: whether it be video-on-demand or live, it has concurrently seized and fashioned jobs, as well as intermixed communities and individuals alike.

The worth of media is a very controversial topic. Media has given us the ability to do things in new and creative ways such as how we learn and accomplish our everyday tasks. However, we do not always know how to interpurate this information. The technology available today is constantly impacting and influencing society in tremendous ways. Many of the impacts that are accocated with media are addressed in negative ways, but can be seen from a positive perspective as well. In the current generation, media and its influences can be found everywhere. These influences widely impact today’s adolescents and maturing teenagers because they are still developing into adults. Medias purpose is not only to inform us, but to allow us to mold ourselves in how we want to be perceived online. Also, it allows us easy access to unbelievable amounts of information. Living in an era known as the “information age” is riveting, but what are we suppose to do with all of this new technology and information?

A study by Harvard Business Review found that team performance went up 50% when teams socialized more and limited email and eventually, anyone or “operational-only” issues. Clearly, there’s a theme here. We don’t just “become lonelier” as a human race over time. It seems that with the advent of social media, laptops, and apps, we’re choosing screens over personal interactions. According to Time, most Americans from age 18 to 24 check their phone 74 times a day on average. Use of internet has certainly increased the quantity of our mental stimulation, but we lack the quality. According to Forbes, The American Academy of Pediatrics aware the possibility of negative effects of social media in young kids and teens, including cyber-bullying and Facebook depression. Using social media disturbs make deep relationship with others. When they are using social-media we do not need to move a lot. It is okay just to stay. We do not need to active a lot. As a result, it leads naturally mental and physical disabilities. Although social media can connect teens to the world and friends and family around them, it is actually one of the highest-ranking cause of suicide among teenagers in 21st century. People sometimes talks about how social media is becoming part of their world, it is becoming their world. They are unaware of the fact that social media encourages the false images of how everything should be in a perfect world. This not only increases stresses and changes in a normal human life but, it leads to depression and some mental diseases. When it comes to study, a study conducted by Liberty Voice shows that, children have become more dumb, lazier, rude and depressed due to the use of social media. They have been spending

Feeling down, lonely, and experiencing the loss of “non-digital” friends were found to be connected with internet use. In 1998, a Carnegie Mellon study proved that more time spent online would increase these negative feelings.  This negative digital impact may also not be temporary, as it has the possibility to last for years in the future. Heavy social media use can help develop stress, depression, and