Fox Vs Hedgehog

The relationship between people has been changed because of the widely using of new technology. People can easily communicate with other people by using different kinds of methods. Because of the use of those methods, people have more space with others and frequently hide part of themselves on the Internet in order to show the best of them. In the essay “Small Change: Why he Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted”, Malcolm Gladwell states that the relationship between people can be categorized by strong ties and weak ties. For example, in the past, people communicated by the method of interpersonal hierarchies, which are considered as strong ties. However, with the development of technology, social network, such as Twitter, Facebook, and Skype, which have become very popular in the world, are regarded as weak ties. Moreover, in the essay “Alone Together”, Sherry Turkle claims that people are distant with others and get lost in the virtual world through the new technology. She points out that now people communicate with others through technology instead of directing talking to real people. Furthermore, some people suppose that sociable robots as substitutes for people. Both Gladwell and Turkle agree with the idea that technology plays an important role on people’s connection. Technology only creates inauthentic relationship because it hides identity of many disorganized people.

Maria Konnikova, a New York Times best-selling author, is known for contributing scientific and psychological factors into her works, which has been published on several online publications such as Salon, the Atlantic, the New Republic, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, etc. (Konnikova 235). In her essay “Limits of Friendship”, she goes into depth about the number of friends that one can have overall based off Robin Dunbar theory and how technology is impacting not only his theory, but our social lives also. Based on Robin Dunbar research, he believes that a typical individual has one hundred and fifty people in their social group in which he differentiates in his “rule of three”. As technology advances, the way individuals interact with one another is through social media and their smart devices, but we’re slowly losing our focus on how to socialize with one another. Technology is making it easier to build relationships with those around the world, but harder with those around us.

However, with the expansion of social media, many argue that the word “friend” has lost its meaning. Social media “friends” may, in reality, just be acquaintances added to social media lists order to appear popular. Even as many Americans spend time and energy developing

Today’s young adults have a lack of communication with friends and family because of technology such as social media, video games or television. In our society, parlor walls can be seen as those commodities. The large flat screen tv’s or IPads are today’s enthusiast. “Social media in our country and the globalizing world has become the voice, eye, ear, heart, and memory of the individuals. It has aspects which strengthen, weaken and include communication between the individuals and also it provides convenience for time and place.” This, according to TNS Digital Life Research that carried out a study in 2011 and held 1.938.059.098 people that were online. Researchers were able to test how many people prefer to communicate through social media or rather be involved in some sort of social media instead of actually going out and interacting. These studies show and give a glimpse of how many people are more interested to spend time on social media instead of building new relationships. Bradbury’s society and our society and similar because of the lack of communication we have because of some aspects of technology that are similar, which are the parlor walls and social media, television and video games.

This article opens up with how people are getting social networking fatigue. The main rhetorical device that could be seen in this part of the article is logos. She speaks on the large amount of information people share online all the time. The logic in that is that it is true. People share so much on the internet and join so many social networking sites that they get tired of them. Ellen Lee talks about how even though social networks are flourishing people are getting tired of trying to maintain an active social life and its taking a toll.

Remarkably, a full grown adult weighs a mere FOUR pounds! A thick coat of reddish-brown to gray fur and a small frame makes them easy to identify. For thousands of years, they occupied six of eight Channel Islands. However, they have never been more endangered than they are now.

With the proliferation of technologies, especially the Internet, social networking has become ubiquitous in the modern world. Social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter, etc. are the impetus that is ever facilitating rapid creation and exchange of ideas to promote and aid communication. Humans interact by being social, therefore sociology analyses the changes in the social trend. Understanding the sociological perspective on the effects of social media, we find that the social aspect has changed. Comparing the past and present status of our society, it is obvious that there has been a transformation which all points towards the evolution of social media. Social media has changed our culture and has impacted on the way people meet, interact and share ideas; it has changed the perception of how people should communicate with the society. Social interactions have been defined to be an exchange among individuals with the aim of strengthening the society. Social interaction is building block in every society when people meet and interact; they define rules, systems, and institutions in which they will live by. On the other hand, social media is known as a platform that allows people to network and socialize through applications and websites that have been innovated. Though social media could be used as a useful tool to communicate with friends, family and even with people you do not know, however, researchers show that social media is absolutely harming human's skills to have

The essay Stephen Marche wrote “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely” is talking about with the technology what the society looks like now, and social media like Facebook and twitter have made us more densely network than ever.

Most people are uptight about the likes and comments they receive on social media websites, Carr formally proclaims. All of the popular websites use this method to receive more people active on them. Doing this urges people to share personal details about their life. “...people share four times as much information about themselves when they converse through computers as when they talk in person” (Carr 3). It is not necessary for people to share an extreme amount of details about their lives, but they still do.

The author, Pamela Haag, gives a modern twist to what the Greek poet Archilochus said; that the fox knows many things about a little, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. It’s explained by her in a modern concept using social media by comparing it to our social life styles being as it is now a big factor of how we communicate and develop our friendships.

I cannot agree with our author more about when he write, "It is important to understand that our lifestyles are based on social networking, and the media and the digital stream are now considered to be a defiance of time and space.” I say this because it is very

In the article, Faux Friendship, William Deresiewicz explores how friendship between individuals have evolved in modern life. Nowadays, the social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace turn the idea of friendship into universal friendship, in which an individual become a friend with everyone. Also, he pointed that the modern friendship became a form of distraction, “If we have 768 “friends”, in what sense do we have any? Facebook isn’t the whole of contemporary friendship, but it sure looks a lot like its future. Yet Facebook – and MySpace, and Twitter, and whatever we’re stampeding for next – are just the latest stages of a long attenuation.” (Deresiewicz 435).

In the article “When Did Social Media Stop Being So …Social?" written by Govinda Giri, the author presents a dark facet of social media. He says the developments, specifically Facebook manipulation, made users to doubt social media like Twitter and Instagram as well. All these platforms are becoming more complicated day-by-day. He also proposes social media to get back to basics and focus on being social again, as he feels it has become everything but social. Anyone can get numerous information using any social media. People use it to keep in touch with friends, and it is important that it serves the purpose of connection in life. He had also put some light on making social media more digestible and navigable experience by including features

hind legs and being very still. If a groundhog senses danger, it will give a loud whistle to warn

Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Instagram, and Flicker was invented to keep us in touch and keep us closer to our family and friends. But according to How Facebook ruins Friendships “we took our friendship online” (Bernstein). First we began communicating more by email than by phone and then switched to instant messaging or texting. By joining social Medias online