Impact Of Technology On Social Interaction

“ Don’t believe the hype new technologies, including cell phones, internet and Facebook are not making us less social.”(Hampton 7). What the author is trying to say in this quote is that technology and social media does not stop us from being less social or distant but instead gives us more disadvantages we never have before. While others may disagree,technology and social media has made a positive impact on our lives.

Humans are naturally social beings. Jeremy Rifkin states, “We are, it appears, the most social of animals and seek intimate participation and companionship with our fellows (115).” The article continues to explain how humans seem to connect through emotions and that inner, neurological need for human interaction. When one person feels pain, joy, or sadness, they want to share their feelings with another person. Hence, the needing fulfillment of social interaction. However, the use of social media does not mean humans have become less social. Even though social media has introduced a new way of interacting and communicating, studies have shown that people are becoming more

As much as I regret to admit it, I’m attached to my phone. I’m constantly reaching into my pocket to check the time, make sure I haven’t gotten a new update, or to send a message. I do this even when I’m not talking to anyone! It’s become an addiction, having to make sure I’m not missing anything, and I'm not the only one who has this problem. Seventy-five percent of the world population has a cell phone, and that number will only increase. With the creation of new technology portions of life have become easier. Technology has changed the way we go through life. It’s made talking to people easier, as well as keeping up with the lives of others. However, the effects have affected the aspects of our lives that don’t include technology.

Social interaction is the way people relate with one another. Through history, mankind has developed and improved different kinds of technologies that have had a crucial influence on social interaction and human communications. Let's make a quick overview to remember some key points of our history regarding social interactions and technology.

Our society has evolved very much over time. The technology, has impacted it greatly. With technology in our lives, we find ourselves ‘glued’ to our electronics. Now, the question is, what does social media provide us? In Wu’s article, he states, “The devices we use change the way we live much faster than any contest among genes.” Meaning, we rely on these devices to make us happy, and resort to them when we are bored. Similarly, in Castells article, he says, “Media often report that intense use of the Internet increases the risk of isolation, alienation, and withdrawal from society.” However, the article also says that social media has actually “increased sociability, civic engagement, and the intensity of family and friendship relationships, in all cultures.” Answering the question, we actually get something out of using social media. We are allowed to communicate with

Both these articles provide both the goods and bads of our technology, and what technology does for us. Seemingly, social media strengthens face to face interaction skills, gives children more empathy and understanding of one another, and cues kids in on social graces. One area specialists are arguing over is that of face-to-face interactions. In the article “Antisocial Networking” a teenager named Hannah Kiliot says she can ”Make plans to meet some friends later at a party. ”“The text also states that she “Played in two softball games, texting between innings and games about plans to go to a concert

However, like genetics, it also has many negatives. Technology does improve the world’s ability to communicate quickly and easily, but it also separates people socially. Social media and smartphones for example, have dramatically reduced human interaction. Everyone would rather communicate online than in the real world. According to Pew Research Center, “Roughly two-thirds of U.S. adults (68%) now report that they are Facebook users, and roughly three-quarters of those users access Facebook on a daily basis” (Smith and Anderson 1). This a huge portion the the American population that is using Facebook alone. There are many other social media platforms such as Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest that attract even more users. The more people use these services, the less they interact with others in person. Aldous Huxley once said, “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards” (Huxley 1). Before the technology that exists today, people were unable to communicate with others that weren’t in their area. Now, people tend to communicate with those around them less. As technology continues to improve, this situation will only become worse. Preventative action must be taken to prevent this from destroying human

Technology is one main reason why people have disengaged from social life and become more isolated. People have learned that they do not need to actually talk to someone physically to make a new friend. This is a problem because the idea of going up to someone and starting a conversation will slowly become unknown. This will consequence in the extinction of the traditional human interaction people used to have. Turkle believes that when people use “the advantage of screen communication,” and technology to reach out to others, there is a downgrade in the quality of the relationship (Turkle 374). There is no certainty in knowing if someone is being genuine or if they are even who they say they are online. People have learned to use technology

One can argue that social media lets us connect to one another. Yes, this is true to some extent but social media can also be the source of people driving each other away. When we are so busy having our noses in our phone constantly we miss everything that goes on around us. We lose a sense of communication when falling into this temptation of always having to know to what is happening on our phone. Thomas Freidman stated that he feels technology is dividing us instead of uniting us after experiencing a taxi ride gone wrong in the sense of the driver constantly chatting on his phone. After Apple introduced the iPod it seems the world has slowly drifted to a state silence. In Steve Johnson’s essay Social Connections, he tells of the time before

First, we develop a high level of self-insecurities by comparing ourselves to others. Downgrading ourselves enables us doubt who we are as a person and creates conflicts in our personal and social lives. Then, we grasp a sense of judgement. Because we are quick to judge others, solely by glimpsing at the profiles or the newest iPhone, it distracts us from the person’s actual personality. Finally, our world has become anti-social as technology increased. Our communication and social skills have greatly diminished, due to the fact that we focus more on how we network electronically instead. Rather than writing notes by hand with pen and paper, we type everything we do. Due to technology, these results proves that it has taken control over lives, but we must learn to adapt more

The claim of this paper is: ‘’Does social media makes us anti-social?’’. Many people have a social media account these days. For example, Facebook had reached 1 billion users in October 2012. The use of social media is still increasing. It is nice to see that a lot of people have fun with social media, but it harms our real social life. In fact, social media makes us anti-social. The reason for these thought is because we use social media in traffic which is anti-social. Also a survey shows us that a lot of people are irritated by smartphone use during conversations. If you irritate another person, you’re producing anti-social behavior. Furthermore, because of the smartphone use we are lacking our social skills in real life.

The written word,now a weapon, is now digitized and feed through media. “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon.” (Bradbury 58). Not only have books become a media revolution so has social interaction. Social media allows for connections formerly unheard. “The problem, they say, is that we spend so much time maintaining superficial connections online that we aren’t dedicating enough time or effort to cultivating deeper real-life relationships.”(WSJ). This avenue of socialization allows for discretion of the true life and person of the poster. “And even worse, the human condition is beginning to devolve. We have become addicted to the vanity of social media unable to expose our lives to the world.”(Green). This media based socialization can overtake the lives of many. “When you add it all up, the average American spends more than 10 hours a day plugged into some form of media.”(Synder). Making the human race even more technology

The topic I have chosen to focus on throughout this paper is discussion one which is based on the affects of technology on relationships.

Now a day is it good to be social? It is better to communicate face to face than to text on your phone. Since the 2000's everyone has started to rely on technology way too much, more than we should be. Even though social media enables people connect all over the world, social media is leading to less face to face communication. Because the use of technology is leading away from communicating and people are becoming addicted to social media and technology. Technology is leading us to be a lot less social than we were.

Members of society understand, or at least have heard someone in their lives say, technology is becoming a distraction to the human population rather than an advancement. As technology has progressed, it has increasingly become a larger and more intergraded part of our everyday lives. Americans think that technology is huge today, but technology will be even more advanced in several decades. There are some clear positives to technology, such as the ease of long distances communication and the accessibility of entertainment. Despite those useful aspects and many others, there are many people that think technology has a negative effect on human interaction. The main concern many people are discussing is whether technology has negatively affected how humans socially interact. If those concerns are truly a problem, how can society fix them without stopping the advancement in technology.