Negative Effects Of Technology On Society

The effects of technology usage have long been a topic of debate, with the negative consequences often being brought up. Authors such as Robert Samuels, Alison Gopnik, Nicholas Carr, Gary Small and Vorgan Gigi have all addressed this topic in their own articles. In Samuels’ “Breaking Down Borders: How Technology Transforms the Private and Public Realms,” he discusses the creation of private bubbles in public spaces due to technology, and the consequent alienation of others. “Diagnosing the Digital Revolution” by Gopnik argues that the habits that tech users have today have always existed, while Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” states that technology is actively changing the way humans think. “Meet Your iBrain” by Gigi and Small covers how technology affects brains and alters them. This paper will use the articles and an interview with a peer to analyze the perceived negative effects of using technology, particularly worse memory, shorter attention span, exacerbation of bad habits, and shifting emotions.

Recent studies have shown that narcissism is a plague among the world and social media could be a reason why. Lisa Firestone is the author of, “Is social media to blame for the rise in narcissism?” She states, “We are living in an increasingly narcissistic society.” She goes on to say that technology is the reason to blame for that. There

Narcissism refers to too much interest in one’s appearance or oneself sometimes seen on the social platforms. These platforms are used by most the Americans to show their narcissistic attributes. The narcissism effect ends up destroying the moral behaviors of our kids (Lin and David 183). Compared to the preceding kids, the current batch of children born and growing in America is different. Nowadays, children cannot imagine living a life without all these electronic gadgets and computer.

Excessive use of social media creates a significan amount of personal problems within active users. Online self-presentation and self-esteem are the two main problematic effects of escessive use of social media. Excessive use of social media being a form of narcissism creates egocentric people and allow people to express negative narcissistic tendencies. Other issues that excessive use of social media create are unhealthy self-promotional behavior. In Contrast of excessive use of social media being a form of narcissism, Alex Lambert argues against the narcissism hypothesis. Lambert believes that the use of social media is strictly for creating connections. He also states that narcissism is unrelated to the frequency of Facebook use.

Although there doesn't seem to be concrete evidence, our current society appears to be more narcissistic than the past generation. In the US, diagnoses of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) have risen sharply over the past 10 years. Social media could be one of the main contributing factors to the rise in NPD. Every day more than 80m photographs are uploaded to Instagram, more than 3.5bn ‘likes’ , and some 1.4bn people - 20% of the world’s population - publishing details of their lives on Facebook. Furthermore, the continuous selfies and status updates are modified, edited, checked and rechecked to present the best qualities of the individual ,and a lot of work is put

“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity” is what the Hebrew king Solomon wisely stated concerning the material world. However, even the wisest man to ever live could not have foreseen the greatest source of vanity that the future would hold: the modern social media platform. Indeed, social media has proved to be a blight on society, with issues ranging from cyberbullying to murder threats. With that said, on a less serious but still pressing note, the rise of narcissism can be directly linked to the advent of social media. Three key reasons why this is true are that social media provides a method for an individual to express their feelings in a public fashion, the questions that social media account creators are asked to add information to their

Technology is so common in this day and age that it is almost impossible to imagine living without it. There are many good things about technology, for example, keeping in touch with people no matter where in the world they are and being able to know anything instantly. Even though technology brings people together, technology creates many issues such as teen’s identities being affected in a negative way by social media and millenials having few conversations.

Narcissism is a multiplex concept and represents different characteristics, demonstrative of both good and horrible practices (Kubarych et al, 2004) that may clarify the inspirations driving social networking sites use. In this way, conceptualizing narcissism as only a sole construct may make us misconstrue the ways in which social networking platforms are utilized to fulfill different needs. Research has begun to analyze how the undesirable parts of narcissistic identity identify with conduct on Facebook (Carpenter, 2012).

The modern study seeks to explain the good and the undesirable parts of narcissism by discussing about narcissism and how it relates to social networking sites use. Therefore, key differences in the affordances of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram relevant to narcissism research are then discussed, highlighting the ways in which the observed association between narcissism and social networking platforms use may change depending on the type of social networking platforms used and the behavior assessed (Panek et al, 2013).

The article I chose for this critique was “Narcissism and Social Networking Web Sites” written by Laura E. Buffardi and W. Keith Campbell from the University of Georgia. This article is based on an experiment that was taken place to prove whether others could perceive a narcissistic individual as a narcissist through observing their social media sites. This experiment was a correlational type of study. The experimenters’ goal was to analyze whether there was any correlation or connection between the web page owner being a narcissist and the type of content they had on their profile.

Studies by psychologists have observed the use of technology and social media associated with narcissistic characteristics. Some of the results have proven that there is a relationship amongst the two whereas other results have proven negative effects. Three hypotheses were given to extinguish this experiment as well as the last results.

he attractiveness of social media for teens to be socialized and entertained, especially allows them to share their lives with each other easily (Gabriel 2014, p.104). With several communicative purposes that social media platform have given to us, the increasing attention move forward to investigate the rapid growth of how new generations (young people) behavior themselves under a new social media trend of self-photography – “SELFIE” (Barry 2015, p. 1). Narcissism and self-esteem gave highly exposed to the popular searching keywords within the selfie culture, teens have a common purpose of posting those selfie by self-displays towards virtual audience and narcissism consists of the preoccupation appreciative regard by friends or followers (Barry 2015 p. 1).When a question comes up related to the health of this culture whether exposing a positive or negative impact on teens, there are different sounds in the general public, so the aim of this essay is to brings up all the argument related to this topic then generate a distinct position towards the agreement or disagreement.

The fact that quite a number of social networking sites are actively used by most young adults, college students and teenagers establishes several variations in conceptualizing an ideal connection between narcissism and use of Instagram. The paper addresses the concept of narcissism and establishes the fact it is perceived and used in reference to subclinical narcissism (Bergman et al., 2011). Subclinical narcissism is perceived as a humanity trait that exist at various levels of age differences within the normal population. On the same note, subclinical narcissism

Throughout the years, numerous of researches are conducted to see the connections between social media (namely, Facebook) and narcissism. University of Michigan conducted a research to find the relationship between social media and narcissism. For the first part of the study, the researchers recruited approximately around 486 college undergraduate students with the median age of 19. Meanwhile, 93 adults, mostly white females, with an age mean of 35 years old, were asked by the researchers to complete an online survey for the second part of the study. Participants have to answer questions about their social media use and a personality assessment to measure their level of narcissism (Swanbrow, 2013). Based on the results obtained, Facebook users that scores higher on the personality test tend to have more friends, tag themselves more often in photos posted and update their status more often (Firestone, 2012,

Narcissism is often perceived as any other disorder, employing too much of something; committing excessive amount of time on the internet. However, narcissism disorder is not merely a problem of unmoderated usage, rather it’s the illusion of perceiving reality in false lens architected by vanity and superficial relationships over social media. In Dr. L.D Rosen publication titled Is Facebook creating iDisorders? The link between clinical symptoms of psychiatric disorders and technology use, attitudes and anxiety, Rosen stated “younger generations… born in the 1990s…show a strong urge to report their activities and believe that their social media audience cares about them, two symptoms central to the diagnostic criteria of narcissistic personality disorder” (Rosen 1244). Rosen statement offers a new insight to the effects of extreme social media behaviors on narcissism. Through her work as a social psychologist, Rosen has discovered surprising new information about social disorder. Instead of seeing technology itself as the problem, Rosen thinks, the problem is located "in the relationship between what takes place on screen and off in someone’s ability to shift frames or genres (Rosen 1243)." Rosen