Negative Effects On Digital Media

People in society nowadays spend their time using smartphones to communicate, be entertained and obtain information in their daily life. Texting and social media sites have become the means in which people communicate with others. When I was a kid I used a gameboy to be entertained by these days entertainment comes by using a phone, person, device, or a console which can easily be transported. Information is spread within seconds by using social media. As you can see, society has become overly dependent on technology in their daily lives for three reasons, because it negatively affects children, people are obsessed with buying and using advanced technology, and social media can lead to dangers for the user.

Cell phones and the computers are similar to each other in many different ways. One of the most common similarities is the internet aspect. With everyone connected to the internet, the adverse effects can spread throughout like a virus. “A Nielsen study released in 2010 indicated that texting was the primary reason for purchasing mobile phones and that text communication had become a "’centerpiece of mobile teen behavior.’" The modern smartphone of the 2010s is a powerful computing device, and the rapid and ongoing development of new applications provides users with a growing number of ways to use mobile phones for recreation, productivity, and social communication” (Issitt 2016). In the following Issitt states, “however, as smartphones have become more common, concerns about the detrimental effects of smartphone use have also increased.” (Issitt 2016). Issitt expresses the large growth of people with smartphones has its positives and negatives. The positives being the ability to communicate, but the negative being the effects on relationships with one another. An example of the negative side of things is the lack of interaction with people. People are more likely to call or text instead of interacting with one another. The lack of interaction can ruin relationships, or make people feel unwanted. In the article “Eurasian Journal of Educational Research,” the writer states that the internet, “can transform into an addictive instrument in excessive usage situations.” (Gunduz 2017). The statement explains the issue of the unnecessary use of the internet as a growing addictive process that is taking over more and more

As technology advances, it is without questions that smart phones are everywhere these days. You can find smart phones in the hands of driver’s driving alongside you to work, you will find people walking aimlessly looking down at their phones on sidewalks, you can pretty much see people staring into the screens of this technology every chance that they can get. It is a worldwide epidemic with no end in site, people today are just addicted to these smartphones! To prove this, it is estimated that 60% of all homeless individuals own a cell phone. Demographics

Today people spend about seven hours and thirty-eight minutes per day on technology (Ives, p.18). The excessive amounts of technology, including the use of social media, has been negatively affecting our society as a whole. The problem is not the fact that we are using technology, but it is the overuse and excessive amounts that is hurting us. Although technology has some benefits, such as being able to use its tools effectively and being able to connect easily, we have to consider its social and psychiatric effects when it comes to using it in excessive amounts.

It is so hard to consider that, once upon a time; social media was little more than an up-and-coming inclination. Do you remember Friendster and MySpace? Fast-forwarding to 2016, current social media platforms have emerged. Shea Bennet, the author of the article entitled, "Social Media Addiction: Statistics and Trends," discovered that at least 99.8% of the teenagers in the world have cellular phones or Ipads and are tweeting, posting, liking, commenting on some particular social media platforms. Social media breeds our reach more hastily, far beyond an extraordinary measure through words, pictures, and videos. Social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram, to name a few, sanction individuals to vocalize their peace in a virtual space. Social media is responsible for greater communication and a wider range of relationships. Shea Bennet also stated that eighty-five percent of the 7.1 billion people in the world utilize the internet every day. Seventy-four percent of those people become addicted to social media. Those numbers are humongous. Nicholas David Bowman, Ph.D., an assistant professor of communication studies in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University, also believes that Social Media lies in technology addiction. Technology addiction is when individuals occupy more time with their smartphones or iPads than networking with the people around them, to the disadvantage of those face-to-face relationships. For

Over the past 20 years technology has changed greatly. We have seen the evolution of the computer and also the cell phone. The cell phone went from something that people purchased strictly for emergencies, to something that we depend on daily. In fact there are many people who have grown an addiction to their phone. They cannot leave the house without their smartphone or tablet. Their phone overpowers them and they cannot live without it. Phones now have apps on them and can tell you very important information at the push of a button. All ages of people feel a need to tell people where and what they are doing through social media. Also, there are now phones that are hands free. They give you data that used to be unattainable to the average human being without a computer or encyclopedia. The technology we now deal with on a daily basis is dangerous, yet it intrigues us as human beings. Computers are now portable and getting

All around the world, people are looking at their phone. They are so absorbed in what others are doing in the world than what is happening in reality. Gone are the days where people rang a landline or wrote a letter. Everything is more immersed in virtual reality, as social media is the new form of communication. With the inventions of Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter people are becoming unsocial. As we fill the void of human contact with the internet given that we as a civilization are becoming more disconnected with each other as we become more social with the world.

When you’re at a party or social event, take a look around. Chances are you see at least one third of the guests on their phones. People used to have to communicate by letters, calling from a home phone, or simply face-to-face. Social media officially started in 1997 with the social media site, Six Degrees. Since then, there have been tons of social media sites. The most popular ones being Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter. A survey was done recently that confirmed that one in one in four people prefer to talk through social media sites rather than in person. Social media is destroying people’s social skills. It's causing low self esteem in people, making people miss out on face-to-face interaction, and adding stress to their lives.

Today, with my generation being technology based, many people have cellphones. Almost anywhere you go, you will see people on their phones. My generation today is slowly being turned into zombie addicts, as the iPhone industry begins to add more and more accessories to phones. Because of phones my generation has struggled with face to face conversation. While phones provide text message and social media, it is easy to say something behind a screen without having to own up to your thoughts or elaborate on them. Phones are the number one main distraction today. People are so glued to their phones today that they are willing to put there and others life at risk. For example, texting and driving. In 2015 42% of teens say they have texted while driving. Furthermore, texting while driving is the leading cause of death in teens. And more

Today’s younger generation has evolves with technology, as it has grown have to. It has given people another way of social interaction but, if much more than that. Social media has had negative effect on teenagers because they are so addicted to it and foster friendships. Society today does not know what a day without technology would be like or to, they also would not know how to function without. This is because in today’s era people no longer see technology as a luxury item but as a key essential for day to day life.

Social media alone, on average, will consume five years and four months of a person’s life, and that does not account for any other aspect of the internet (Asano). Merriam Webster Dictionary defines social media as “forms of electronic communication through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other such content.” Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, etc. are some of the more popular social media sites. As with anything, there are side effects from the overuse of social media, and the majority of people do not realize the detrimental side effects from the excessive internet usage. Social media encourages isolation, which may promote bullying and lead to suicidal thoughts and/or

Technology has become one with the human race. To the moment we wake, our first instinct is to check our digital devices so we may catch up on what we missed. Technology/ social media have become the world’s greatest influence, will prove to be our undoing. Social media causes isolation, leading to the lack of interpersonal communication; and in the long run it will affect their health.

Where is your cell phone right now? Is it in your pocket, in eyesight on a table next to you, or maybe even in your hand as you read this? It would not be a surprise, since technology has brought a whole new world to people, and people are not letting go. With the invention of cellphones, social media sites like Facebook, and search engines like Google technology has shaped society in a brand new way. Though rising technology has plenty of benefits to offer society, it causes just as much harm as it does good.

Social media has a big effect on humans now in days and what I mean by that is that ppl oops you see what I mean social media has people typing (ppl) for people and typing (dis) for this. Social media is really changing how the way people spell words and its showing how the way people spell on their papers and projects and so on. Facebook and Twitter is the biggest thing out on social media everyone uses them literally every day and it’s taking over people. Basically it’s like its controlling them. I bet if (u) see I did it again. But as I was saying I bet if you take your daughter or your son phones away for just 2 seconds they would flip out. The reason why they would flip out is because they are addicted to the social media. They like to chat with their friends and post pictures and also comment on their friend’s photos. The social media is taking over this world and not just the teenagers are using it a lot it’s also the parents too. You have some adults out there that can’t live without being on the social media because just like the teens they also think that it’s very addicting and it also changing how the way they spell words that’s very shocking don’t (u) you think. According to search engine journal People are spending 1 out of every 7 minutes on Facebook when online. Facebook users are spending 10.5 billion minutes (almost 20,000 years) on the social network. And, that’s not evolving mobile devices. So the social media is very popular as we can see and there is a

Apple, Samsung, HTC, all these are well known brands for the smart phones. Recently, smart phones are totally shifting the way we think about mobile phone. Mobile phones are not just tools for us to call or texting each other, they have a lot of gestures that facilitate us in our daily life. According to the research done by GO-Gulf.com in 2012, 80% of the world population today owns a mobile phone which is about 5 billion of mobile phones there are in the world, meanwhile 1.08 billion is smart phone. 89% of the users are using their smart phones throughout the day. According to these statistics which clearly imply that smart phones bring huge impacts to our daily life. “I fear the day when technology overlaps with our humanity, the world