Satire About Facebook

In “No Need to Call”, Sherry Turkle observes the text messages, instant messages and emails and looks closely at the benefits and the effects of them. In addition, she observes the digital media, overwhelmed across the generations and less wanting to hear voices. However, she starts by making a point which is that phone calls have been replaced by text messages, instant messages and emails. She gives examples to show how people benefit from text messages and instant messages. Her first example is Elaine who is seventeen-year-old. Elaine is a shy person. She uses text messages and instant messages instead of phone calls. She said that “shy people can write freely on the screens”(373). In addition, she shows that texting

Social media is addictive. Tweet - #Addicted. Facebook – Like my selfie. Snapchat – Snap me. I found myself on a painful and destructible path that consumed my life, without realising that I too was playing that game of seeking external validation through social media. I finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel and realised - We should start living in the real world. We should banish living in virtual reality and become interactive with people again.

It is well know that humans are not perfect, and it doesn't help with Facebook makes it clear humans are by far not perfect. To live a happy life, people have to be confidence with themselves and their lives, but Facebook is slowly destroys humans kind's confidence. In reality, to get a 'perfect' selfie it takes almost twenty attempts and then they have to go through the struggle of editing getting rid of the acne or freckles for ten minutes, and for what a stunningly beautiful selfie that doesn't even look like them. Then they go to the next level and post it to their wall think it is the best selfie of the day, until an hour later they see one of their friend’s selfie that has gotten 102 like in the past twenty minutes. Unlike theirs, they barely got thirty-two likes in an hour, and makes them feel jealous and envious of their friend’s selfie.

Social Media is taking the life out of our youth’s every day. More and more of our youths is turning into big couch potatoes because they are always on an electronic device. It seems like everything that have a colorful touch screen they are on it. What happen to the good old days when you can go outside and enjoy nature? What happen when you can easily communicate to them without texting them or spelling words right. We all are capable of communicating with words; we don’t need emoji’s.

Grammar involved within texting (e.g. leaving out letters) is purposeful and does not deter from an individual’s ability to spell and identify errors within the standard English language. A study conducted by Powell and Dixon (2011) in which participants undertook a spelling tests of 30 words twice, before and after a period of exposure provides evidence for this assertion. Those who were exposed to misspellings of the words were more likely to misspell the word themselves upon retaking the text. Those who were exposed to “textisms” i.e. abbreviated versions performed either just as well or better.

There is a transformation happening today that is completely changing the way that we do things. The ways that we are communicating are shifting from face to face interactions to short, interactive messages. Technology seems to be making it easier to stay connected, but it is restricting our interactions with others and leading to isolation.

ii. However, for many of us, face-to-face communication seems to be a dying art – replaced by text messaging, e-mails, and social media. Human communication and interactions are shaped by available technologies

Texting, e-mail, Twitter and other forms of asynchronous communication limit the skills of communication hindering the general social skills in the context of dating where it only removes the need for charm and courage and replaces it with the use of simple meaningless words in a

Instead of walking down the street talking to someone or meeting someone new, people are plugged into a device and ignoring the world around them. In “The Flight From Conversation,” Sherry Turkle discusses how millenials spend all day every day at a desk right next to someone else and never speak more than a couple words to them (85). People just aren’t engaging in much conversation today due to technology. Any conversing today is done via text message, email, or instant messaging on various social media websites or apps. Turkle also talks about how the rare times when people do communicate, it’s just in small blurbs and snippets. She complains about millenials and their idea that a quick text, letting someone know that they’re thinking about them, is suffice enough for a large chunk of conversation (85). People should not let technology come in the way of having a good

These drawbacks include too many people being reliant to talking online rather than in person and not verbally communicating with friends even though they are in the same room. Jasmine Fowlkes shows the reality in how social media is affecting our new generation through her article, “Viewpoint: Why Social Media is Destroying our Social Skills.” After discussing the results conducted by several researchers, Fowlkes states,“As more generations are born into the social age, social media will continue to be the favored communication form among young people. However, this shift may begin to affect their ability to properly communicate in person with peers.” Many start to rely on applications on our devices to talk to people, but this results in less verbal communication. In addition, Kelly-Fay’s Talktrack research study showed that conversations held in person are much more impactful than on social media. Rather than making social media a huge part of your life, Fowlkes wishes that people would look up from their phones and engage more with others since that could change their lives.

Text messages, iMessages, and direct messaging have made it all too simple to communicate with one another. These modern means of exchanging information have led to a drop in the amount of verbal discussions. “A generation of e-mailing, followed by an explosion in texting, has pushed the telephone conversation into serious decline” (“Texting Generation”). Though talking on the phone requires technology, a level of closeness exists, whereas in a text message, there is an absence of this. Voice calls have become “old-fashioned” in recent years, but hearing someone’s voice instead of reading a combination of letters on a tiny screen brings the intimacy factor to a whole new level. Many people in recent generations refrain from phone calls by virtue of being put on the spot and not having time to conceive an acceptable response. “Young people say they avoid voice calls because the immediacy of a phone call strips them of the control that they have over the arguably less-intimate pleasures of texting, e-mailing, Facebooking or tweeting” (“Texting Generation”). The avoidance of these immediate response ways of communication creates a divide in the community. Wrapped up in portraying themselves as a “perfect” human, people lose themselves and their values in the new virtual world, making it considerably easier for people to depict themselves in a finer way but at the same time, losing personal connection to the people in their lives. Technology continues to take place of the simple things people enjoy with one another. For example, a walk in the park on a cool, breezy day seems to be a rare thing people take pleasure in in recent times. The latest technological devices have subdued these “old” ways of finding entertainment and spending time with others. In “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury, Leonard Mead lives in

People say, "I'll tell you what's wrong with having a conversation. It takes place in real time and you can't control what you're going to say." So that's the bottom line. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to

With the constant use of these social technologies, less people are communicating in person. Many people are becoming more isolated due to the lack of personal interaction. It is becoming easier to go through life with less personal confrontations and conversations. Many people are becoming used to only conversing through their computer. This trend has continued and lead to an, “Interesting number of developing adults that function well in a keyboard setting while failing at human interaction” (PC Magazine Online 2). The failing of human interaction is a horrible result of this new technology. Without person-to-person interaction we will lose our language skills and have trouble with public speaking. Normal debates and confrontations will be made more difficult due to the inability to read one another’s body language. This is not healthy for our development because “Humans are social animals who need to have regular interaction with others to experience the full benefits of socialization and lead a balanced life” (Current Issues 2). This kind of isolation is degrading towards our society because it is necessary to be personable. If we continue to be isolated than all of our communication skills will drop lower than they already are. These new communication sites were made to improve communication, not destroy it.

As daring as young people may appear the line that divides real life and social media is not one they will cross lightly. To reinforce this idea, author Sherry Turkle shares her experience “ A 16-year-old boy who relies on texting for almost everything says almost wistfully, “Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I’d like to learn for to have a conversation.” The Outcry for help although hidden behind the motionless and quiet internet seems louder than ever. The boldness exhibited online and mainly on social media serves as an attempt to real life contact. The reason why the internet has become so popular within the

In recent times, there are many youths with only a shallow understanding of the nuances of the English language. Words like “cuz” and “gonna” are making appearances in college-level papers in place of real words, and students seem to believe “there” “their” and “they’re” can be used interchangeably. Many people are attributing this decline in grammar skills to recent developments in technology, such as Twitter and texting, as well as a lack of traditional grammar courses. This decline, however, does not indicate that these students have not taken a grammar course before, or that technology is to blame. While it is true that the quality of grammar use has declined over time, there is no evidence linking this to technology, and it has been shown that grammar lessons separate from writing lessons are not beneficial in learning English, and correct grammar usage should be taught alongside writing, not separate from it.