Social Medi Evolution Or A Step Back

Nowadays, the communications with others are different from the traditional ways and normal rules. People take advantage of new technology to communicate instead of face to face. Although the email and text message make people easy to communicate, the society

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.

As we look back over the past few decades, social media has started to evolve more quickly while pulling in people from all different age groups. Even older adults are joining in on Facebook and Instagram to try and fit in with the new norm social media has created. In a world that is so fast paced, it is difficult to not be pulled into the newest trends, as they are advertised almost everywhere. There are even ways to find a romantic partner with apps and websites. The power social media has can be observed all over the world in many different settings. Sadly, this power can be both positive and negative. Though, it may be hard sometimes to see the negative aspects since our society has become so enthralled with social media. First, I

No one wants to talk face-to-face with anyone anymore. It’s ‘awkward’, ‘tiring’, and just unnecessary in the eyes of today’s youth, but so what? That’s the charm of it; it’s real. The fun of conversation is to make inside jokes, and tease people, and have deep conversations, and laugh at yourself later, and learn life lessons, and gain confidence, but that’s impossible over text. Technology takes away so much of life's joys and eccentricity, and makes life altogether less valuable and memorable for the newest generations. Actual communication provides so much texts can’t, and never will.

Nowadays, the revolution of the internet and the social media changed patterns of social relations and it is very rare to notice face to face interaction between individuals as we used in the past. Unfortunately, even at home, when a family is eating dinner, or waiting for a family guest, everyone is staring at a small screen device connected to the internet, posting a comment, sharing a picture, taking a snapshot, Etc. No one can deny that the revolution of the internet and the massive use of social media have transformed the way people used to communicate with each other in everyday life. Today, an individual would prefer to text

Over the last century, technology has infiltrated almost every aspect of human life. From how we communicate, to how we learn, or even to how we do household chores, technology has influenced it all for most people in American society. In Sherry Turkle’s essay, “How Computers Change the Way we think,” she argues how the technological advancements of the computer have changed the way we think and how it has impacted our daily lives in today’s society (287). A specific aspect the author mentions is the way technology has changed the way we communicate with others. Even though Turkle does not specifically mention texting as a primary form of communication, texting has become one of the most popular types of communication and also carries its own way of thinking and aesthetic. Texting as a way of communication has affected grammar and language used, the speed and efficiency of correspondence, and ability to always be connected to those in one's circle of friends, family, and acquaintances.

Social media is described, by the Merriam-Webster dictionary (2015), as “forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos)”. As few as 10 years ago the term social media was yet to be coined, but within that decade the use of these blogs, websites and sharing platforms has increased exponentially with no plateau in sight. From creating Instagram accounts for household pets, to sharing Halloween themed baking ideas over Pinterest, people today have access to social media outlets for almost everything. Today about 74% of people ages 18-65 use some form of a social networking site (Pew, 2014). Facebook takes the lead in social media usage with about 71% of those adults. LinkedIn and Pinterest are tied for second at 28% of users, 26% use Instagram, and Twitter falls last in the top 5 most used social medias with 23% of users (Pew, 2014). In September of 2013 the Pew Research Center measured that 90% of adults ages 18-29 used these social media outlets on a daily basis, which is an astonishing increase from the 9% that was measured in February 2005 (Pew, 2014). Due to the fact that young adults are increasingly involving themselves in these online platforms, it is very important to understand the long term and psychological effects (such as depression, social anxiety,

Writing on the Wall by Tom Standage focuses on different forms of social media and how it has changed to benefit society throughout the past 2,000 years. Standage defines social media as a community that is brought together by shared information and passed along to different social connections. Social media may not have been in the same form as we are used to nowadays, but it has been around for centuries. In some ways, you may not realize that daily activities are forms of spreading information. People like the idea of social media because as humans, we like interacting with other people. Throughout the years, we’ve learned how to transition from oral communication to a written language. The discoveries changed how people view communication for the better.

Everyone in this generation owns a cell phone; they have become an essential part of our lives. We are able to call, text, video chat, email, research, and post on social media all with the push of a button. Instead of travelling across country or writing letters and waiting weeks for a response, we are now able to communicate from virtually everywhere we go. Social media such as Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram allow us to communicate with friends and family and meet new people as well. Although not everything about social media is the greatest, such as excessive posting, privacy issues, and bullying, many good things can come out of it. In one recent instance, a man on Twitter was scrutinizing a woman’s weight in one of her pictures. Celebrity, Zendaya, saw this post and immediately searched for this girl through social media in order to offer her a modelling job for her clothing line. The woman’s dreams came true in that moment and had social media to thank for this opportunity (Miller, 2017). It is amazing to see how developed our communications have gotten through the years. Technology has improved so much that there are now numerous ways to reach out to friends and

In Sherry Turkle’s Ted Talk, “Connected, But Alone?”, the speaker laments on how technology is hindering human connectivity. Instead of having face to face conversations, individuals can choose to keep each other at a distance through text messages or e-mails. Contrary to what Turkle states in her presentation, technology and virtual communication help people to stay connected and develop better communication skills than hinder them.

Since the start of communication, engineers have been searching for ways to advance the way we connect with one another- from the pictograph, to the landline telephone, even to our revolutionary smartphones. However, one advancement that really made it’s mark on our society and culture was texting, which almost everyone from ages 10 to 50 has participated in at some point in their lives. While texting is seen as a positive in younger people’s eyes, the older generation often feels it’s a negative. John Humphrys, author of “I H8 Txt Msgs”, in particular, has his own pronounced opinion on texting, and is not a strong advocate for it. David Crystal, who has written many pieces on texting, but specifically “2B or Not 2B?”, on the contrary, believes that texting is not a bad thing, and it actually impacts texters in a positive way. Of the two authors, David Crystal provides a much more convincing argument through providing statistics and details, whereas John Humphrys uses his personal opinions in an attempt to convince readers.

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

Social media has become prominent parts of life for many young people today. Most people engage with social media without stopping to think what the effects are on our lives, whether positive or negative. Are we as a society becoming more concerned with Facebook "friends" than we are with the people we interact with face-to-face in our daily lives? What will the longterm effects of today 's social media use be? There are many positive aspects, but there are equally as many dangers that come with the use of sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google +, Tumblr, Instagram, gaming sites, and blogs. Social media has both negative and positive effects on society, it is up to the user to decide what impact they want to make. In order to make the right choices, we must dig in and research this topic thoroughly.

The social media is one of the most common ways of communication and pretty much of knowing anything and everything around the world these days, and it is growing very rapidly. It changes and affects each person in a different way, or ways. Some may argue that social media has a bad influence on children and young adults, and that it negatively effects their brains, character, or personalities, while most people see that the social media has a more positive effect on them than a negative one. Moreover, social media has helped many people around the world to connect, or re-connect, with each other, easily. Social media is basically the new way of keeping in touch with everything and everyone, and of even strengthening bonds between each

n.pag). Subsequently, the rapid growth of social media changes the way humans socialize and interact with each other “thus, a large part of this generation 's social and emotional development is occurring while on the Internet and on cell phones” (n.pag). The advancements of social media have undeniably enhanced American society’s standard of life and its means of communication, yet it has also brought many side effects. Having glorified texting over calling and hyping tweeting over talking, technology in social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Skype, and text messaging―which are all meant to seamlessly connect individuals―has in contrast tainted the way this modern generation interacts with one another. Because of the developments in digital communication there is now a more apparent negative effect on genuine human interactions which has led to an abundance of shallow relationships, a decline in face-to-face communication, and an increased feeling of social isolation.