Social Media Addiction Or Relationship Barrier?

I can't remember one detail of my infancy, toddler, or school-age years. Maybe I’m not trying hard enough, or maybe it’s something I blocked out and try not to remember. I leave it up to pictures and my family to tell me about those days, though it never seems to ignite any recollection. From what I hear though, it sounded like it was the time when my family was the happiest. It sounded like a time when the family really meant the most to them! Family gathers, we use to have a lot of those. Suddenly it stop, and it was every household for themselves. I don’t know what came over my family, but it seems like all that matters today is who can do the most for you! They're too worried about what the next person can give them, that authentic love. “To come so far, to lose so much and find nothing” (Tan, 133). And they say family is supposed to mean the

In the short story “Looking for Work”, Gary Soto tells us that he wanted to imitate the family he saw in 1950’s sitcoms because they were the american dream family. The kids would wake up to a beautiful perfect table of breakfast go to some catholic school and have a nice dinner where everyone is dressed up. David King was the only person on his block that looked like the perfect american family and when young gary saw that he asked his mother “Mom, do you think we could get dressed up for dinner one of these days? David king does.” “Ay, Dios,” my mother laughed”(22). The idea of the perfect family is still sought out till this day but they don't dream about the “nuclear families” like in the 1950s. Most families now are broken up and kids are affected by it growing into adults with issues that have not been resolved which results into possible drug use or maybe even committing suicide. The dream today has changed from having your own perfect family to hoping

Stephanie Coontz is a professor of Family History at the Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington. She is a nationally recognized expert on the family and an award winning writer. In her 1997 book “The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America’s Changing Families”, Stephanie Coontz wrote an essay entitled “What We Really Miss about the 1950s”. In Stephanie Coontz’s “What We Really Miss about the 1950s”, she argues that we as a country collectively remember the 1950s with a nostalgic tone, but we are not remembering this era in its entirety, nor are we completely accurate. She explains that the family and economic life that we remember and long for does not represent

Family. What do you picture? Two married parents, their son and daughter, and maybe a dog, all living in a two story house in a nice suburban neighborhood. And who should blame you for picturing that? It’s been drilled into our minds all throughout our childhoods. Through our families, the tv, the books we read. But is this really all true? 50 percent of all marriages end in divorce and of that 50 percent, 46 percent are families. So why is this “perfect” family ideal so widespread? Author Barbara Kingsolver tries to explain this in her essay: ‘Stone Soup’. She claims it’s because society is so traditional and primitive in the way we idealize what a family is supposed to be: two married parents and their children. But that’s not really the case anymore. The main idea of her essay is that the definition of family needs to be reimagined to define more of what a family means, rather than what its terminology implies.

“We don’t have a choice on whether we do social media, the question is how we do it” (Qualman, n.d). According to Merrain Webster 1828, “social media is form of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messaging, and other online (such as video). Technology has involved into something that everyone can utilize effectively just by the swipe of finger or by pressing a single button. We don’t have to go the post office for hand written letter from families and friends abroad, but we can get them through simply opening a chat box online. However, social media has become the addiction to many young people today and even adults alike. We eat with your phones. We study and communicate with others on your various devices. We even go into the bathroom with our devices to ensure that we don’t miss a tweet, recent Instagram post or a WhatsApp message.

Before the rise of consumerism, American society had a different ambiance. People found joy in the little things; anything they were able to get their hands on was a blessing. They didn’t have the materialistic desires that many possess now. They embodied the stereotype of the idealistic nuclear family. In the early to mid-twentieth century, people didn’t have the money

In Stone Soup, by Barbara Kingsolver, Kingsolver argues that “any family is a big empty pot” and it does not matter what the family consists of because no family is the same (403). She employs her own personal experience and gives examples of how the shape of families has changed over time.

The families in America are steadily changing. While they remain our most valued and consistent source of strength and comfort, some families are becoming increasingly unstructured. In the past, the typical family consists of a working father, a stay at home mother and, of course, well-rounded children. Today, less than 20 percent of American families fit nicely into this cookie cutter image. American households have never been more diverse. Natalie Angier takes stock of the changing definition of family in an article for the New York Times.

Think about one of your favorite childhood memories. Is it when you first learned to ride a bike with the help of your dad? Or is it the time you and your siblings built a fort in the backyard and camped out overnight? Odds are that the memory that came to mind had something to do with your family. The family is such a tremendous part of our life. We learn vital skills that help us become better people and ultimately help us function in a society. That’s why the American Dream in the 1950s was entered around the family unit. People’s main goal was to nurture the family they had. Sixty years later, however, that dream has long been tainted and even lost. But why? Why has the dream that so many had changed?

Addictions may seem like simple pleasures at first. Unfortunately, that's the trap with any addiction. It starts out at a pleasurable interest. Gradually, it can turn into something that's life-altering and all-consuming. Not only can it alter your own life, it can ruin your family life. When it comes to addiction, most people think about the most popular ones like drug and alcohol addictions. However, there are many addictions that fly under the radar.

Human beings yearn for connection and belonging: which many American people feel this way to be true. Through this saying, Shelley Galasso Bonanno, wrote “Social Media’s Impact on Relationships,” published in 2016, on Psych Central, and she argues that the use of social media tends to have more of a positive mental impact on individuals whereas, the less use of social media tends to make individuals feel lonely and despaired. Also, mentioning the use of social media can alter face to face contact and real connections. Bonanno begins to build her credence with research, studies and personal experience, and prosperously incorporating emotional appeals. However, toward the end of the article, Bonanno’s attempt to appeal to reader’s emotions strengthen her credence, and ultimately her argument.

There was a time people relied on conversation or the great outdoors as a form of entertainment. Before Television invaded our homes, families sat together and ate dinner; they told ghost stories and danced around the fireplace to Pa’s fiddle. They took longs walks down the prairie and were physically active. Sure that could have been the life of Charles and Caroline Ingalls. However, because they didn’t have television, they were actively involved in their children’s lives. Laura and Mary would often go for a

This study relied on survey data and was cross-sectional research. Future research could include a qualitative approach in order to better understand the levels of addiction to social media, and the severity of mental health amongst participants with depression and anxiety.

The most genuine complication of social media is addiction. A reporter on Salem health characterized that text messaging is no longer the biggest teenage obsession, and enormous phone bills from lengthy phone calls are no longer the biggest doubts for parents. These teenage addictions still remain, but in our generation and in analogy to the Facebook mania, it’s quite insignificant. Facebook addiction is advised to be a disorder driven by a craving. Not being able to access Facebook creates anxiety among fanatics. It is one of the most prominent social networking sites and has over one billion users without exception. People detach themselves from family and friends. Further symptoms of Facebook addiction have been related with needy sleep patterns. Researchers have also attempted to evaluate certain personality traits to the obsession. Being in touch with friends and family might clarify the logic why people are unreasonably obsessed.

Today’s youth generation, has a strong attachment to the online world. Many adolescents spend most of their time online versus offline. Therefore, one can consider these adolescents as a social network addict, a person who spends a fair amount of time on one or many social platforms. Throughout the three articles, “Social Networking Addiction: An Overview of Preliminary Findings” by Mark Griffiths, “Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship” by Nicole B. Ellison and “Taking Risky Opportunities in Youthful Content Creation: Teenagers’ use of Social Networking Sites for Intimacy, Privacy, and Self-expression” by Sonia Livingstone, show how this addiction has changed people’s communication among people. While there are