Social Media And Its Effects On Society

Cell phones and technology are wonderful tools for us to communicate and to grow as society but even though there are many benefits of using cell phones in the various social environments, there is also the greater disadvantage of the usage of the devices. The effects of being rude to one another, “light” unimportant conversations, and weak relationships between peers or family members. In today's world people are way too connected electronically and disconnected emotionally. As there is a lot of controversy to if cell phones are running society's social lives or not, research has shown that they are in fact hurting and affecting how people are interacting and communicating with one another. Between the lack of empathy and the lack of face to face conversations, cellular devices “smart phones” are the major reasons society is seeing a negative effect in people’s social life

Social media has become deeply embedded as a part of today’s American culture and lifestyles, changing the way people interact and communicate with one another. Americans use social media every day; to not only communicate, but to express themselves. These online media sites and blogs serve as entertainment for its users and give them a sense of a social life if they do not already have one. Some users become so obsessed with their online lives that they lose the ability to successfully communicate with people in real life. Their craving for the use of social media becomes an addiction to where they can spend countless hours on their social sites. Facebook, a popular social media cite, has been proven to cause Facebook Depression, a sickness in which a person is emotionally depressed and in self denial. Studies have shown that sites such as Facebook, are a direct link to an individual’s physical and emotional well being.

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.

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

Also, sherry’s use of statistical data as evidence “89 percent of cellphone owners” from research done is another powerful strategy aimed at persuading people of all ages to put down their phones and look for solitude, deeper conversations, and develop human interaction. The participants regrettably admit that the use of their cell phones in a social gathering disturbed the conversation.

But this has ceased to exist after the introduction of Smartphone 's and the internet. People prefer to chat in the many social media offered on the internet and accessed by their Smartphone 's, play games, listen to music and even blog than strike a conversation with a person sited next (Tuckle, 2011, 23). As much as people are communicating more, a threat of communication becoming more of quantity than quality is emerging. As much as the use of Smartphone 's and internet has expanded people socially and geographically, it drives people from authentic relations. Too much use of Smartphone 's and web results in declining people social circle. It is a fact that the more time people spend on their Smartphone 's and the internet the less time they has with their families, friends and other people in the society.

Smartphones are keeping people from having more deeper and more emotional face to face conversations. Most Americans have had at least one type of internet conversation without meeting the person face to face. Almost ninety-seven percent of students bring some type of device with them to school. In addition, many studies on technology and the effects it has on social interactions and face to face conversations; since rise in amount of social media usage in the late 2000’s. Seeing people have deep or emotional conversations in person is very rare to see

Everyone has seen it. There are always those people who are way to busy looking at their cell phones to pay any attention to other people. These people are so immersed in their screens that they avoid human contact at all cost. This situation seems to be on the rise with the spread of technology to all age groups in various social classes. The limitation of human contact due to the increase of technology has caused a negative effect on people's lives because it lowers the communication skills of the average person, and it has made people uncomfortable in social situations. To begin, technology, causing a decrease in human interaction, has had a negative effect on people's lives because it lowers the communication skills of the

Decades ago we were all wired in-desktops, game consoles, and dial-up internet. Now, everything has become wireless and pocket sized. Emails are not just at home or work but are accessible at the palms of our hands at any given time. Messages are sent back and forth within seconds; a picture or video can be shared to the world in minutes. Advances have changed the way we experience social interaction but what is really happening? Does an individual’s level of cell phone usage significantly influence social interaction or does it make it worse by creating social anxiety when these devises are not present which would result in the development of a dependency?

Social Media such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube are web-based activities that provide individuals access to build a public or a semi-public profile within a confined system, connect and find users that they share a connection with as well as view and navigate the list of connections that are made by other participants of the systems (Boyd & Ellison, 2007). Social media is widely used by young adults contributing to about 84% of the total usage (Smith, 2011). Some of the popular reasons for widespread use of social media are staying in touch with near and dear ones especially with friends and family, making new friends, following famous politicians and celebrities and also in search of potential relationships (Smith, 2011). However as the use of social media becomes more widespread, we cannot help but express concerns over the effects that social media usage may have on our behavior. Over the past couple of decades, research has strongly linked social media usage with negative behavioral outcomes and is known to affect one’s overall well-being. This essay will begin by discussing some of the behavioral issues that result from social media usage, followed by criticisms of this argument. The recommendation will then highlight some ways by which the behavioural problems could be dealt with, acknowledging that self-monitoring and self-regulation are the main ways to tackle the issue.

A large consequence of smartphone usage is the distance it forces between people. While sitting outside the library during a busy Tuesday on campus, I witnessed the first-hand effects of smartphones on face to face interactions. Groups of people basked in the sun talking and mingling while others just focused solely on their phones or

My proposed research study seeks to examine the rationale of smartphone usage in social contexts. Smartphone usage is a very prevalent occurrence in our present day. We live in a society that is overly consumed by technology and inevitably we have become dependent on it. This led us to wonder whether the use of smart-phones is a pathogenic method of conforming to social norms or simply an adventitious occurrence. If an individual pulls out their smart-phone in the presence of another person, typically, the other individual will pull out their smart-phone, (whether to check emails, check texts, play games, etc.) however, is this because they lack the interpersonal communication skills to keep the flow of conversation? Our study focuses on uncovering the following factor: do individuals use their smartphones as an escape from face-to-face interaction? The purpose of this research study would be to determine if smart-phones have an impact on face-to-face communication/interaction. Additionally, I am interested to see if having a small number of people in the room (5), or a room with a large number of people in the room (15) plays a role in smart-phone usage versus face-to-face interactions.

When using a cell phone, a person can send texts, connect to social media, and make voice calls as a way to talk with others in the community. While this feature of cell phones are good for helping a person create and support his or her social life, relying on this feature too much can do more harm than good to a person’s communication skills. Depending on a cell phone as the only means of communicating to the rest of the world eliminates the need for a person to speak face to face with someone else in the community. If a person does not engage in these everyday social activities, then face to face skills receive a lack of development, are not applied to the social aspects of life, and ruins a person’s ability to sit down and have a normal conversation. While face to face communication in our society may seem traditional and obsolete in a world dominated by cell phones, this traditional form of communication is still very much relevant in our society as it helps to produce a unique form of interaction that cannot be emulated by the interpersonal nature of cell phones.

In recent years, the world has changed by modern technological developments. People in these days are living real revolution and changes that affect in somehow their life. Social media has contributed to link parts of this wide world to each other, and paved the way for all people exchange views and ideas. In addition, social media sites are considered the most widespread on the Internet because of its characteristics that made it different from other websites. Because of social media, people has become living in small town. They do not need to travel in order to getting informations or news. Social media has created easier way to achieve communication between individuals and groups.Social media websites, such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace , High Five, Tagged and YouTube have allowed people to exchange video clips, photos, share files and perform immediate talks and direct communication and interaction between the audience. Despite of advantages of social media that offer to its users, there are some disadvantages that may overcome those advantages. There are a lot of severe criticisms that social media faced because of its negative impact on individuals, families and society. Steal information, break the personal privacy, wasting a lot of time and isolation from people are some of problems that people have faced because of social media. People have divided into two group toward this issue. Some people think that social media has contributed to make their life better.

My proposed research study seeks to examine the rationale of smartphone usage in social contexts. Smartphone usage is a very prevalent occurrence in our present day. We live in a society that is overly consumed by technology and inevitably we have become dependent on it. Not only do we depends on technology but it also decreases the amount of face to face interaction and therefore raises social concerns. This led me to wonder whether the use of smart-phones is a pathogenic method of conforming to social norms or simply an adventitious occurrence. If an individual pulls out their smart-phone in the presence of another person, typically, the other individual will pull out their smart-phone, (whether to check emails, check texts, play games, etc.) however, is this because they lack the interpersonal communication skills to keep the flow of conversation? My study focuses on uncovering the following factor: do individuals use their smartphones as an escape from face-to-face interaction? The purpose of this research study would be to determine if smart-phones have an impact on face-to-face communication/interaction. Additionally, I am interested to see if having a small number of people in the room (5), or a room with a large number of people in the room (15) plays a role in smart-phone usage versus face-to-face interactions. To address this hypothesis I conducted a