Social Media Is Moulding Us Analysis

“How young is too young for cellphones in school?” by Donna St. George says there was “near-silence at lunch when [a] middle school allowed phones for a week.” These middle-schoolers were so absorbed in their phones they did not have a normal conversation. If teens are so obsessed with their social media life that they cannot function normally when given a phone, they will not make conversation and will have weaker relationships. Teens are literally withdrawing themselves from normal social life to become “social” online. As stated in “Is Technology Killing our Friendships” by Lauren Tarshis, “1 in 4 teens are online almost constantly.” This “1 in 4” could be doing things in real life, rather than staying online nearly endlessly. Therefore, youth is more into their social media than actual

It is true that when given the chance to participate in the world’s changing social and political landscape through social media, many people choose to cling to their own opinions and ignore the perspectives of others. But the relationship between this narcissism and social media is not one that is always clear or necessarily true. There are a number of people use social media for things other than sharing pictures. In fact, people are capable of rational thought with and without the aid of social media, despite the prevailing attitude that says opposite. While there is surely room for improvement, today’s media environment is certainly capable of helping us make sense of the world if we really allow

One of the many negative points in this article is that there has been a decline in teenagers’ social abilities in the recent generations. In the article it says, “The number of teens who get together with their friends nearly every day dropped by more than forty percent from 2000 to 2015 and the decline has continued to become steeper” (Twenge). After reading this article I realized the difference in the amount of times I hung out with my friends in high school than I did in middle school. Middle school was around the time I got my first smartphone and not many people had one, so I wasn’t constantly on it and neither was anyone else. We also couldn’t even bring our phones to school if we had them; this forced us to communicate in class and during passing period, instead of having our faces glued to our phones. Since we were always talking face to face, it was easy to have many

Our society has evolved very much over time. The technology, has impacted it greatly. With technology in our lives, we find ourselves ‘glued’ to our electronics. Now, the question is, what does social media provide us? In Wu’s article, he states, “The devices we use change the way we live much faster than any contest among genes.” Meaning, we rely on these devices to make us happy, and resort to them when we are bored. Similarly, in Castells article, he says, “Media often report that intense use of the Internet increases the risk of isolation, alienation, and withdrawal from society.” However, the article also says that social media has actually “increased sociability, civic engagement, and the intensity of family and friendship relationships, in all cultures.” Answering the question, we actually get something out of using social media. We are allowed to communicate with

Since the invention of the Internet, people have become indulged with its copious functions, from making advanced programs to learning how to do new projects to social media. Social media has evolved over the years, from Friendster to Myspace to Facebook, since the late 1990s, and people have incorporated it into their lives. It is the modern way for people to connect and communicate with anyone and everyone across the globe. Plus, social media is everywhere; people utilize it when they are on the bus, at the checkout line, and even when they are using the restroom. In Peggy Orenstein’s “The Way We Live Now: I Tweet, Therefore I Am,” she propounds that social media has altered society. Social media has changed society’s priorities, characteristics, and mentality.

Social media is often praised for its ability to connect people worldwide, but in reality, it is forcing us further apart; we are no longer individuals but are instead creating for ourselves a fake social identity. Nicholas Carr, author of “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” focuses on how reading on the Internet has made it almost impossible for us to do “deep reading.” In “Just Between You, Me, and My 622 BFF’S,” Peggy Orenstein looks at how social media has stolen younger girl’s identities, and formed their sexual identity. Chuck Klosterman in his article “Electric Funeral” sees the Internet as a breeding ground for “villains” who feed off our primitive impulses to draw attention and fame to ourselves. These three authors have powerful

With the proliferation of technologies, especially the Internet, social networking has become ubiquitous in the modern world. Social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter, etc. are the impetus that is ever facilitating rapid creation and exchange of ideas to promote and aid communication. Humans interact by being social, therefore sociology analyses the changes in the social trend. Understanding the sociological perspective on the effects of social media, we find that the social aspect has changed. Comparing the past and present status of our society, it is obvious that there has been a transformation which all points towards the evolution of social media. Social media has changed our culture and has impacted on the way people meet, interact and share ideas; it has changed the perception of how people should communicate with the society. Social interactions have been defined to be an exchange among individuals with the aim of strengthening the society. Social interaction is building block in every society when people meet and interact; they define rules, systems, and institutions in which they will live by. On the other hand, social media is known as a platform that allows people to network and socialize through applications and websites that have been innovated. Though social media could be used as a useful tool to communicate with friends, family and even with people you do not know, however, researchers show that social media is absolutely harming human's skills to have

In Susan Tardanico’s article “Is Social Media Sabotaging Real Communication”, she expresses her opinion that people have a tendency to hide behind media and create an image of themselves that are not at all what the actual picture is. In the article is a story about a mother who had been exchanging text messages back and forth with her daughter. The daughter sent smiley emoticons and seemed happy to the mother, but later that night, the daughter attempted to kill herself. Tardanico states, “We are more connected - and potentially more disconnected - than ever before.” (pg.1) I agree with Susan Tardanico that social media sabotages communication, but media also creates a dangerous place for its users.

The way that people now communicate with each other has changed drastically in the last 20 years. Technological devices like cell phones or computers that used to be just accessories now became a must in our daily lives. A person cannot leave the house without a phone since now the person might feel disconnected and sometimes even lost. We now have the ability to communicate with people thousands of miles away by just a few clicks. The quarrel is that this power made it easier to connect us with people we love even if we never get to see them in real life. In “The Hive” by Marshall Poe and “Small Change” by Malcolm Gladwell, both authors talk about the advancement of communication through social media. Poe believes that social media revolutionize us as a community, yet Gladwell criticizes it for being fake and not creating strong ties. Communication through social media does not create strong ties between the people we are connected with, it creates a deceitful sense of strength and interaction between people. It also alters an individual’s perception and makes it easy for people to show an image of themselves that isn’t who they really are. That is why people now a days even though they may seem like they are more connected through social media outlets, they really don’t realize how week of a connection social media brings.

The written word,now a weapon, is now digitized and feed through media. “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon.” (Bradbury 58). Not only have books become a media revolution so has social interaction. Social media allows for connections formerly unheard. “The problem, they say, is that we spend so much time maintaining superficial connections online that we aren’t dedicating enough time or effort to cultivating deeper real-life relationships.”(WSJ). This avenue of socialization allows for discretion of the true life and person of the poster. “And even worse, the human condition is beginning to devolve. We have become addicted to the vanity of social media unable to expose our lives to the world.”(Green). This media based socialization can overtake the lives of many. “When you add it all up, the average American spends more than 10 hours a day plugged into some form of media.”(Synder). Making the human race even more technology

“Social media allows people to connect with each other to create and share information. It is people-powered communication, an authentic dialogue motivated by a basic human desire to share information” (CIPD, Social Media and Employee Voice Report 2013). ‘Click’ and my message is on its way to my friend’s Facebook inbox hundred of miles away. The astonishing speed of how quick we can communicate in today’s societies, all thanks to social media. The invention of Facebook simplified everything we know about communication. We can connect to people whenever and wherever, sharing information has never been more convenient and exciting. In Shane Hipps’ Article, “ Is Facebook Killing Our Souls?,” he has no intention to impede technological advancements, instead he wants users to understand technologies with insights. According to my research, although Hipps ' points has some merits, I disagree with him because he overgeneralized the impacts that Facebook and other social media has on users’ behaviors and identities.

Due to technological advancements over the years, many people have become “out of touch” with the outside world. Many people my age would rather go home and facetime their peers than see them and have an indulging conversation in person. As a result, a lot of people have been socially disconnected and lost the ability to interact normally. Many went from spending time with each other after school, having a nice chat to texting about their day instead. This decline in social activity has

Social media has become a huge and important part of our lives in recent years, it has become so important that it has been used in jobs and education. On the other hand, social media has also caused controversy because people have used it to express their opinions and beliefs that other people might be against. In the essay “The Loneliness of the Interconnected” the author Charles Seife explains how the Internet has caused us to isolate ourselves in our own world with ideas that support our beliefs and people who have similar values and biases.For example, Charles Seife states, “The Internet is helping us preserve our mental landscape from the weathering effects of information. We are becoming even more resistant to the effects of uncomfortable facts and ever more capable of treating them as mere noise”(Seife 292). In comparison, the essay “Inequality: Can Social Media Resolve Social Divisions?” by author Danah Boyd discusses about her experience of working with American teens where she learned how the use of social media supports many patterns of segregation in the non-virtual lives of most Americans. In the essay she states, “The Internet was believed to be a great equalizer where race and class would not matter because of the lack of visual cues, but instead the same biases that configure unmediated aspects of everyday life also shape the mediated experiences people have on the Internet”(Boyd 307). Both Charles Seife and Danah Boyd discuss the problems of isolation and

Social media is a prime paradigm of how people are able to become more connected today. MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that social media and text messaging are creating distance between relationships, lack of real communication and a decrease in involvement in civil and religious discussions.

Most of us use social media to communicate with our family, friends and our loved once. Since almost all of my friends live 8000 mile away, I use Facebook, Instagram, and viber to keep in touch with them. Bur recently I started noticing it has become more than a means of communication. I start posting a picture and obsesses about how many likes I get, checking other peoples Facebook just to see if they have more friends than me, believing every post without questioning if it’s a fact and funny enough I start sending friend request for people I don’t even know. Christine Rosen, a senior editor of the New Atlantis and resident fellow at the Ethics and Public policy Center in Wessington, D.C. on “In the Beginning Was the World”, she wrote how technology is affecting the society’s critical reading ability. Peggy Orenstein, an author and a contributing writer for the New York Times, on “I Tweet, Therefore I Am” she talks about how social media is distracting as from fully live in the moment. Even though the development of technology have increased the quality of life, it also brought undeniable challenges to our society. The constant use of social media and internet has increase society attention-seeking, Distracted, and decries critical reading. The use of social media has increased dramatically throughout the years.