Texting Over Cell Phones : The Impact Of Technology And Human Interaction

Younger adults around the globe are growing up in a world filled with media in different kinds of shapes and forms(Brown, 2006). It is said to be that people are able to find partners independent of where they live and will be able to maintain a healthy relationship. This is because now people are able to share and communicate everything about their lives instantly. For example, music, videos, photos and other types of communication are easily available to the average person. (Herlein & Piercy, 2008). Society turns to technology these days to communicate because it gives them a sense of control over their social lives. Madell & Muncer, 2007). For example, when a person receives a text message. They can think for as long as they want to how they are going to reply back. Being able to think carefully is something digital communication has over physical. Sometimes we can say things that we did not mean due to being under pressure or reading body language. Texting someone can also have an impact on relationships with others. A study done showed that adults that are in a romantic relationship who uses texting to communicate with each other are more likely to have a better quality relationship (Coyne, Stockdale, Busby, Iverson, & Grant,

“Can you remember the last time you were in a public space in America and didn’t notice that half the people around you were bent over a digital screen, thumbing a connection to somewhere else?” (Fredrickson, 2013, pg. 1). In a world today where sending a text message containing the message “I luv you,” is equally powerful to that statement said in person to your significant other. Today’s generation is surrounded by the constant need to have technology and mainly cell phones at your fingertips. Gone are the days when people would talk to one another whilst standing in line, now it is all about having and using your cell phone to pass the time. All of this takes bondage on having an interpersonal relationship with each other and conversing

Today, he says the two spend more evenings staring at their phones than they do at each other.” (Morris). The article provides information that families are affected by technology and can not keep conversations or continue relationships. Similar to Montag and his wife being so intrigued in their technology they forget about each other and the bond they could have if they had conversations after work or at the end of the night rather than making their devices seem more important to them. “If one partner in the relationship disengages from a face-to-face interaction while engaging in technology...the other person may experience a sense of threat to their need to feel attached and in control in that relationship.” (Morris). The lack of communication in a relationship due to technology seems to push away others in the friendship or relationship, the article proves that when others are more interested in their phone or other devices other party/parties feel distant and pushed away and do not want to continue the relationship.People can start building stronger relationships by putting down their pieces of technology and making time to have a real conversations with the people they

Technology abolishes human interaction with one another. Human interaction becomes less frequent as technology advances. Many people have access to technology. For instance, walk into a diner, or a fast food restaurant, and then discover a group of people at a table all on their electronic devices. People need to be more aware of how technology is affecting the relationships among people. People are going to lose their friendships because they failed to separate their cyber life from their social life.Melissa Nilles describes her experience as a nightmare that was actually reality. In the “nightmare,” she lost many opportunities because of being attached to her cellular device.

Consequently, people who text a lot may be more uncomfortable with in-person communication.” Taking this information into account, it becomes clear that cell phones have essentially decreased face-to-face socialization and have socially affected those who use cell phones as a main source of communication. Along with the absence of face-to-face social interaction, arises the issue of resolving problems via text rather than in person. Cell phones have provided a way to hide behind technology from emotionally distressing events, such as ending relationships (Campbell, 2005).

Interacting with other people can difficult and at times even unpleasant, but at the end of the day it is a task everyone has to overcome, or not. In Alone Together Turtkle writes of how we have come to readily accept a more technological based world saying, “ Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities” (263 Turkle). Today technology allows its users to communicate with others without ever having to see their face via text or email, meeting the vulnerability of being awkward and boring during a conversation in real life. Yet, avoiding actual interaction with people diminishes a persons social intelligence, making a conversing with others all the more difficult as they can no longer rely on the controlled atmosphere of messaging system and have to deal with unexpected questions and topics. Moreover, in the same article Turtle discuses the younger generation aversion to human interaction, she write, “ Teenagers avoid making telephone calls, fearful that they ‘reveal too much’. They would rather text than talk”( Turtle 272). Technology provides a controlled environment in which one decides to what degree he or she would like to interact with other, but this is not how the real world works. One can text answers for a job interview or email the news of a sick relative, somethings have to be done in person. Accordingly, in Tough’s article social intelligence is defined as, “ the ability to recognize interpersonal dynamics and adapt quickly to different social situations”( Tough 2). Online users do not exhibit social intelligence, the online domain is posses no new social situations to adapt to, is something makes one uncomfortable or annoyed they can simply “x” out of a window or go to another website. Increased reliance on technology will hinder the development of character, especially social

Technology is one main reason why people have disengaged from social life and become more isolated. People have learned that they do not need to actually talk to someone physically to make a new friend. This is a problem because the idea of going up to someone and starting a conversation will slowly become unknown. This will consequence in the extinction of the traditional human interaction people used to have. Turkle believes that when people use “the advantage of screen communication,” and technology to reach out to others, there is a downgrade in the quality of the relationship (Turkle 374). There is no certainty in knowing if someone is being genuine or if they are even who they say they are online. People have learned to use technology

“Little by little, Internet and mobile technology seems to be subtly destroying the meaningfulness of interactions we have with others, disconnecting us from the world around us, and leading to an imminent sense of isolation in today’s society.” (Melissa Nilles “Technology is Destroying the Quality of Human Interaction”) Because of technology, the interactions with other people have no meaning, and that we are no longer in touch with the world that we live in. Since technology makes it easier to connect and converse with friends, family, etc. it gives people the opportunity to avoid face to face interaction at all, which leads to isolation and loneliness. This is because as human beings, physical touch is something that we

Are you glued to your cellphone? Do you constantly check text messages, missed calls, emails, or social media sites while you’re with friends, family, co-workers, spouses, or significant others? If so, you may want to reconsider doing so for the sake of your relationship with those people. Though much has been said about the positive effects digital socializing has in relationships, very little attention has been paid to the negative effects it causes especially when it comes to trusting each other and communicating with one another. Aside from a few of my personal experiences and observations, Sherry Turkle, Danah Boyd, Howard Gardner and Katie Davis, as well as Mary Chayko will also help to give readers a better understanding of the severity of the issue.

Advocates of texting promote the concept of easy communication, but the opposing view point emphasizes the decline in social ability as an effect of texting. Texting can be abused almost effortlessly. Communication via thumb has become so prominent that it is constantly used for practically any task. Are you in an argument with someone? Just text them and ignore the in-person confrontation; it’s much easier. Many have seen relationships—both friendly and romantic—decline due to the replacement of social interaction with a screen. In the passage, Rule of Thumbs: Love in the Age of Texting by Natalie Moore, Moore’s informal diction, humorous anecdotes and outside sources back up the disadvantages of technology.

In today’s world of massive interconnectivity, it is often seen that people lose the “physical connection” aspect of necessary interactions. Humans are social creatures, thus restricting ourselves to communicating through Facebook, Instagram, or whatever medium is convenient at the time becomes detrimental the health and well-being we try to cultivate and maintain. In other words, with the many successes and necessities that interconnectivity has provided humanity, there are just as many pitfalls and problems.

Clear reference, a major problem in today's society, an example of this is texting. Texting has resulted into a way of connecting with people quickly and easily, but at the cost of needing to know the context of the conversation. Consequently texts as a result can be easily taken out of context. Furthermore the habits involved in texting tend to bleed over into verbalize communication. For example, on a senior trip the group went ziplining, on the last line, not having a large decline in height, some people could become stuck in the middle. In an amusing way the lightest girl went and got stuck, in order to get her down the instructor said he was coming to get her, but because he was so far away the other group did not hear him. Although the

Did you know the human race became illiterate the moment they started communicating by causing bad spellers, poor word structure and critical thinking and comprehension level? Illiteracy is the lack of ability to read and write. In 3200 BC the Egyptian Hieroglyphics was the longest communication towards one another. As time went on writing became shorter than earlier years, causing the hieroglyphics to be less effective. The human race is constantly evolving around new ways to communicate faster and shorter. Although texting is causing illiteracy in society it is conveniently to society. Social Media such as texting is the next evolutionary step to making the human race more illiterate.

People are now able to keep in contact with people through social media sites and text messaging. The negative impacts are often discussed how technology has interfered in family life, but there are positive benefits to families, too. A recent study revealed that the majority of families feel that technology has affected their relationships in positive ways (McDaniel & Coyne, 2016). Couples are now able to communicate throughout their day while they are

Although one may argue that many relationships are broken up because of the phone, which is mentioned in Archambult's article about couples splitting up because of some stupid text messages from other girl or boy (Archambault 2011: 444), I argue that it is not the essence of the mobile phone. Every media has its own issues and will cause its own cultural anxieties (Baym 2010: 22), but what I am arguing about here is that the issues and anxieties in this situation are caused by many complex contexts and problems,