`` The Hive `` By Marshall Poe And Small Change By Malcolm Gladwell

The relationship between people has been changed because of the widely using of new technology. People can easily communicate with other people by using different kinds of methods. Because of the use of those methods, people have more space with others and frequently hide part of themselves on the Internet in order to show the best of them. In the essay “Small Change: Why he Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted”, Malcolm Gladwell states that the relationship between people can be categorized by strong ties and weak ties. For example, in the past, people communicated by the method of interpersonal hierarchies, which are considered as strong ties. However, with the development of technology, social network, such as Twitter, Facebook, and Skype, which have become very popular in the world, are regarded as weak ties. Moreover, in the essay “Alone Together”, Sherry Turkle claims that people are distant with others and get lost in the virtual world through the new technology. She points out that now people communicate with others through technology instead of directing talking to real people. Furthermore, some people suppose that sociable robots as substitutes for people. Both Gladwell and Turkle agree with the idea that technology plays an important role on people’s connection. Technology only creates inauthentic relationship because it hides identity of many disorganized people.

Social media has become one of the greatest developments of human technology history. In today’s society, human are surrounding by the social media and wireless devices. In Shannon Matesky’s spoken word poem “MySpace”, the poet explains “physical contact is more important than our number of contacts” (Matesky). According to the poet, Shannon Matesky successfully redefines the word “Myspace” from a formal definition of “the distance from other people or things that a person needs in order to remain comfortable” (Merriam-Webster), to an operational definition of the contact created on the social media. People now forget how to stay with face-to-face relationship, social media become the new way of communication. “We can’t deal with the face-to-face so we let technology replace the space that people are supposed to fill”(Matesky), said Matesky, we are losing the ability to connect each individual face to face, and socially connection has been taking over through social media by using technologic device. Shannon Matesky has successfully redefined the actual meaning of “Myspace” from the distance between two to the space one’s create on the social media. MySpace no longer refers to distance between two, but to

Social media has become a controversial issue. The question we must first ask ourselves, is, what are the effects of social media in today’s society? Social media is a computer generated tool that allows business and people to share information such as pictures, videos and thoughts. Social media is internet-based allowing participants to share their information worldwide. In Sherry Turkle, article “Connectivity and Its Disconnect,” Sherry talks about how her friend Ellen who would Skype her grandmother once a week, “Before Skype Ellen’s calls to her grandmother were costly and brief.” Sherry Turkle, article “Connectivity and Its Disconnect,” (236). Turkle viewed the use of social media as something positive. Ellen could connect with her

Shawn Ghuman states his position on social media and the way social communicates with others in his student essay “Is technology Destroying Social Bonds?” In his essay Ghuman claims that society spends too much time on social media talking to those who are geographically close,how social media can cause anxieties to form, and how online communication can take away human thrive.

“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.

Booth stated (as cited in Keller, 2013) that there has been a shift in the way we communicate, rather than face-to-face interaction, we’re tending to prefer mediated communication. We’d rather e-mail than meet, we’d rather text than talk on the phone. Booth also noted (as cited in Keller, 2013) that while we’re communicating more, we may not necessarily be building relationships as strongly. Booth’s research suggested that there are three issues regarding the role social media plays in people’s communication styles. First, our messages are more open as we tend to trust the people on social media. Second, our social connections are not as strong as our face-to-face ones are so those relationships don’t tend to deepen. Lastly, we mostly interact with others that share a similar view so there is less diversity of viewpoints (Keller, 2013). So what makes these relationships not as strong as our face-to-face ones? It could be that we are worried we will miss something that is going on around us, such as the latest event or news in our friend’s lives. Due to the constant distractions of social media our conversations are becoming shallower, less meaningful. Our attentions spans are becoming shorter as we focus more on the social media platforms that mean so much to us (“Mobile Phones,” 2013). What sort of world will we have, if because of social media, we can’t even carry on a conversation

Social media is defined by the Merriam Webster dictionary as “Forms of online communication, through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content” (Merriam Webster). Social media, if used responsibly, is a great way for users to connect with the outside world in ways never before imagined. Such forms of communication have been able to connect millions of people from around the world and put them right at a user’s fingertips. This technology has nudged its way into the computers, smart phones, and hearts of millions of people around the world over the past decade, but at what cost? Although a great way for friends and relatives to reconnect, social media

How does technology affect our ability to communicate as a society? Because of how quickly social media technology is developing in our society, the topic is up for debate. Some argue that social media isn’t a valid method of communication because we can’t truly connect with one another on an individual basis, or that it fosters unhealthy socializing patterns. These arguments may have a bit of truth to them, but for the most part, social media has done wonders for our ability to communicate as a society. We are able to speak with people over long distances, we have access to important information at our fingertips, and we are provided with a neutral platform of self-expression. We may diminish our ability to fully connect, but what we gain from computer-mediated communication (CMC) vastly outweighs any drawbacks.

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

While use of technology has contributed to a substantial part of one’s life, it has come with both good and bad ties. Technology has helped us create different forms of communicating with each other whether it’s through social media, text messages or phone calls. Social media has made it easier to connect with others whether they are close by or across the country. People use the internet for a variety of reasons including posting pictures of one’s life or to see how other’s are doing in their life. It is used to keep up with everyone’s life when one personally take part in it. A good use for technology is being able to use the internet to spread a movement and being virtually united with others. Malcolm Gladwell explains how the internet has been used toward activism and protests in his essay, “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted.” Gladwell defines the strong and weak ties about technology and social media being used for activism. He provides examples of how people are using social media to project their voice or spread their movement and how quickly it makes it’s way around the world. Although he makes an argument that social media may be useful to start a movement, he does feel that it doesn’t work as well for activism. Gladwell points out that social media has it’s weak ties when comparing the connection between two people through social media and the connection between two people that know each other personally. Sherry Turkle also makes the same

Communication in the past was simple and meaningful. It was exceptionally short-sighted and required a more noteworthy arrangement of exertion this typically included writing, stamping, encompassing, conveying and lastly posting the letter. This was an enjoyable labour that gave greater meaning and sincerity to the message you wished to deliver, than effortlessly tapping on a screen and pressing the send button. This ‘easier’ alternative is social networking. It has managed to re-mould our way of communication bringing us further into the “Future” as we like to believe, but is this way of socialising really bringing us a better future? We sit serenely with an, iPhone in our grasp, our lap or some place near our reach skimming through the devil’s domain - not paying a solitary piece of thoughtfulness regarding the demolition we 're intuitively making each day ourselves, as well as to the whole of society. This

Since networking through the use of various social media platforms was introduced, communicating with others has never been easier. In his essay titled, “How Social Media is Having a Positive Impact on Our Culture," author Josh Rose talks about how people are now able to

The invention of computers and the thrust of populations into the digital age was a vast, strong, and immaculagte leap into the future. This aformentioned ‘leap’ advanced communication from something trivial to something worldly. With the use of the interweb we can now seize endless forums, messages, emails, information, and worldwide communication on the whole. When communication first began to be conceptualized by humans, at its’ core, it was just the simple act of conveying a message to another being, using the necessarty means to carry the information with no fear of misunderstanding. The whole point of communicating a message to someone is to mske sure they know what you mean so you can further the collective knowledge. The internet was invented and created a whole new way to communicate to others in a fast, inconsequential, and anonymous way to spread their messages to a significantly larger amount of people. Businesses, schools, and relationships of all different categories are withheld with the sentiment of the internet as a backbone to ensure that the relationshiup stays alive and well. Businesses now check the social media pages of any person that may possibly work at the company because the internet part of our person is now so integral to who we are, it is who we are. Relationships and conversation grows stale, tired, and redundant over these technological engines, and how we really behave face to face with someone is supressed, or sometimes forgotten.

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.

In a specific sentence Marche expresses a major negative impact that social media has on people by stating, “Our omnipresent new technologies lure us toward increasing superficial connections at exactly the same moment that they make avoiding the mess of human interaction easy” (Marche).What this suggest is that as a society, people are turning to social media for the fact that having to deal with others “messes” or emotions is quite time consuming. The reasoning behind this could very likely be due to the fact that social media is an easily accessible communicating platform, where many of the back-and-forth interactions are emotionless and instant. However, by not having interactions where emotions can be felt, a more meaningful connections cannot be possibly made, and it is through these meaningful connections that people bond and feel less isolated. In a similar manner this idea of less meaningful connections is also shared in “Growing Up Tethered” a chapter from the book “Alone Together” by Sherry Turkle. In this chapter the main theme is that teenagers are overly dependent on their smartphones, and that they require and demand constant reassurance from their peers through text or social media in order to feel complete or whole. The account of a particular high school student, claims that social media is quite positive, especially for insecure people since they don’t have to fully