The New Way Of Communication

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Social Media is growing larger and larger each and every day, before everyone knows it, technology is going to pass us. With the creation of Social Networks, the possibilities are limitless. Humanity is shifting every day, with no chance of stopping or even slowing down. The changes are forever impacting our daily lives. This new way of communication is starting to create a social isolation for people. This form of communication and socialization is throwing people into a state of loneliness and exclusions from the outside world, and allowing them to avoid the confrontation that face-to-face communication creates.
The internet, was initially created as a communication system between participating Universities. Director of Libraries at
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A study of adolescents was recently done by Nesi and Prinstein (2015) that considered the factors of technology-based “social comparison and feedback-seeking” in the signs of depression. Their findings in teenagers around 8th and 9th grade were that those who are engaging in more social comparison and feedback-seeking behavior online (e.g., “I use electronic interaction to see what others think about how I look”; “I use electronic interaction to compare my life with other people’s lives”) were experiencing more depressive symptoms a year later, even when accounting for earlier levels of depression as well as coexisting technology use. Furthermore, this negative association was predominantly strong for girls and for students who were less popular with other student at school. (Schacter 2015)
According to Zach Epstein, too many people spend a majority of their time behind a phone or computer rather than actually interacting with people. (Epstein 2016) In fact in the United States, people spend an average of 444 minutes every day looking at screens. Yeah, you have 500 so called "friends" on Facebook, but how many do you actually know, have met, or even speak to? Groups of studies find it to be true that social media websites do isolate people and are very controversial and persuasive to those using them. In a study by Wang, Burg, and Kraut, they suggest that there is a negative relationship between the use of the Internet
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