The Social Life Of Today's Generation

Although sites are interesting, they can keep you away from being social. In the article, “What’s Wrong with Social Networking”, the author, Juno Parrenas, claims, “In the age of smart phone, we all find ourselves at the dinner tables with at least on anti-social person peering at their phone mid-conversation or grabbing their phones to take Instagram snapshots of every course of the meal”(1). It is very disturbing to know that some human beings do not take the time the time to sit and instead, get on their phone.

People use technology like the smart phone apps in order to interact and communicate with friends and families. The You and Me Application among others, is a popular mobile dating app used by people who are potentially seeking partners or friends. Others object that this kind of communication refrains and hinders strong face-to-face communication. The many authors and researchers share their views that technology will be a barrier to real life communication because technology users are less likely to be engaged and interact face-to-face with current or possible partner. In the essay “I Had a Nice Time With You Tonight On the App.”, Jenna Wortham contends that smart phone dating apps allows people to meet and communicate, and is also effective in maintaining healthy relationship. In order to entertain and convince her readers, Wortham begins by sharing a personal story about her experiences with communication apps in order to lower her readers so they don’t get thrown off with her credible resource, and

The article “When Your Smartphone Is Too Smart for Your Own Good: How social Media Alters Human Relationships” by Lori Ann Wagner begins with a summary the film “Her” which a Los Angeles man of the future falls in love his OS device and begins to develop an intimate relationship with “Her”. Wagner mentions that to many, the notion of one falling in love with their OS device might seem overdone, but questions if it really is. Wagner begins to explain how as human we have an innate need to be social and experience the feeling of belonging, which is why people turn topical media. With social media it is easier to acquire this interaction with others that is so desired, without having to put in the effort required for a physical relationship. Wagner

Four million; that’s how many apps you have to chose from across many different app stores, do we really need another one? Jenna Wortham, author of “I Had a Nice Night with You Tonight. On the App.”, believes she has found the next best thing. She talks about an online dating site called HowAboutWe, and she mentions that the site lost many customers once its users were in a relationship. The founders soon created a new app called You & Me to help new couples from HowAboutWe, as well as other couples, continue to communicate and produce joyous relationships. You & Me is aimed towards couples, like Wortham and her long distance boyfriend, that are longing to grow their relationship through the screen of a mobile phone and beyond (823-827). Wortham’s compelling use of pathos is overshadowed by illogical illustrations of her positive view of technology and one-sided examples of ethos.

Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, tumblr, Instagram, Tinder - all of these most likely sound a little familiar. They are all social media sites that are easily accessible through our iPhones or Galaxies or any other phone really. In the Emily Witt’s essay “Love Me Tinder”, which is part of the bigger story as to how Tinder came to be, along with some personal experiences of the people involved in the earlier development of the application. The discussion centers around the ever-changing motion of romantic and social domains in response to online dating sites like Tinder, where people can get together for regular hook-ups or casual dates, among other things, without commitment or the complications of things getting too serious. Witt wonders what this foreshadows for the human connection through the online world where people are just constantly connecting, but at the same time, not really connecting either. In "Precognitive Police" by Henrick Karoliszyn, he discusses a different and, in a lot of ways, the more troubling consequences of computer technology in his essay, where crimes can be prevented through various algorithms that can pinpoint criminals before they commit crimes, raising a countless number of questions concerning the fourth amendment. But there is an issue - an issue of us dehumanizing each other. Nowadays, our first impressions of people become these online profiles of them or files of them along with a history of them and the things they have done. These new

Technology these days is continuing to grow into people’s lives exponentially- something that Jenna Wortham talks about in the article, "I Had a Nice Time with You Tonight. On the App" published in The New York Times. She offers a new point of view to the dating-app world as she describes life in a relationship separated by thousands of miles. Today, dating-apps are mainly for people who are looking for a partner, but as more and more people start to find their loved one online, those apps become irrelevant. This knowledge has sparked new concepts for apps- apps that try to keep people happy in their relationships. Although human social interactions may have transformed over the past couple of decades, the usage of mobile devices to communicate help us stay in contact with people

Being published in a newspaper column, Wortham writes in a less formal language to explain her thoughts on communication through smartphone applications. By including personal stories behind her usage of technology, she is able to reflect on those and validate her opinion of messaging apps. She is able to connect with their reader on a more personal level because the reader can relate to her experiences. Due an excessive amount of technology use from people of all ages, Wortham’s article can reach anyone that uses messaging applications including couples of all ages. She does not single out long distance couples because she also includes the benefits of having these applications with family, friends, and coworkers. In her essay, Wortham straightforwardly states her thoughts on apps such as Facebook messenger, Snapchat, and even Tinder, leaving no room for the reader to become confused. In addition to her own opinions and statistics from Pew Research Center, she uses Sherry Turkle, who disagrees with messaging applications, to acknowledge that both sides understand that there is not an application on our smartphone that can replace a face-to-face

When technological advancement began so did the growth of social networking. Social networking became easier with the innovation of smartphones, by making social media more accessible than its initial phases. However, in social networking’s earliest stages social media sites were created with the purpose of helping people stay linked together despite the distance separating each other. During that time, the only means of using these networking sites were by having access to a computer. Without the easy accessibility to computers, people back then could carry on with everyday life tasks without social networking distracting us from the life around us. Despite social media not fully taking off until the booming of mobile devices, the earliest known form of social media is believed to have been created in 1995 by way of Classmates.com. Eventually being followed by networks such as Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest (Social Media). Unfortunately networking quickly changed in the 2010s when smartphones became more common and social media sites began to release their products as mobile applications or apps (Social Media). In this day and age in which some school-age children are gifted mobile devices almost everyone can get their hands on social media. It has become so easy to stay communicated by means of these social media apps that we are starting to forget how to interact among each other. We are moving away from face to face

“In our generation, internet users are connecting with family, friends and meet people using social media app/websites.

The statistics are extremely promising currently and show a great sector of growth for the future as well with one in every ten American adults having used an online dating site or a mobile dating app [4]. Through popular dating applications such as Tinder and DOWN, more adults are able to grow their relationships and sometimes which may or may not translate into marriage. These statistics show that online dating is starting to grow a trend with young adults and may have a greater boom in the future. This is extremely significant as it allows adults and teenagers to blossom their relationship with the opposite sex or someone they may be attracted to. With greater usage over time this can be another popular form of social media. At the moment, mobile dating over social media is an expanding platform that allows people to have stronger and fruitful relationships with one

Before the birth of technology and social media, people approached their significant others face-to face. They encountered their future wives or husbands at schools, malls, markets, libraries or at any physical places. Everyone came to know others by recognizing their real faces, hearing their real voice, and understanding their real personalities. However, as the trend of using technological devices and social media continues to increase, most people prefer sitting behind their screens to search for their romantic partners. They encounter their potential lovers on social media such as Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. According to Janet Buder,

How do digital technologies affect human interactions and personal relationships in our society? Will they completely affect intimacy, self-reflection, and face-to-face communication in the bad ways?Within this topic, we need to explore the idea of technology and social media bringing people together.In the article '' No need to call'' which is written by Turkle, she focuses on the way people communicate with phones and how its bad influences with our relationship; whereas, in another article ''I had a nice time with you tonight, on the APP'', Wortham-the writer, explains that having a smartphone helps shorten time and space from one another through using apps on the phone.Although digital technologies have some drawbacks, when they come

The rapid growth of technology in our society has become more dominant than it was in the 17th and 18th century. Today, technology is used for almost everything in our day to day lives. But the most common usage of technology is for communication and industrialization. However, every good thing has its disadvantage if it is over used, and since technology has become very dominant, it is used by both young and older people but more predominant among the youth of the today. Even more, technology has brought about social networking such as Facebook, Twitter, my space, piazza.com, instagram, tango, and last but not the least texting. According to socialnetworking.procon.org, “47% of American adults used social networking sites like

In our society today a person can often look around a room of people and see nothing but the top of their heads, along with their eyes staring down at lit up screen filled with tremendous possibilities. One thing you doubtfully will view is everyone surrounding talking to each other making kinship with in their proximity. Instead, making connections through their phones. In the article written by Nancy Jo Sales “Tinder and the Dawn of the“Dating Apocalypse””, Sales speaks of the dating culture of the current twenty-first century and her views on how online dating has affected thus creating a sort of “Dating Apocalypse”. In the culture of intimacy may it be consciously or subconsciously people are seeking love and security in their lives through hookups and technological dating cites such as Tinder.

Technology is great for sending quick messages but shouldn’t be a place where we are always communicating. In order to have more authentic relationships we shouldn’t use technology for creating relationships because you truly can’t learn about one another if you’re not communicating in real life as well. What we put out on social media is often times fabricated or enhanced to depict a life that we aspire. We can edit text or pictures to our discretion and even delete images or texts, which we can’t do in real life, which is why we tend to prefer texting and social media because we have