Use Of Social Media On The World

Before, people used to leave their homes to communicate with friends through places such as the bar, café, or even going for a walk. Now, technology has made communication so much easier. With applications such as Skype, Facebook and iMessage, we are able to instantly message our friends without spending money, time or energy to commute. Overall, messaging applications have made communication easier, quicker, cheaper and more efficient – all four are demands of which most humans look for when performing tasks. However, there are times when technology usage is more than we should take. Television for example can easily prevent a family from communicating. With 24 hours of nonstop broadcasting news and entertainment, some families can sit through these programs for hours without saying a single word to each other. According to a survey conducted by the Mirror, the average parent spends only 34 minutes with their children a day (Maughan, 2015). Over 2,000 parents surveyed had admitted to being too tired or busy to spend time with their children. With 24 hours in a day, if the average human spends 8 hours a day sleeping (Bjarki, 2015), 7-12 hours a day working or going to school (Ferro, 2015), and 8.4 hours on media devices (Chang, 2015), communication among friends, family members and the outside world in general is expected to be at its concerning lowest. According to research by the telegraph, 65.8% of children under 10 years old own smartphones

There is an ongoing curiosity about why electronic devices are so irresistible. It is flabbergasting and utterly disappointing that people of all ages, including hypocritical parents lecturing teens about their texting addiction, “would prefer to communicate over text rather than meeting face to face”(mobile commons). Although technology has its benefits of quick communication and always staying in touch with others, the amount of common sense lost to technology has a stronger and more detrimental effect on one 's future. As people become more dependent on the technology that sits in the palms of their hands, the social skills one

No one wants to talk face-to-face with anyone anymore. It’s ‘awkward’, ‘tiring’, and just unnecessary in the eyes of today’s youth, but so what? That’s the charm of it; it’s real. The fun of conversation is to make inside jokes, and tease people, and have deep conversations, and laugh at yourself later, and learn life lessons, and gain confidence, but that’s impossible over text. Technology takes away so much of life's joys and eccentricity, and makes life altogether less valuable and memorable for the newest generations. Actual communication provides so much texts can’t, and never will.

There are many risks that come with excessive social media use. One of which is its effects on important social skills children need in their futures. Texting, Social Media messaging, and even phone calls erode on a child's communication and can harm their relationships with their peers. One way they do this is by reducing the intimacy when communicating. Without a person's face and voice, conversations with them over various Social Media makes the conversation less important and may drive the two people apart. The quality of conversations also plummets as long, descriptive sentences are a taboo when instant messaging. The use of shorter, compact words and text slang may limit the child in how they are able to express themselves later in their life. Finally, Social Media prevents children from practicing empathy. Missing facial expressions, voices, and body language limit the use of this important skill and may keep a child from noticing when a peer or loved one is distressed. A study done by UCLA Scientists took two groups of sixth graders,

Teens, and even adults develop a bad habit of being on technology 24/7, in which is hard to break, the article Health Experts Concerned Tech Habits May Threaten Speech, Language & Hearing as Communication ‘Time Bomb’ Looms by PR Newswire mentions this, saying, “New polling from ASHA finds that informing parents and teens of the potential risks that overuse of personal technology devices poses to speech and language development as well as to hearing health prompts an overwhelming unwillingness to change usage habits.” Our society has been so attached to technology that we can’t give it up, no matter what damage it causes. In fact, it is shown that technology has had a negative effect on relationships, the article Mobile Devices Are Detrimental to Personal Relationships states “While some analysts have argued that cell phones open up new possibilities of communication, fostering instant text messaging and social media connections that expand an individual’s personal relationships, some psychologists and sociologists have suggested that this type of communication and connectivity is both less meaningful and less developmentally beneficial than face-to-face and traditional communication.” People in relationships have relied too heavily on technology and consequently has torn their relationships apart. In addition, overuse of technology can affect your communication skills as well as speech. To demonstrate, in the article Overexposure to Media and Technology Deprives Children of Healthy Outdoor Recreation by Castaldy, Daniel, Collins, and Linda Rice, states, “Social interaction for adolescents is now largely achieved via text messages, Facebook posts, and tweets, while interpersonal interaction that typically accompanies outdoor recreation is on a decline… As a result, they don’t fully develop the interpersonal communication skills they need to interact successfully in

This article response paper is a reflection of Susan Tardanico’s article, “Is Social Media Sabotaging Communication?” Consequently, technology expansion is causing families to forfeit quality intervals together for the indulgence of their electronic contraptions. Additionally, social media, advanced technology, and the need to fit in seem to be consuming people’s lives. Communication is such an important means of transmitting information, however has become “foreign” to this new generation of young adults. Furthermore, verbal communication plays varied roles in each community, without it; relationships would fail, co-workers would have more frequent miss-understandings, and confusion is more likely to occur between companions who only have electronic interactions. “As

Another negative effect caused by cell phones is people’s declining interpersonal skills. In" Is Social Media Destroying Teen’s Interpersonal Skills? Experts Say It May", Sekinah Brodie pointed out that though the widespread of cell phones increases the quantity of interpersonal communication, the increase is at the sacrifice of quality. As it is widely acknowledged, interpersonal communication plays a vital role throughout one’s life, both in relationships and career, consisting of written, verbal, and non-verbal communication (9-12). In face-to-face communication, people focus more on verbal and non-verbal communication, during which different and even opposite meaning can be conveyed through the same words due to a mixed use of tone, eye contact, body language, gesture and even different dressing. However, when people base most communication on cell phones, they tend to merely apply written words and some simple emoticons, ignoring the effect of other important communication components like eye contact, body language and so on. Consequently, when needing to deal with others in real life, those appearing highly active online may turn out to be awkward, embarrassed, and even confused. In the meantime, it is found that the abuse of cell phone is hindering kids’ learning language and interpersonal skills. In Papa, Don’t Text, Deborh Fallows, the author believed that parents today spend more time on talking on the phone while pushing babies in strollers, leaving negative

It is easy to see how one spending all of their time toward an inanimate object could create a social bubble where there is really no need or desire to interact with people. A problem this is causing is that it is not something that is restricted to only a child development problem but also carries on through some people’s adulthood. “Even when there is an opportunity to see people face-to-face, on weekends for example, up to 11% of adults still prefer to stay at home and communicate on their devices instead.” That is astonishing that some adults still prefer to communicate electronically rather than understanding the importance in face to face interactions. “Researchers at Concordia University in Irvine, Calif., concluded that children born since 1990 have almost 80 percent fewer instances of social interaction in elementary school than previous generations.” This leads me to believe that social interaction is on the decline and if the use of technology is not limited than we will continue to see a generation that is not fully developed socially and possibly isolated from the “face to face”

In our lecture notes this week, Professor Julia Green asks, “Can mediated communication impact our development? (“Challenges/Limitations to Mediated Communication”). To explore this question further, I refer to a podcast presented by Houston Matters featuring panelist Frederick J. Goodall, who asks on his parenting website, “Is Technology Really Hurting Kids ' Ability to Socialize?” and Dr. Bernard Robin, an associate professor at the University of Houston who provides further insight (“Is Technology Really Hurting Kids ' Ability to Socialize?”). Conveniently, the Houston Matters podcast ties to our weekly lecture and lesson supplements with its primary question regarding social development. The podcast explores internet overuse, safety, and etiquette; all concepts Green shared in the lectures for this week (Green – “week 4 Introduction”).

Perhaps, it is because of the noticeable change that these kids go through while on their devices. Majority of today’s American parents complain about their children’s inattentiveness to their requests and inquiries. The most common scenery would be telling your kid to “put down that phone” at the dinner table. To the “immigrants” of today’s technological society, technology is perceived to be a barrier that stands in the way of interactions. However, according to Farber, “technology may be experienced not as a means of avoiding intimacy with others but rather as providing endless opportunities for connection” for those who have been “born digital.” (Farber, 1227) It occurs as a natural thought to today’s people that texting each other is much better than telling them face to face. In fact, “43% of teenagers surveyed reported that they use IMing to express something they wouldn’t say in person.” (Farber 1227) Another reason that parents will never understand about why you continue to text your best friend even though you two were in school the whole day together. Instead of texting and IMing, parents would want their children to go out and have fun, which means making genuine face-to-face connections and interactions with other humans, not robots or random online strangers. In addition to missing the “real fun” out there, technology provides a dangerous door to the cruel online world.

In the past, families used to schedule time frames in order to all get together to sit down and have a talk about what had happened during their day. Since the creation of the smartphone, this has changed from a time for everyone to talk and socialize with each other into a competition of how many words per minute someone can text on their smartphone. This situation has occurred in none other than my family. Every dinner, we used to get together and converse about each other’s day and now it has changed into a time to use our phones. Even if we are only rooms apart, we much rather send each other a text message than call out each other’s name and engage in conversation in this matter. By no longer engaging in these conversations the smartphone has reinvented the way humans go about their social relationships. It is due to this that many people in the world today cannot have a face-to-face conversation because they feel unsafe with this form of conversation. As Sherry Turkle says:

Electronic communication technologies influence the social development of adolescents in several ways including interpersonal communication, and emphasized that interpersonal communications are depersonalized because adolescent now conduct a higher proportion of communication electronically rather than face-to-face or voice-to-voice. (Subrahmanyam & greenfield, 2008). Any type technology to communicate with others, such as cell phones, instant messaging, and social networking sites, it deprives any visual or auditory cues of facial expression, body language, and voice dynamics (Cyr, Berman, & Smith, 2014). Interpersonal relationship problems arise when messages on either end are misunderstood (Erozkan, 2013).

The article presents the problem with communication with lots of research that has been done in past years. The research data presented was mostly accurate throughout the essay. Another article written by Angle, Moscaritolo state that, “teens sends and receive 60 texts message a day, up from 50 in 2009…” so as the years go by there has been an increase in the use of smartphones. We can be in a family meeting, but more often will find out that teens prefer to “talk” to you by text than having face-to-face

Many governments worldwide have a presence on social media but with different approaches to use. For instance, the actual executive institutions may not have an active presence, but the heads of state have social media accounts, for example, the president of the United States created a Twitter account for the president @POTUS, separate from @Whitehouse and @Barackobama. In some instances, the world leaders are more conversational than the institutions (Androsoff, 2015). According to Lufkens (2015) 86% of the UN member states have a presence on Twitter and 172 heads of State have personal accounts. The most conversational world leaders are Paul Kagame (Rwanda), Erna Solberg (Norway) and Mashi Rafael (Ecuador).

Being technology-enabled gives us the advantage to customize our lives. We are able to be with one another at our control: not too close, not too far, just right. We tend to believe that our little “sips” of online connection add up to a real conversation, but they don’t. During Turkle’s study she notices young people are growing up fearing conversation; we look at one another as we are together, headphones in walking through campus. But we are not, each of us in our own bubble, furiously connected to our keyboard and tiny touch screens. We need to value verbal conversation, though we are so busy connecting that we don’t have time to talk about what really matters.