Source 1
Technology, a way to communicate
with others and still be alone. Sherry Turkle writes about how people are
always alone now that technology allows us to communicate from anywhere to
anyone. In the Flight of conversation she explains this while repetitively
saying we are all alone. She states how technology is power and it allows us to
only listen to the things that interest us. Technology has made it so people
don’t have to be in the same area to talk and this has made us forget how to
actually hold a conversation with people in person. Technology allowed us to
keep people away and present ourselves how we want to. We are to change the way
we look on the internet and to talk people in ways we couldn’t do in person.
Turkle says people think being connected to social media is the same as talking
to people in person. That you can’t actually know someone through a texting
conversation and that real face to face conversation teaches us things we can’t
learn through social media. Yet people enjoy talking to computers because there
is always someone listening. She thinks we are losing confidence in each other
as humans. We rely on machines for answers instead of one and other. We feel
the need to always share our thoughts and what we are doing. That we feel less
lonely online even when we are alone. She believes people are times throughout
the day where they are not allowed to use technology that way people would
actually know what’s going on around them.
Source 2
Facebook has changed the lives of
over a billion people around the world, 1.2 billion users in 2014 to be exact.
Face book was created in 2004 and it changed the way people interact with each
other drastically. Facebook has allowed us to be able to chare anything we want
whenever we want to share it. The good part about this is that we are able to
pass information to others very quickly from almost anywhere. The bad part
about being able to share things so easily is exactly that. People can share whatever
they want whenever they want. This causes a lot of drama and problems on social
media. Another was social media has changed us is by making it easy to bring up
past events. The best part about this is being to find out information from
things that happened a long time ago they people now wouldn’t know without
having looked it up. The bad part about it is that if something that should be
forgotten is posted on the internet then it will never be forgotten because it
is so easy to look up past events. Another good thing that Facebook does for us
is make it easy to reunite with people from our past. Almost everyone who has
internet has a Facebook profile. Instead of needing to find a phone number to
contact someone you only need to know their name. The bad part of this is that
traditional reunions where you meet your old friends in person are becoming
less of a thing. People are becoming less social outside of social media. The
last things Facebook did to change the world is by affecting our privacy. While
Facebook provides privacy settings most people do not know how to use them
which leads to how this is bad. Facebook has made it insanely easy to figure
out almost anything you need to know about people. Based on these few things
Facebook has accomplished, it still your choice to use social media and what
you post it your own decision.
Source 3
Social media has had a significant impact on us. We have
becoming way more public than people have ever been. It all started with sites
such as Friendster, Myspace, and eventually Facebook. 78% of U.S. citizens have
had some type of social media profile. This has changed how people spend their
time. We spend so much time looking at social media to see what people are
doing instead of going to have a real conversation with them. Social media has
made our lives way more open than most people even want to be. There are people
who know other people from Facebook even though they never met them in real
life. Many people think that you can hide behind your computer when using
social media but that’s not completely true. It’s easy to say anything you want
on social media but it will eventually catch up to you in real life. Your
social media describes you as a person and that can be good for some but many
people see others and this make them feel like they are not good enough. They
want to become more like these famous people and this causes people to try to
change who they are on social media. Many people are starting to become more self-aware
of what they post on the internet prior to posting it. This is good because you
are less likely to post something you will later regret. Many new users on
social media tend to compare themselves to these popular social media users and
they try to imitate them or turn their style into their own. Social media has
made us more self-conscious of ourselves and this cause people to try to be who
they aren’t.
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