Because of this, there has been a massive effect on the amount of socialising between friends and family; using technology in online social messaging websites such as Bebo, MSN, Facebook and many more. Through these social messaging websites, more and more people can interact with their friends and family all over the world. An expert professor David Crystal has supported the idea of web-based messages and disagrees with the view that slang and contractions leads to a lower English standard of language. Although this is a benefit to most people, it has been abused by some people by overusing it and different ‘language’ while typing, which cause differentiation in the way we speak and the way we write. The
A good solution might be to block the access to websites such as Facebook, so that technology can continue to be a tool for knowledge and intellectual advancement, rather than socialization. Many friends of mine use Facebook on a daily basis for several reasons: to chat with other friends, to see what other people’s lives look like, or to keep in contact with people that live far away. All five of the friends I asked said Facebook is a very useful website, but it is also addicting and a waste of time most of the time. Works Cited Bugeja, Michael. “Facing the Facebook.” The Arlington Reader: Contexts and Connections.
Sarah Kliff, author of “Facebook: Why I Hate it…” writes, “I have no idea how many hours of my life I have wasted on Facebook.” I agree with this statement because it is true. We have wasted so much time on Facebook and other forms of technology that we have lost time for other, more important things. Facebook and its counterparts do help us in many aspects like staying connected but we forget that we have real things in life that are right in front of us to stay in touch with instead of wasting time with cyber friends or a cyber-community. Technology does have a good side. It can assist us in many ways.
Tevin Hutchinson 11/10/2012 English 102 Technology plays a huge role in our everyday life. I do believe that technology has made our lives easier, but it also has made us more dependent on the technology itself. When using the internet for a dictionary you could easily get distracted. Anyone can put anything on the internet, so what you find might not be accurate. Most people find that looking things up on the internet is distracting because you are already on the web so why not check YouTube for a funny video, or update your status on the social network.
Below are some thoughts, based primarily on the pro-privacy reactions to Zuckerberg's statements from many of our readers this weekend. Though there is a lot to be said for analysis of public data (more on that later), I believe that Facebook is making a big mistake by moving away from its origins based on privacy for user data. In Facebook's early days, and for the vast majority of the site's life, its primary differentiator was that your user data was only visible to other users that you approved friend requests from. As of mid-December, Facebook users were no longer allowed to hide from the web-at-large some information including their profile photos, list of friends and interests in the form of fan pages they followed. Text, photo and video updates shared on the site have always been by default private (friends only) but if you'd never changed your privacy settings before last month, then Facebook suggested you switch them to make those updates publicly visible to everyone.
Do we really even have the focus and dedication to sit and read a traditional book anymore? The Internet is a splendid addition to our society but we are allowing ourselves to depend on it fully and ultimately permit this technology to affect our mental health. Contrary to the many ways technology has benefited us, it can be harmful for our brains by hindering our concentration, promoting our inability to focus, and causing us to neglect deep thinking. Being distracted is not something new, although it is more frequent now causing us to live in a perpetual state of interruption thus weakening our ability to concentrate. We are just as busy in our offline lives as we are on the Internet.
During this day and age, younger generations seem to be becoming more dependent on the Internet to preform basic everyday tasks. Whether it is shopping, calculating numbers, typing papers or communicating, the Internet is being used increasingly. It has expanded to the point where you are able to access the Internet not only from computers, but cell phones, tablets, iPods and TVs making it extremely accessible from any location. Though the convenience can be a great thing at times, it can also be an extremely dangerous tool for anybody not using it correctly. With children and teens quickly becoming more social online via chat rooms, blogs, and different social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter parents are doing one of two things.
There are no real answers in identifying which category of addiction to the Internet. This is for the reason that, the Internet has been used not only for the adult, but at all level of age these days. People are neglecting other important activities such as time with the family, socializing, work and health concerns. They stayed on-line more hours at a time and day after day. They also felt anxious and irritable when off-line and desire their next date with the Internet.
With access to the Internet, one can always be in the company of friends, parents, loved ones and coworkers online. The click of a button immerses an individual with an overload of information about people they may or may not have a real and personal relationship with. According to some sociological research, the average human is incapable of having intimate relations with more than 150 people. Online however, this number could run into thousands and even millions of ‘followers’ or ‘friends’ at a time. People are unable to distinguish between quality and quantity, often substituting the latter with the
Social networking online gives people with the opportunity to meet with other people withe the same interest from the whole world. Negative Sharing your information on the internet makes it easy to steal your identity. Meeting old girl-/boyfriends can lead to problems in your current relationship and of course you risk getting addicted to facebook Comment on the statement from text 3 ”...Spending time online is essential for young people to pick up the social and technical skills they need to be competent citizens int he digital age.” In the digital age you have to be able to navigate online.