Nicole Blaine Eng 24 D07BH Spring 11 I Believe “The 15 Year Layover” is an allegory for how we communicate with each other through social networking and the negative effects it has caused within normal socializing. Technology was meant to keep us connected within each other’s social circles and surroundings. But, in reality, it has done the opposite by keeping us in our own electronic limbo, where we are “god” in cyberspace. Sir Alfred is not the only one who has lost his identity. People who lose themselves in the media or online networking, lose their realistic identity as-well.
Facebook’s negative affects on College Students “Creating a page on a social-networking site is now a cherished form of self-expression at universities around the world. Students use ad-supported services like Facebook, MySpace, TagWorld and Bebo to make friends, plan their social lives and project their personalities” (Stone, Brown, pg.2). Social networking sites first started with SixDegrees which was founded in 1997, and have evolved to the now popular Facebook, which was founded in 2004 as a social network for Harvard. Modern social networking has expanded from finding and chatting with your friends online to also being able to share pictures and videos with friends and family (Indiana.edu). Although online social-networking is a great way to stay connected to friends and family when kids are away for college, there is also a major downside to using and owning one.
What people are not getting from the computer is the satisfaction of making something with their own bare hands. Americans are socializing through online social networks almost as much as they are in person, and online company only makes one lonelier. Not to mention, that communication through text is not nearly as effective as verbal communication. Now that we have computers doing all the work for us, we are missing out on the satisfaction of doing things by hand. We don’t have to spend over ten minutes on a math problem; the computer can solve it in three minutes.
It's not what they say; it's this energy they give off that makes us feel good about ourselves…a feeling that can only truly be achieved in person; face-to-face. According to Dr. Michael D. Yapko, today’s average 21 year-old has already sent and received more than a quarter million e-mails & text messages. Now that’s not to say we haven’t carried a quarter million conversations by the time we are 21, but the odds are stacked pretty high against us. We are collectively spending much more time alone with our gadgets, in front of screens doing things that typically indirectly involve other people. But now many of
This fear dates back to at least the invention of movable type.” I tend to agree more with Sharkey because there are a lot of learning toold we can gain from the web. The internet is making a lot of people lazy, it takes all the work and effort out of reading, writing, and even thinking. What used to be time consuming can now be done in a shorter period of time. With just a few clicks and typed words. Most things are made much simpler by just googling and searching for words and stories.
Online chat sites are another way technology is working its magic. Kids, teens and adults go on these online chatting websites and often finding themselves staying on these websites for hours, or even days at a time, severely limiting their real human interactions. People with a great family and great friends go on these chat websites and waste away their lives talking to a screen. The internet and the technology we use to access it are a way for people to hide from their real life problems. When people go on the internet, they feel like they can say whatever they want, mostly because they don’t have to say it to anyone’s face.
Even though the internet is not a brand new thing, this question was never brought up because of how slow it used to be and because of how many people had access to it compared to now. In this day and age the amount of people who use the internet heavily for a cornucopia of things is amazing. It has now become such an integral part of society that it seems it may be changing how our brains our working. When we do anything enough times it will start to affect our brain. If we lie all the time we will start to have a brain that is tailor made to make lying easier (Neulieb).
The time spent using social networking applications is one reason why many businesses are reluctant to allow employees to use sites like Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn during office hours. Add the time spent on nonworkrelated browsing, and employers have a point. At the same time, however, businesses are starting to appreciate that social networking has its advantages, and there are many companies that have adopted social networking as another vehicle to gain a better presence online and a wider
The internet allows you stay in contact and be aware of your acquaintances, ex-coworkers, and old friends. Also even to meeting a friend of a friend you never had the chance to greet. You can become interconnected with your whole school; even your whole town in a way and rekindle lost relationships. Although technology has provided us some measure of social connection that would have never been possible before, and has allowed us to maintain long-distance relationships that would have probably went haywire, the fact remains that we are slowly ruining the quality of social interaction that we all need as human beings. In conclusion, technology is ruining the quality of human interaction.
They’re many pros to our worlds technology but at the same time my cons. In our world because of technology we become lazy in everything we do because we rely on the internet to do the work for us and we also become obese due to all the games we’d rather play than enjoy fresh air. Technology is an amazing world of its own but if we over use it becomes a problem. Whatever happened to dictionaries or actual book, now all of those are offered off an app or the computer? Back when cell phones were barely around, when we did stuff ourselves.