A modern business environment can’t be imagine without computers. Secondly, computer is a modern drug for young Americans. They transform their social life into the Internet. Moreover, teens prefer sitting in front of computer instead of spending time with family and friends or just going out. Due to research from the American Heart Association, young Americans spend an average of 20 hours per week using computer.
Digital Culture/Social Media Digital culture had been raised for the last twenty years and approximately ten years ago, it had become popular. However, it was not a huge impact on young adults’ life as today because it was expansive for most of the families. Everything had changed because of the fast upgrade of technology, thus most of young adults starting to have one of them. Therefore, some of the articles had said these technologies had turned young adults dumb because of the over-use and excessive depend. Also digital culture and social media had made they forgot about the reality and live in a virtual life.
Over the years technology has been developed to make out lives easier. Unfortunately, we have allowed these new tools to replace the old, more time consuming methods. A recent news report stated that more than seventy-five percent of Americans turn to google.com or Ask.com for even the simplest answers. Libraries are being forced to cut back or close because people are doing research online and reading books on Kindles and Nooks. People are starting to believe that smart phones are a necessity because of the various services that they supply.
Although American men tend to talk more than women in public situations, but talk less at home. This would be a pattern of wreaking havoc with marriage. Andrew Hacker observed the pattern in the late 1970s. Most women, but not only a few of the men gave lack of communication as the reason for their divorce. Divorce rate is 50% in the United States.
Instead of going outside to get same exercises, they prefer to stay in room to go online, and with the internet they can play whatever they want, they even make friend through community websites. Therefore, Americans have the high ratio of obesity because of the low quantities of physical activities among children and teenagers. According to Schwager (2010), from the statistic in 2007, there are about 70% of high school student in the US did not participate in physical education classes, and 65% who did not pass the recommend level of physical activities. It seems that they do not like the physical activities because they have a lot of interesting
Firstly the market RM are currently operating in is dealing which lead to them seeing profits fall by 12% last year. If these trends continue RM will its eventually struggle to operate and may even begin to make a loss. The new market Harry is suggesting is in fact growing rapidly with a predicted rise in digital subscriptions from 3-10million in the next 2 years (333%) as consumers are switching from print magazines to digital due to the growth of tablets,phones and laptops. The company has also carried out some market research on a small sample group of 300 women. Their research showed that 60% (180) of the group would be willing to pay at least £5 for the magazine monthly which would hopefully indicate larger revenues being generated by the company especially if the number of subscribers increases inline with the market growth trends.
However, calling is better for personal conversations and you can go through a whole conversation at one time rather than wait for someone to text back. Many teenagers spend all their time texting, going through thousands ten thousand to twenty thousand texts a month. Texting became more popular because it became so much easier than calling someone. “Because typing text into a telephone keypad was cumbersome and the number of characters in a text message was limited, a form of shorthand evolved, especially among young people. (Hadzay)” Teachers are beginning to complain that texting is ruining grammar and that teenagers are forgetting how to speak proper English.
But for many employees around the world, they are becoming a sad paralleled reality because of social networking. More than half of our adult population is employed. And with currently 1.2 billion registered users on Facebook, I’m willing to bet that this affects at least one person in this room. Thirty-seven percent of companies report using social networks to research potential job candidates, according to a new CareerBuilder Survey. So what are hiring managers looking for on social media?
This group may be particularly at risk because the cognitive skills that allow them to critically analyze messages from the media and to make decisions based on possible future outcomes are not fully developed (Gruber & Grube, 2000). According to the text analyses of broadcast media content indicate that, on average, teenaged viewers see 143 incidents of sexual behavior on network television at prime time each week, with portrayals of three to four times as many sexual activities occurring between unmarried partners as between spouses. As much as 80% of all movies shown on network or cable television stations have sexual content. An analysis of music videos indicates that 60% portray sexual feelings and impulses, and substantial minority display provocative clothing and sexually suggestive body movements. Analyses of media content also show that sexual messages on television are almost universally presented in a positive light, with little discussion of the potential risks of unprotected sexual
I also think that computers are the definition of control over our civilization, that if we were to lose computers then we would not be able to survive our society would now be so crazy and would break down. There is no doubt in my mind that electronics and technology are taking over the lives of Americans. it was dispelled Monday by two studies -- one noting that most Americans spend more time with their computers than with their spouses, the other revealing many drivers are e-mailing and instant messaging while driving. It was stated in a article that “Now that PCs are to be found on half of all office desks and in a third of the homes in advanced countries, computer makers and their software allies have started targeting