Does Social Media Bring Us Closer-or Make Us Loners, written by Wency Leung, is about one main question in which Leung asks people to consider their relationship with social media and technology. In this article, Wency Leung argues how technology is distracting us from personal experience with others. She wants the reader to consider if social media and technology help create friendship or help with creating some barriers between people. Leung argues against multiple sources and uses those sources to back up her claim. Mitch Maddox’s examples, as well as various researches, serve her to point out her claims. Her main argument is that technology’s impact on our social lives is not as powerful, as citizens think. Technology’s bad reputation
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Regardless of age, gender, and ethnicity the vast majority suffer from anxiety if they lose their phone, even if just for a few minutes. According to researchers at California State University, people are becoming physically dependent on their laptops, smartphones, and smartwatches. People are showing responses such as tingling skin and increased heart rates when their device’s sound notification alerts. Moreover, people will grow more anxious over time if they don't take a look at their screens. When you are obsessed with social media and smart devices, there is a possibility of losing touch with the actual world around you. Aside from disturbing our social life and relationship, they also have psychological and health impacts on us. On the other hand, social media and technology devices are very powerful tools, and if they are used wisely they can help us a lot. People can get various information, stay in contact with friends, connect with people, finish some job, and sometimes have fun. Citizens are lost in this world that is based on fake values, and while being lost they are misusing technology. The majority impose standards and things that must be in the way they have imagined and people blindly follow that. It’s all on us and on how we chose to use it. The more we find balance between both the more we get positive outcomes from both
Regardless of age, gender, and ethnicity the vast majority suffer from anxiety if they lose their phone, even if just for a few minutes. According to researchers at California State University, people are becoming physically dependent on their laptops, smartphones, and smartwatches. People are showing responses such as tingling skin and increased heart rates when their device’s sound notification alerts. Moreover, people will grow more anxious over time if they don't take a look at their screens. When you are obsessed with social media and smart devices, there is a possibility of losing touch with the actual world around you. Aside from disturbing our social life and relationship, they also have psychological and health impacts on us. On the other hand, social media and technology devices are very powerful tools, and if they are used wisely they can help us a lot. People can get various information, stay in contact with friends, connect with people, finish some job, and sometimes have fun. Citizens are lost in this world that is based on fake values, and while being lost they are misusing technology. The majority impose standards and things that must be in the way they have imagined and people blindly follow that. It’s all on us and on how we chose to use it. The more we find balance between both the more we get positive outcomes from both