Previously for our sociology class, we completed a discussion post about social media and our views on it in society. Society is steadily on the rise and contributes to majority of our day to day lives in some way. The great debate is if social media is for the better or for the worse. To add to that debate, we did interviews analyzing how people of various age groups view social media and how it impacts their lives. The objective is to cross examine social media through a series of specific questions ranging from the phone type they have to whether they blog or not. I interviewed four women, all of African American descent except for one who is Pilipino. All of them are on a full time, non-restricting income. Their ages are eighteen, twenty
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Social media overall has a high impact on the four out of five interviewees. The impact definitely differed among the age groups and certainly certain variables. The ones the most impacted where myself, the eighteen year old and the thirty six year old. I was somewhat shocked by the thirty six year old but I realized she was a single women without children so she uses social media to find dates and companionships. The forty six year old had the least impact overall. I think she has the least because she has gone majority of her life without social media so she has learned to fixate herself into other forms of entertainment and leisure. For the eighteen year old and myself, we have grown up in a mixed genre exposed to many different aspects form social media to game systems to things like Netflix. Social media has effected two of the five social interactions because they use it so much and rely on it for communication. Social interaction is so important to humans because it is our human instinct. We long for that feeling of interaction with someone no matter how it is. From birth, babies make different noises and make sounds because they are longing to communicate and interact with you. It is important because it is a part of our genetic design, human need interactions to
Social media overall has a high impact on the four out of five interviewees. The impact definitely differed among the age groups and certainly certain variables. The ones the most impacted where myself, the eighteen year old and the thirty six year old. I was somewhat shocked by the thirty six year old but I realized she was a single women without children so she uses social media to find dates and companionships. The forty six year old had the least impact overall. I think she has the least because she has gone majority of her life without social media so she has learned to fixate herself into other forms of entertainment and leisure. For the eighteen year old and myself, we have grown up in a mixed genre exposed to many different aspects form social media to game systems to things like Netflix. Social media has effected two of the five social interactions because they use it so much and rely on it for communication. Social interaction is so important to humans because it is our human instinct. We long for that feeling of interaction with someone no matter how it is. From birth, babies make different noises and make sounds because they are longing to communicate and interact with you. It is important because it is a part of our genetic design, human need interactions to