Social media can be addicting, to most people. Social media effects some adults, but mostly young people. I agree that Social media can take over a person’s life. A couple authors explained why social media can be addicting. Twitter, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram and any other social media you can name is what people do during their daily lives. Do you think social media can be detached from someone who tends to be on their phone, laptop, or tablet daily? Peggy Orenstein wrote the article “I Tweet, Therefore I Am.” As Peggy Orenstein states, “At the same time, I am trying to gain some perspective on the perpetual performer’s self-consciousness. That involves to sort out the line between person and persona, the public and private self (382).
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Andrews. She wrote the article “Facebook is using you.” The article explains about how Facebook has a lot of new features and things that are not needed. Lori Andrews says, “Facebook filed documents with the government that will allow it to sell shares of stock to the public. It is estimated to be worth at least $75 billion” (395). In my experience on Facebook it has everything that is not needed for Facebook. Things like sending money, selling items, and booking information. The website to me is a fraud website but we still tend to sign up or sign in. Daniel M. Wegner says, “The line that separates my mind from the internet is getting blurry” (388). I can agree to the statement that Daniel Wegner says. I tend to get blur vision from staying on the social media sites or just the internet for a long …show more content…
How did we become so dependent on these gadgets? Some commentators on the growth of technology see this step as the beginning of a chilling new world in which we have uploaded everything we know quite out of our own heads, becoming fools in the bargain. Like those who feared the iron horse or the electric tooth brush, though (388).
Wegner basically states in the quote above is that people let sources to the use of internet take over someone life. In a real-life example, I have addiction to the internet. I tend to use the internet for everything. The internet basically controls my life and the people who is surrounded in my life. In this world, today. You can go anywhere and internet is a free choice. Even at restaurants there is free Wi-Fi. The world doesn’t make anything better. Even in schools’ students are getting tablets and laptops just to do their work. Peggy states, “None of this makes me want to cancel my twitter account”
Andrews. She wrote the article “Facebook is using you.” The article explains about how Facebook has a lot of new features and things that are not needed. Lori Andrews says, “Facebook filed documents with the government that will allow it to sell shares of stock to the public. It is estimated to be worth at least $75 billion” (395). In my experience on Facebook it has everything that is not needed for Facebook. Things like sending money, selling items, and booking information. The website to me is a fraud website but we still tend to sign up or sign in. Daniel M. Wegner says, “The line that separates my mind from the internet is getting blurry” (388). I can agree to the statement that Daniel Wegner says. I tend to get blur vision from staying on the social media sites or just the internet for a long …show more content…
How did we become so dependent on these gadgets? Some commentators on the growth of technology see this step as the beginning of a chilling new world in which we have uploaded everything we know quite out of our own heads, becoming fools in the bargain. Like those who feared the iron horse or the electric tooth brush, though (388).
Wegner basically states in the quote above is that people let sources to the use of internet take over someone life. In a real-life example, I have addiction to the internet. I tend to use the internet for everything. The internet basically controls my life and the people who is surrounded in my life. In this world, today. You can go anywhere and internet is a free choice. Even at restaurants there is free Wi-Fi. The world doesn’t make anything better. Even in schools’ students are getting tablets and laptops just to do their work. Peggy states, “None of this makes me want to cancel my twitter account”