Social Media Miscommunication

This day in age, it’s really astonishing how much technology has grown in the amount of time we use it. In the dictionary, it defines disruptions as a “disturbance or problems that interrupt an event, activity, or process”. Although, a smartphone might not be a disruption in your life, it actually can be. Like the article states, people use smartphones to literally do everything to just go out to eat, from “dinner reservations; check in at the restaurant; take a picture of their food to share on Instagram; post on Twitter a joke they hear during the meal; review the restaurant on Yelp; then, finally, coordinate a ride home using Uber”. It’s really sad on how much we actually do use our devices. I don’t think people really realize how much time they spend wasting communicating through a …show more content…
We can’t function without having it by our sides and it seem to be more of an addiction than a use to communicate to others. To be honest, what has our world come to. Social media was used for the opportunity to socialize, but now it’s causing people to become less socialized. I find that the more I have used my phone, I have become more unsociable in situations face to face. I forgot how to make eye contact and fully engage in what a person is saying. I find myself on my phone constantly, doesn’t matter if I’m with my family, doing homework, and sometimes even when I’m driving. My phone never leaves my hand or my mind. When I don’t have it with me, I constantly think about it from, who is texting me and what’s going on with Facebook and twitter. It’s unbelievable how much I spend my minutes, hours, and days, playing on my phone. Until this day, I never really realized all the time I spend with my phone in hand. I conclude from the reading that my phone is really a distraction in my life and it’s sad to see all the time I have