People are communicating almost every day through text, e-mail, SnapChat and other social media apps. Young people, between the ages of ten to twenty-one, are using social media in their daily lives to communicate with others. Nowadays, if anyone wants to make friends, be in a relationship, or even break up with someone, they do it online because it's much easier to avoid the emotional and face-to-face interaction. Also, we are more scared to express feeling toward others unless it is by text. Technology has a major impact on the world and how people communicate. “Digital Detox” talks about a 28-year-old Freelance photographer who can't go a day without checking social media. Also, it shows that the internet and social media had made relationships difficult to handle. For example, the photographer always failed to keep up with her relationship because all the talk and fight was "over texts instead of talking things out in person" (Suddath 500). Consequently, social media had built a gap between families, friends, and relationships. Sometimes we don't see it, but "children build these skills as they grow up interacting with other children in face-to-face" (Dantuono). Children build relationships better by facing people, not by having to hide behind a phone. Technology creates misunderstandings between people, which can cause people to not respond, ignore, and block the other person from their …show more content…
Social media sites require us to share our personal information in order to accuse the site, for example, birthday date, email address, home address, phone number, social security, etc. which allows companies to access our information without even asking the person. Privacy isn’t about what information we share but it’s about what kind of information we want to share, and not being force to share things that never want to share. Also, all social media can sell our privacy information to other companies to benefit from it. As “The Myth of Privacy” that our data and everything we search is being collected and anyone can sell that information to “stores, insurers, banks, tech companies, HR departments, and basically anyone who comes calling” (280), which means that our information can be sold out to any companies at any time without us knowing that our information is being sold. If companies keep selling our information out, then our privacy is