Running head: SOCIAL MEDIA INFLUENCE 1
Social Media Influence
Meghan A. Greathouse
University Of North Georgia
Social Media Influence
In our world today, many people of all different ages use technology in some way, shape, or form. Technology is changing the way we live our everyday lives. With the ability to do more in less time and with less effort, our personal interactions with one another has changed drastically. We begin to wonder as individuals in a working world or a student among other students how much valuable time is being consumed constantly checking our emails, social media, and surfing the web. The issue presented in this study is how much time are we spending using our mobile devices. How much of that time is spent …show more content…
The first three individuals interviewed were nineteen, twenty-seven, and thirty-two, all of which had Apple iPhones with the same features, such as the ability to take high resolution pictures, internet, social media apps, SMS messaging, speech-to-text, touch screen, Wi-Fi, etc. The nineteen year old male is a full time college student who said he spends about four to five hours on the internet per day, with two of those hours spent on social media. Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat were the three main networks the individual uses daily. With respect to the reasons why he used social media, he said it was to connect with student organizations and to keep in touch with his family and friends all over the world. Out of all the social interactions he typically has in an average day, 40 percent are through the use of social …show more content…
They all stated that social media is impacting grade school-aged children at an all time high now versus prior years causing them to be nearly incapable of holding a face-to-face conversation with confidence. In addition, the intimacy of personal and valuable relationships are diminishing given that there are so many of them being conducted through the use of a mobile device and/or social media. This represents a stark contrast to the nature of relationships of earlier generations when access to these communication methods was unavailable or less advanced and relationship were more
Social Media Influence
Meghan A. Greathouse
University Of North Georgia
Social Media Influence
In our world today, many people of all different ages use technology in some way, shape, or form. Technology is changing the way we live our everyday lives. With the ability to do more in less time and with less effort, our personal interactions with one another has changed drastically. We begin to wonder as individuals in a working world or a student among other students how much valuable time is being consumed constantly checking our emails, social media, and surfing the web. The issue presented in this study is how much time are we spending using our mobile devices. How much of that time is spent …show more content…
The first three individuals interviewed were nineteen, twenty-seven, and thirty-two, all of which had Apple iPhones with the same features, such as the ability to take high resolution pictures, internet, social media apps, SMS messaging, speech-to-text, touch screen, Wi-Fi, etc. The nineteen year old male is a full time college student who said he spends about four to five hours on the internet per day, with two of those hours spent on social media. Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat were the three main networks the individual uses daily. With respect to the reasons why he used social media, he said it was to connect with student organizations and to keep in touch with his family and friends all over the world. Out of all the social interactions he typically has in an average day, 40 percent are through the use of social …show more content…
They all stated that social media is impacting grade school-aged children at an all time high now versus prior years causing them to be nearly incapable of holding a face-to-face conversation with confidence. In addition, the intimacy of personal and valuable relationships are diminishing given that there are so many of them being conducted through the use of a mobile device and/or social media. This represents a stark contrast to the nature of relationships of earlier generations when access to these communication methods was unavailable or less advanced and relationship were more