Expeditious technology advancements make life standard more accessible and comfortable, one of the highlights of our technological success is social media. Social media helps people around the world to stay connected. For examples, Facebook, has many essential features such as live stream, Wi-Fi-calls, messengers that are absolutely free and available at any time as long as you have internet of high-speed data. In addition, because of how easily society can get access of social media, everyone can chat/talk/facetime with each other at a long distance, share their significant events or moments on Instagram/Facebook/snapchat. Indeed, social media isolated its users from having real life human interactions, they will be too busy spending their
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Facebooks, snapchat, twitter, or Instagram all have desirable tools to help people share, livestream, and talk about their significant/meaningful events or moments. However, people tend to spend an extensive time on their social media and intensively reduce their verbal skills, and ability to improve the relationships with other people. According to top Oxford scientists, vast amount of time spent on the social media will harm the user’s ability to have a real life conversation and awkwardly have little to non-eye contact during a conversation. Furthermore, users obsessively wanted to upload their daily life on social media to stay connected with their friends/relative or a group of their own community. They upload things that may be interested to people so they can define “themselves.” Sue Palmer, a literacy expert and author said: “It’s like being the star of your own reality TV show that you create and put out to the world.” This fault conception of staying connect leads to fascination of attention from others, and care about others’ opinions than what is truly meant for an …show more content…
During the time with little involvement in social media, people were actively outside to appreciate their free time and make tons of unforgettable memories with friends, family, or community. This develops a remarkable experience and is not simply replace by anything. In contrast, nowadays people are overusing their smart devices to get access to social media and change the culture of “making connections.” Doctor Ethan Kross, a psychologist, and his colleagues found out that a numerous Facebook users are “sad and lonely due to lack of direct interactions”, and it is lowering their “feeling of connections” and “increasing their sense of loneliness.” This theory supported by Doctor John Eastwood, he claimed if “attentions were failed to engage, boredom would set in. As the result, social media insisted their “constant connectivity” more likely leads to passive experiences, absence of meaningful
Facebooks, snapchat, twitter, or Instagram all have desirable tools to help people share, livestream, and talk about their significant/meaningful events or moments. However, people tend to spend an extensive time on their social media and intensively reduce their verbal skills, and ability to improve the relationships with other people. According to top Oxford scientists, vast amount of time spent on the social media will harm the user’s ability to have a real life conversation and awkwardly have little to non-eye contact during a conversation. Furthermore, users obsessively wanted to upload their daily life on social media to stay connected with their friends/relative or a group of their own community. They upload things that may be interested to people so they can define “themselves.” Sue Palmer, a literacy expert and author said: “It’s like being the star of your own reality TV show that you create and put out to the world.” This fault conception of staying connect leads to fascination of attention from others, and care about others’ opinions than what is truly meant for an …show more content…
During the time with little involvement in social media, people were actively outside to appreciate their free time and make tons of unforgettable memories with friends, family, or community. This develops a remarkable experience and is not simply replace by anything. In contrast, nowadays people are overusing their smart devices to get access to social media and change the culture of “making connections.” Doctor Ethan Kross, a psychologist, and his colleagues found out that a numerous Facebook users are “sad and lonely due to lack of direct interactions”, and it is lowering their “feeling of connections” and “increasing their sense of loneliness.” This theory supported by Doctor John Eastwood, he claimed if “attentions were failed to engage, boredom would set in. As the result, social media insisted their “constant connectivity” more likely leads to passive experiences, absence of meaningful