Essay On Social Media Helps Relationships

“Social media helps relationships” by Jenna Wortham was about the relationships and how the social media and technology in society today sometimes helps relationships in this age. It also discusses how Wortham spent a whole day with her boyfriend and they live 3,000 miles apart from each other, they were able to spend the day together due to technology and the ability to facetime over the phone. It then goes on about how many social media sites there are and how many different relationships are in today’s society. The author also talks about what the significance of social media is and the phones today and how they help with relationships in modern society. Wortham was very one-sided in this essay. She agrees that technology, phones, and social media outlets have helped relationships today. She uses a personal story to get readers to feel the essay, stories about how Wortham and her boyfriend are able to have a good relationship because of the advances in modern society. Although, Wortham uses a lot of good examples to prove that technology does indeed help relationships in modern society, it could also have a negative impact on a relationship to the lack of physical communication on a daily basis. …show more content…
should not be our first choice when communicating with others. Turkle believes that phone calls allow distant members of peoples family to hear their voice and actually feeling something through their tone. The more we depend on new technology for communication that take away from face-to-face interaction it increases the possibility of our future generations to become limited in communication. They are not learning how to express themselves in face-to-face conversations.” The author is very consistent in what she is saying she always has a rebuttal to anything that is not proving her point or stating her case. (Eds graff, &