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I read the book, No Bullshit Social Media, by Jason Falls and Erik Deckers. Their goal for this book is to not waste readers’ time and cut to the chase by focusing on only the important things readers need to know about social media. There are three key points in this book. The first one is that social media does not just gain friends and followers, but gains detractors. The second one is the social media does not just form communities, but forms brand power. And the third one is that social…

Rojin Bijan Jessica Taylor English 100A 12 December 2017 Fixation Our lives as individuals is surrounded by personalized feeds, which is shaping our lives as who we are and who we will be in the future; it shapes our relationships as it destroys intimacy and changes the way we interact with our loved ones. We as a society have been conformed to this fixed mindset of what we believe we need in our relationships based on others. This virtual reality of our lives through smart-phones is damaging…

“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 “Connectivity and Its Discontents”, Sherry Turkle argues that, with our growing reliance on technological communication in our personal and professional lives, we are losing intimacy with people. She claims that we are engaged with the device more than on people. “These days, whether you are online or not, it is easy for people to end up unsure if they are closer together or further apart.” (231). I agree with Turkle that, as ways of communicating with technology advances, the more we are…

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Driven to Distraction Paige Eggers Importance The journal article, Driven to Distraction, should be of interest to everyone (especially anyone who drives) since the issues addressed are so relevant in today’s world. Nowadays everyone has a cell phone and they use it for everything. The increase of cell phone usage comes with an increase of people driving and being on their phone. It is now well known that there are many dangers that can come from texting and driving but this article looks at the…

The Effects of Technology on Society In Maria Konnikova's article, "The Limits of Friendship" she explores the theoretical number of friends people can really have, also known as the Dunbar number, and whether social media has affected the way people perceive friend groups. In Konnikova’s article, “The Limits of Friendship,” technology has affected people’s social skills by allowing us to stay connected with people all over the world, but prevent us from making deeper face to face connections…

Everyone uses it one way or another, social media runs the world. Anyone can voice their opinions and thoughts, but can social media really create a global change? Malcolm Gladwell, the author of the New Yorker article Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted, argues that groups using social media to achieve change will never gain strong enough ties or commitment to make a difference. Gladwell’s article, written in 2010, compares some of today's activism to the Greensboro sit-in in…

Cameras are increasingly deployed for surveillance, spying, or targeting” (Houtryve 449). In today’s society the government invades the privacy of citizens every day. From surveillance cameras, to hacking into our personal life, and now through different types of drones. In like manner, Tomas Van Houtryve is a photojournalist and writer whose artistic pieces documents the cultures and natural geography of places all over the world. Van Houtryve’s “From the Eyes of a Drone was first published in…

Running Head: Smartphones Use 1 Daizha Tate Smartphone Use 12/8/17 Soci 201 Running head: Smartphone Use 2 Smartphones have turned into an imperative route for Americans to convey, go on the web, and access and offer data. I have dissected smartphone possession and the states of mind and practices of smartphone proprietors, and how these cell phones have turned into an essential path for a few clients to get to the web. I believe that owners of smartphones have…