Instant messaging

Essay question 6: Nicholas Carr’s book “The Shallows” argues that the internet is not only shaping our lives but physically altering our brains. Do you agree or disagree with this claim? The internet has revolutionised communication to an extent where it has made many social, cultural and economic changes. The digital world we live in has transformed the way we live, think and communicate. The internet has radically changed our world; it is an essential need in everybody's life, without it we…

Adolescent internet gaming addiction is one problem and most critical issues facing our youth both in and outside the United States of America. With adolescent’s this can become a real life serious issue and if not caught during the early stages, parents are known to find their adolescent children experiencing social isolation among other things such as substance abuse. Adolescents can become very argumentative which leads to anger and frustration, the quality of education and healthy…

OMG,TTYL,G2G We live in a society today where social media runs the world. LOL OMG TTYL!! It has been a huge problem in our community. Social media has been running schools, families, and the whole entire community. This is one of the main causes of teenage obesity according to BBC news. Nowadays you walking to kids room and they 're laying in bed like a dead frog updating there status on Twitter telling everyone what they 're doing with their lives. Oh my gosh my neighbor is looking at me!?…

There are several useful tools that any athletic director should have at their disposal. One of the most important tools to have for an athletic director is having a long and dependable list of contacts at their disposal. I have not personally gotten to know many individuals before I came to college. During my lower grade levels, I was stuck at home most of the time, and my extracurricular involvement was minimal. When I came to college, I began to become the social person who wanted to interact…

Many people would agree that this generation is losing the ability to talk to each other in a sophisticated way. According to Kathryn Nielsen’s article “How the internet killed the conversation”, diversification of methods of communication has an injurious effect; not only have people stopped saying complete sentences, but also grown weary of reading them. Therefore, everyday conversations have taken a levy due to the need for brevity. Although the most important conversations are conducted in…

Facebook, Twitter, Kik, Instagram, these social media sites were nonexistent 18-years ago when my parents, aunts, and uncles were in high school. Now today, it seems as if we are living in a world that is driven more by the Internet than actual face to face conversation and interaction. With one simple click, people can now have a face to face conversation from the comforts of their home using a computer or smart phone. There are many pros and cons to allowing children to have access to…

Internet based mental health resources for adolescents and young people is a burgeoning model of mental health service delivery. The dramatic increase in e-mental health resources includes a plethora of on-line resources, social media and smartphone applications (Karasouli & Adams, 2014). For the purpose of this paper e-mental health refers to all information and communication technologies [ICTs] that support and improve mental health. However, a word of caution, that online mental health…

Do you think that sending texts are better than face-to-face communication? Most people tend to send texts instead of face-to-face communication because it's faster. And also studies show that 1 in 4 people interact with people online more often than they do face-to-face. Technology lets you stay caught up with our having to actually talk to someone. And most people choose to send text messages instead of actually talking to the person because it's faster and easier. If you ever went up to…

Communication has changed greatly throughout the years thanks to the internet and invention of cell phones. In today’s society, it is relatively normal to talk with people over the internet. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other social networking sites help to increase the amount of communication people experience in their life time. Tagging someone in a photo, writing on their wall, or “retweeting” something show people what is happening in your life. When we become surrounded by all this…

“I WANT MY TABLET NOW! YOU ARE SO MEAN MAKING ME QUIT PLAYING! GIVE ME MY TABLET” These were the words overheard at a daycare in Missouri. The student who uttered them was 4 years old and had been playing ON the tablet all morning. The teacher wanting the boy to join the other children for circle time was the one who told the boy it was time to put the tablet up, when he refused she took it and placed it onto a bookshelf. As stated by Computer Hope “the word computer was first recorded in 1613,…