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In the essay Isolated by the Internet, the author Clifford Stoll argues about negative influences of the internet on our social life. According to Stoll’s argument, the internet harms and weakens people’s social relationships. Moreover, Stoll quotes the research of psychologist Kraut and Lundmark which concludes that, “greater use of the Internet was associated with small but statistically significant declines in social involvement as measured by communication within the family and the size of…

On average, how much time do you spend on the internet? If you said around 8 hours, then you fall under the majority of Americans. In the popular novel "What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains: The Shallows" by Nicholas Carr, Carr explains how the internet is changing our mindset and making us more shallow hence the title of the book. Carr also describes how we are less capable of doing our own work because we have access to popular search engines such as Google or Yahoo. In the novel "What the…

1.Cornwell,B & Lundgren D.C. (2001) Love on the Internet: involvement and misrepresentation in romantic relationships in cyberspace vs. realspace. In computers in Human Behavior, 17(2), 197-211. doi: 10.1016/S0747-5632(00)00040-6 The increasing use of technology and online dating are changing what society defines as romantics relationship norms. In Love on the Internet: involvement and misrepresentation in romantic relationships in cyberspace vs realspace, researchers B. Cornwell and D.C…

posted on Facebook to a malicious text message. According to Peter Smith and his colleagues, they define cyber-bulling as, “An aggressive, intentional act carried out by a group or individual, using an electronic form of contact, such as e-mail, instant messages, digital images, and messages sent to a cell phone.” (Kowalski, Limber, Agatston, 57). Cyber-bullying destroys many lives and family, so I believe it should be taken more seriously now than it has ever been. In 2015, a Massachusetts high…

Internet makes life better In the process of the new information age, human being has entered a completely new stage in its history. Thereupon the issue of the Internet has brought into public focus, quite a few people claim that the network shortens the distance of people, and they can enjoy the life conveniently which is brought by the information technology. But other people regard the Internet as a murderer, which effectively putting a brake on people's development and bringing the bad…

Since the end of the 20’s century, with the repaid of development of the Internet and its popularization, it has been becoming an indispensable tool in many ways, it liberates the human brain once again, and that is why our daily life is affected by the Internet. There are three influences in our life: making our life becomes easy, also, it can obstructs our normal social skills, and puts us ourselves in danger. Obviously, the Internet is making our life convenient. As we know, the Internet is…

As a growing child, Thompson was always intrigued in the subject of computers. His instant fascination continued to grow as he wrote video games, music, and forms of artificial intelligence. Then, as an adult, Thompson’s passion for the internet flourished as he became a magazine writer in the 1990s. At first, Thompson had a negative response…

Social networking can bring people together and build connections, but taken to the extreme it can lead to social isolation, cyber-bullying, depression, decreased productivity, loss of privacy, and addictive behavior. It is possible for someone to have 2,000 friends on Facebook, and 5,000 followers on Instagram and Twitter, and still have no actual human contact beyond their electronic devices. People should monitor their time spent on social media sites to avoid the detrimental effects that…

RHETORICAL ANALYSIS- “IS GOOGLE MAKING US STUDPID” The world of internet has made the flow of information very easy and the entire globe is just a click away from you. But there has started surfacing a school of thoughts which believes that availability of vast sea of information on the internet using search engines like GOOGLE is also making people foolish. Nicholas Carr, the writer of this article belongs to same school of thoughts. His belief is that excessive use of GOOGLE is replacing our…

Good morning, I apologize for disturbing your holiday with this email. You can easily find the answers to the “standard” case study questions on the Internet. Therefore, please answer the following “non-standard” questions that I created instead of those “standard” questions: 1. Refer to “Making Supply Meet Demand in Uncertain World” HBR article. Discuss at least 5 lessons from the article. How do you apply the lessons to Zara? Pick a company from your team. Explain how you apply the lessons to…