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Social Media a benefit or Setback Social media lowers students’ GPA and discourages good attitudes in academic environments. A recent study by researchers at the Miriam Hospital Center for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine in Providence, RI, shows that the use of such devices to text, watch online videos and post statuses on Facebook is associated with lower grade point averages (Abhinaya). These habits have an effect on student’s grades. Fifty-one percent of heavy media…

Digital and Social Media in Our Lives It is hard to imagine that only a decade ago, social and digital media was a little more than a growing trend. In 1995 less than 1 percent of the world’s population was connected to the internet (internetlivestats.com); today about 46 percent of the world’s population has internet connection (internetworldstats.org 1). In the United States, about 89 per cent of households are connected to the internet (interneworldstats.org 2). Also, both social and…

There is no doubt that technology and the Internet play a crucial role in our daily lives. Social media like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram can be accessed at the palm of our hands to connect to millions of people all around the world. It has changed the way people, especially adolescents, communicate with one another. For instance, in the article it states that those who used the internet to talk to existing friends increased their well-being and happiness. Online interaction also increased…

are addicted to the internet are more likely to have depression and drug addiction. Moreover, teenagers find that Facebook is fun and they spend a long time using it. According to Bolluyt, J. (2015), “The estimate numbers of teens who use only one social networking sites such as Facebook is 66%.” This shows how teenagers are obsessed with communicating with their friends through the internet. It’s became more convenient or them to use the internet as a communication tool. Although, internet has…

Nowadays, we are living in the information society, and social media is immersed in our lives. Everyone can access the internet wherever they are, along with getting a lot of information through social media. It allows people to know information about all over the world. Many companies and organization use social media as a strategy to spread their products or beliefs because it is not too much to say that social media is the hard core of our lives. Therefore, people should learn and understand…

new way of life for society. Having the current uprise of social media, it is close to impossible not to engage on any social networking sites. As Marshal McLunan said, “First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us” (Marshal McLunan) Due to how rapidly everything is currently changing in social media and our society for that matter, it is important to consider both the positive and negative aspects of social media in the long run. Social media has many positive outcomes that will be…

In the age of the internet, “Click bait” and “fake news” are more prevalent and accessible than ever. It is found in the form of false, useless, and biased information. “He knew he was right” by Louis Menard is an effective example of a “Click bait” argument that convinces Americans to change their opinions of Barry Goldwater. Menard uses metaphors, imagery, and citations to show the audience the ties between Barry Goldwater and the modern-day GOP’s leaders to convince them that Goldwater was…

Nicholas Carr vs Kevin Kelly Imagine a world where the internet, electronic devices, smartphones, or any type of technology that you have ever known, did not exist. How could you live without these tools? Technology has been innovating society for the past centuries. People all around the world have been benefited by the new products that technology has to offer. It is almost impossible to imagine a society without technology. This new tech era has made communication stronger than ever and will…

In his bildungsroman Feed, M. T. Anderson presents a nightmare of the future in which the omnipresent feed, a brain implant providing access to the internet, has dominated human minds with an escape in a virtual reality where advertising, artifice, and pleasure-seeking abound. In this world of surplus and connection, there is an ironic and tragic scarcity in the prevalence of meaningful human relationships. This is seen in the life of protagonist Titus, an average teenager with a fixed esteem…

The empty emotion of loneliness has crept up on people at least once in their lifetime. To avoid this, people, especially teens, use social media as a way to prevent feeling lonely. Without distractions of social media and friends, people find themselves with an excluded, isolated feeling. Loneliness does not just express itself now, Steinbeck uses the feeling when writing to describe the characters as well. The absence of these distractions causes men on the ranch to find themselves feeling…