Your Social Life: Are You A Fox Or A Hedgehog? By Pamela Haag

In her document “ The Fakebook Generation,” later to be published in the New York Times on October 6, 2007, Alice Mathias enters the topic of the most used social networking service worldwide, Facebook. Mathias debates on Facebook’s claim of being a forum for “genuine personal and professional connections” and tries to influence her readers to ask themselves if the website really promotes human relationships. The author illustrates in her document the power and impact Facebook had on the population by convincing to be “a place of human connectivity,” but states her idea of Facebook missing its real reason of enriching human connectivity.

By summarizing and repeating the main point at the end of each paragraph, she is making her statement clear:

What would life be like if there were no reason or purpose to things? How would people respond to fake emotion, or react to artificial interaction? Would anyone be willing to do anything about it? Does this society sound like an exemplary utopia or a detrimental dystopia? Or do all of these factors seem to relate to life today? In the novel written by Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, the society described was meant to be a utopia, where all was believed to be right, yet the society literally obliterated into a dystopia. Even though the civilization depicted in Fahrenheit 451 was a fictional dystopia, the ideals and way of life of that society can be connected to both the mental and physical actions of our current community.

Young adults seem to be achieving adulthood at a later time in life. Whether it’s college students going back to their home or living on their parents budget late into their lives, many adolescents seem to be achieving adulthood less and less in their twenties than generations before. In Henig’s article titled, “What Is It About 20-Somethings”, she states that “getting to what we would generally call adulthood is happening later than ever” (200). Trying to explain this new advancement, Henig sources Professor Jeffrey Arnett, who has introduced the rise of a new life stage, identified by exploring one 's identity, self-focus, and endless possibilities for the prospect called “emerging adulthood”. A bulk of the blame for the development of Arnett’s new stage of life that Henig explores can be sourced on the recent popularity of social media that is discussed in Maria Konnikova’s article “The Limits of Friendship”. Some of the negative results of the increasing use of social media are a greater change of friend groups and acquaintances, increased awareness of the livelihood of our fellow peers, and more exposure to the world around us. With all these results, it is easy to see why young adults continue to become distant and flexible later on in their lives than those of previous generations. One of the most prominent consequences of the continued use of social media is the increase in average age of

Society has made the world an extrovert’s paradise. Everywhere you turn, there is an opportunity for interaction. Without really even realizing that we do so, we tear down introverts and their ways of living. We make it exceptionally harder for introverts to truly be their selves. Susan Cain goes into more detail about how we do this and why we should change in her TED talk “The Power of Introverts.”

The world is evolving at an alarming rate and the internet is at the center of this advancement. Nicholas Carr wrote the literary piece “ The Shallows” in which Carr explains his views on how the internet is hurting human beings rather than helping them. A few points that Carr goes into detail about, are how the internet is causing the attention span of average people to slowly decay. Carr also explains that due to the internet, people are tending to skim through what they are reading rather than reading the full text they are searching for the key points in each price of writing. Additionally Carr points out that the internet is causing relationships between people are becoming weaker due to the lack of face to face interactions between each other. The life of a human beings in today's world, usually revolves around social media, but this is damaging to the relationships between other

Social networking. Sites like Facebook, twitter and Snapchat claim that by a “social network” they connect people wherever they are, but in reality, I think that it is more like a spider net, where while connected, people are glued to the “net”, chatting through it, and if they are not cautious, they slowly get consumed by it.

Why is it that society is setting us up to be betrayed by individuals that we believe are our close friends? In the United States many individuals are betrayed on a daily basis. It’s anything from as big as the president betraying all the citizen’s to simply a friend betraying your relationship and the trust you believed there was between the two of you. Betrayal can even be when your mother marries your uncle or even worse your uncle kills your dad. Shakespeare displays and makes an emphasis to have one of the themes in his play Hamlet be betrayal which is something that is still very present in society today.

Look around any restaurant and you are surprised to see that almost everybody is heading down on their mobile phones, sending messages or calling, updated face book statuses or tweeting while sharing food with other people at the same table (Keller).

During these days, it seems as if nobody can live without checking their social media accounts, whether it’s Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. Many people, especially young people, have been consumed with the use of social networking. Nobody can take their eyes off of their phones, and that has resulted in real relationship connections withering. When a family is eating together or watching a movie in the living room to have some family bonding time, children lose attention and instead focus more on what 's going on in social media. When people hang out with their friends, they are still consumed with their phones even though

Social Networking Sites (SNSs) are online platforms that users use to create Personal profiles, associates with companion and fuss in different parts. Social networking sites exhibits individual profile and facilitates with various other activities such as sharing information with each other. Social networking sites grab million of people in the globe who are united these websites into their daily life style. Social networking sites will become famous all over the world. The aim of this paper is to understand the various Positive and Negative effects of social networking sites.

People whom are on Social Media are twice as likely to feel isolated. As the internet has grown people are seeing it in different light. The name “Social Media” was give as these sites were to bring people together and make them more included in today’s society. Experts on the topic say that in certain areas it’s quite helpful, while others argue how it’s keeping the younger generation away from face to face socializing and making them far more isolated. People feel more inclined to share opinions about SM because of its high impact on today’s online age. The isolation people feel is partially due to the use of SM because of its accessibility, reliance upon, and the constant comparisons of the people to others.

Social media is a term used to depict the connection between groups or people in which they create, share, and here and there trade thoughts over the internet and in virtual groups. The impact of social networks on youngsters is huge. Social media have increased astonishing overall development and prominence which has prompted to drawing in consideration from assortment of researchers comprehensively. In spite of the fact that with time all eras has come to grasp the progressions social network has realized, teenagers and youthful adults are the most aficionado users of these sites (Taylor). As indicated by different research studies in the field of online social networks, it has been uncovered that these sites are impacting the societies in both positive and negative ways. So the “Impacts of social media on humanity” is a hot topic for discussion. Different people have different views about the impact of social media. Some people say that social media have played a beneficial role toward the progress of humanity and some people say that a deterrent role has been played by the social media towards the progress of humanity. Social media has more deterrent impact on progress of humanity. Social media has more negative impacts on human societies then its positive impacts.

Technology is getting bigger and bigger each day. With the advance of smart phones, tablets, and laptops it’s become much easier for people to keep in contact with their social media. People can easily stay in touch with friends all the time on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram and by texting. Many people are taking advantage of that opportunity and that seems like people are becoming more sociable but actually it is making people less sociable. People are spending too much time on their phones instead of having a face to face conversation. “A recent Pew Research survey of adults in the U.S. found that 71% use Facebook at least occasionally, and 45% of Facebook users check the site several times a day.” (WSJ, 2015). This essay will discuss how technology can make people more sociable and less sociable.

Online social media is a term used to describe the interaction and activities between individuals or groups of people, exchanging different ideas over the internet. Social media has a huge and significant impact on young people as they are gaining popularity all over the world. Children grow up in an environment surrounded by smart mobile devices, computers and interactive social networking applications such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.