In today’s society, it’s exceedingly common for young adults to communicate through technology. Robin Henig’s essay “ What is it about 20-somethings?” Introduces the idea of emerging adulthood. The stage of life that young adults take longer to accomplish. Maria Konnikova’s article “ The limits of friendship” Brings idea that technology is hindering communication in the real world. Technology has altered today’s society for the better because technology has created opportunities for younger generations to pursue careers and create relationships.
With the new digital age, young adults are now more than ever able to meet new people from all over the world. Also, technology has been able to bring these young adults closer to people’s lives, through the use of social media. In the
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article, Konnikova uses information from Berkley “ Our real-world friends tend to know the same people that we do, but, in the online world, we can expand our networks strategically, leading to better business outcomes” (Konnikova). Due to the advancements in technology, young adults can use technology as a hub to promote their ideas or talents to get business opportunities. For example, in the music industry, record label companies are more intrigued in an artist if they have a fan base built up already before they sign to a deal. This makes the artist more marketable for the record label and saves them money in the long run when they promote artist new music, due to the fact that a large fan base on a social media platform won’t need a push to buy the artist music. As time goes on, more of these companies are choosing people with larger audiences rather than the artist that has talent. Moreover, technology does not only give job opportunities, but it also builds relationships, such as friendships and significant others. Konnikova states “ With social media, we can easily keep up with the lives and interests of far more than a hundred and fifty people” (Konnikova).Giving people more accessibility other people around the world and giving these social media users a chance to create friendships that they may never get a chance to meet without social media. However, some argue that social platforms hinder the skill of communicating with real people and that virtual interactions make it harder to feel close to anyone. The rebuttal would be that even before social platforms were even a thing or becoming popular. People from all eras and times found ways to connect with people from around the world, even if there were able to ever visit each other. From letters in bottles to pen pals. Over time people have built these bonds by not having to physically see that person. Even with online dating sites, where people are searching for love. It's built upon words on a site that intrigue a person to pursue relations. The advancements in technology have created things like Facetime, Skype, Oovoo and etc. Platforms to talk to people that a person may have never been able to see in person through video calls. Furthermore, social media is not the only example of technology changing how people develop and socialize.
Emerging adulthood is being seen in young adults because more technology is readily available. In Henig’s essay, Arnett addresses advancements in tech changing personal relationships, social groups, family and social structures. “Young people feeling less rush to marry because of the general acceptance of premarital sex, cohabitation and birth control; and young women feeling less rush to have babies given their wide range of career options and their access to assisted reproductive technology if they delay pregnancy beyond their most fertile years” (Henig, 200). This tells the reader that young adults are not focused on starting a family early in their adulthood, but are trying to find a stable career and enjoy their young years. Emerging adulthood gives younger adults more time to figure out who and what they want to be with the enhancement of technology. For example, several young adults today attend college. It has become an expectation and necessity in order to pursue a successful career has been portrayed social platforms to look down on people who don’t achieve this
ideal. Nevertheless, technology advances every day. In today’s general public young adults are seen using these technologies such as social platforms and etc. Technology benefits the social aspects of today’s society because technology creates a contingency to have access to doors that could not open without these technologies such as social media. Giving young adults careers and relationships that would least likely not happen.
In the21st century, Amazing changes in communication has affected interpersonal relationships. Some prefer to use technology like Facebook, Line, and Wechat to communicate with their friends rather than talking in person. Communicating with technology will make them alienated. Interpersonal relationships are also important by personal talking, which may lead to improve relationships. In her essay, “Connectivity and Its Discontents”, Sherry Turkle believes technology weakens interpersonal relationship among friends, and relatives. In “Mother Tongue”, Amy Tan claims talking with her mother and husband in a personal way can improves their relationship. Using technology to communicate will alienate and widen the distance between friends; talking
Both authors and journalists Robin Henig and Maria Konnikova shift their focus on the effect social media has on young adults. In Henig’s article, “What Is It About 20 Somethings”, she poses the argument of “emerging adulthood” being an actual stage of life or not. While in Konnikova’s article, “The Limits of Friendship”, she presents the reader with the theory of Dunbar’s number and the debate on whether it applies universally or not.
Teens may be technologically savvy, important in a culture reliant on technology, but have fewer skills in dealing with real people. The economic divide pushes those without financial means further from those with internet access and the latest gadgets. How did we survive as teenagers without cell phones and texting? Increasing reliance on e-communication puts those unable to avail themselves of technology at greater disadvantage as they enter adulthood and the workforce. Nevertheless, these problems are not confined to the youth of the world.
Social media is used by many people, young and old around the world as a way to communicate. Our lives have become so busy that it is difficult to maintain family and social relationships. “They use social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. On these sites users create profiles, communicate with friends and strangers, do research and share thoughts, photos, music, links and more” (Social Networking). With the use of social media you can be friends with all sorts of people without actually seeing or knowing them. “In many ways, social communities are the virtual equivalent of meeting at the general store or at church socials to exchange news and get updated on friends and families” (Cosmato).
Technology is changing how we think and act at younger ages. The term “technology” doesn’t only mean manufacturing processes and equipment necessary for production, it also defines a social space and could be a social problem which makes a real impact on social reality. Different types of social software affect a variety of aspects and have both positive and negative impacts. It's important to be aware of how a digitally-driven life is changing our education, sense of self, relationships, social interaction, consumerism, and ways of doing business around the world.
The correlation between the development of youth and social media has become blatant. Although few of the consequences are favorable, the majority have displayed a negative impact. The drive social media can implement on youth is exceptional. The pressure and strain social media can place on our youth is an enduring force which leads individuals to question themselves as a person and feel inclined to fit a norm expressed in media and social media of our society. The underlying force social media can play in the lives of the youth is astonishing and is a force that must be dealt with and controlled, for it not only holds the power to give an individual strength, but also to break them down.
Technology is one of life’s most impressive and incredible phenomena’s. The main reason being the shockingly high degree to which our society uses technology in our everyday lives. It occupies every single realm, affecting people both positively and negatively. There are so many different forms of technology but the two most often used are cell phones, and the internet/computers in general. Today’s younger generation was raised alongside technological development. Kids now a days learn how to operate computers and cell phones at a very early age, whether it be through their own technological possessions, a friend’s, or their parents. They grow up knowing how easily accessible technology is, and the endless amount of ways in which it can be used. This paper will be largely focused on the effects of technology on the younger generation because your childhood is when these effects have the largest impact. I am very aware of the subject because I am the younger generation. Aside from major effects on study and communication skills, there also exist the media’s effects on teen’s self-esteem and mental health. Maybe more importantly, there is our world’s growing problem of over priced and unnecessary consumerism. Over time, our society has created a very unhealthy form of reliance and dependency on technology as a whole. People essentially live through their devices. Cell phones are always with people making it nearly impossible to not be able to reach someone at anytime, day or night. In 2011, there were 2.4 trillion text messages sent, and 28,641 cell phone towers were added across the US. 1 We use our phones and Internet for directions, communication, information, self-diagnosis, games, movies, music, schoolwork, work, photos, shoppi...
With 80% of Americans using internet, and that 80% spending an average of 17 hours a week online (each), according to the 2009 Digital Future Report, we are online more than ever before. People can't go a few hours let alone a whole day without checking their emails, social media, text messages and other networking tools. The average teen today deals with more than 3,700 texts in just a month. The use of technology to communicate is making face to face conversations a thing of the past. We have now become a society that is almost completely dependent on our technology to communicate. While technology can be helpful by making communication faster and easier, but when it becomes our main form of conversation it becomes harmful to our communication and social skills. Technological communication interferes with our ability to convey our ideas clearly. Technology can harm our communication skills by making us become unfamiliar with regular everyday human interactions, which can make it difficult for people to speak publicly. Technology can also harm our ability to deal with conflict. These days it is easier to h...
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Technology affects everyone! Whether positive or negative, we are all affected, how it manifests itself into problems for youth will be studied and debated for years. Balancing technology throughout the educational process and keeping with current trends and uses of technology will affect everyone. Technology has transformed our youth’s daily and social lives. How do we measure the effects of technology on our ability to socialize or have a successful social life? Socializing is not just talking face to face, it’s our ability to interact, learn, and create original thought. Technology hindering today’s youth and their ability to socialize is affecting their capacity to read, write, and communicate. Today’s youth depends on careful considerations for the implementation of technologies. Our youth do not have the capability to convey their emotions through the use of technology, understand sadness, happiness or joy through simple text or emails. Communicating through the use of text, chat, and social network sites is lost using abbreviations and slang, inhibiting the use of the Standard English language. Using computers and hand held devices for relationships, reading, writing, and entertainment, turning them into introverted and socially inept individuals. Current trends resonating from our educational institutions to our workplace can be examples of how technology has altered the way younger people communicate. This tragedy transcends from youth to adulthood affecting the workplace. Social networking sites have begun to take hours away from employers. How do students understand ethical and moral dilemmas unless they are allowed to make mistakes and work through a particular problem? Creative and original thought needs...
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We live in a world that has become addicted and dedicated toward social media and it is driving America’s youth into the ground. Teenagers and adults are so wrapped up in social media that is runs their lives every day. Constantly people are checking their phones for the latest on social networks. They have to see pictures, tweets, statuses, comments, likes, and the list goes on and on. Social media is becoming the focus point in the modern American society that it is beginning to control people’s social skills, communication skills, and their livelihood.
Today more than ever before people are finding ways to connect to friends, family and even people they just met with the means of social media. Social media has become such an important part of the lives of young adults today.