Technology affects interpersonal relations in numerous of ways into day society. People often use the internet and many other devices to communicate. However, children's aren't playing outside as frequently like back in the days. Social events aren't as sociable as how it use to be. Technology has been affecting interpersonal communication through the means of social media, video games, and iPhones.
The first-way technology affects interpersonal communication is through Social media
. One of the most destructive sources of interpersonal communication is social media, people tend to pay more attention to what is going on on Facebook, twitter, and Instagram than to spend the time to communicate with family members inside the housing hole.
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for example, via posting a photo on Instagram with an old friend and the caption stated " finally" the audience can misinterpret the caption and speculate what they think it means. In this case, it tends to cause a lot of breakups in people's relationship, because spouse starts getting insecure about the fact someone's making a comment on your photos and your spouse taking it offensively. Technology is not allowing family members, friends, and students to have a good relationship with people within their surrounding because of the lack of interaction. They don't get any time or change to created a personal bond with each other.
Another way how technology affects interpersonal communication is the overuse of video games playing. Although there are positive effects of this trend such as mastering new technology and integration into modern trends, it also possesses a negative aspect mirrored in the reduction and even absence of personal contact, for instance. If they cease to socialize at the younger age, spending more time in virtual communication, living in a parallel world, while their lives pass by them in the real one,
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Since the advent of the iPhone in 2007, the coordination of digital devices with talk-in-interaction while moving through the environment has become a high-frequency life activity, one that expands beyond engagement with the smartphone to include a visual perception of the physical and built environment, including signage and other available cartographic resources, and communication with co-present parties. ( Thorne, Hellermann, Jones , 2015)
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To often today you walk into a room and see every person glued to their cellphone
This article is relevant to my paper because it asserts that through the use of technology, the quality of interpersonal relationships is diminishing to an unacceptable standard.
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