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SMART PHONES AND SOCIAL MEDIA EXPAND OUR UNIVERSE. WE CAN CONNECT WITH OTHERS EASIER AND FASTER THAN EVER BEFORE.
THE MORE SOCIAL MEDIA WE HAVE, THE MORE WE THINK WE’RE CONNECTING, YET WE ARE REALLY DISCONNECTING FROM EACHOTHER. JR
WE ARE LIVING In a special time where social media has drastically changed how we communicate with one and other. It was not long ago that people were writing letters and using land line telephones to reach eachother. Through technology we’ve lost a little magic in the effort that it takes to reach out to another person. We are now attempting to forge relationships and make decisions based on deciphering the tone of a text message, abbreviations, and emojis. With every great invention and evolution, come a set of consequences. Social media has resulted in a stunt to our social growth, complicating our language and opening doors to a whole world of new dangers.
AN AVERAGE 18 YEAR OLD SOCIAL SENDS 47 DIRECT MESSAGES A DAY
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2014 Thebiggest paradigm of social The increase in media is its social media use is cited intention to make people more “social” among 16-24 year olds, and connect one and other, but going up from us 10 to hours each week in 2007 to 32 ironically it is disconnecting us with hours by the end of 2014 eachother and the world. We are so
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attention to the ones around us “IRL” Up from 12% in 2007, (In Real Life). Among millenials, there 80% of people between an increasing lack of comfort with 35 and 44 years old,isnow use social media sites the to traditional method of face to face communicate with others verbal communication. Studies show that this generation, that
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will make up more than 50% of the work Out of the 5.5 hours per force by 2020, would prefer to use insday the average person spent online, 2.5 of thoseover tant messaging or social media hours were spent on face to face interaction or interpersonal social media networks communication. Our social growth is
46% OF being as shown by bullies who PEOPLE USE 2 0 0stunted, 7 hide behind their computer screens and Social media users THEIR DEVICES relationships and interactions. betweenvirtual the ages 16 and 18 reported spending 10 WHILE OUT AT hours online per week A RESTAURANT
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WE ARE LIVING In a special time where social media has drastically changed how we communicate with one and other. It was not long ago that people were writing letters and using land line telephones to reach eachother. Through technology we’ve lost a little magic in the effort that it takes to reach out to another person. We are now attempting to forge relationships and make decisions based on deciphering the tone of a
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text message, abbreviations, and emojis. With every great invention and evolution, come a set of consequences. Social media has resulted in a stunt to
our social growth, complicating our language and opening doors to a whole world of new dangers.
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SOCIAL SKILLS The paradigm of social media is its intention to make people more “social” and connect us to one and other, but ironically it is disconnecting us with eachother and the world. We are so glued to our devices we do not pay attention to the ones around us “IRL” (In Real Life). Among millenials, there is an increasing lack of comfort with the traditional method of face to face verbal communication. Studies show that this generation, that will make up more than 50% of the work force by 2020, would prefer to use instant messaging or social media over face to face interaction or interpersonal communication. Our social growth is being stunted, as shown by bullies who hide behind their computer screens and virtual relationships and interactions.
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