Social media, mobile phone, and our lonely lives
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Social media, mobile phone, and our lonely
lives
Social media and mobile phones increase people’s loneliness, dependence, and exposure of privacy
Photocred: Dobbs Ferry (istockphoto)
By: Helen Wu
The connection between social media and smart
phones
Photocred: Jennifer Conley (Flikr)
To use your social networks to their full potential, you need to access them from your phone so you can
share your favorite moments as they happen
Photocred: Karly Domb Sadof
"The idea that I have to monitor my Twitter account, email, Facebook, cellphone and land line …is TOO
MUCH." – Sherry Turkle
Dependence on social media, the need of our
online connection
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A Facebook page or a Twitter feed each provides so many
automat ic listeners
Instead of going out and meeting actual human beings with whom we can develop a relationship, we spend time chatting online with people we
barely know
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It is as though we use [people we meet online], need them as spare parts to support our increasingly
fragile selves .
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Studies have shown that the comments on your Facebook profile
picture strongly affect your level of perceived attractiveness
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One of the differences between our self-image in real life and online is more ability to change our look, and also
m a s k our identity.
Photocred: Dove Beauty Campaign
Dependence on smart phones
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Alone yet connected
We are together, but each of us is in our own bubble, furiously connected to keyboards and
tiny touch screens
If we are unable to be alone,
we are far more likely to be lonely.Photocred: Andreas JD (Deviantart)
“Someday, but certainly not
now, I’d like to learn how
to have a
conversation.”-a 16 year-old boy
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“The occasional day where my phone isn't charged or I leave it behind, it feels almost as though I'm naked in public .”
– Michael Weller, a senior at New Trier High School
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Young ppl are so addicted to their mobile phones they feel like they’ve lost
a limb without them
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Technology has created a situation where we are treating each other as though we
were stalkers.
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The c o n s e q u e n c e s of dependence –
power of the companies that hold our information
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“There are no pictures of my two young kids on the Internet, because I don’t want
to lose control of the images. It’s a permanent record.” – Barss
Photocred: Lao An (Flikr)
“Their (online user’s) data are not only being
archived but also analyzed and scored.” – Fertik
Photocred: Baris Simsek (iphotostock)
[with Facebook Home], Facebook is going to be able to track your every move, and
Every Little ActionPhotocred: Hustvedt (Wikimedia)
Everything you do and say on Facebook can be used to serve you
ads
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Google asserts the right to combine all the information it can obtain from any
sources, including those never authorized by the provider
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The world seen through Google’s omnipresent eyes (from Google glass)
Photocred: Paul Wagenseil
Cred i t
All images are licensed under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 agreement and sourced from various image hosting websites such as Flikr, Wikimedia, Shutterstock images, Getty images, and iStockPhoto
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