Technology is present in almost everyones life. It's use in fields like science and medicine. It's also use for entertainment purposes. Social media can also be very useful for communication, however our interaction with technology is negatively affecting us, like the two New York Time articles that are shown below prove.
In the article "Feel like a wallflower? Maybe it's your Facebook wall" the author tells us when she experienced "Fear of missing out" also known as FOMO. It is an emblematic problem of the digital era, and this refers to a blend of negative emotions that can fare up while skimming social media. When you see updates of pictures of what your friends are doing, while you are doing nothing, this will generate you bad dealings like anxiety, inadequacy and irritation and eventually this will lead you to FOMO, as what happened to the author of the article. But she also uses testimony and evidence of her friends, a professor at Duke University, a professor at MIT, the co-founder of Flickr and the CEO of Instagram to explain why this phenomenon happens and it's bad influence in people. The co-founder of Flickr says that social software is both the creator and the cure of FOMO. It is the creator of FOMO because if you see that your friends are having more fun than you through the pictures they publish in social media, you will start feeling negative emotions that will lead to you to FOMO. But social software can also be the cure for it because as the author of the article said, once she is doing a fun and cool activity she takes a picture and then post it online, which makes her feel better, but this will generate FOMO in another person and the cycle will repeat. And that is why some creators of social apps say they have constructed their services to make people coming back for more, but not for any insidious purpose like generating FOMO and that is why social media can also be the cure.
"Hey, kids, look at me when we're talking" is another article that describes the negative impact that communicating through social media has in people. Teenagers are spending so much time looking to their screens that they are loosing the ability to read nonverbal communications and also they aren't learning important skills that are useful for interaction. On a study Dr. Nass concluded that girls using little amount of devices would sleep better, recognize better the emotions of the others and would have fewer friends with a bad influence than girls who use a lot technology. Also he made another study where we used a control group (teenagers using media) and an exponential group (teenagers without the use of media) and he concluded that the group who had higher scores identifying emotions was the exponential group. The author concludes saying that the cure for stopping nonverbal communication between kids is that parents practice face to face activities with their sons.
Both articles face the negative influence that technology has on society, which is very relevant because it makes you think about things you didn't realized before. For example the first article, which is about "Fear of missing out" you can see how some pictures that you see in social media plataform a can lead you to negative feelings. And the second article you can see that teenagers are spending so much time looking into screens, in fact among 12 to 17 years-old texting has become the primary method of communication, outstripping direct human contact. I believe parents should spend more time with their kids and teach them how to use technology properly and I think it would be great for them to put restrictions and limitations to their kids if they are just starting to learn how to use it in a productive and useful way and therefore they will prevent the negative impact that technology has on teenagers.
In the article "Feel like a wallflower? Maybe it's your Facebook wall" the author tells us when she experienced "Fear of missing out" also known as FOMO. It is an emblematic problem of the digital era, and this refers to a blend of negative emotions that can fare up while skimming social media. When you see updates of pictures of what your friends are doing, while you are doing nothing, this will generate you bad dealings like anxiety, inadequacy and irritation and eventually this will lead you to FOMO, as what happened to the author of the article. But she also uses testimony and evidence of her friends, a professor at Duke University, a professor at MIT, the co-founder of Flickr and the CEO of Instagram to explain why this phenomenon happens and it's bad influence in people. The co-founder of Flickr says that social software is both the creator and the cure of FOMO. It is the creator of FOMO because if you see that your friends are having more fun than you through the pictures they publish in social media, you will start feeling negative emotions that will lead to you to FOMO. But social software can also be the cure for it because as the author of the article said, once she is doing a fun and cool activity she takes a picture and then post it online, which makes her feel better, but this will generate FOMO in another person and the cycle will repeat. And that is why some creators of social apps say they have constructed their services to make people coming back for more, but not for any insidious purpose like generating FOMO and that is why social media can also be the cure.
"Hey, kids, look at me when we're talking" is another article that describes the negative impact that communicating through social media has in people. Teenagers are spending so much time looking to their screens that they are loosing the ability to read nonverbal communications and also they aren't learning important skills that are useful for interaction. On a study Dr. Nass concluded that girls using little amount of devices would sleep better, recognize better the emotions of the others and would have fewer friends with a bad influence than girls who use a lot technology. Also he made another study where we used a control group (teenagers using media) and an exponential group (teenagers without the use of media) and he concluded that the group who had higher scores identifying emotions was the exponential group. The author concludes saying that the cure for stopping nonverbal communication between kids is that parents practice face to face activities with their sons.
Both articles face the negative influence that technology has on society, which is very relevant because it makes you think about things you didn't realized before. For example the first article, which is about "Fear of missing out" you can see how some pictures that you see in social media plataform a can lead you to negative feelings. And the second article you can see that teenagers are spending so much time looking into screens, in fact among 12 to 17 years-old texting has become the primary method of communication, outstripping direct human contact. I believe parents should spend more time with their kids and teach them how to use technology properly and I think it would be great for them to put restrictions and limitations to their kids if they are just starting to learn how to use it in a productive and useful way and therefore they will prevent the negative impact that technology has on teenagers.