Compose An Outline With a List of Works Cited and Use TIQA Format

Kahraman

Mucahid Kahraman

Mrs.Hughes

CP English II

13 May 2018

Does technology make us more alone?

Four out of five millennials own mobile devices which are always on and always connected to the Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. As the technology evolves, people tend to lag behind it in other aspects because the relationship with technology has made people devolve instead of evolving. The last generations interacted socially through visiting bars, nightclubs and restaurants, however, contemporary people favor life online (Klein). Studies suggests that millennials have six people less compared to people in the last sixty years.

Maintain relationship 1

Technology has been used in the recent past to maintain relationships. Before then people grew up and drifted from family and friends because of natural flow of life. With social media, people are no longer looped out. They can share lives with people far away via statuses, pictures and highlight of their lives. The problem with this is that people tend to share only the good moment and this creates a cycle where people post only great things. This kills genuine shared of experiences which are important. Allowing people to see vulnerability increase the connection.

Despite the known fact that technology allow people to communicate with other around the world, technology bubble exist which keep us isolated from real human contact and interaction. Alienation from reality jeopardize people emotional, spiritual and mental health. When people isolate themselves from others they feel lonely eventually because virtual people rarely satisfy the needs and desires for long (Allen, Ryan and Gray 19).

More technology more lonely 2

The more people use technology, the lonelier they tend to be. Study by Relationships Australia found out that 42% of Australians who use at least four methods of technology to connect, for instance, Twitter, email, Facebook, and SMS were experiencing loneliness compared to 11% of people who use one media. Many young people use technology and data shows that people aged 25-34 years are lonely by 27% while old people who rarely use technology are 11% lonely. People who frequently felt lonely use Facebook to connect with potential partners, friends and family this compared to 28% of people who never feel lonely (Amichai-Hamburger and Ben-Artzi 75).

First priority 3

As technology bring family and close friend close, it create loneliness. People spend more time in front of the mobile phone compared to the time they spend with the family. When family meet or friend catch up, they still struggle to find time to focus on the mobile conversation. People focus on talking to strangers who are miles away and less on old friends in close proximity. Moreover, when people get up in the morning, the first thing is normally checking the smartphones (Barak and Sadovsky 1802). Another technology the Virtual Reality is taking people closer to loneliness.

First priority 4

TV were invented to be a source of entertainment. Previously watching TV was a family event. Currently TV is a box in every room of the house. People spend more time watching TV instead of spending time with family, sibling or friends. In addition, Video Game have contributed to loneliness. The use of high-end graphics games make players feel real. This makes people not to go out and play with friends. The Air conditioners is a necessity for fresh air and this makes many people not go out during summer. This means technology makes people lazy.

FOMO 5

Fear of Missing Out is quite a real thing. People tend to check Facebook and Twitter feeds often. This fact that people are ever looking at what is happening is unfortunate (Bollen, Mao and Zeng 3). People should be giving focus on lives an interaction with people. Technology is making people more alone because instead of interacting, they are dependent on tablets. In return, people compare lives with those of other because of number of likes in Facebook photos. People are not developing basic communication skills because of lack of interaction. It is true that people will be more lonely of they do not make changes.

Diminishes sense of eye to eye talks 6

Gadgets were invented to help people share feelings, thoughts, and considerations, however, they are used wrongly. The use of technology crush the person to person communication and the significance of discussion that people have and these make people separated. Instead of investing energy with somebody, people tend to message and call in light of believe that it is more proficient and helpful. This is more so in youth and kids particularly when they prefer chat with relatives and family (Brewer and Kerslake 257). Chatting reduces the need to meet one another. Youth excessively make up for lost time with the use of innovation and avoid and/or invest time with parents. The same internet which has helped people to have contact with other is making people lonely. This makes people to have over 1000 friends on social media but very few to talk to about our issues and challenges. People can spend time watching YouTube but cannot watch single episode with family.

Some people cannot live without technology 7

Technology has become influential in today living than ever before. Many people are in a state where they cannot exist without technology. Some of us have youth friends or colleague who are on verge of nervous breakdown when they do not spend time with smartphone. With smart technology and internet coverage, we can understand how technology is important to people. Numerous studies show that there is great psychological impact of unfriending someone on Facebook or any other social media (Cacioppo and Patrick 34). Consider how people feel by the number of likes, it become clear that technology make people unhappy.

Combating loneliness 8

Most people use internet and can assist people to function better in global world. Social networking can be used to develop, strengthen and maintain social connections to both in person and online. The use of social networking helps build social capital, greater emotional support, and lower loneliness and create connectedness. Despite the use of technology people must not lose touch with tangible community. It is nice to keep in touch with people over Facebook, which should not replace intimate face-to-face relationship, there is need to balance the relationships (Gangadharbatla 10). Too many followers, much participation lead to depression and creates disconnectedness.

Use of technology 9

Emerging finding show nuance relationship between sociability and online technology. Sociability in this case comprise the emotional intelligence, emotion recognition and perspective-taking. While the online technology can be positive by facilitating charitable giving, it can have negative behaviors such as cyberbullying. Technology affect sociability as it benefits the social life when it is complemented by an already deep offline engagement with other people, it prevents sociability when it supplants deeper offline engagement for superficial online engagement and it promotes sociability when deep offline engagement is difficult (Guadagno, Okdie and Kruse 645).

Works Cited

Allen, K. A, T Ryan and D. L Gray. "Social media use and social connectedness in adolescents: The positives and the potential pitfalls." The Educational and Developmental Psychologist 31.1 (2014): 18-31.

Amichai-Hamburger, Y and E Ben-Artzi. "Loneliness and Internet use." Computer and Human Behavior 19 (2003): 71-80.

Barak, A and Y Sadovsky. "Internet use and personal empowerment of hearing-impaired adolescents." Computers in Human Behavior 24 (2008): 1802-1815.

Bollen, J, H Mao and X Zeng. "Twitter mood predicts the stock market." Journal of Computational Science 2.1 (2011): 1-8.

Brewer, G and J Kerslake. "Cyberbullying, self-esteem, empathy and loneliness." Computers in Human Behavior 48 (2015): 255-260.

Cacioppo, J. T and W Patrick. Loneliness: Human nature and the need for social connectness. WW Norton & Company, 2008.

Gangadharbatla, H. "Facebook me: Collective self-esteem, need to belong, and internet self-efficacy as predictors of the iGeneration’s attitudes toward social networking sites." Journal of Interactive Advertising 8 (2008): 5-15.

Guadagno, R. E, B. M Okdie and S. A Kruse. "Dating deception: Gender, online dating, and exaggerated self-presentation." Computers in Human Behavior 28.2 (2012): 642-647.

Klein, Lauren. Does Technology Cut Us Off from Other People? 14 March 2014. 14 May 2018. <https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/does_technology_cut_us_off_from_other_people>.