Ever wonder how many hours an average person uses social media? An Average person has five social media accounts and spends around 1 hour and 40 minutes browsing these networks every day (Davidson). Social media has dramatically changed and upgraded within the last 5 years. Internet users become so connected it’s hard to give up something they’re so passionate about. Thompson, Carr, and Turkle investigate digital life through comparison/contrast based on reality and social media connections.
Today’s generation doesn’t know what it’s like without any kind of social media. Thompson illiterates the problems we face through his essay by ambient awareness. Which means the way we communicate online and the bond that grows throughout the years. “It’s very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through the little things he does…” (page 170). People around the world are gaining more friends and followers through Facebook and Twitter. “Many maintained that their circle of true intimates, their very close friends and family, had not become bigger. Constant online contact had made those ties immeasurably richer…” (page 173). Relationship with …show more content…
Carr describes how the internet is changing the nation. He explains in his text, that the internet distracts and interrupts us people, which makes us scattered and superficial thinkers. “Whereas the internet scatters our attention, the book focus it. Unlike the screen, the page promotes contemplativeness” (page 23). Carr proves himself by attending many university’s and provides statistics that college students do poorly with internet connection to gain information. With the use of books, the human brain can focus on any read then the internet we don’t learn anything. If people continue to use the internet as much as we do now our future will lack too much
Today’s generation doesn’t know what it’s like without any kind of social media. Thompson illiterates the problems we face through his essay by ambient awareness. Which means the way we communicate online and the bond that grows throughout the years. “It’s very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through the little things he does…” (page 170). People around the world are gaining more friends and followers through Facebook and Twitter. “Many maintained that their circle of true intimates, their very close friends and family, had not become bigger. Constant online contact had made those ties immeasurably richer…” (page 173). Relationship with …show more content…
Carr describes how the internet is changing the nation. He explains in his text, that the internet distracts and interrupts us people, which makes us scattered and superficial thinkers. “Whereas the internet scatters our attention, the book focus it. Unlike the screen, the page promotes contemplativeness” (page 23). Carr proves himself by attending many university’s and provides statistics that college students do poorly with internet connection to gain information. With the use of books, the human brain can focus on any read then the internet we don’t learn anything. If people continue to use the internet as much as we do now our future will lack too much