Social Media As Commuity By Keith Hampton: Article Analysis

Shut Down Technology In the article Social Media as Commuity by the author Keith Hampton states that “have found that americans have fewer intimate relationships today than 20 years ago…”(Hampton,4)This is just one example that we as humans have shut down our capability to talk and communicate with others face to face. But others may be saying that they do communicate with others. But are they communicating with them on phones. In schools especially children are relying on technology way too much,they are consuming way too much technology on an average day, and they are not communicating, even if two people are in the same room. Gardner Middle School should take place in “National Shut Down Your Screen Week”. First children are not willing to talk to another person even if their in the same room. The child would most likely take out his or her cell phone and start texting a colleague. In the article Attached to Technology and Paying a Price by Matt Richtel says “Mr.Nass at Stanford thinks the ultimate risk of heavy technology use is the it diminishes empathy by limiting how much people engage with one another, even in the same room”(Richel,20). Others may say their researching on their phone but many may confess that they are playing a

In the video What the internet is doing to our brains quotes the author Nicholas Carr states just by going on the internet for three minutes can lead a person into multiple sites leading them to forget why they were on the internet in the first place. To add on to the topic of too much technology in the text Attached to Technology and Paying a Price by the writer Matt Richtel states At home, people consume 12 hours of media a day on average, when an hour spent with, say, the Internet and TV simultaneously counts as two hours…”(Richtel 19). But many people will say in defence that they are not always on the internet. They are saying this to defend them