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Technology Is Hindering Human Interaction Essay

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The purpose of this paper is to assess, evaluate, discuss, and address the extent by which advancements in technology are hindering human interaction, including incorporating specifically incorporating how technology has from a psychological, social, and community perspective, impacted the concepts of social identity, group and peer interaction and acceptance including communal interactive exchange. This essay will discuss that the advancement of technology such as social media technology, has in many respects effectuated human interaction, from an individualized perspective that is based on preferences derived from certain shared social, racial, cultural, or political background, and has hindered inaction in terms of a communal or community perspective. Overall, the paper will conclude that it remains very …show more content…

There are numerous scholarly studies that assess how social media technology impacts peer and group participation, acceptance, and level of involvement. For instance, a comprehensive psychological study of MySpace and found that adolescent and teenagers, were in fact actively utilizing such social media technology outlets as a substantive means toward forming certain peer, group, and other social circles, and also acknowledged to some extent, that such was done for the purpose of achieving a satisfactory level of social acceptance (Wentzel, 2006). Other scholarly work has demonstrated that social media technology, imparts upon its users, certain psychological variables relevant to socialization, including for instance, the effects of cognitive dissonance, peer rejection, and social withdrawal, all stemming from individual efforts to find, obtain, and search for peer and group identification by way of social media technology (Boivan,

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