Technology Creates Social Isolation and Neurosis

STEPHANIE STONE

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Types of Technology

• Computers * Blue tooth

• Television * GPS

• Cell Phones * Domes

• Cameras * PVR

• Video Games

• Social Media

1. Technology has provided easier forms of communication (family over seas, friends far away) 2. The medical field is becoming more advance finding new cures and treatments. 3. It makes our everyday tasks easier and faster

1. PEOPLE DEPEND TO MUCH ON TECHNOLOGY THEY ARE UNABLE TO THINK FOR THEMSELVES.

2. TECHNOLOGY CAN CREATE FATIGUE, STRESS (MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL) DEPRESSION

3. TECHNOLOGY CREATES A NEW FORM OF BULLYING. MEDIA PROMOTES NEGATIVE BODY IMAGES

Pros and Cons

History

1960: Social interaction was considered an art form

We use to communicate with trunk calls, letters, telephonic communication and land lines.

New discoveries took years of creating and planning.

Those who were owned technology (car, phone, radio) was considered wealthy

2015: Social interaction is developed at home.

We rely on cell phones, lap tops, social media, and advanced televisions.

Technology is being recreated and improved constantly

Everyone now a days owns a cell phone, computer ect. They are not considered a want, but more of a need.

Definitions :

Technology :The application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objects. Electronic or digital products and systems considered as a group

ISOLATION:

(SOCIOLOGY)A LACK OF CONNECTION BETWEEN PERSONS, GROUPS, OR WHOLE SOCIETY.

(PSYCHOLOGY) THE FAILURE OF AN INDIVIDUAL TO MAINTAIN CONTACT OF COMMUNICATION WHERE INTERACTION WITH OTHERS PERSISTS.

NEUROSIS:

A PSYCHOLOGICAL STATE CHARACTERIZED BY EXCESSIVE ANXIETY OR INSECURITY, COMPENSATED FOR BY VARIOUS DEFENSE MECHANISMS AND LACKING EVIDENCE OF ORGANIC DISEASE.

Cell Phones

Social media Smartphones are now a multi-media device that not only gives people access to texting and calling but now we have connection to Facebook, twitter, and other social medias anywhere, anytime.

TextingCellphones allow people to ignore the human aspect of contact that has always been central to the functioning of society, and instead rely upon simple phrases and emoticons as an attempt to relay emotions that could be far better expressed in the inflection of one’s voice (Technology imposes social isolation).

Shaping societyThese advance cell phones now play a huge role in influencing and shaping our psychological and physical being.

We are so accustomed to relying on a hand held device to function day to day.

Personal Interaction

The more technology improves it creates a disconnection between people, weather it is family, friends, or relationships.

And now we're living in a world where hours spent on Facebook in the U.S. went up 700% between 2008 and 2009. Where 30 percent of people in the U.S. used social media in 2008, and 73% do today. Where 50 percent of worldwide internet users are plugged in to social media, and an expected 71 percent will be by next year. We're living behind this mask more and more. (White, T., 2015)

Time spent with family and friends, are now spent sitting beside one another checking and updating statuses.

Computers

Cyber bullying* We need to try to determine when we see a teen isolating himself what is going on in his world. Becoming socially isolated may be a response to several stresses: bullying, abuse, depression, social anxiety, substance abuse, family conflict, or peer conflict (Parenting with All the Pieces). The more people are open to internet and social media the more cyber bullying is becoming open to everyone in the cyber world.

Jobs* Applying for jobs now a days is all online, we have lost that sense of communicating with one another, and getting a firm understanding of one personality and ability.

* The study found that 28% of heavy Internet users report spending more time working at home (12% out of these 28% even reported spending more time at the office as well).

Digital Divide* "By far the most important factors facilitating or inhibiting Internet access are education and age, and not income - nor race/ethnicity or gender, each of which account for less than 5 percent change in rates of access and are statistically insignificant.” (Nielsen Norman Group)

* When splitting out the effect of the various variables, the study finds the following three main effects on Internet access:

Education (having a college degree): +49%

Age (older people compared with 18-25 years' olds): -43%

Income (having high income): +21%

Is internet use leading to less face-to-face contact with our closest social ties or with local social ties?

In-person contact remains the dominant means of communication with core network members. On average, there is face-to-face contact with each tie on 210 out of 365 days per year , however, it is decreasing rapidly as social media is increasing (Social Isolation and New Technology, 2009).

Television

Time We all have our favorite shows that we can’t miss. We are willing to stop whatever we are doing to turn on the television and watch. Even in our busiest of days we always fine the time to watch t.v. We are living in a world now where we can’t just let lose, because we are always forcing on time and when we will get our next fix of technology.

Life ExpectationsThere is standards that is placed upon society because people can’t seam to escape the cyber world, they compare what happens in t.v to what life is like, setting themselves up for disappointment, in the fallowing ways: social compensation, which included companionship, pass time, habit, and escape motivations, as well as mood management, which included relaxation, entertainment, arousal, and information motivations.

HealthOur society’s spends more time on devoted to technology than we do our health. Somehow we lost our way on fitness and health conscious because we are dictating our time to food and technology. As mentioned before, we have extra time to sit and watch television all night, before school, and when we have a hour down time, however we can’t find 30 minutes to exercise. As technology advances, we are becoming a lazier generation.

Addiction: DR. JERALD BLOCK, AUTHOR FORM THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, SAYS INTERNET ADDICTION CAN NOW BE IDENTIFIED AS CAUSING “COMPULSIVE-IMPULSIVE DISORDER, SUCH AS CHECKING E-MAILS CONSTANTLY OR ALWAYS THINKING THE PHONE IS VIBRATING” (INTERNET ADDICTION DISORDER, 2015)

6 Signs we Depend on Technology to Much1. If the internet is down, we are

finished working for the day. Weather it is in the office, school, or homework.

2. Buyer’s remorse is much more common. Online shopping is harder to return than in the mall.

3. People no longer live in the moment. If our battery dies we stop and look for a charger, me must take pictures to document time.

4. Nobody know one another's phone number, we use speed dial.

5. To avoid face-to-face confrontation we now use cellphones or computers

6. Without our cell phones we feel naked, If we don’t have our phones with us we are not able to function.

A video of how far society has come

Conclusion

“Don’t waste your life getting caught in the net, cause when the end comes there is nothing worst than regret” (Look Up Video). The more we spend time focusing on how many followers we have on Facebook, or the latest trends on t.v the more likely we will see our life's go by and feel we have accomplished nothing. Yes, technology has improved the way we life, but it doesn’t need to control it.

References• Technology imposes social isolation. (n.d.). Retrieved March 29, 2015,

from http://trail.pugetsound.edu/2011/10/technology-imposes-social-isolation/

• White, T. (n.d.). Why Social Media Isn't Social. Retrieved March 31, 2015, from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-white/why-social-media-isnt-social_b_3858576.html

• Nielsen Norman Group. (n.d.). Retrieved March 31, 2015, from http://www.nngroup.com/articles/does-the-internet-make-us-lonely/

• Parenting with All the Pieces. (n.d.). Retrieved March 31, 2015, from http://parentingwithallthepieces.typepad.com/parenting_with_all_the_pi/2012/01/bullying-and-social-isolation.html

• Social Isolation and New Technology. (2009, November 3). Retrieved March 31, 2015, from http://www.pewinternet.org/2009/11/04/social-isolation-and-new-technology/

Reference continue

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