Web Essay

Hend Alhusain
 ENG113B
 Essay 1
 4 October 2012

 Online All The Time

         Our society has been completely changed since technology has invaded our lives. Mass media has the huge impact on how young people socialized recently, which linkage internet usage and young's lifestyle. Media has the power to manipulate youth's thought, feeling, behavior, attitude and lifestyle. Young people have been effected positively and negatively by social media to shape their lifestyles and act back on their relations, career, community and society. Website has influenced the huge power to shape of young's interpersonal relationships and personalities characteristics. Some people believe that social media persuaded young's interpersonal relationships, while others become awareness of the outcomes that might associated by socialized virtual via media websites. Therefore, what are the effects of technology on societies? In what way social media control youth's relationships? Should we considered people who satisfy their emotional needs by excessive using Facbook, Twitter, MSN as addicts? And what gender is more likely to be addicted? What are sign and symptoms of internet addiction and how can we relieve this addiction?. Social media websites, instant messages and applications downloaded to portable devices are kind of technology that population engaged themselves every day. Technology promotes our lifestyle in the way of communication, thinking and socializing. Nowadays, people from different parts of the world easily communicate by using mobile and computer devices. By social media websites people could reach their families and friends easier, save their time and money than before. Nevertheless, technology also altered students' experience. They are being reading more news, articles, eBooks than before and adding comments and arguing with reasonable in social media websites. Yet, new generation are enhancing their critical thinking by read, argued and comments on some online articles which built in their personalities the ability of solving problem and to innovated ideas. People also sharing and exchanging culture thoughts, international trading and family vacation planning by social media websites, as Steven Johnson shows in " Yes, People Still Read, But Now It's Social" article that "How many of those exchanges could happen where I limited exclusively to the technologies of the phone,"(428). Then, main reason for surfing the internet websites seems to be communication Social media websites; such as, Facebook, Twitter, and MSN play a major role on adult's interpersonal relationships either for good or bad result. Those media websites drive youth to be connect to their virtual friends, encounter users virtually, express and respond to their feeling via using social media. Young people have been engaged physically and emotionally to the users who defined themselves as "friend". As a result, person's presence is not necessary any more in order to date new friend, express feeling, build or broke up relation while they are able to do it behind the device monitors without embracement or anxious feelings. Social media act as a mediator between people, and it becomes more easily to control our relationship at the same moment they desire to show their feelings to others. Young people who signed up to create account are able to added or removed friends, updates their status, like what virtual friends to to become more closer to their virtual life. A lot of shy young people have opportunities to show their hidden feeling behind the computer and mobile screen and encounter more in virtual world. That gives more chance to build relationships than real life. Therefore, adolescences have been hooked emotionally and physically to connect their social life to media websites. For example, my friend Sarah has known a guy from Facebook who married her last year. Sarah's husband has the ability to changed her fear of having a relationship by social websites. On the other hand, not all the virtual friend are good people same as Sarah's friend, because young people are targeted by dangerous sick people who have history of abused and crimination. Young people who are being virtually connected their relationships to the internet increased than before. Adolescences become less encounter with their families and friends because they prefer socialized by media which seems easier and convenient. From my personal experience, even though when I met my friends at coffee shop or restaurant, all of us are hardly prevent ourselves from texting by social media. Then, our conversation usually take about 30 minutes without updating or communicating via websites. Young people recently, can't feel their feeling unless they connected to the media. In the article "Digital Demands" Sherry Turkle argues how social media dominates youth's emotions when they said "I want to have a feeling. I need to make a call"(373). Texting by instant message, follow people by twitter, like what users do, listen to new music, being updated with virtual friends in social media websites has been increased now than a decade before. Therefore, young people are satisfied their emotional needs by frequently signed up to social media every an hour. Facbook, Twitter and Instant Messaging- have a great impact on youth's daily live. Young people can easily communicate and access their virtual friends in webs when they feel they need to talk to someone. Communicating with people from different age, race, gender and culture can nourish youth's need. Yet, media has changed young's traditional thought about interpersonal relationships satisfaction to new dimension. The chance to addicted to social media are great when accessibility and convenience of communication with others at any time, also when vulnerable emotions on specific ages gives young people to become addicts to internet websites. Therefore, young people are easily become a target of being addicted. Depending on the article that I read online about effects of social media use on relationship satisfaction, they found that 219 users are people between the ages of 18 and 25 which have been questioners online. As a research shows " Our results were based on one-tailed correlations between time spent on social media, social media withdrawal, and their connection to relationship satisfaction. The results did not support our hypothesis and there was a negative correlation between social media use and relationship satisfaction."( Effects of Social Media) Facebook, twitter and instant messaging are the most social media websites that young people log in all the time every day. Young female and male who using social media have become a public issues everywhere. Island television News in Addiction to Facebook had a survey on how Facebook effects young's life. On the news they mentions that Facebook is the rapid largest social media website that young people log on every day. Facboook users reached 300 million users which they spend 6 billion minutes total worldwide per day. For instance; Mona one of the interviewer young person who admits that her addiction to Facebook is by no purpose. Mona says that she logged in her account to checks, updates or likes what her friends do. According to the article ( Is Generation Y Addicted..) which said that female has more prone to be addicted to the internet than men. The reason is women have the adventure to test before they involved in relations. While men have not that kind of emotional instinct. Social media addiction has been defined as pathological behavioral which manipulate adolescence lifestyle. Psychologist Dr.Martin Johanson compared addiction to Facebook to other addiction behavior that compulsive behavior take off our lives. Psychologists figured out some sings and symptoms of internet addiction. When young people become less enjoying their social lives with their families and friends. When they spend less time on their hobbies and physical activity comparing to the whole time they spend on media websites. When youth having difficult time to reduced the hours they spend on socialized by internet, psychologist diagnosed theses symptoms as internet addiction. Nevertheless they failed the attempted by their families and friends to control their time spend on the social media. Addicted people considered school, work, socialized time as problem for them. Internet addict who spend whole day online may suffered from following emotionally and physically disorders. Such as kind of guilt feelings, failure trying to stop this bad habits, showing the opposite for their friends and families when they have told they spend lots of time, neglected from their family, friends, and jobs in their real lives. According to diagnoses have been found, Dr. Johanson mentioned that internet addicts might complain from back and neck pain, dryness of the eyes, instable weight either in increased or decreased and numbness in fingers or hands. Internet has a lot of consequences on adult and young people emotions, relationships, communications and lifestyles. However, these outcomes influenced youth on a positive or negative way depending on how to utilized and frequencies signing in into media websites. Addiction to social media happened when the adolescence's have poor lifestyle, behavioral and attitude led to badly excessive use of internet which contribute to engage themselves to socialized by media websites and texting. Wasting a lot of time on media become habitual, that is difficult to get rid of. Difficult to decide wither or not be addicted to the internet, due to the fact that some young people suffered from emotionally and personality problem whom considered as an easily target to be addicted to social media networking websites and texting. Then, what happens is young people who become addicted to social media websites and texting have developed physical and mental abnormalities. They also might suffered from specific signs and symptoms, which psychologist defined these diagnosis as outcomes of internet addicted. Nevertheless, young people have been notified by their families, friends and coworker that they spend almost whole day on internet. Also, it's hard to relive the social media addiction when this engaged to virtual world have been involved emotionally, habitually and become part of their daily life. Works Cited Turkle, Sherry. "Digital Demands: The Challenges of Constant Connectivity" 2010, Beyond Words, Third Edition (John Ruszkiewicz, Daniel Anderson, Christy Friend) Johnson, Steven . “Yes, People Still Read, But Now It’s Social.” 2010 . Web Jaclyn Cabral, "Is Generation Y Addicted to Social Media?". Spring 2011. Web "Addiction To Facebook" Island Television News. Interview with Mona.