Exemplification Essay Outline for Dustin Saunders
By Madeleine Seltzer
- Our generation is addicted to social media
- Most people are more concerned with what is going on in other people's lives more than their own
- People hide behind their computer and eventually it becomes their persona. It makes them avoid living their actual life.
- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/-sarah-bourassa/how-giving-up-my-phone-forced-me-to-live-my-life_b_7841752.html An article from the about a life addicted to social media. It explains that when she gave up her phone she had more interactions with people and less anxiety.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8436831/Student-addiction-to-technology-similar-to-drug-cravings-study-finds.html An article about how the cravings drug addicts and alcoholics feel when they are withdrawing are similar to how people feel when they are without technology.
- "People today are more connected to one another than ever before in human history, thanks to Internet-based social networking sites and text messaging. But they’re also more lonely and distant from one another in their unplugged lives, says Massachusetts Institute of Technology social psychologist Sherry Turkle, PhD. This is not only changing the way we interact online, it’s straining our personal relationships, as well." http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/06/social-networking.aspx
- http://www.phonearena.com/news/Cell-phone-addiction-has-a-name-and-yes-there-is-formal-treatment-for-it_id34866
Thesis- When using technology with the intention of staying connected to one another, it can in fact isolate us and can discourage direct communication.
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