Social media addiction article.
Friday’s edition of The Sun. 16/11/2012
This article hits the nail on the head in terms of the rest of my other social media research, I think anyway.
It talks about the amount we use social media when we are meant to be doing work. With reference to Barack Obama, tweeting instead of preparing a speech on his presidential race win.
' “Four more years” and uploading a snap of himself and wife Michelle online'
Then moves on to talk about our own experiences of or friends or loved ones using social media when they are out and should be talking to yourself or friends, not ‘jabbing away’ at their phones.
The Article then goes into deeper understanding of why we use social media, suggesting that we use mobile phones to feel loved and wanted, the amount of notifications we get; texts, emails, Facebook notifications, mentions on Twitter make us feel popular, it’s also a statement about being more popular than somebody else in terms of the amount of times your phone vibrates for example.
It briefly talks about the small amount of information we receive, suggesting that we need to concentrate more to absorb that information, which links to the Dopamine Loop that Berridge, K.C, Robinson, T.E. (1998) and Weinschenk, S (2012) state.
It also begins to delve further into the long term problems the internet is creating. Problems such as memory loss, or the lack of need to remember things anymore. Google maps and sat nav’s have got rid of the skill of orienteering from most of our lives, we only need to enter a post code and our devices take us to where we need to go. We no longer need to remember directions.
This is also true for a number of different things, that we can instantly just look up the answer for on the internet, we now can usually have that information instantly because of smart phones.
Will we see more of this problem when the mobile phone networks begin to roll out 4G, so that the mobile internet will be near broadband speeds?
The article closes with a nice quote that backs up the need for what my project should create.
'It's a wonder that we all manage to get along so well. We are paying less attention to each other, becoming more selfish, losing our memory and getting ever more desperate to find out more information about everything. Sometimes we should switch off the gadgets and talk to each other.’
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