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We as millennials use social media as a second part of us. We wake up and check our phones just to see what we missed the night before we even roll out of bed. Most of us end most of our conversations with the saying oh ill text you later or snap chat you later. This affects the human interaction that social media has on us. According to the hastac “Technology’s rampant popularization over the past decade in terms of social media has meant that texting, Facebook, and Twitter have inevitably taken over as the most efficiency factor, or our reliance on the most efficient ways of communication, is becoming one of the largest concerns for people in our interactions with one another.” (Jones) We text to tell stories instead of picking up the phone and calling someone. It’s hard to know the true meaning behind what someone is saying behind the words and what they post. It’s the new wave that we are pushing towards. In Personal Connections in the Digital Age, “People often questions the quality of mediated interactions, believing technological mediations takes away the social cues that provide rich meaning.” (Baym) When communicating with people either face to face or even in a phone conversation, we can see cues if something is wrong or if there is anger within one’s self. With social media, it’s hard to see those cues. There might be post or tweets but it’s not the same as a phone call or even seeing a person face to face. Facebook is a way for people to see what you are doing and see where a person is by seeing their post and then we have ways that we can like it and comment but we aren’t going to pick up a phone and call the person and ask them about the trip.

Also in Personal Connections in the Digital Age, “Rather than viewing social changes as a consequence of new media, it views new technologies and their uses as consequences of social factors.” (Baym) With Facebook being the leader of how we connect with others and being able to hear and see what is making headlines thru people’s post.  According to CNN, “As with any new (or newly discovered) technology, the impact of the end product is largely in the hands of the user.” (Gross) We use Facebook to post important information when it takes place.  We are able to also use Facebook to find long lost friends and family members that we never knew who we had. This can be good or bad because you are able to learn who they are with the overload of post. We use Facebook to see things we like to see and makes us smile. Facebook is also a way to see what people you went to school is doing and the changes that they are going thru. With everything that is going good for Facebook is that we also won’t be safe with the new technologies that keep immerging.  

Baym, Nancy K. Personal Connections in the Digital Age. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA: Polity, 2010.

Gross, Doug. “5 Ways Facebook Changed Us, for Better and Worse.” CNN (CNN), January 31, 2014. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/31/tech/social-media/facebook-changes/.

“Social Media’s Affect on Human Interaction.” June 7, 2013. Accessed February 20, 2017. https://www.hastac.org/blogs/haley117/2013/06/07/social-medias-affect-human-interaction.