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Social Media and Society- Final

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Social Media and Society Final Cell phones. A device that is easily becoming the most powerful force to mankind. With this, essentially, box, you can interact with people across the world through phone calls, text, video chat, perhaps the easiest form of communication has become social media. Weather it is used to keep up with family, to lure you into marketing traps or simply to keep you informed or distracted, we can conclude that Social Media has become an enormous time consumption. To gain a better understanding on the reach and impact of social media, I reached out to individuals who have taken a break from social media and some that have completely cut off from social media to find out reasons for attempting to kick the habit and how it benefited them. I applied these results to the theory of Epistemic Distraction from the book “Stand Out of Our Light” by James Williams. This paper has data that will likely be surprising to some and predictable to others, overall it provi...
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Literature Review

Literature Review What is the first thing you do in the morning? After opening your eyes, you probably roll over and snooze your alarm. I’m assuming you use your smart phone as your alarm clock each morning. Even if not, I’m sure after shutting off that alarm the next thing you do is unlock your phone, see if you missed any texts in the night, check your email, and then scroll through social media until you realize you are now running 20 minutes late for work or class. I am analyzing the amount of time spent on social media and the affects it can have on society and what benefits taking a break, or removing yourself from social media completely, can have on an individual. To better understand this, I have reached out to my twitter followers and my Facebook friends to seek those that have taken a break from any social media cites. Taking data from users of Twitter and Facebook gave me a better variety of participants as my Twitter followers are primarily composed of people in ...
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