Transcript True Life: Technology Destroying Society

Consequences of
Continual Internet Use
on Student Learning.
By: Taylor Mele
Maura Pasko
Why It’s Important to
College Students.
 As students we spend majority of our
time on the computer
 Socially and academically
 Influences our logical and memorization
skills
 Which we are expected to have
Methods
 Internet
 Most up to date
 When talking about technology it is
important to be a recent as possible.
Pros of Technology
 Communicate through online network
 Vast amounts of information in an instant
 Work more efficiently
Cons of Technology
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Individual lives
Family life
Relationships
Society
Health
Individual and Family Life
 Speech and writing
development
 The concept of “family”
 Communication between
family members, has
decreased because
people are too focused
on forms of media
communication.
Health Issues
 Frustration and anxiety
 People (teens) can not picture their social
lives without texting
 Impulse disorder = drug addiction
 Study at the University of Maryland
 Withdrawal, craving, anxiety,
Relationships
 Romantic
 Dating Sites
 Online Romances
 Infidelity and
cheating
 Friendships
 Impersonal
 Face-to-face
interaction
 Less meaningful
Relationships (Texting)
 2008 75 billion text messages were sent
in the United States
 Communication barriers
 Miss out on
 Verbal inflection
 Body language
 Facial expression
What can be done…
 College students can
make the effort to stay
literate
 Keep personal
communication working
 Do not limit oneself to
online interactions