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 * 1) How has social media affected the social skills of people today? And to what extent?
 * 2) Social Media and Interpersonal Communication
 * 3) Maura Keller, Social Work Today
 * 4) http://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/051313p10.shtml
 * 5) I have accessed this source at my house on a website on May 28, 2014
 * 6) SOAPSTone
 * Subject: social media, negative effects, lack of face-to-face communication
 * Occasion: modern society and its rapid development of technology
 * Audience: readers of the magazine Social Work Today, researchers of effects social media has on society, AP Lang students
 * Purpose: to inform readers about the negative impact people today use social media as a medium to communicate and to avoid talking face to face
 * Speaker: Maura Keller, editors of this magazine, people who are anti-technology
 * Tone: informative, concerning, persuasive
 * 1) The increasing use of social media to communicate is weakening the ties between friends; one does not feel personal connections with others by means of technology to have conversation. By conversing through social media, information being sent from one computer to another is less secure, relationships are not as deepened and intimate, and there is less diversity in opinions for the issues in today's world. Once social media becomes more "normalized", the world will learn to adjust to these once new changes, we have always adjusted to new changes and advances.
 * 2) Though many people are being negatively influenced by the rapidly increasing use of media, society will eventually grow to adapt and change based on new technological advancements and development.
 * 3) I was persuaded by this article to a great extent; the author accurately explains the negative effects of social media and its increasing utilization. I found it interesting when the author mentioned that the world is not basically screwed, even with all of the new technology and negative effects because society has always learned to adapt to new changes. Social media is only beginning to mold into contemporary society.
 * 4) Key sentences or passages
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">“For example, cyberbullying has largely the same antecedents and behavioral, emotional, and effective consequences as does [noncyber] bullying,” Bowman says. “Yet the difference is the ‘more’—that is, social media allows for more contact, more communication, and in a more public manner.”
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"As social media becomes more normalized, we’ll stop seeing it as changing things and start seeing it as the way things are. As a society we’ll be OK—we’ve always adjusted to new technology".
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">"individuals spend more time with their smartphone than interacting with the people around them, to the detriment of those face-to-face relationships".
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">In a bullying event, often the person being bullied can remove himself or herself from the environment, at least temporarily. For example, a child being bullied at school can escape the playground when he or she goes home each night. “However, cyberbullying is marked by its persistence,” Bowman says. “The bullying messages don’t stay in a particular space, such as a playground, but can follow the child home. If we consider that bullying’s effects on an individual can build over time, then there is a real concern that increasing contact between bullies and their targets in persistent and digital interactions might exacerbate the problem.”

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 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">How has social media affected the social skills of people today?
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Technology can have positive and negative impact on social interactions
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Human Kinetics, //Dimensions of Leisure for Life//
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">http://www.humankinetics.com/excerpts/excerpts/technology-can-have-positive-and-negative-impact-on-social-interactions
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">I accessed the source on a website on June 1, 2014
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">SOAPSTone:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Subject: technology, social networking, consequences, social development, gaming, television
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Occasion: rapid proliferation of technology
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Audience: people interested in effects of technology
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Purpose: to show how different kinds of technology, negative or positive, have on people and social interactions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Speaker: Human Kinetics
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Tone: informative, persuasive
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Technology can maintain meaningful relationships between people by sending photos, videos, etc. Talking/communicating through technology can be helpful in overcoming a sense of isolation. However, other mediums of technology such as television or video games can also hinder social interactions and skills.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">There are several effects, both positive and negative, of the use of technology and social networking sites on people's social skills.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">I am well persuaded by the author's treatment of this topic because I also think having social networking sites help mend relationships and maintain long distance relationships, but also from personal experience it also has a lot of negative effects. You avoid face-to-face communication and confrontation (knowing from personal experience) by trying to talk to people through text or chat.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Key sentences or passages:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">"Therefore, television provides little opportunity for meaningful interaction while watching. Watchers simply sit there and ingest what is presented to them without having to respond or react to another person. Obviously this can have serious effects on people’s social skills because viewers are not practicing how to relate to and deal with other people."
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Although divorce and loss of employment are serious issues, perhaps they are not as common as other problems that have the potential to stem from social networking sites.Narcissism—excessive interest in one’s appearance and in oneself—is sometimes manifested on social networking sites.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 110%;">Perhaps overcoming a sense of isolation is one of the greatest features of online communities and virtual worlds. Someone might feel like an outcast in her own community or family but might find someone online with similar hobbies, pursuits, and interests.