actually are becoming people at the other end of our communication as we do when we’re face-to-face. Booth says, “So while we’re commulooking for younicating more, we may not necessarily be building relationships as strongly.”
All of this information shows that people do not build very deep relationships with others and interact on a more shallow level. Anoth this is the er concern is that social media has caused technology addiction, when individuals spend more time with more social and more interactive with others, but the style of that communication has changed so that we’re not meeting face-to-face as often as we used to. That said, our interactions on social media tend to be weak ties—that is, we don’t feel as personally connected to the their smartphone than interacting with communicate; rather than face-to-face interaction, we’re tending to prefer mediated communication.” Paul Booth states that, “We’d rather e-mail than meet; we’d rather text than talk on the phone”encrypted (Tardanico 3). According to Booth, studies have shown that people become so connected with their phones that they lose their own sense of self. These examples show how a part of ourselves lie in the people around them. Bowman says, “It may be the parent checking his or her e-mail during a family dinner or the young college student updating Twitter while on hasmessagebeen a shift i our cellphones and social media in defining who we are. We are not only defined by our actions but also through a first date.” “For these people, they likely feel such a strong sense of identity online that they have some difficulty separating their virtual actions from tlook for the heir actual ones.” (Keller 2). These quotes state that people have a profile picture what we write and share on social media websites. In addition, social media has changed the way we perceive each other physically and emotionally, whether it be or how we word our messages. Forbes.com gives an accurate description of a simple conversation through text messages and how the conversation was perceived incorrectly. back and tweet, projecting any image they want and to pick through his pictures and only showed the ones that made him look good. Woodman showing shigh pointigns of depression — a completely different reality from the one that she conveyed in texts, Facebook According to Forbes, Sharon Seline exchanged text messages with her daughter who was in