Some are familiar with email and use it often to communicate with friends and family. Adults who do not use email, social networking sites, or even laptops, cell phones or tablets, do not use them only because they do not know how to use them and do not have the need to learn how to use them, and keep using what they are already used to....
I should know that because I'm online every single day, and the internet for me is not a tool, but a privilege because I use this privilege to look at my emails, to talk to distant relatives, to play my online games, to stay informed of everything going on around the world. ... People are more connected because is a faster communication with the world, before we used to receive "letters" in the mailbox and that would take some days or if was going far away even months, but now we all receive "emails" in minutes or even in seconds. ...
We would rather email than meet, and instead of talking on the phone we would rather text. ... There are plenty of us who make a living working from home, whether it be submitting work via email or running an online business. ... That means all of their interaction is via email, video chat, or cell phone. ...
Introduction From the amazing food, the finest party playlist and fantastic decor, some people are just born with a gift for entertaining others. Of course, the lavishness of a party is often a direct reflection, of a person's budget. If your budget cannot support such an extravagant event, the good...
Tablets, laptops, smart phones, PlayStation, and Xbox, all are part of and contributed to our technology today. Have you ever gone to a family or a friend's get together dinner and everyone was on their cellphone instead of communicating to each other? Have you ever wonder where your kids were or ev...
Consumer research company, Arbitron, has recruited volunteers to wear a special pager 24/7, which allows them to collect data such as how much a person has been exposed to certain technologies or specific programs throughout the day. This not only helps collecting and organizing data much easier, bu...
Introduction Control cannot be defined without first understanding deviance. Deviance may be described as the violation of social rules and norms (Macionis & Gerber, 2010). Social Control is the regulation of deviant behavior to ensure conformity to norms. There are two broad forms of social contro...
Screen time is not just sending and receiving texts, but due to the thousands of applications available on smartphones, people can check their email, connect to Facebook or Twitter, watch a movie, play a game, and read a book just to mention a few. ...
Stats on infographic show that "Among 15-24 year olds, between July 2010 and October 2011, engagement with email and instant messaging fell 22% and 42%, respectively, while social media engagement rose 34%" (Fox, 2012, source9). ...
I remember the first time I heard of a website called MySpace. I was in middle school and a friend of mine asked if I had an account so he could add me. I went home that day and made a MySpace account and added him. I then had a list of suggested friends, and it happened to be a lot of my classmate...
