User:Scooby7829/Psychological effects of Internet use

Effects of social networking and behavior[edit]
Evgeny Morozov has said that social networking could be potentially harmful to people. He writes that they can destroy privacy, and notes that "Insurance companies have accessed their patients’ Facebook accounts to try to disprove they have hard-to-verify health problems like depression; employers have checked social networking sites to vet future employees; university authorities have searched the web for photos of their students’ drinking or smoking pot." He also said that the Internet also makes people more complacent and risk averse. He said that because much of the ubiquity of modern technology—cameras, recorders, and such—people may not want to act in unusual ways for fear of getting a bad name. People can see pictures and videos of you on the Internet, and this may make you act differently.

Social Effects of Internet use on users

According to Hussain and other authors in this article, face to face interactions are being replaced with the usage of social media networks and cell phone conversations. The article talks about how young teens have choose to constantly text or communicate over email instead of having a physical interaction with one another. The authors go on to say that real communication among society have decreased dramatically and have also decreased among people that are living together. In this sense the authors feel as though yes, they are being connected technologically but it is leading to an unintended factor of them being isolated physically. Teens over usage of social media is integrating a huge impact on their social life. Talking or texting via social media is beginning to become second nature to them.

The increase in technology has created an increase in questions about emotions of its users. Malin weaves together the history of America technology, and emotion expression through technology. The user’s emotional expression is strongly attached to the powerful effect of mass media. With the increase of this technology increase brings hope for the new ability to create global communities across the world. The fear also sets in because of the anxieties of social isolation with this increase in media technology. Investigation shows that media technologies interfere with both its users’ emotional lives and how the user’s ideas about intersections influence how they think and what they think about their experience. Malin explores historical roots about how the users understanding relied on various forms of contemporary thinking gained through technology and social media platforms.