According to Macmillan Dictionary Social Life is defined as the time that you spend enjoying yourself with friends; the opportunities to do enjoyable things that exist in a particular place. That is what each person should have to feel valuable.
From the time information technology found its way in our lives, the questions and discussions about its effectiveness, advantages and disadvantages were covered by different research centers and surveys.
The results vary from survey to survey according its chronology. I came across one of the latest reports on this issue. Seems 2006 study argued that since 1985 Americans have become more socially isolated as it appeared that Americans have fewer close ties to those from their neighborhoods and from voluntary associations. According to the Social Isolation and New Technology, sociologists Miller McPherson, Lynn Smith-Lovin and Matthew Brashears suggest that new technologies, such as the internet and mobile phones, may play a role in advancing this trend.
As admitted on Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community survey results show that Americans are not as isolated as has been previously reported. People's use of the mobile phone and the internet is associated with larger and more diverse discussion networks. That is concluded on the basis of people's full personal network -- their strong and weak ties -- internet use in general, and use of social networking services such as Facebook in particular, are associated with more diverse social networks.
The Personal Networks and Community Survey results are based on telephone interviews of 2,512 adults living in households in the continental United States.
The survey covered the following questions:
• Is Internet or Mobile Phone Use Related to Smaller or Less Diverse Core Networks?
• Is Internet Use Leading to Less Face-to-Face Contact with our Closest Social Ties or with Local Social Ties?
• Are Core Network Members Also our "Friends" on Social Networking Services such as Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn?
• Is Internet Use Related to Less Interaction with Neighbors or Lower Levels of Participation in Local Voluntary Associations?
• Is Internet Use Associated With "Cocooning," or a Withdrawal from Public and Semipublic Spaces?
• Are Internet and Mobile Phone Use Associated with More or Less Diverse Personal Networks?
So we can feel free to be involved in information technology sphere, expand real opportunities through virtual one, and take maximum of the industry that provides all the comfort to people would it be saving time, technical support or future expectation of unlimited capabilities that information technology has.
Sources:
http://cut.io/iK69
http://cut.io/htPV
http://cut.io/xAO3
From the time information technology found its way in our lives, the questions and discussions about its effectiveness, advantages and disadvantages were covered by different research centers and surveys.
The results vary from survey to survey according its chronology. I came across one of the latest reports on this issue. Seems 2006 study argued that since 1985 Americans have become more socially isolated as it appeared that Americans have fewer close ties to those from their neighborhoods and from voluntary associations. According to the Social Isolation and New Technology, sociologists Miller McPherson, Lynn Smith-Lovin and Matthew Brashears suggest that new technologies, such as the internet and mobile phones, may play a role in advancing this trend.
As admitted on Pew Internet Personal Networks and Community survey results show that Americans are not as isolated as has been previously reported. People's use of the mobile phone and the internet is associated with larger and more diverse discussion networks. That is concluded on the basis of people's full personal network -- their strong and weak ties -- internet use in general, and use of social networking services such as Facebook in particular, are associated with more diverse social networks.
The Personal Networks and Community Survey results are based on telephone interviews of 2,512 adults living in households in the continental United States.
The survey covered the following questions:
• Is Internet or Mobile Phone Use Related to Smaller or Less Diverse Core Networks?
• Is Internet Use Leading to Less Face-to-Face Contact with our Closest Social Ties or with Local Social Ties?
• Are Core Network Members Also our "Friends" on Social Networking Services such as Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn?
• Is Internet Use Related to Less Interaction with Neighbors or Lower Levels of Participation in Local Voluntary Associations?
• Is Internet Use Associated With "Cocooning," or a Withdrawal from Public and Semipublic Spaces?
• Are Internet and Mobile Phone Use Associated with More or Less Diverse Personal Networks?
So we can feel free to be involved in information technology sphere, expand real opportunities through virtual one, and take maximum of the industry that provides all the comfort to people would it be saving time, technical support or future expectation of unlimited capabilities that information technology has.
Sources:
http://cut.io/iK69
http://cut.io/htPV
http://cut.io/xAO3
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