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After food and shelter, our need to belong and feel positively connected to others is arguably the number one predictor of well-being, happiness, health, and even longevity. Trying to connect in this way, though, is actually counterproductive. Here are three ways virtual connection is ruining your real-life relationships.

In the 21st century, social media has completely transformed our face-to-face (verbal) communication experience. Not only does social media create too many distractions between couples, time is generally wasted, which could be better spent towards the relationship.

Instead of deriving pleasure from your experience and the people around you, you seek it from your phone. Your brain's pleasure centers also respond positively to novelty, which social media offers in a constant stream of new interactions, new posts, and new pictures every second.

The article itself was very interesting to see how they wanted to go about in filling these positions and why they needed new recruits. With a company such as Facebook it's no wonder they do need new recruits constantly.

This article gives an insight into the types of roles social media companies like facebook require and how many employees they have.

It's nice how this article highlights the different uses of technology especially the social media for different age groups. It talks about how technology can be positive or negative for teenagers/young adults depending how much they use it. there are extremes on both sides. It was interesting how it mentioned out of all the groups the older adults had the best use for the technology, because if they keep their brain active and keeps on using it it will prevent it from degenerating. Which was quit a surprise for me, because i thought they would have the least use of technology.

Although consumer technology products have led many people to a sedentary lifestyle, technology is actually helping the health industry and revolutionized the way patients are cared for in hospitals around the world, making it more affordable for people to get the care they need.

Communication technology has certainly changed dramatically over the years and continues to do so through social media technological devices and more. This article explains how much communication has changed over the past four decades which has lead to increase business development, without the revolutionary change of technology that has occurred so far business would struggle as these technologies are a way of life and it is key to be able to communicate with clients and other businesses.