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Talks about how some teens hide behind texting and other social media and how it makes face to face communication uncomfortable

Depiction of how face to face communication has been reduced in the work place

This article focuses on how parenting and interaction has changed due to technology.

This article is description of the average teen

My topic is, Is technology making us lazy? This article can relate to my topic because it talks about how relationships are being ruined by social networking. If people are relying on social networking systems to maintain their relationships, that is laziness. These social networking cites are making people lazy because people feel like they do not need to have face to face interactions anymore. Soon, people will be spending their whole day on their laptops and cell phones and will only communicate with people through technology. This will cause people to become lazy.

I think this article shows us how generalized the word "friend" has become

This article is basically saying that relationships are being affected by technology. It brings up the point that if we have 1000 friends on Facebook how many of those friends are we actually keeping in contact with. Another point is that the more time we spend on social networking sites the less time we spend socializing face-to-face.

Sometimes Social networking makes it hard for us to understand who our real friends are. I think most of us are past having an exponential amount of friends but we certainly are obsessed with how we project ourselves on the internet. It's hard for us to maintain relationships or meet people online without questioning the realness of it.

This article outlines the positives and negatives of communication through technology

Research and analysis of the link between social anxiety and communication between people through technology

This article is about the physicality of unfriending someone and what Facebook takes away from the process

I chose this article because I thought that it might help a lot of people with their research. This article discusses all of the issues that have been faced with technology and a lot of people are researching different problems with technology.