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It states in the article researchers have found which times people are the happiest, and which times people are more likely to be sad: "Mislove and Lehamann found that people are happiest on Sunday mornings and saddest on Thursday evenings. They also found the following mood pattern each day: 6:00-7:00 am: Happy Tweets 12:00-4:00 pm: Sad Tweets Evening: Happy Tweets "

This article talks about how the internet is rearranging our brains to think in different ways.

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.

We might think that we are refreshing ourselves, but it is making us more fatigued.

Article about the consequences of being connected at all times

article from the new york times that talks about how college experiences is changing.

thanks man that really helped very good article

How badly technology and the internet has affected us as people over time.

effects of technology

I was on Ayeshah's blog where she posted the following video: A Vision of Students Today It is indeed something to think about. Too Much Information As the video tells us, we 'browse' through so much information, it is almost impossible to keep up.

I think its true that there is too much information on the internet for us to keep up so we end up spending more and more time on the internet. This relates to my topic since my topic is about how technology can be bad for us and some of the problems it causes.

I believe this is a very accurate article. Technology has been progressively taking over our lives and it is continuing to get worse. The start of it really shows that this is a true statement. Having these tests shown as examples gives the reader a better understanding of the topic of the article.

I like this article because it talks about how much technology is taking over. What jumped out at me the most was how it said that a study showed that people spend more time on the computer than with there significant other. This can go with my topic that is talking about how communication is changing because of technology and this is one big example for it.

Alright folks this is a HUGE database of almost every statistic that one can think of. It is really quite fascinating to browse these charts. There are statistics on work injuries, product prices, unemployment figures, maps, stats on how people spend their time and just about everything else. Each stat is broken down into genders, demographics, ect. Massive source for RAW numbers about people.