Technology can negatively impact society by causing social isolation and increased rates of mental health issues like anxiety and depression. Excessive social media and cell phone use makes people more disconnected from real-life interactions and relationships. Studies show that heavy technology and media use is linked to loneliness, narcissism, antisocial behavior, and internet addiction among youth. While technology allows for constant connectedness, it can replace face-to-face socializing and damage psychological well-being if overused. Moderation is important to balance the benefits of technology with real social interaction.

1. Technology Creates Social
Isolation and Neurosis
Amanda Cook
Social Impact of Technology
Emily Brett

2.  How often have you avoided HOW OFTEN…
someone by quickly checking
your phone or turning on your
IPod to listen to music?
 How often do you stay at home
to watch TV, play video games,
or go on computer rather than
go out with friends?
 How often do you check your
FaceBook page while hanging
out with friends or even at a
party?

3. Today, technology can have a negative affect on any one,
especially the younger generations. This can cause isolation and
neurosis in our society.
Sherry Turkle, a MIT professor and clinical psychologist, says
social networks
“don’t change what we do, they change who we are”
Society has changed in many ways with new inventions that allow
us easier and quicker communication and better time
management in our lives.
GOOD OR BAD?

4. SOCIAL ISOLATION NEUROSIS
The virtual absence of Any of various mental or
interaction with others, emotional disorders involving
outside of that required to symptoms such as
perform basic life functions insecurity, anxiety,
such as the following; depression, and irrational
• School fears.
• Work
• Entertainment
DEFINITIONS

5. Examples of how Technology can cause WHAT
Social Isolation and Neurosis in our CREATES IT?
society;
People today are more
 Media; how we perceive ourselves connected to one
(Magazines, TV, Movies) another than ever
 Social Media; keeping in touch with our before in human
“friends” (Facebook, Twitter)
history. However, they
 Cell Phones; texting instead of actual
are more lonely and
conversions (I Phones, Blackberries)
distant than ever says
 Video Games; Playing online with
Turkle.
“friends” (COD)

6. Teenagers who use Facebook more often show narcissistic tendencies while young
adults who have a strong Facebook presence show more signs of other psychological
disorders, including antisocial behaviors, mania, and aggressive tendencies.
Daily overuse of media and technology has a negative effect on the health of all
children, preteens, and teenagers by making them more prone to anxiety, depression,
and other psychological disorders, as well as by making them more susceptible to
future health problems.
Facebook can be distracting and can negatively impact learning. Studies found that
middle school, high school, and college students who checked Facebook at least once
during a 15-minute study period achieved lower grades.
DOWN SIDE
OF TECHNOLGY

7. McPerson, Smith-Lovin and Brashears of University of Arizona and
Duke found the following;
Social isolation is growing at a high rate in America. A quarter of
Americans say they have no one to discuss personal problems
with, which is more than double the number found in a 1985
study.
Why has this problem
increased?
• Vast New Technology?
• Naïve?
• Lack of Social Interactions?
STUDY - isolation

8. Dr. Block found that addiction can be identified as causing
compulsive-impulsive disorders
 Checking e-mails constantly
 Thinking your phone is vibrating
South Korea has a serious health problem due to internet
addiction. According to The New York time,
“Up to 30% of South Koreans under 18, or about 2.4
million people, are at risk of Internet Addiction”
STUDY – addiction

9. Simone Back, a Brighton, U.K. women, announced her suicide on her
facebook status. None of her more than 1000 “friends” contacted her
from her posting. Many simply argued with one another on her wall if it
was legitimate and whether or not she had the freedom of choice to kill
herself.
This story shows how many friends
people actually have and is sad to
see society behave in this manner.
How many friends on your own
FaceBook do you consider actual friends?
FACEBOOK “FRIENDS”

10. Common examples of people isolating themselves with the use
of Technology.
 People on the phone during dinner (parents & kids)
 Group of kids walking to school listening to their IPods
 Texting and checking e-mails during class or at work
People need to re-learn how to communicate with others such as
in the previous examples. General life situations like those
shouldn’t be taking advantage of while people could be gaining
better relationships with others and themselves.

11. “Technology is the knack of so
arranging the world so that we don't
have to experience it.”
 Max Frisch
QUOTE

12. I do not believe technology is necessarily the problem, however I think
people need to figure out and control their technology intake and usage.
We need to be able to maintain actual relationships with others but still
enjoy the benefits of new technology. By simply putting our phones away,
turning the computer off, or putting down the remote, we could gain
better lifestyles by spending time with the people around us. This could
ultimately help reduce social isolation and neurosis in our society.
IN CONCLUSION

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