In the article, “I Had a Nice Time With You Tonight. On the App,” written by Jenna Wortham from The New York Times, she talks about how social media and other applications affect people in relationships. Many people believe that technology and dating apps let individuals feel closer to one another even if they are thousands of miles apart. Others, however, believe that interaction through phones is causing relationships and meeting people to be not as genuine. Even though Wortham has evidence that technology hinders relationships, she believes that applications can help individuals feel closer to each other. In Wortham’s article, she is trying to demonstrate how technology can help with relationships, especially long distant ones. The recurrence of the words “applications,” “communication,” and “relationships” give us prime examples. The author uses the word, “application” in many different forms, some more specific than others. An application is something you download onto a device that can allow you to communicate with people from all over the world. Facebook, Twitter, FaceTime, and even apps like Tinder are all good examples. Texting is another form of an application. Apps let us connect with people from all over at any given moment. Communication plays a huge part in any relationship, …show more content…
“Habits in relationships,” “build their relationship,” “strengthen a relationship,” are all examples of how Wortham uses it to show the importance of technology between two people. Many couples work different hours, which could lead to them not seeing as often as they would like or need. Technology is an excellent way to keep in touch with people, whether that be your significant other or a distant family member. Building and stabilizing a relationship can be difficult face-to-face, imagine trying to do so when you live two hours apart. Technology lets couples regularly speak on everyday
Wortham makes this clear throughout the entirety of the article. "We are now in constant communication with our friends, coworkers and families over the course of the day. These interactions can help us feel physically close, even if they happen through a screen" (Wortham 394). This constant communication allows for people to remain close with friends and family, even if there is a substantial distance between each other. It is at this moment when Wortham appeals to the reader’s emotional side and draws their attention. This method of communication is far more casual than that of an email or phone call, which allows for people to feel more comfortable (Wortham 394). Upon reading this statement, readers feel as if they are being sold this idea of dating apps and other social media tools. Is this an article about the positive and negative effects of communication via social media, or an article persuading the audience to use these dating
In the21st century, Amazing changes in communication has affected interpersonal relationships. Some prefer to use technology like Facebook, Line, and Wechat to communicate with their friends rather than talking in person. Communicating with technology will make them alienated. Interpersonal relationships are also important by personal talking, which may lead to improve relationships. In her essay, “Connectivity and Its Discontents”, Sherry Turkle believes technology weakens interpersonal relationship among friends, and relatives. In “Mother Tongue”, Amy Tan claims talking with her mother and husband in a personal way can improves their relationship. Using technology to communicate will alienate and widen the distance between friends; talking
This is in contrast to Turkle who talks about how it is ruining our communication skills, Wortham states that technology is doing just the opposite and bettering our connections with others. Wortham, even though her article is a bit shorter than Turkle’s, still is able to get across the idea that without the technology that we have today she wouldn’t be able to have the relationship she has with her boyfriend. This goes for everyone who is in a long distance relationship, or those who are far away from their families. The use of video chats, texting, and calling improves communication for those who we can’t see on a daily basis. Wortham believes that without these options of technology she would not still be in the relationship with her current boyfriend, or if she was in the relationship still they would not be as close as they are with the use of the video chat dates they have. As it says in her article “we chatted…before bidding each other good night.” (Wortham 393). This may seem like a common thing for couples to do but “we did all of this despite living more than 3,000 miles apart” (Wortham 393). They were only able to do such a task do “to smartphone applications and services” (Wortham 393). As one could see Wortham is for the use of technology, and communication over electronic
In the article “The Rule of Thumbs” Moore discusses the use of text messages in a romantic relationship. Also, she points out the negative effects that the new generation of technology has had on today 's relationships and she clearly gives her thoughts on how technology interferes with today 's relationships, with the consequences that technology is slowly killing romance. This essay expresses many strong points about the use of texting and I lean towards Natalie Moore’s opinion because texting has strongly changed the way we communicate, unite, and become literate. After all, while analyzing the role that text messaging demonstrates for communication today, it has open four main arguable points that if it is discussed it would be easy to realize that texting is a hard issue overcome. In other words, texting not only has become part of our life today and it has reduced face to face interaction, but also texting has destroyed dating and the way people write or communicate to one
In Jenna Wortham's article "I Had A Nice Time With You Tonight. On The App.", she argues that today's technology is a great way to keep our long and short distance relationships stable, I disagree. Though technology is a great way to stay in contact with our loved ones, it can ultimately make people forget how to interact face to face and ruin our relationships. "Using an application in place of real-world,face-to-face interactions is have a detrimental effect on how we prioritize offline communication and, potentially, on our ability to interact even when we aren't relying on technology as a mediator."
In Jenna Wortham writing “ I Had a Nice Time with you Tonight” she writes that all her conversations have mature over the use of her phone. Even through a screen, using your phone can help you feel physically close with someone. Unlike writing emails and being formal with your writing,
Our knowledge and use of technology is expanding larger and larger each day and we are learning how to fit large computing capabilities in smaller and smaller devices. Hinman notices this boom in technology and knows that its power is great, and many of us don’t know how it has impacted our lives in such a great amount (Hinman 466). In our everyday lives we have relationship with computers all over and it seems impossible to not use computing devices in our everyday lives. Hinman believes that the computer world has great benefits to make our lives easier, such as easy online shopping, and the possibility of computer guided driving. He even realized their impacts on relationships are becoming digitalized and we are creating completely computer based relationships (Hinman 467-469). Although with all the good, there are concerns with...
Technology has advanced immensely in the last 50 years. We are living in the digital age where technology and social media have become a part of our everyday routine. Majority of the nation owns a cell phone equipped with the ability to text. Since technology has become a very convenient way of communication, it has even managed to change human interactions and become apart of relationships. Texting limits relationships because its simply impossible to express emotion the way you can in person. Physically communicating and connecting with a person will never compare to texting or any social media.
In the essay, “Relationships and Technology,” by Joseph A. DeVito, he wrote about the advantages and disadvantages of online dating and its effects. Technology has made an enormous effect on our relationships, both physically and mentally. Some argue, our mental obsession with technology has become so dire in order to interact with others. While on the other hand people argue these improvements have only physically enlarged our communication with others and improved our lives. There is no denying the growth of technology has gotten extremely big, and it now plays an important role in our daily lives.
Jenna Wortham, the author of “I Had a Nice Time with You Tonight On the App” writes an article on how Social media can help long distance relationships. Both Jenna Wortham and Malcolm Gladwell agree that social media is not the same as a face to face interaction. Where they are different is, Jenna Wortham believes that social interactions through a screen is like an appetizer to a fact to face interaction, where Malcolm Gladwell argues that face to face communication is key to high-risk activism because it creates strong ties to each other and the
People have the fundamental desire to maintain strong connections with others. Through logic and reasoning, Sherry states, “But what do we have, now that we have what we say we want, now that we have what technology makes easy?”(Turkle). Face to face conversations are now mundane because of the accessibility to interact at our fingertips, at free will through text, phone calls and social media. Belonging, the very essence of a relationship has now become trivial.
Technology can also have a positive impact on relationships. Texting and calling one another can help with making arrangements and quick conversations. Psychology Today states that “texters have some time to think and carefully craft clever messages” (DiDonato). It can help people who need more time to think about what they need to say in response to something. Social media is used everyday in today’s society. Not just teenagers, but adults can use it just as much. If someone is having a hard time meeting people, they might use an online dating website. Dating websites help someone find a similar person to go on a date with based on their interests. An article from Pewresearch explains how even though people might find it hard to believe that online dating sites could be effective, “23% of Americans agree with the statement that “people who use online dating sites are desperate”—but in general it is much more culturally acceptable than it was a decade ago” (Smith). Dating sites can be useful only if the two people agree to go on a few dates in person and get to know each other compared to people who rely the internet and texting as a source of their
In fact, it seems that countless individuals think that looking at someone’s post will automatically make up for a conversation but in reality, it can’t. Face to face contact is the only thing known to improve human emotion and strengthen personal connections with others. Simply just looking at someone’s photo, does not make others closer to a person because it does not strengthen any relationships. It is fair to say that it only adds to the false connection. In addition, long distance relationships are an example of the difficulties of this false connection. Texting your significant other does not exceed actually seeing them face to face. People can’t gain strong relationships through social media so the “connection” that it is supposed to produce is insignificant in becoming closer to a person. Therefore making the applications less effective because now all that they contribute is news, which can often be false
Advances in technology have complicated the way in which people are connecting with others around them and how it separates people from reality. In “Virtual Love” by Meghan Daum, she illustrates through the narrator 's point of view how a virtual relationship of communicating through emails and text messages can mislead a person into thinking that they actually have a bond with a person whom they have stuck their ideals onto and how the physical worlds stands as an obstacle in front of their relationship when the couple finally meets. In comparison, the article … While Daum and X discuss that technology pushes us apart and disconnects us from the physical world, they evoke a new light into explaining how technology creates the illusion of making
In the article “Negative Effects of Social Media” Ashlie Brooke Kincel states, “people begin focusing so much of their time on their relationships on social media networks that [it has] become difficult to distinguish between our real life relationships,” meaning that those who put more effort into communicating electronically can eventually be seen as neglecting their “real” relationship with someone close and it can one day become awkward or be as emotional connected as it once was. This can happen because writing through social media apps lacks body language, facial expressions, tonality and even physical contact, preventing a healthy and normal conversation. When using social media apps, people use fewer words to communicate because it is fast and it gets straight to the point. In the 2013 issue of newspaper magazine Social Work Today, the article “Social Media and Interpersonal Communication,” by Maura Keller states, “our interactions on social media tend to be weak ties—that is, we don’t feel as personally connected to the people at the other end of our communication as we do when we’re face-to-face.” Here, Keller tries to explain how communicating through social media apps does not carry the same meaning of building a social relationship as talking to someone physically because a strong connection between the people is not being made. Therefore, social media is causing an antisocial epidemic amongst the younger and older generations who tend to constantly use and rely on social media apps as a form of daily communication with family and