Slide Presentation

OUTLINE About 38 Slides, maybe a slide for each bullet point
Intro

1. "What, do you live in the wilderness or something?" Me not being on Facebook was not part of some kind of Walden pipe dream, where I was this high and mighty intellectual who could forgo the hustle and bustle of modern life.
2. But just like Uncle Ben in Spiderman says, "with great power comes great responsibility." We need to cultivate healthy ways to use technology, and just like we have accepted animals in to our greater global community, so too should be embrace technology.
3. An article in the Scientific American states that “...obviously, having access to more relevant information – such as knowing where the food is located - allows animals to make better decisions.
4. It helps me and millions of others reach audiences around the world and support causes and meet people who share the same views or the exact opposite ones and these people can be engaged in an ongoing global conversation.
5. The process was slow, and it wasn’t until I caught myself wasting away mindlessly on the site, having been awake, unmoving, in bed for at least two and a half hours, having accomplished nothing.
6. Furthermore, having access to such information might give us better control over our environment, thus increasing our chances of survival” (Lane).
7. I didn’t get Facebook, but I told myself and several friends I would officially join the club on the first day of 2015.
8. I enjoy the hectic nature of modern life and find beauty in its chaos so that was not the reason.

Language aspects 

Emojis 

1. Similar to the ideas of Novak and cyberspace, researchers in the field of experimental phonetics will visualize the affect of language in the physical world, and the physical dimensions of speech.
2. The study of experimental phonetics, as described by the Encyclopedia Britannica, is the study of language as it applies to physics, phycology, philosophy, ext.
3. The New York Times published an article that compared emojis to a "pictorial alphabet." In fact in Japan, emojis are used like characters in Eastern languages and hieroglyphics.
4. The element of language and communication, separate from poor empathetic results, had very positive findings on my end.
5. What is on the rise is a pure and pragmatic way of talking, a more purely emotional way that has the ability to encapsulate more emotional connotations than language.
6. For instance, in Japan, a knife, a fork, a question mark, and a smiley face can equal a dinner invitation.
7. Experiments have shown that a listener need to attend to only a part of the information presented to him in order to understand it" (Britannica).

Communication  

1. Our social media life gives us a control we lack in our real lives, and its this control I think we are addicted to as well.
2. And could you not have simply asked Johnny these questions himself? Our evolutionary traits have driven us to desire sociability, but our social traits have made us more introspective and cut off because of the advent of Social Media.
3. Facebook gives you the ability to edit your life, to snip out the bits that don’t fit your framing of your life, or the life you wish to present to others.
4. It goes without saying a very large chunk of our lives are conducted on social media.
5. Its no wonder then that we are finding ourselves constantly seeking information like “What has Johnny been up to? Oh he went to Cancun? What did he do there?” and before you know it you’ve been sucked in to a whirlwind of mostly useless information.
6. We have our life, then we have our social media life.
7. Have you ever seen a place like New York in a movie, and upon visiting it you are disappointed because it did not look like it did in the movie? Its the framing of the image that endows it with a point of view.

Empathetic Aspects 

1. The thing that Facebook is attempting to do is to deliver a very human experience, social interaction, through a medium of technology.
2. Currently a major issue with the media is not the interface, but the fact that it is controlled by so-called "brand ambassadors." These people seek to make a profit from monitoring the things that you search for.
3. However, as the Huffington Post article "The Human Connection in the Digital World" states, "no one would care for content that doesn't resonate with their being"(Chan).
4. If we are thinking in the realm of technology as an extension of our senses, or something that we are placing our intelligence on, we are attempting to make machines more human like.
5. I think the most negative thing I have found in my research and experimentation has been a large lack of empathy due to social media.
6. The illusion of a Facebook group is that it is a means of connection, but in fact it furthers isolation by creating and us & them situation.
7. This cooperate control seems like brainwashing to me, creating a large amount of conformity and designation in to groups.
8. While this is true, and I'm not one to delusionally fight the current, I can't help but feeling what resonates with most people is pretty vapid.

Physical

Media and laziness 

Physical standards 

1. In media, and especially on social media, it is common to body shame, but even more prevalent to to give this hollow praise.
2. So when I'm not on social media, it is significantly easier for me to have a positive body image and excursive for me and no one else.
3. My physical appearance has changed in relation to my use to social media.
4. But back to the main question I'm still trying to answer, is it because of my own nature, or because of the medias affect on my life.
5. So needless to say when you see your friends looking good and fit you would want to join the club.
6. Every photo a girl I know posts tends to have at a very minimum 5-6 "OMG GORGE!" or something to that effect.

Conclusion 

1. But just like Uncle Ben in Spiderman says, "with great power comes great responsibility." We need to cultivate healthy ways to use technology, and just like we have accepted animals in to our greater global community, so too should be embrace technology.
2. It helps me and millions of others reach audiences around the world and support causes and meet people who share the same views or the exact opposite ones and these people can be engaged in an ongoing global conversation.