Kevin Ruiz

Barnes S. (2006). A privacy paradox: Social networking in the United States.

Chicago. First Monday
This article is about what teenagers post in social media. Teens use social media as a way
to communicate with others and to meet new people but little do they know that posting
their information can have serious issues. Teens posting their information on social
media can attract sexual predators and many cases have been found in which the predator
knew its victim by social media. Parents often have no idea what their sons are posting in
social media and therefore a new type of communication behavior has arisen from parents
to their kids.
Gross E. (2004). Journal of applied developmental psychology. (227-240)
Los Angeles. Ablex Publishing Corporation
This Book is about a research which was done in teens to see their internet use content,
based on what researchers expected and what they reported. Internet usage over the last
decade has had an exponential growth to our everyday lives, for adolescents the internet
usage varies. Many predictions included those of which boys use the internet to play
violent online games and surfing the web, for girls the prediction included shopping
online and chatting. While the use of internet may cause adolescence isolation and
depression based on the predictions, the results contained a different expectation of that
which researchers based their hypothesis. Teens reported that the purpose of their internet

usage varies from online messaging with their close friends as well as people who
surround them and their topics were mainly ordinary and some said their topics were
intimate.
Morin M. (2013). Is your smartphone making you fat and lazy?
Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times.
This article is about Smartphones and how they pursue us wherever we are and we are
being controlled by them and their functions. "While cell phones provide many of the
same temptations as television and Internet connected computers, the difference is that
cell phones fit in our pockets and purses and are with us wherever we go," wrote the Kent
State University researchers. Being that the size of cellphones and tablets may be easier
to handle than computers for some it may benefit them for example people who go take
walk and listen to music but for others it is affecting them by wasting time checking
social media instead of doing exercise . Smartphones and tablets have a big impact in
connecting people and learning new things but is having a negative impact on activity
level.

Mossberg W. (2014). Personal tech takes center stage in our lives. Englewood Cliffs, New
Jersey. CNBC
This article is arguing how 10 years ago you could do pretty well without a computer and
how now we can hardly imagine a world without a computer or a smartphone.
Technology nowadays is rapidly changing and evolving exponentially, people you know

or may know can be clicks away and anybody can broadcast or have a channel informing
audience about their service. Technology is being really helpful at the time but is it
affecting our lives? Writer Walt Mossberg said I don't know what else will be common
when CNBC is 50, but I am confident that the ingenuity of designers, dreamers and
engineers will make 2039 as unrecognizable to its audience then as 1989 seems today.
Nuwer R. (2015). Will machines eventually take on every job. Chicago. BBC
This article is talking about how machines and technology may someday take over
humans jobs and emphasizing which jobs are currently on the run for being taken away
by machines which include truck drivers. According to Nuwer R (2015). Technological
breakthroughs endanger up to 47% of total employment in the US which is a big a twoside point of view because owners of companies spend less money on workers and are
assuring a well done job and workers are being affected by this because a robot may take
away their job. But that is the question, will humans prefer a job done by a computer or
by a human being, people may prefer to be driven by a taxi or be served food by a
waitress than having everything done by computers and therefore becoming more useless.
Rotman D. (2013). How technology is destroying jobs. Massachusetts. - MIT Technology
Review Magazine
This article is about how automation, robots, and software are endangering the work labor
of humans. Rotman is stating that Economic theory and government policy will have to
be rethought if technology is indeed destroying jobs faster than it is creating new ones.

Rotman is arguing that there is a chart which collects data and inputs productivity and
total employment, in World War II the chart was pretty similar because more jobs were
needed and more productivity was done, but in the past few years the two charts have
become distinct since productivity is rising but total employment is decreasing.
Soong J. (2008). When technology addiction takes over your life. New York. WebMD.
This article is about addiction over technology and provides some examples as to how
evade being a prey of technology. According to Soong (2008), We are now more wired
than ever. Researchers from the University of Glasgow found that half of the study
participants reported checking their email once an hour, while some individuals check up
to 30 to 40 times an hour. An AOL study revealed that 59 percent of PDA users check
every single time an email arrives and 83 percent check email every day on vacation.
The article suggest some examples as to how stop being so addicted to your phone and
technology, some examples include leaving your cellphone one day at your house, or
setting a not-to-do list which includes times when you cant check your messages and
times when you can, and also to learn to moderate yourself because as Jennifer Soong
states some technology is good but too much is really bad.