Introduction. In this experiment the mass of zinc on galvanized iron nails was calculated to determine the appropriate price that should be charged to coat a nail with zinc (galvanize) it. The effectiveness of gasometric and gravimetric analysis were assessed by carrying out both methods mathematically using values determined by this experiment, and then comparing these values using their percent differences. The mass of zinc found on each nail can then be used to determine how much it should cost to galvanize 100 nails considering zinc cost $2.86/kg.…
In the introduction to her book, The “Tethered Self: Technology Reinvents Intimacy and Solitude” (2001), Sherry Turkle, an MIT professor suggest that the online personas have negative effects on the growth of a healthy individual, healthy relationships, and a healthy community. The technology itself and the online personas provide the society a troubling effect.…
However, in realistic, they still feel lonely when they are alone. Individuals do not have virtually connected in the real world and they need to face the truth or problems around them. Thus, it is easily to lose identity and only stay in the fake world. They begin to cater others and change their identities. Individuals increase the virtual intimacy in online world but may get further in the real interpersonal network.…
It is apparent that over the years we have developed in the field of technology and that we still are ever rapidly changing every day. But in this article Pitts is not just saying that technology is changing but Pitts is trying to make the audience understand that technology is not the only one’s changing but the people are because of it also. Pitts is trying to grasp how through technology how can we have mutual loving relationships with someone you have never had interaction with in the real world not virtual physically. Pitts has a completely different definition of a relationship than those who have one online, as described in the article. Pitts explanation for the relationships online apart of the communication revolution. Pitts still does not…
However, as Ansari observes men online are not necessarily lonely and desperate. He illustrates this point using an interview with a man named Derek, a boring nobody. Ansari is astonished as he scrolls past a woman who by every measure is more desirable than Derek for reason such as their taste in sports teams. As he points out this rejection would have never been possible without online dating. If Derek had meet this beautiful women in a bar in the 90’s and actually had a chance with her he would have never turned her away because of something as mundane as the Red Sox.…
To care about a person, one needs to physically be able to touch them and be able to see their face. Talking to someone through the internet is just seeing words on a screen. There is a lack of emotion and care. The use of social media can be referred to as “the blurring of intimacy and solitude.”(Turkle 273) The reason for this is that someone may be talking to another person online therefore they are not alone. But the fact is that they are alone which is where the title “Alone Together” comes from. Just because you are talking to someone on the internet does not excuse the fact that you are alone. “they seem to believe that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend”(Gladwell 138) Texting and social media cannot fill in the space of solitude. Turkle says “people report feeling let down when they move from the virtual world to the real world.”(273) It has come to the point where people do not remember what it is like in the “real world” and go to technology because that is where they feel safe. One should not depend on technology to fill in their void of loneliness. Nothing can overcome face-to-face…
In the essay “Digital Dating: Desperation or Necessity?” author Christine Hassler addresses the stigma held by the younger generation about the use of online dating. Hassler argues that in this age most communications are ruled by technology. She points out that those in their 20s are the generation that founded social websites such as Facebook and MySpace, therefor there should be no stigma surrounding other online resources. Though Hassler cautions to be smart while dating online she believes one should be open to the possibilities it may bring. Online dating allows you to get to know a person without superficial judgments to get in the way. In closing she warns, “be who you are on and off line.”…
In ‘’Dating and relating in the Internet Age,’’ Ted Sawchuck argues that ‘’ each stage of the dating process is influenced by Facebook, on our campus, not all the changes have been positive.’’ He explains that how in the University of Maryland, people get someone’s name; look him or her up on Facebook; and then they use that information to decide how to proceed. Also after using Facebook to check out someone, he decent an idea of whether the person she or he is a probable friend or possible romantic interest. Sawchuck talks about how on Facebook someone can be nervous to talk to someone in real life, but because of Facebook two people can talk online. In which this Facebook send by one person can be drafted and edited and rewritten and shown to friends before sending, than approaching the person in real life, so it does have…
Many may believe that communicating online is a very distinct way of meeting people in their own way. They want to have their own type of comfort zone to prey on people that they don’t even know. In most cases, that’s what happens; they are men that prey on women or little children that they meet online through today’s networks such as Myspace, Facebook, Instant Messaging, and others just like these websites. There are many studies that show interest in Internet Dating and the courtship of dating period. The articles and resources are as follows: 1) The Self- Advertisement Approach to Dating: Male/Female Differences; 2) Attitudes on Dating, Courtship, and Marriage: Perspectives on In Group vs. Out Group Relationships by religious minority and majority adolescents; 3) Redefining Firm Boundaries in the Face of the Internet: Are Firms Really Shrinking?; 4) The Anthropology of Online Communities; 5) Digital Dating and Virtual Relating: Conceptualizing computer Meditated Romantic Relationships; 6) Online Communication and Adolescent Relationships. All are relationship sources which are based on courtship and other ways of communicating towards online dating. But the most part about these sources are the tactics that they speak upon about how dangerous it is to communicate online to someone that you don’t even know. And as follows are the abstract and summaries about each article and the importance it is to know about the history of dating, though the internet was not out much long; there is many cases and dangers of internet dating to go around.…
In this essay I will examine the articles, Digital Dating: Desperation or Necessity? Written by Christine Hassler, a former Hollywood Agent, and the author of the book called Twenty-Something, Twenty-Everything. This article talks about social networks, their impact on both of our social and love life. It tries to convince us to try to experience all the benefits that online dating provides us.…
Computers have been our best friend for rather a long time. Nowadays we seek technology, and we cannot live without it. Our consciousness tries to pull us into it deeper and deeper. The real problem is not that we are not able to escape, but we do not want to escape. The virtual life has made us a very comfortable place to work, play or communicate. We believe that the technology life is real when it is not. Computers are not bad, and they are not going to give us any harm if we will use it in a right direction. The realization of that, unfortunately, has not come to us yet. Technology used in a wrong way is bringing us to fear of sharing feelings in a real life and not having the knowledge of computers. In this essay, I would like to support Sherry Turkle’s views on today’s impact. She is a professor at MIT who has some very interesting ideas and thoughts.…
From the dot.com boom and bust to the creation of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, America today became a society connected by a touch on the keyboard on a computer or from a touch of the screen on a smartphone. The Internet changes the way Americans date and seeks relationships. I found interesting primary sources that give a glimpse into our society today. The first is John Cedrick featuring Tiki Thunder song lyrics, “Internet Love Song” tells a story of how Americans usage of the Internet to communicate with others. The Internet is used by many as a main source to communicate with family, friends and strangers. The lyrics of this song describe a pursuit of love by using technology lingo and catchy abbreviations to tell a love story dedicated to the Internet. The song lyrics begins with, “If I could Google to find a way to help me say that I like you I’d go Yahoo make you my boo within a day or two”. The song lyrics are catchy and fun. The playful lyrics may give the listener an idea that the Internet will help your communications skills with people who matter too you. Also the lyrics describes how Americans usage of the Internet to attract connections and…
Cooper, A. & Sportolari, L. (1997). Romance in Cyberspace: Understanding online attraction. Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, 22, 7-14.…
With online dating no longer considered banned and 65% of adults using social media sites in their daily lives, it was only a matter of time before Cupid hung up his wings and logged onto Facebook. “Social media has completely changed the approach to relationships, replacing roses and candles with tagged photos and flirty status comments. While Aristotle believed love was composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies, the romantics of 2012 would argue that real intimacy would be two souls inhabiting one conjoined Facebook account. “…
At the beginning of her article, Turkles describes a scene of people having coffee in an internet café. Why do people prefer sitting in front of a computer "talking" to someone they have never met rather than going to a real café, sitting and talking with real friends? She later makes a valid point saying that women are actually building a world when they read novel, which suggests that a virtual world is helping people create a dream which can never or hardly come true in real life: "Romance reading becomes a form…