1. Social media, mobile
phone, and our lonely lives
Social media and mobile phones increase people’s loneliness, dependence, and exposure of privacy
Photocred: Dobbs Ferry (istockphoto)
By: Helen
Wu

2. The connection between
social media and smart phones
Photocred: Jennifer Conley (Flikr)

3. To use your social networks to their full
potential, you need to access them from your
phone so you can share your favorite moments as
they happen
Photocred: Karly Domb Sadof

4. "The idea that I have to monitor my Twitter
account, email, Facebook, cellphone and land line
…is TOO MUCH." – Sherry Turkle

5. Dependence on social media, the
need of our online connection
Photocred: Ara Bedrossian

6. A Facebook page or a Twitter feed each
provides so many a u t o m a t i c listeners

7. Instead of going out and meeting actual human
beings with whom we can develop a
relationship, we spend time chatting online with
people we barely know
Photocred: Erom Kpmasspm

8. It is as though we use [people we meet
online], need them as spare parts to support
our increasingly fragile selves.
Photocred: Rachel Souza

9. Studies have shown that the comments on your
Facebook profile picture strongly affect your
level of perceived attractiveness
Photocred: John Souza

10. One of the differences between our self-image in real
life and online is more ability to change our look, and
also m a s k our identity.
Photocred: Dove Beauty Campaign

11. Dependence on smart phones
Photocred: Miso soup design
Alone yet connected

12. We are together, but each of us is in our own
bubble, furiously connected to keyboards and tiny touch
screens

13. If we are unable to be alone,
we are far more likely to be lonely.
Photocred: Andreas JD (Deviantart)

14. “Someday,
but certainly not now,
I’d like to learn how to
have
a conversation.”
-a 16 year-old boy
Photocred: odeku03 (Flikr)

15. “The occasional day where my phone isn't
charged or I leave it behind, it feels almost as
though I'm naked in public.”
– Michael Weller, a senior at New Trier High School
Photocred: Paul Mood

16. Young ppl are so addicted to their mobile phones
they feel like they’ve lost a limb without them
Photocred: Seanyboy (Wordpress)

17. Technology has created a situation where we are
treating each other as though we were stalkers.
Photocred: Stephen King (Flikr)a

18. The c o n s e q u e n c e s of dependence –
power of the companies that hold our
information
Photocred: NatUlrich (Shutterstock Images)

19. “There are no pictures of my two young kids on
the Internet, because I don’t want to lose control of
the images. It’s a permanent record.” – Barss
Photocred: Lao An (Flikr)

20. “Their (online user’s) data are not only being
archived but also analyzed and scored.” – Fertik
Photocred: Baris Simsek (iphotostock)

21. [with Facebook Home], Facebook is going to be able to
track your every move, and Every Little Action
Photocred: Hustvedt (Wikimedia)

22. Everything you do and say on Facebook
can be used to serve you ads
Photocred: Prashant

23. Google asserts the right to combine all the
information it can obtain from any
sources, including those never authorized by the
provider
Photocred: R.G. Daniel

24. The world seen through Google’s
omnipresent eyes (from Google glass)
Photocred: Paul Wagenseil

25. Credit
All images are licensed under the Creative Commons
Non-Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 agreement and
sourced from various image hosting websites such as
Flikr, Wikimedia, Shutterstock images, Getty
images, and iStockPhoto

26. References
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-k-clemons/google-privacy-case_b_1522874.html
• http://techland.time.com/2013/05/02/the-real-privacy-implications-of-google-
glass/#ixzz2TOgv5IMl
• http://mktg-matters.blogspot.ca/2013/01/facebook-privacy-changes.html
• http://gigaom.com/2013/04/04/why-facebook-home-bothers-me-it-destroys-any-notion-of-
privacy/
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-wygant/how-do-the-internet-and-i_b_651832.html
• http://www.pcworld.com/article/2030662/why-smartphones-are-the-rightful-kings-of-social-
media.html
• http://www.forbes.com/sites/jondube/2012/05/08/why-smartphones-are-the-future-of-
social-networking/
• http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304708604577502672286303452.html
• http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-
conversation.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
• http://mashable.com/2013/02/15/social-media-and-the-selfie/
• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/9714616/Mobile-phone-addiction-ruining-
relationships.html
• http://www.ctvnews.ca/more-youth-use-smartphones-to-log-online-u-s-report-
1.1193559#ixzz2Qnxqu5cd