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Technology can bring people together and bring them apart, but social media specifically, has a stronger force of driving people apart.
(Padlet Images)

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"Social to me means talking to you about things like this... Or talking how strange the world is... I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk...". (Bradbury 27)
During a conversation between Montag and Clarisse, Clarisse briefly explains how she thinks that people during their time period in the novel don't communicate the way they "used" to long ago. With the advancements in technology, the people in the novel don't sit down together and talk but just gather together.

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"...the ways we act in real life versus the ways we act online are often two very different things ... what we see online is mostly artificial.... social media is supposed to be about being able to connect with more people, in reality, it’s only driving us further apart". (Searcy)

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New study shows negative impacts of social media on teenagers

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A new study found teenagers who use social media more than five hours a day saw between a 35 and 50 percent spike in depression symptoms.

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"There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure sure carried the trick..." (Bradbury 55)
In the book, the people are distant with each other and rely heavily on technology for their basic everyday lives. Captain Beatty claims the media and not the government, caused the restrain of information to the people.

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"...Because of social media students lose their ability to engage themselves for face to face communication".
(Siddiqui, Singh)
Through research Professors Siddiqui and Singh were able to find that with the usage of social media, students specifically, begin to show a lack in face to face communication.

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"...Internet use is positively correlated with depression, loneliness, and stress..." (Shaw, Gant)
The usage of social media and its messages of having a specific body type and way living affects people's emotions about themselves and their self esteem.

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Social media is a way for people all across the world to communicate and speak to each other. With the advancements of technology, people that do not even speak the same language can communicate through online translations. It can also be used to give voices to people that usually are not given a platform to speak their minds. But, with the abuse of the usage of social media, people will get addicted and spend too much time out of their day to us it. Not only will it take away time from more important matters, if given access to the wrong group of people, it power of giving a voice can be used for negative matters like violence and propaganda.

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"Keeping in touch is no longer about face to face, but instead screen to screen, highlighted by the fact that more than 1 billion people are using Facebook every day". (CNN, East)
Social media causes people to no longer use communication skills and drives them apart.

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https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/12/health/social-media-brain/index.html

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/social-media-is-tearing-us-apart

https://www.coursehero.com/file/35124576/Social-Media-its-Impact-with-Positive-and-Negativedocx/

https://www.google.com/search?q=phone+distraction&safe=strict&rlz=1C1GCEV_enUS822US824&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-wb6M3e3gAhUSnFkKHXUKC-YQ_AUIDigB&biw=1366&bih=657#imgrc=2Pwv-yfXfSWs9M:

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/109493102753770552

https://www.google.com/search?q=addicted+to+social+media&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiyn5f05fDgAhWJd98KHRv_DNwQ_AUIDigB&biw=869&bih=647#imgrc=IUHLKo-KNZFRcM: