Pulled from Our Biological Roots - Social Media

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It is truly amazing when someone is able to communicate almost instantaneously with another person halfway around the world through Facebook or Snapchat. While Social Media is seen and presented as a modern day innovation that can connect people and bring them closer together, is can cause a greater deal of harm then we realize. As it connects us with other people through a screen, we are too preoccupied to realize it is pulling us away from our natural environment we were created to live in touch with. When we are pulled away from our natural environment it causes mental illness along with physical harm. As social media continues to grow and flourish in society, people’s connection with nature withers and dies.

Bibliography

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Gives emotional aspects and effects of social media

Hoopes's, Aaron. "Unplugged From Nature." Wandering Sage Wisdom. Last modified April 20, 2012. Accessed October 24, 2015. http://www.wanderingsagewisdom.blogspot.ca/2012/04/unplugged-from-nature.html.

Focuses on the affects of disconnecting from nature

Louv, Richard. Last Child in the Woods. Chapel Hill, USA: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008.

Provides quotes and useful writing ideas

Omede, Orbosa. "The Social Disconnect of Social Media." The John Jay Sentinel. Last modified May 23, 2014. http://johnjaysentinel.com/2014/05/23/the-social-disconnect-of-social-media/.

Provides useful statistics

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Provides strong philosophical ideas to help create thesis and arguments

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Explains the disorder that can be used for arguments

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