Technology is a big toss up for people, does it do more harm than good, is the risk factor higher than the benefits, and is it worth the changes in society it is going to make in the future? Under many circumstances, technology has harmed society in a way that at this point there is no return for humanity. This is because of the state technology has put us in. Technology has touched the whole world already, so I am looking for who it has affected the most. Now this leads me to the million-dollar question, is technology affecting students on college campuses, and to what extent? It affects these students in so many ways that I have witnessed right hand. One of my teammates is completely and utterly consumed in her phone all of the time. It keeps her from being a part of the team because of it. She has isolated herself in a way that no one wants to be around her. That is only one of the many experiences I have had with students and their technology. People already assume that technology/social media affects student's school work and lives but they really don't know why, how, or in what ways. I am here to show and tell you.

My first source is an article written by Brian Harke on June 14, 2011 titled "Is Social Media Making Us Anti-Social?" and was published in the Huffington Post. This article is about the negative affects that technology has had on students and their social skills. The author is proving to people through his own hand on experiences that mobile devices and all this new and easily accessible technology is having a negative affect on this current and upcoming generation. He explains why and how he thinks it is bad for their future. He states that they aren't learning proper manners and social skills and throughout the article explains why. The bias in this could be the part where the author makes a huge assumption in the fact that all college students are like the one he is describing in his article. He thinks that they are all distracted or "not present" because of the access to technology at anytime.

Ian Leslie's article "Google Makes us all Dumber" posted and published in Salon magazine on October 14 claims that Google is taking away one of the most important things to innovation: curiosity. He proves that by explaining as knowledge continues accumulating on the internet with answers on deck for everyone and anyone to access it at any given time, we aren't in a position to ask questions. It takes us longer to acquire the information. The author's bias lies in the fact that technology is negatively affecting the future of America, and the future of America are current college students. The author values letting human minds articulate and compile information and questions by ourselves, and he think that the internet is destroying that for people. He also believes in and preaches the "information gap".  The information gap is basically when you know almost 90% about something, and you begin to experience this itch or urgency to know more. This is one of his major values and he thinks that this generation isn't experiencing the things that he feels are the most important things for humanity to excel.

In Abhishek Karadkar's article "The Impact of Social Media on Student Life" published in The Technician on September 13, 2015, she explains why students love spending time socializing. She makes several valid points that every college student would agree with, like social media gives people the freedom to say whatever they want whenever they want to. She also clarifies that students not only get to say what they want but they get to talk to/meet whoever, and they get to comment on everyone's lives behind the scenes. She is (like the other article authors) very bias toward the negative affect social media and accessible technology has had on students. She states that one of the biggest problems it has caused on campuses are the constant identity crisis issues. She goes on to say what the other authors are trying to get at which is that social media can lead to addictions that leads to bad habits.

My research question is feasible because you can easily see it from the side where social media and things online do help people connect on campus. If I didn't have my team and immediately have my own group who accepted and could relate to me I would have felt really lost. No one from where I lived came to USC so I would have relied on the Facebook page for the class of 2015 to help me meet people. In a lot of cases it does help people connect but its so easy to hide behind your phone and computer instead of getting out there yourself and being hands on. Its still a problem that needs to be addressed even though there are some positives in rare cases, it doesn't outweigh the damages technology does to students.

