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Jim Taylor  in his article  “Is Technology Creating a Family Divide?”, published in 2013,  focuses on the effect that social media has on family relationships.


Is normal that as many aspects of life change as time passes by, families also suffer changes. Nowadays the specific role of men as  providers and women as housewives that can be seen in television shows aired during the 50’s and 60’s or in those set during those times such as “The wonder years”, progressively changed into a society where both men and women are part of the working world to the point where it has become strange to find full time housewives among middle and lower class families.


So, if changes are part of the pass of time, what is different these days? They key is the “progression” of the change, Taylor (2013) points out that now the fast advance of technology causes a scenario where younger family members were born and raised surrounded by technology meaning up to a certain point that texting and the use of videogames and other ways of virtual entertainment and communication are an innate part of themselves whereas the parents got those elements as an acquisition over time to their lives.  One of the consequences is that the way new generations use technology limit their availability to communicate with their parents as it also causes independence in their communication with others as now they have their own gadget to communicate with others in contrast to their parents when they had their age where any attempt to communicate meant calling to the home phone that would most likely be answered by a parent giving the opportunity to the parents to know the integrants of their children social life. This independence can extent up to a point where children are constantly active users of social media, listening to music, surfing the web anywhere there is mobile phone signal available, this alienation coming from the use of technology can also be from the parents using their own gadgets.
This daily use of technology causes that now parents and children would communicate with each other not in a face-to-face communication but through text messages and joining each other social profiles in the web. At the end we witness a society where even though communication vias are easier and faster, people do not really interact with others in real life, people is physically in one place while their attention is focused on what is happening in their mobile devices giving as result families whose members barely speaks to each other.
*For more information click on the link provided in references for the full article.
References:

Taylor, J. (2013, March 13). Is Technology Creating a Family Divide. Psychology Today. Retrieved from: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-prime/201303/is-technology-creating-family-divide

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