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MySpace by Shannon Matesky - Keeping Your Contacts in Order

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Shannon Matesky, in her poem “MySpace," explains that “physical contact is more important than our number of contacts” (Matesky). She is fearful that the enhancement of technology is prohibiting our ability to make human connections. The relationships between people have now been taken over by our wireless devices each and everyday. The importance of keeping in touch has lost its meaning of getting together and physically seeing or hearing another. In Shannon Matesky poem “MySpace” the meaning of contact has evolved from face to face relationships between people and shifted to the increasing number of online faces we are socially connected with. Because of new world technology, it has turned into the quantity of people we have a connection with verses the quality time we share with them. Although we are losing the ability to connect intellectually face to face, being socially connected has allowed us to keep in touch technologically through social media. Although, being appreciative of the connections I can share with my childhood friends and family members, I keep my kissing contacts away from my growing number of contacts on my media. Never have we had so many contacts, yet we are losing contact face to face as well as skills of speech, and positioning of our body language. Contact is formally defined as physically hearing and or seeing the presence of someone, feeling the connection one shared with another. Although has now been redefined as another name or number in our technology. Matesky feels strong when explaining, “and I see devices replacing the physical” (Matesky). We as a whole have changed our ways of communicating. If you're not texting, commenting, liking any of my pages then you must be standing next to me with the way we are so tied into our screens. We can't deal with the face-to-face interactions so we let technology replace the space that people are supposed to feel. Total strangers who consist of hundreds of “friends” and or contacts online are now the people we communicate with on a regular day-to-day basis. The connection between the public has been replaced and currently consists of communicating from behind the screens of our devices. The definition of keeping in contact has lost its significance of getting together and physically seeing or hearing one another and is redefined by being socially connected. At what point do

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