SOCIAL MEDIA AND SMART MOBILE TECHNOLOGY: SMART SOCIAL LIFES

Abstract

Communication is one of the important thing for both individuals and communities, and communication mediums have the same effect and importance too. Technological developments are increasingly changing and blooming. Each passing day with the effect of these developments communication mediums became an extension of our bodies and indispensable part of our lives. Therefore, tools' abilities and skills possess to individuals. It seems to us that, many features of tools' seen as individuals success or talent. In a way, the technology you choose to use tell us who you are. People take to update themselves by purchasing renewed and updated communication mediums. Thus, they found a way to show and update their socio-economic status as well. Once again, communication mediums create the message itself and people find a way to express themselves in their own community. After quick expansion of internet usage, people met with new media and hereafter they started to have virtual identities. Therefore, actual and virtual life intertwined so this ensured to people to reach everywhere and everybody easily. In 1973 the first cell phone developed and after that in 2005 smart cell phones started to be used by people. This transition of cell phones into smart cell phones perceived by people like a change that occurred in a matter of seconds. Like the other drastic technological cahnges in our lives such as the usage of touch screen, transition from media to new media added conveniences to our lives. With the effects of the internet people are connecting to each other by invisible networks and they can enable their needs easily especially about socialization. In this study, technological developments and the differentiation of the media enviroments will be analyzed with the purpose of usage by individuals. In this context, technological life's impact on our social life, social media, smart cell phones and the new smart social life issues will be defined and examined with this article.