The year is 1965, the sun is shining and with their feet in the sand, friends gather on the beach to relax on a hot summer day. As the decades pass, times change and subsequent generations experience a very different social gathering. With gray skies and rain flooding the streets, children hide in their rooms to watch TV and use their phones to browse the Internet and social media. Technology is growing at a rapid pace and enables new ways of communicating with people. The year is 2014 and technology has allowed us to communicate at all hours of the day and has contributed greatly to society by enabling stronger communication and more options to communicate via email, text and video calls. As much as we enjoy the gratification of being able to communicate instantly, it also has its drawbacks. There are many negative effects that follow these technological advancements which will be discussed in this paper. This article will explain how the generation gap in technological advancements has helped and hurt our means of communication through electronics, including television, mobile devices, and computers. Technology is changing the way we communicate and the way we think. Being a fairly new way of communicating, we also see many changes in behavior due to these new technological advancements. “I can't believe she unfriended me after everything I did for her!” Fifty, or even 10 years ago, “unfriending” someone was a statement that would receive some unusual expressions, but with social media in full effect let's see how the meaning of “friending” has changed. Unfriending someone in the real life may be more of a private conversation, but with the world watching our every move, through Facebook and Twitter, we tend to make everything… half paper… Inzenburg, Stephen “How Skype is changing the interview process. " The Chronicle of Higher Education. News, March 2, 2011. Web. March 10, 2014. .Evangelho, Jason. "2013 Represented the Worst Decline in PC Market History." Forbes. Forbes Magazine, January 9, 2014. Web. March 10, 2014. .Holcolm, Jesse, Jeffrey Gottfried, and Amy Mitchell. “News Usage on Social Media Platforms.” Pew Research Center Journalism Project RSS NP, November 14, 2013. Web. March 10, 2014. . Hoffman, Lindsay. “How Technology Has Changed How We Understand National Tragedies.” The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, May 23, 2013. Web. March 11. 2014.