People who use social media tend to have problems communicating face- to face. Our social media life has become a huge problem. Men and women from around the world need to “stop and smell the roses.” Our world is being overrun with technology, and now that is an even bigger issue than before. “Too often at events or parties, guests are attached to their smartphones tweeting or texting, but no one is truly engaging or interacting with the people around them,” (Fowlkes 1) states USA Today. This reference shows how our world has too much technology being used, and it is becoming a problem. If people are too tied up in social media, an abundance of things could go unnoticed. If a person is walking and using social media, they could walk straight into a pole. According to a local poll created by the American Canyon Middle School Accelerated Language Arts class, 37% of people in the American Canyon community say that they always communicate with their friends via social media. Also, the information from the survey shows that 34% of the people who took the poll consider online friends real compared to friends they met face- to- face. This poll is proof that human beings enjoy the people that they probably do not know their real identity that they meet online rather than people they meet in the real world.