Blogging activity increased exponentially after 1999 partly because mainstream media increasingly recognized blog content as legitimate news sources and because blogging software, especially connected to Twitter, allows users the ability to update rapidly and easily. Some media experts worry that all the connectivity has not necessarily strengthened our relationships. Sometimes, in face-to-face encounters, we are not really present because we are checking our mobile phones for text messages or searching for information on our smartphones. Another suggests that technology gives us control over our relationships and makes it easy for us to communicate when and how we wish, so that we often choose technologies, like texting or voice-mail messages, that actually distance us from each other