Shazam is one of the world’s most downloaded and fully utilized apps. In a world that goes to the beat of the music it creates, Shazam allows the people of the world to identify exactly what beat they are moving to. Just open the app, hold it close enough to the speaker, and in seconds you have all of the information you need to find and download the song you have just been listening to. Sounds like the people of the world just got more in-tune with the music they are hearing. But the legacy of Shazam will not be to connect us more to the music, but, as Derek Thompson (author of The Shazam Effect) shows and author Sherry Turkle (Connectivity and its Discontents) would much agree, will be to put us into a purgatorial feedback loop, holding us back from both socialization and any further progression into whatever the next era of music and technology would hold for us. We no longer find music an appropriate excuse or reason to interact with new people or to start up a public discussion, causing us to form increasingly more anti-social habits. There is no more personal interaction or connection with the music and the artists making it. If we do not care about them, then why would they care about us? The creativity and love has been taken out of it, only to be replaced by the detrimental notion of quantity over quality. Think of the last time you were in a public social setting (ie: a restaurant, bar, public transportation, etc.). There was music playing, correct? Say a song were to come on that you really enjoyed yet had never heard before. Do you turn to the table or person next to you and to ask them if they know the song? Do you ask the server or bartender? The answer, I argue, would be absolutely never. You whip out your smart phone and open the Shazam app and in seconds have the artist’s name, the song name, and a link to where you can go to download it. You hit