Ashley Williams
ENC1102
19 February 2013
Social media
Waiting in a long line at a theme park Instagraming
funny pictures, up-dating facebook statues, tweeting complaints about the long
lines. Not really enjoying the moments with family and friends. Social media
has changed today’s society into walking talking robots with technology glued
to our fingertips.
Teens today are having a lot of communication
problems due to our social media today. A lot of our younger generations are so
obsessed with the social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram that
they are losing their sense of interaction skills in society, certain
interaction skills that will be needed further down the road in life. I do feel
that teens are hindering themselves by engaging so much into social networks
that they are not able to comprehend certain situations when they occur because
of their lack of face-to-face human interaction. For instance have you ever
sent a text message to someone and the person take it the wrong way? Like texting
a friend, “Hey girl!” and get a response back like “Girl, What you want?” and
take it offensively, but in reality it was a joking statement. Social media has
taken away the face-to-face interaction with actually knowing the persons’
emotional intent. A whole
conversation is misconstruting because of not knowing the emotion behind what
was being said. “Research center found that teens are actually relying on
texting more than social interactions 54% and face-to-face 33%. That also shows
that half of them send at the least 50 texts a day and a third more than 100 a
day”(Welch.)
Communicating through Social Media has become very
detrimental to society as a whole. “A study done by UCLA states that 93% of
communication effectiveness is determined by non-verbal clues”(Collmeyer). This
means that communicating via through e-mail, texting, and dating websites are
taking over and hindering us a society.
Situation can be different face-to-face because you can see the others
facial expression and hear the tone of voice rather than words on screen. According
to licensed professional counselor jared pizzitola, ”very important social
sills develop form difficult face to face conversation. And it is a very important
to understand behavior. (Brocdie) I do feel that face-to-face situations can be
a build a bond faster than an online chat.
Social media does have it’s own benefits when used at
the appropriate times. People today use social networks to reunite with their
families, long distance to stay in touch in more ways than one with
applications like Facebook and Skype, letting them talk and see loved ones from
a far. Businesses also use social media to network business throughout the
world, updating news on upcoming events or promotions, adding more revenue to
the business. Social networks can hinder all types of relationships, by using
non-confrontational tactics through cell phones and computers because it is
easier for some people to express their emotions through a text message or
e-mail, then face-to-face confrontation. It is easier to express ones feelings
via text or e-mail with no disruptions from the other person, which I feel can
still cripple a persons human interaction with society.
However we do not really realize how much our society
today is really involved with social media because it has become an everyday
part of life. Most people cannot even leave their homes without their cell
phones or else they feel completely lost. While social media was invented to
help make things easier for us, we have lost sight of how it also is crippling
our future and us.
Works
Cited
Benjamin, Welch. "WELCH: Social
Media Destroys Real Interaction." Daily Nebraskan. Daily Nebraskan,
30 Jan. 2013. Web. 10 Feb. 2013.
<http://www.dailynebraskan.com/opinion/article_bf0e08d8-6a8a-11e2-a811-0019bb30f31a.html>.
Brodie, Sakinah. "Is Social Media
Destroying Teens' Interpersonal Skills?" Is Social Media Destroying
Teens' Interpersonal Skills? Nvate, n.d. Web. 10 Feb. 2013.
<WWW.REPOST.US/ARTICAL-PREVEW>.
Collmeyer, Brad. "Social Media vs
Face to Face Marketing." Social Media vs Face to Face Marketing.
Evrey Circle, n.d. Web. 10 Feb. 2013.
<http://www.everycircle.com/ec/articles/socialmediafacetofacemktg.html>.
