Social media was created to strengthen social ties and not server them an opinion few people hold today. In this era of social media, relationships are built on the internet and lived through on the internet. People now make friends with people they have no intention of ever meeting. Now people prefer to live their lives through a screen rather than savoring the moments, have people lost touch of reality? Has social media made us anti-social?
Before the social media was born people related with one another in a more physical way than the virtual means in the social media world as it is today. When people can actually have conversations with their friends physically and they listened and participated. Real life relationships have been redefined and today it is common to see people spend their day in front of a screen chatting and “socializing”.
Has Social Media made us anti-social?
The idea of social media is amazing; it connects us to the world with no language, location or even racial barriers. Or has it achieved quite the opposite? Now you see people chat and live their lives on the social media with minimal human contacts. Social media has created a new reality that has given license to different kinds of behaviors in humanity.
People now miss important moments while trying to write them on their favorite social networks. Instead of going out with friends and enjoying your time with friends and family, people just use the social media sites. Statistics has shown that there are more social media addicts each year than the previous year. We rely too much on the social media these days; we expect more from technology and the social media and less from each other.
I wonder how the human civilization would’ve survived this long if social media has been around from the onset? Think of it anyhow you like, but the truth remains that we rely on social media and technology so much these days to facilitate social communication but they can as well be deleterious to social interaction. You have to admit that communication through a machine cannot be the same as when face to face with someone.
Other will entirely argue differently, some will argue that social media has boasted their interactions and relationships and has made them more social. Social media can now allow us to know what our friend in other part of the world is doing at any point in time. They have claimed that social media has made it easier to relate with one another.
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I don’t want to sound judgmental, I want you to vote and decide in this article if social media has made us anti-social. Use the poll below to vote to show if you agree or not about social media having made us less social.
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The vote with the highest percentage of votes wins and if you have any points to argue in favor or against the topic please use the comment section below.
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I agree that social media have made us anti social. We all are chatting with our friends but because of it we never be in our locality. Great work :-)
A very brilliant question Desmond and one that requires an answer too. Everything you talked here really resonated with me.
People now prefer the internet relationship today to the real like relationships and that is why they are often duped and disappointed because, most of the people claiming to be your friend on the internet are just Wolf’s in Sheep clothing.
Thanks for sharing this with the bizsugar community.
Val
Thanks i hope you have voted for your opinion?
Thanks Valentine for your wonderful contribution. I hope you visit again
Social media works if you unplug.
Unplugging is key.
If not you are doomed lol….neat take!
I accept social media has disadvantages as well. It reduced the real connection with people. It reduced our speaking skills and so many. Submitted my entry to the poll.
Thanks
Rightly pointed out. We are becoming increasingly “dependent” upon social networking sites to stay in touch with each other. Which is not a very healthy sign.
Thanks Ryan, being able to know when “plug in” and when to “un-plug” could make a whole lot of difference on the use of social media, i still try to have conversations over drinks with my real life buddys.
Thanks Sriram for casting your vote and leaving a comment.
I hope you have voted your opinion in the polls?
Social media has surely changed the way we interact with people around us. With every advancements in technology there are pros and cons and social media is no exception to this. It has brought the entire world so close which was never imagined.
I really liked your topic of discussion buddy.
Thanks Pawan for your contribution, i hope you have voted your opinion?
This blog is really remarkable. Thanks for sharing this great stuff. Keep sharing more useful and conspicuous stuff like this. Thank you so much.
Many times I began to ask myself that where is technology driving us to? Social network as a subset of technology is really manipulating the way things are done this day. I can’t imagine many people having online relationship just because of the reward like money, and all the like and this has in some ways contributed negatively to lives of many users who practises anti-social network user like landing them in jail for fraud etc. I really comply with your point here.
Thanks Adesanmi Adedotun for your contribution, i hope you have voted for your opinion?
Thanks Raaz for your compliment, hope you visit often.
Hi Nwosu,
It’s really very difficult question. There are equally stronger arguments for and against each of the parties. On one hand it’s offering never possible connections and relationship and on the other it made us negligent towards the nearer ones.
I guess I’m already grown addicted. I start to feel if I’m not good enough in offline world now anymore!
That is why i asked for an opinion vote and so far a lot of people feel that social media is actually making us anti-social.
I do try to hang out with real life friends, have healthy discussions, meet up with family members, and do things in a normal way like i used to before the social media madness took over the world.
Hi Nwosu Mavtrevor,
Thanks for sharing this very discussing topic that one should not neglect .I believe yes it has made us anti social in real life that is very important. People just sit at home feel lazy to go out an meet people so they prefer chats ,texting etc. This should not be happening one should give importance to social life also.
Thanks Shorya for such great contribution, i totally agree with you.
I vote for yes, the social media is making us more anti-social. Sure, it can be used as a great channel of communication, but the oversharing and overdependence on social media are the side effects which make us anti-social online zombies.
Julia i can’t agree with you less, the social media has made us overdependent on it for communication and this is hurting our native way of living greatly even without us realizing it. Thanks for voting and commenting, visit again.
Hey Bro Social media which dominating the world now from teen to over aged people which they need to be maintain the uses of it bcoz most of them addicted with facebook especially the teens i agree with your points
Thanks Thaha for your contribution.
Hey Nwosu…
You have brought up a widely-discussed topic of the time…whether social media has made us anti-social…
Well may be the answer is yes….but its only relevant to some extent….
True that people spend most of their time on Facebook, twitter, WhatsApp and so on…and they have no time to socialize with their relatives neighbors and friends in person…
But we cannot ignore that social media has made it possible to connect to numerous people that would not be possible otherwise….
For instance I myself have got in touch with my old school fiends with whom I had lost all connections…All thanks to social media…
Thus according to me if we can balance social media networking and our actual social life…Social media will be a help rather than a harm in making us more social…:)
You couldn’t be more correct Debasmita, Social media by itself is not a bad thing, in fact its the best thing to have happened to this world since the last decade, but people abuse its use and this has affected lives in countless ways, people should be reminded to create a balance between their social media activities and their real life, make time to hang out with your real life friends while you maintain a safe relationship with your virtual friends. Thanks for your awesome contribution to the topic. You are welcome to visit Netmediablog again…