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I just wanted to thank all of you for posting your opinions and thoughts. This truly makes me happy that we can engage in this format and I hope that you don't feel desolate after today's lesson and discussion and more importantly know that I miss seeing your faces every single day!!!!

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Is Social Media making us Socially Inept?

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Emily
Social media has played a huge role in making us socially inept. As a society, we have become addicted to our devices and social media's losing our ability to read the room and participate in face-to-face interactions. Due to COVID-19, our ability to interact in person has been limited resulting in us spending an excessive amount of time on our devices trying to fill a void within us. What we don’t realize is the effects it has on our mental health. Social media has caused us an unhealthy amount of social anxiety and depression, resulting in people becoming distant from social situations making them inept. Although social media isn’t all bad, as it has allowed individuals around the world the chance to connect and gain knowledge from different sources.

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Is Social Media Making Us Socially Inept? -Maria

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I think social media is making us socially inept because it takes less effort to find and talk to someone online without having to actually see them face to face which can be easier for others and not have a deep connection towards that person. People spend most of their time in social media and potentially isolate themselves from the real world. This could lead to individuals having a hard time to socialize with others and any social interactions in general. This could effect a person’s relationship towards others like their family members, who spend their daily time with them and can see how they’re not socially interactive or completely ignoring them. A lot of misunderstandings can happen when it comes to texting rather than a call because of the lack of tone and facial expressions which can contribute to a individual’s lack of social capabilities. Continuing this can lead to deteriorating someone’s mental health and become more attached to their phones.

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Is Social Media Making Us Socially Inept?- Vysnavi

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I do believe that social media is making us socially inept. As a society we have become very tech based and rely on our technology and social media. Especially within this past year I myself and many others have been on our devices and social media for much longer than ever in the past. I know that in the past I spend about an hour or two on social media (instagram, snapchat,etc.) and watching shows on my computer. But within the past few months alone I have been on some sort of device pretty much all day. With social media all of our communication is done through that by seeing photos of friends, texting/chatting to them. We really don't have in-person/face-to-face conversations. The problem with relying and communicating this way is now our social interactions face to face are awkward and not strong. It's as if every goes quiet and doesn't say a word, or they pull out their phones when with friends and mess with their phones, ignoring the fact that they are with people. Another thing is people hide behind their screens so in conversations face to face they may not say something but they will say it over messages.

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Is Social Media Making Us Socially Inept? adam

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I do believe social media is making us socially inept. Our reliance on technology and social media are probably the blame for peoples inability to have a normal face to face conversation. Just look at how often you misinterpret a text because the lack of tone or facial expressions. Or look at how many people prefer texting to a phone call.

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Isha
Absolutely it has. Technology in general has increased social isolation and is causing us to become increasingly awkward in real life social situations. Talking and expressing yourself on online platforms is vastly different compared to in real life, as you tend to post only what you want to post on social media. This creates a glamorized version of our lives and a distorted sense of reality. Everything on our social media has been catered to our needs and views, whereas it is not the same case in real life which can also feed into our false sense of reality.

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Kara Creary
Yes, I believe that social media does make us socially inept. We spend a large amount of time on social media and are slowly ripped away from reality. I believe thoes who spend less time on their devices are able to pick up social ques with ease, when those who have an addiction to social media struggle.  Due to the rise of social media use through out the years and the  lack of real life socialization its difficult to find people who are still able to “read the room”.  And because we as teens would rather text that call we have emojis to express our emotions. What happens when emojis cant help us in a real life situation? It leaves us with a problem.

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Sia Oberoi
I believe that social media is in fact making us socially inept. Since our generation pretty much grew up with technology, it played an important role in our socialization. However, with the increase of use (esp. due to covid), it does impact us negatively. Since there is barely any face-to-face conversations, we stopped picking up social cues, and therefore don't know how to talk to people. Social media also promotes instant gratification, which is unideal in real life.

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Social media is making younger generations more socially inept as it’s harder for them to form proper relationships, and making it harder for them to learn proper social skills.
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Brianna Ogilvie
Social media is altering our perception of socialization and ultimately making us socially inept. Due to covid, we have been spending excessive amounts of time on social media , resulting in a lack of socialization skills when faced with actual social interactions. Our social media obsession has caused us to forget how to read people using facial expressions and other body language. It has also caused an unhealthy amount of social anxiety causing people to become distant from social situations, ultimately making them inept. As well, we lack talking skills since all of our communication is done through text messages. This is only the beginning of how detached we are/will become from socialization.

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By: David Hurst Jr.
The reason as to why I believe social media making us socially inept is because of how much easier it is to meet someone without having to get to connect with them as deeply. That has developed us to take human interaction for granted since, due to technological advancements, everything else in our world moves at a rapid pace. We as a generation need to incentivize patience, competence and wisdom for the longing of lasting connections.

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Alina J.
Social media is making us socially inept by limiting our understanding of non-verbal social cues, by changing family dynamics, and by encouraging constant stimulation.

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Yes social media is making us socially inept. Texting on social media has made us lose the ability to read the room or read someones body language. Its making it more difficult for us to pick up on any social cues. Using acronyms like LOL has also made us more socially inept. We use them so much we don’t know how to speak. we rely on texting and social media so much that were losing the ability to speak to one another in person. The amount of social media one person on average consumes is more of a hindrance than anything else.

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I think it depends on the individual and how they use social media. For some, social media is their only form of interaction and they rely on others over the internet to tell them how to think and feel. In other cases, people only use social media for short amounts of time throughout the day and prefer face to face interactions. I believe for those who prefer to use social media rather than to go out and meet people, it is indeed making them socially inept. For the others who use it as a tool and not a main part of their daily lifestyle, it can be beneficial without being destructive. Erik

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Sarah Carere
Yes I do think that we are becoming socially inept. We don't know how to interact and communicate with each other anymore, we stare at our phones when hanging out with each other. We don't know how to put our phones down and have a face to face conversation with each, constantly having phones in our hands and that being our main way of communication has limited our ability to understand social cues and body language. We now struggle to have a normal conversation In person because all we know is how to text, we don't even call or face-time anyone anymore since being able to carry out a conversation has become significantly more difficult.

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By: Naveed Baharyeh
I do believe we are becoming socially inept with the advent of social media. Face-to-face conversation is literally how we humans were designed to communicate. We have to read nonverbal cues as well as the actual words coming out of someone's mouth to understand a conversation. Things like facial expression, tone of voice, body language. These things allow us to better understand what exactly someone is saying. Without that, I find that most often people project their own feelings onto the words someone says, therefore distorting them. As much as many of us may believe we don't do this, we do. It's how humans work. Without proper face-to-face conversation, we cannot hope to understand what is being said to us. This is troubling because how can we expect this generation to function outside screens and social media, if we can barely have a conversation without some measure of misunderstanding occuring? To conclude. I wholeheartedly believe that social media is eroding our social skills, and this pandemic is doing nothing but exacerbating that erosion due to the fact that we can only communicate across our devices.