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Social Elements on how Social Media Limits Social Interaction and General Communication between Human Beings.

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Social Elements on how Social Media Limits Social Interaction and General Communication between Human Beings.

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Social Media limits social interactions and general daily communications between human beings and it is having a major effect on further generations. Society having access to technology from a young age and being commonly used and expected to have as an adult has people tapped into using social media and having accounts from new social media apps that are developed every few months. I like to think that I use social media as an outlet to simply stay in contact with my friends who I no longer have the chance to see on a familiar basis, however no matter how I think that, I can see how I do use social media in a sense for other things as well. It starts with seeing funny memes and pictures on Instagram of my friends to simply meeting people online and creating a new social media friend group. Instagram personal is a platform for myself I use to show my friends what I am up to and the different experiences I experience. I also use it to stay up to date in my friend’s life. I do realize that it simplifies my life by not having to meet my friend and get an update on how her vacation was, however simply going out on a coffee date and updating each other on your lives gives you both the chance to have a better description and image of how your friend is doing. I do understand that there are many introvert people out there and that social media is the perfect platform for these individuals to feel comfortable sharing and interacting with people. From my own personal experience, I see that I display that I am a very social person online, however, in real life, I tend to not go into much detail about my life as I feel that I bore people. The thing about social media is you have the option to listen and read someone story and not. I believe that face-to-face interaction must continue to be our main source of communication. Social media of all kinds has become such an important part of our society that looking at it in a negative way will only set us back. Society must push forward and continue to incorporate social media in more positive ways.

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2 Educated Guyz: How Social Media Is Hurting You

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2 Educated Guyz: How Social Media Is Hurting You

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These guys talk about an experience they faced in the gym where they noticed people using their phones to search workouts. They suggested that in situations like that they can attempt a basic human interaction by approaching someone in the gym asking them for tips, and who knows in the process you can make a friend out of it and develop new connections.

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This image shows an opinion from Albert Einstein himself where he says he fears a day that technology overtake human interaction and he fears that the world will have a generation of idiots. I find this interesting, because I personally do not think we have a generation of idiots , I feel that it shows that our generations are becoming more intelligent year by year incorporation technology into our lives, however I feel that we are abusing it and one day we may be losing the basic skills of being social and conversing due to technology.

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The Negative Impacts of Social Media on Face-to-Face Interactions

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The Negative Impacts of Social Media on Face-to-Face Interactions

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Social media has led us to have fewer interactions with the people that they associate with. The majority of people have access to social media at any time they please via their smartphones, so this only worsens as more people begin to acquire smartphones. Since it has become more prevalent, social media has made people have a tendency to want to interact with people online rather than in person because it has made the process simpler. A simpler process allows for things to be done easier and more efficiently, which attracts more people to give it a try. Although it may be viewed as a positive change, this has caused people to become more antisocial than ever before, as counterintuitive as that may sound. Facebook was not an entity outside of the current generation and it has caused a bit of a culture shock. Studies have shown that people have less interest in interacting with other people both in similar age groups and with people that are in other age groups.
The world has changed into a society that is accustomed to sitting behind a computer screen. Social media is a leading cause of this issue of having less face to face interaction. These same studies have shown that relationships that form completely online are becoming increasingly common.

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The Negative Impacts of Social Media on Face-to-Face Interactions – Final Inquiry Project

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A year offline, what I have learned | Paul Miller | TEDxEutropolis

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A year offline, what I have learned | Paul Miller | TEDxEutropolis

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Paul Miller is an American Technology Journalist from Springfield, Missouri.
During the past year, he decided to disconnect from the hyperconnected world in an attempt to 'find himself' and become more productive. He abandoned the internet and disconnected from all Social Media, returning to a life before the net, apps and smartphones.

His experiment gained worldwide media attention when he published his article 'I'm still here' on The Verge. After a year of living 'disconnected', he published his findings and caused quite a discussion on hyperconnectivity and the influence of the internet on our daily lives.

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How social media makes us unsocial | Allison Graham | TEDxSMU

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How social media makes us unsocial | Allison Graham | TEDxSMU

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Allison Graham talks about how social media has made us unsocial. She talks about the effects of social media specifically on us and our daily general communication skills no longer happening face to face.
Allison Graham offers an ironic view of a society that feels alone together despite the hundreds of virtual connections we have online. With a global population growing up via Facebook and Twitter and a perceptible shift in human interpersonal connections, the constant need for social self-validation permeates our daily existence. This talk shares the funny and revealing insights of a life lived online and how social media is used to connect and disconnect us.

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Technology is Destroying the Quality of Human Interaction

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Technology is Destroying the Quality of Human Interaction

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This image shows that even within a home you can miss basic human interactions by bringing electronics with social media to the table which limits conversations within a group. The dinner table is a place conversation are supposed to take place, however sadly this is something seen a lot around the world.

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Photo by Andrea Rodriguez
She illustrated an image that speaks to what an effect technology has on us humans. It has adapted to having a general control over our basic communication skills. When you can quickly have a coffee and see your friends and have a conversation, or you can spend a day texting your friend back and fourth without seeing each other. Basic conversations have changed drastically.

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Technology is Destroying the Quality of Human Interaction

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A quick little story about what the writer thought was a dream has become reality with social media taking over the world.

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Melissa Nilles
Arts & Entertainment Editor

Photo by Andrea Rodriguez

I had a terrible nightmare the other night. Instead of meeting for a quick cup of coffee, my friend and I spent 30 minutes texting back and forth about our day. After that, instead of going in to talk to my professor during his office hours, I emailed him from home with my question. Because of this, he never got to know who I was, even though he would have been a great source for a letter of recommendation if he had. I ignored a cute guy at the bus stop asking me the time because I was busy responding to a text. And I spent far too much time on Facebook trying to catch up with my 1000+ "friends," most of whom I rarely see, and whose meaning sadly seems to dispel even more as the sheer number of "connections" I've made grows.

Oh wait, that wasn't a dream. This technological detachment is becoming today's reality.

Little by little, Internet and mobile technology seems to be subtly destroying the meaningfulness of interactions we have with others, disconnecting us from the world around us, and leading to an imminent sense of isolation in today's society. Instead of spending time in person with friends, we just call, text or instant message them. It may seem simpler, but we ultimately end up seeing our friends face to face a lot less. Ten texts can't even begin to equal an hour spent chatting with a friend over lunch. And a smiley-face emoticon is cute, but it could never replace the ear-splitting grin and smiling eyes of one of your best friends. Face time is important, people. We need to see each other.

This doesn't just apply to our friends; it applies to the world around us. It should come as no surprise that face-to-face interaction is proven by studies to comfort us and provide us with some important sense of well-being, whether it's with friends or friendly cashiers in the checkout line of Albertson's. That's actually the motivation behind Albertson's decision last year to take all of the self-checkout lanes out of its stores: an eerie lack of human contact.

There's something intangibly real and valuable about talking with someone face to face. This is significant for friends, partners, potential employers, and other recurring people that make up your everyday world. That person becomes an important existing human connection, not just someone whose disembodied text voice pops up on your cell phone, iPad or computer screen.

It seems we have more extended connections than ever in this digital world, which can be great for networking, if it's used right. The sad fact of the matter is that most of us don't. It's too hard to keep up with 1000 friends, let alone 200. At that point, do we even remember their names? We need to start prizing the meaning of quality in our connections, not sheer quantity.

One of my best friends from my hometown has 2,241 Facebook friends. Sure, her posts get a ton of feedback, but when I asked her about the quality of those relationships, she said to me that she really has few friends that she can trust and spend time with happily. Using a strange conundrum like this as a constructive example, we should consider pruning our rampant online connections at the very least.

Past evolutionary psychology research by British anthropologist and psychologist Robin Dunbar has revealed that people are actually limited to a certain number of stable, supportive connections with others in their social network: roughly 150. Furthermore, recent follow-up research by Cornell University's Bruno Goncalves used Twitter data to show that despite the current ability to connect with vast amounts of people via the Internet, a person can still only truly maintain a friendship with a maximum of 100 to 200 real friends in their social network.

While technology has allowed us some means of social connection that would have never been possible before, and has allowed us to maintain long-distance friendships that would have otherwise probably fallen by the wayside, the fact remains that it is causing ourselves to spread ourselves too thin, as well as slowly ruining the quality of social interaction that we all need as human beings.

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So what are we doing with 3000 friends on the Internet? Why are we texting all the time? Seems like a big waste of time to me. Let's spend more time together with our friends. Let's make the relationships that count last, and not rely on technology to do the job for us.

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Melissa Nilles Arts & Entertainment Editor Photo by Andrea Rodriguez I had a terrible nightmare the other night. Instead of meeting for a quick cup of coffee, my friend and I spent 30 minutes texting back and forth about our day.

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Social Media's Affect on Human Interaction

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Social Media's Affect on Human Interaction

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How does social media affect interaction in our society? Will face-to-face communication be done through new social technologies? These questions are ones that many researchers have found extremely intriguing since the advent and popularization of social media in the last decade. Within this topic, social competency is an important ideal that most people strive towards, but there is evidence to support the claims that social media is actually harming people’s ability to interact competently in an offline setting.

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How does social media affect interaction in our society? Will face-to-face communication ultimately diminish because of these new social technologies. These questions are ones that many researchers have found extremely intriguing since the advent and popularization of social media in the last decade. Within this topic, social competency is an important ideal that most people strive towards, but there is evidence to support the claims that social media is actually harming people's ability to interact competently in an offline setting. Studies on the social competency of youths who spend much of their time on social media networks are sometimes very conflicting. For example, a study executed by the National Institute of Health found that youths with strong, positive face-to-face relationships may be those most frequently using social media as an additional venue to interact with their peers. As a pretty outgoing person myself, I find myself wanting to use social media as an extra outlet to interact with my friends, whether it is through a random funny post from Tumblr or posting pictures from our adventures. Although I personally agree with this study's findings, I also believe that social media can be an excellent avenue for introverted people to find a comfortable setting to interact. From my own experience, I see many of my friends who aren't as comfortable with face-to-face interactions thriving in an online environment. However, on a case-to-case basis, there can be dramatic differences. For example, a study performed by Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, showed that a sample of high school students from Connecticut with problematic levels of Internet use were more likely to get into serious fights or carry a weapon. Despite the seriousness of this type of situation, I think that this study really focuses on the extremes of a certain situation, and not the norm of people's interactions on social networks. The other problem with this particular study is that the connection between this type of antisocial behavior and excessive Internet use has not been set in stone by comprehensive research. There is only a correlation, and it is not clear which behavior is causing the other. This discrepancy especially leads me to believe that social media is mostly positive for young people in my generation.

Despite my opinion that social media is positive, I definitely believe that face-to-face interaction must continue to be our main source of communication. According to Forbes magazine, only 7% of communication is based on the verbal word. That means that over 90% of communication is based on nonverbal cues such as body language, eye contact, and tone of voice. Technology's rampant popularization over the past decade in terms of social media has meant that texting, Facebook, and Twitter have inevitably taken over as the most efficient ways of communicating with each other. I do agree that the "efficiency factor," or our reliance on the most efficient ways of communication, is becoming one of the largest concerns for people in our interactions with one another. However, there needs to be a constant reminder that face-to-face interaction must remain a staple in our society because it is of a much higher quality and has the ability to satisfy so many more of our inherent social needs.

Social media of all kinds has become such an important part of our society that looking at it in a negative way will only set us back. We as a society must push forward and continue to incorporate social media in more positive ways. Social networking sites have been categorized as both beneficial and consequential to offline contact. Although I believe that it can be mostly positive, in some cases, both sides can be true; however, the affect that social media has on each person in this world is always different and can only be looked at on a case-by-case basis. The future of social media is also highly unknown. According to each company's respective reports, in March 2013, Facebook reported having 1.11 billion active users, Instagram reported having 100 million users, and Twitter had 200 million active users. These numbers have experienced immense growth even in the past year alone. This just proves the fact that social networking is a rapidly changing field, and even if we solve the question of how current social media affects interaction, more questions will continue to arise as these sites continue to change. So now the question remains: Is our society really ready to harness these new social media technologies to our advantage?

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How Social Media is Effecting Social and Communication Skills Among Adolescents

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How Social Media is Effecting Social and Communication Skills Among Adolescents

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Social media is a part of most people's everyday life. It includes platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram where people can communicate, share photos, and “like” people’s posts or pictures. These applications can be accessed through most electronic devices and many adolescents have to access right from their own bedrooms. This limits adults from leaving the comfort of their own home to interact with people in the real world

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Social media is a part of society's everyday life. It includes applications such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram where people can communicate, share photos, and notoriously "like" people's posts or pictures. These applications can be accessed through most electronic devices and many adolescents have access right from their own bedrooms! Table one shows the demographics for media availability in adolescent's bedrooms. Social media has become such a big part of our way of life that a study was conducted that concluded, "American youth devote more time to media than to any other waking activity, as much as one-third of each day" (Roberts). Social media and online communication is believed to be having adverse effects on social skills and communication among adolescents. Not too long ago social media did not exist and social communication and interactions were the only way of communicating. Social media also creates an image for people based off their profiles, posts and pictures. However, today people have the ability to communicate and converse through social media from anywhere in the world. This is believed to be hindering society's social skills and communication, and even cause mental health disorders.

One of the most observable effects of social media on society is social communication. Social skills and interaction are attributes people need to succeed in life. It may be hard to see, but children build these skills as they grow up interacting with other children in face to face scenarios. This is enforced by the following quote: "It may have looked like a lot of aimless hanging around, but what they were doing was experimenting, trying out skills, succeeding and failing in zillions of tiny interactions that kids today are missing out on" (Ehmke). Social media is severely limiting interactions between children, and most importantly, during a crucial time in their lives. When children and adolescents are young is the time when social skills are being built. "As a species we are very highly attuned to reading social cues," (Ehmke) communicating behind computer and cell phone screens diminishes social cues and body language. Being able to read social cues and body language is a major component in social communication. It is feared that if adolescents and teens do not limit their use of social media, the future generations will have very poor social and communication skills.

Although social media can negatively impact adolescent's social skills, it may actually be positively impacting relationships among peers. Teenage years are often tough for many. It is a time of stress, learning, and confusion. Strong relationships among friends are how most adolescents cope with stress. The use of social media and having the ability to remain connected with friends may positively impact relationships among peers. This idea is reinforced by the following quote: "High-quality friendships can form a powerful buffer against stressors in adolescence, and adolescents with high-quality friendships are often happier than adolescents without such friendships" (Valkenburg). Through the use and connectedness of social media, adolescents are able to secure strong relationships with peers helping them cope with stress. Although there have been findings that social media use can be used to maintain relationships among peers, using social media to meet new people does not hold up, "When they use it primarily to form new contacts and talk with strangers, the positive effects do not hold" (Valkenburg). This study shows that attempting to use social skills over social media to meet new people isn't effective. The two year study was conducted to show a time line of negative to positive internet effects. If social media is used correctly as in this case of preserving relationships, adolescents social skills should not diminish as much. Having strong relationships with friends may just adjust problems with social skills among adolescents.

A negative component that comes with social media is cyber bullying, and it can be a major cause of the decrease in social skills among adolescents. Social media allows for adolescents to contact one another at any moment of the day. It gives kids the chance to start problems when they are not together "Of course the other big danger that comes from kids communicating more indirectly is that it has gotten easier to be cruel" (Ehmke), social media is making bullying much more common and easier. When a student who is bullied all day at school, they are relieved to return home to escape the negativity and cruelness. However, social media has made it nearly impossible to escape the harsh words and mean comments of others. Constantly being bullied is going to have negative effects on an adolescent's self-esteem and confidence. It will make teens nervous to interact in school, get involved in sports, and overall decrease their social involvement. This is compared to the imposter syndrome which Rachel Ehmke explains and compares with the psychology of adolescents and people in their early twenties. Apart from cyber bullying, there is another aspect of social media that is an indirect way of diminishing adolescent's self-esteem and that is the "like" feature. "Kids today are getting actual polling data on how much people like them or their appearance via things like Facebook "likes"" (Ehmke), adolescents takes these numbers into deep consideration and some even becoming obsessive over their number of likes. For example, a girl getting more likes on a "selfie" than another girl is going to make the girl with less likes self-conscious about herself. There are various components of social media that have the ability to hinder socials skills, and although often overlooked, cyber bullying and the like feature are some of them.

Social and communication skills among adolescents are crucial skills that are experiencing both negative and positive effects from social media. There are blatant aspects of social media that are harming social skills such as spending numerous hours on Instagram, and then there are subtle aspects such as the like feature. There is no surprise that social media is here to stay with its availability and usefulness in society today. It is obvious that social media is a major component of advertisement for businesses and communication for people around the world, and this is completely acceptable. However, the line must be drawn when social media is seen crippling adolescent's social skills, communication, and causing anti-social behavior. If social media is used correctly such as maintaining relationships among peers, social skills and communication for adolescents should remain intact.

Works Cited

Ehmke, Rachel. "Get Informed." <i>Teens and Social Media</i>. 26 Nov. 2013. Web. 2 Mar. 2015. &lt;http://www.childmind.org/en/posts/articles/2013-11-26-self-esteem-and-anxiety-digital-age&gt;.

Roberts, D. "Media And Youth: Access, Exposure, And Privatization." Journal of Adolescent Health (2000): 8-14. Print.

Valkenburg, Patti M., and Jochen Peter. "Social Consequences Of The Internet For Adolescents: A Decade Of Research." <i>Current Directions in Psychological Science</i> (2009): 1-5. Print.

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