What do you think about social media?
March 4, 2013 in Discussion Question
As we can see, there is a decline of traditional news sources, people feel more like get information on social media. However, some people claim that social media makes people’s relationship shallower because it lack of face to face contact. Do you remember life before social media? How did you get or share information before Facebook and Twitter existed? Do you feel more connected or less connected by using social media?
Marc Frutchey said on March 4, 2013
Social media certainty has its positives and negatives. In terms of positives, information can be spread much more quickly and connections can be made in seconds. In terms of negatives, I agree with you, there is a lack of face to face personal connections. Overall though, I feel the positives outweigh the negatives. Before Facebook and Twitter, texting and phone calls were the main ways in which I communicated with my friends.
Anh Nguyen said on March 4, 2013
I agree that social media make people’s relationship shallower because it is lack of face to face relationship. But if we look at it from another angle, for example, I live far from my family and my friends, I cannot meet them face to face anyway. So social media helps me to us to share our information. I know what is going in their life and they know what is going on with me. Before Facebook and Twitter, I always call or text or email my friends and family.
Emily McFadden said on March 4, 2013
I think that social media can impact relationships if people tend to over share on their social media accounts. For example, some people post personal information that some people would prefer to hear face to face rather than on their newsfeed. That means that individuals must try to keep that in mind and make an effort to share important information with close friends and family before making a public announcements via social media. Personally, I do not share a lot of information on social media because I like to keep that face to face interaction. I like to tell people things in person or tell them privately by sending an email, text or Facebook message.
Salvatore Caruso said on March 4, 2013
I have mixed feelings about Social Media and relationships because it can make relationships shallower if someone cuts down on their face to face social activity but at the same time makes it easier for people to communicate with each other across long distances. I do agree that many people over share on social media which can be damaging to a relationship in the long run. If used appropriately, I feel that social media can be a tool to bring people together without tearing their relationships apart. I do feel that relationships were a little simpler before social media. Now to answer your question, before social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter I used to use Aim and Text messaging to stay in touch with friends.
Scott Mingora said on March 4, 2013
I think social media does create a disconnect between people. Being that Facebook gives you the opportunity to see what all your friends are up too, it makes it easier to not actually keep in contact because you can just browse what they have been doing. Or, instead of calling a friend to say Happy Birthday or whatever the occasion may be, you can just write it on their wall. Though, it’s a great way to stay connected, relationships seem a little less personal.
Laqwonda Wilson said on March 4, 2013
I agree that social media does make people’s relationship shallower. I do remember life before social media people use to pick up the phone and actually hold long conversations because we did not have any other way of staying current with each other’s lives. However, because of social media I feel less connected because I barely speak to people on the phone anymore only my close family members. No one really calls on important holidays now they just say a greetings on Facebook, and those are the little things I miss about relationships I have with people.
Xiujuan Chen said on March 9, 2013
I feel the same way you do. I used to speak to my friends on the phone for more than 2 hours, but after we got into the social media, we usually just text to each other. I feel like we are not as close as we did before. Now I usually finish my conversation within 5 minutes on the phone. Really miss the old time…
Ryan Williams said on March 4, 2013
I feel as though social media connects us to everything, yet doesn’t make us closer to anyone through the many outlets. Think about it: How many of your 1,250 Facebook friends are you actually close with or even speak with? Life was so much simpler without social media, and for me it still is as I’m only using the sites for class purposes. I can share my own personal experience after deactivating my twitter and Facebook accounts. After doing so, it was like I didn’t exist anymore. Friends who noticed right after I deactivated the accounts mentioned things to me like: Why are you off these sites and for what reasons, and how am I going to keep in touch with you? After about a week, the questions ceased and they continued on their merry way poking and tweeting away. I guess calling someone on the phone or sending a simple text was too much for some of my friends. Needless to say, leaving the sites taught me a lot about who truly cared about me.
Neil C. Patel said on March 4, 2013
I disagree that social media makes interpersonal relationships shallower, it definitely makes you interact with more people than you would otherwise. Before social media, what did people do during their free time? While you can argue that people went out or played with friends outside, I think the opposite. People did activities they could do alone, like playing video games or watching TV. Even today, nobody gives up real, physical interpersonal interactions to be on social media. Instead they use time that they would have alone to be more social: sharing ideas, insight, news, etc.
I do remember life before social media because I only started using it my Junior year of high school, but I don’t think I ever shared as much information as I do now, nor was I exposed to a fraction of the content I am now (Maybe that’s because I was in high school and did not have much care for anything besides sports). I undoubtedly feel more connected by using social media.
Chen Feng said on March 4, 2013
I think social media gives me more connect with my friends. Before using social media, I remembered the most popular way between my friends and I to contact with each other was text messages. We just could share words with each other . However, we can share a lot of thing by social media websites, such as videos, photos, and pictures. It makes our life more colorful.
Xiujuan Chen said on March 9, 2013
I agree with you that we can share a lot of information by social media. It helps people to better understand others’ life, especially for those who live far away from each other.
Pragya Mantri said on March 5, 2013
I think you need to strike the right balance between your social media relationships and face to face relationships. I do agree that it can hinder and diminish your interpersonal relations, however you need to be able to draw a line and share information that you know you cannot communicate via face to face interactions. I think it is a great way to stay in touch with people you do not see everyday or maybe see very rarely, in those cases it is justified. However with people you interact everyday, you’d rather communicate personally.
James Davanzo said on March 5, 2013
I think social media has actually helped me stay more connected with the world because it allows us to almost instantly learn about anything. While I agree, face to face interaction is a much better way to talk to people, I still think social media has made communication a lot easier between groups of people. I do however agree that you need to draw the line somewhere and that you cannot rely on social media as your prime form of communication, especially if it’s with people you communicate with on a daily basis.
Li Jiang said on March 6, 2013
I couldn’t really remember what was my life before social media, probably I was in Primary school. I don’t have so many friends during that time. So, I feel I am so lucky because my generation leads social media develop so fast. I used cellphone to contact my friends or family before Facebook or twitter,but i never have chance to share videos and photos with them. For example, I usually share my photos and videos with my family since they are all living in China, they could know what is my life like in the USA. Those videos and photos tell more story than text message or make a phone call.
Jonathan Abraham said on March 7, 2013
Great question! I agree that in times, social media makes peoples relationships shallower, but at the same time, creates an strong connection. I get all my recent news updates through Twitter. I’m able to see whats going on, in and around,our community with the simple swipe of my thumb. I feel that its streamlined the way in which we provide personal information but with less emotion than true face-to-face communication.
Damon Isaac said on March 7, 2013
Interesting. I made a blog post on just this Topic
(http://socialmedia.mis.temple.edu/techpulse/2013/02/22/has-technology-killed-actual-socialization/).
I agree, it makes social interactions more shallow, but on the other hand it provides a great service. News sources are proving to be less than reliable. In fact, social media reacts faster than many news organizations! Ive read about news hours before it broke headlines on TV and a day or so before its in the newspaper! The speed in which Social media reacts makes getting real news easier because in some cases you can ask someone who was standing right where something happened!Protests in Egypt? I can talk to someone who was there. Do I want to see it? I can get HOURS of video and THOUSANDS of pictures. That is much better quality reporting than a 15 minutes news story.
Kathryn C. Cudemo said on March 8, 2013
Good question! I think social media has the ability to make relationships more shallow, but it also has the opportunity to strengthen relationships as well. It is all up to the person using the social media platform. I personally like face-to-face communication better than anything because it is more personal, however, social media has strengthened my long distance relationships better then I could have through simply texting or calling.
Ancy Thomas said on March 14, 2013
While social media has limited the number of in-person interactions, it has definitely strengthened relationships. People that you may not have been able to contact due to location or convenience are now only a facebook poke away! Some could argue that social media has increased the quantity of relationships while decreasing the quality, but I think that it has made us more connected. For people and businesses that we have a vested interest in, we get a taste of their lives and establish a connection further than just a simple hello.
Rachel C. Bitting said on March 19, 2013
Like Ancy said above me, social media definitely has strengthened relationships. It has even made some social interactions totally obsolete. For example, soon high school reunions are going to be a thing of the past because of how everyone can easily keep in touch via the web.
I very rarely use Twitter but I find that it is the best for getting news when you want it as soon as possible. Moments after something happens there will be countless pictures and commentary, which is great for relaying information.
Julie Ho said on March 21, 2013
There goes the old saying “there are two sides to every coin.”
Everything comes with a tradeoff, including using social media. One can argue that social media can make human’s relationship weaker. Yes, this is true as social media makes everything more convenient which may lead to less face-to-face interaction. However, it can also make relationship stronger, especially for someone who can easily “skype” with his or her family or friends who may live extremely far away. Soldiers, away from their homeland, can use social media to communicate with their family. Childhood friends can reconnect with each other using social media.
With me personally, I’m a lazy person and a busy student; so I generally don’t like to call up my friends or relative to “catch up.” However, social media made everything so easy that I naturally connect more with my family and friends without realizing it.
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