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 Can Social Media make you Anti-Social? (5)

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Can Social Media make you Anti-Social?

Social media can be so powerful and so time consuming. Nowadays, most people spend hours sifting through tweets, updating fb statues, commenting on other people's (they haven't met in real life) image.. etc, none of these are necessarily 'bad' nor 'good', the issue is that social media (your digital world) can badly affect your social skills (your everyday reality), of course, based on the way you use social media.

So, can Social Media make you Anti-Social? can social media ruin your social skills? and why/why not so?

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I find the biggest problem to be Social Networking Addiction (SNA). People don't want so much to spend time with just one person in person when they can be on Facebook or whatnot chatting - though not bonding - with a bunch of people quite randomly.

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I would highly recommend reading this article. It's quite pertinent to the subject at hand and offers insightful commentary on the effects of social media. I find that facebook and sites of the same sort are inimical to one's social life and self-identity. See, before facebook, people worried less about their own appearance. Keyword: less. I know that before facebook some people were obsessed with their own image. This will always be the case, with or without facebook. But now that facebook has come along, the way people view themselves changes. When someone has a facebook account, there is an indefinite connection to that site and your own profile, so long as the account stands. Anyone could be looking at your wall or your photos or your friends at any time. And facebook users know this. That's why real socialites or avid facebook users obsess over having their profile seem constantly refreshing. They can never avoid possible scrutiny, so they are worried about their outward appearance all the time. How does my profile look? Is it getting stagnant? etc.

Soon, those excessive facebook users think about themselves differently. They do not see themselves as who they truely are, but as others see them. Their profile shapes who they are, because it shapes how people see them.

And so, yes, I think facebook is a debilitating website in many aspects. The article I posted does a much better job at conveying this, and I have not done it justice.

Before concluding I would like to add a qualifier. I believe facebook is pernicious because it lends itself to obsessive behavior. I think facebook has been wonderfully helpful in places such as the Arab Spring. Facebook can be used for good. But, for the majority of the time, it isn't. It's dangerous in more ways than you might think.

Supporting Evidence: Is Facebook Making People Less Social? -Atlantic Article (www.theatlantic.com)

Possibly.....There are people on Social Media who love to humiliate others and if a person strikes back, he or she will become anti-social.

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I don't think it really does. I think it emphasizes existing tendencies rather than making people one way or the other. The person who spends all day on their social media might have spent all day watching TV back in the day. The more social people are the ones who will use social media the most.

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