Social media, and saying things online in general, makes you more detached from others. While it may be simpler to have interactions with many, each of those interactions means much less. Because you are not seeing the person's face or even saying your words out loud, it's much easier to say hurtful things, things you don't mean, or go to extremes without having the actual meaning behind them. This weakens social skills.

Also, social media can start to take the place of real human contact, and at least remove familiarity with it. If someone is always on social media, they lose the experiences of learning actual social communication skills, and as such are unable to or are afraid to take part in social interactions.

true..people are making strangers friend but are creating distance from real life friends...they start finding their social media friends more interesting than their real friends..at a public event u will find people busy in their mobiles rather than talking to others.

I agree as nowadays, you can see when a family goes out for dinner, every single member uses their phone instead of talking to each other and socialising. Soon, this will get worse as time goes by.

I agree completely. Everywhere you go you see groups of people looking at their phones almost oblivious to the world around them. Rather than looking outward to the wider world, social media has tended to reinforce the inner self and the local.

Social Media does have its share of problems and rudeness is one of them.