I believe that you have misunderstood her point. She has been able to use it to learn about others and tell others about her life. Not only that she has been able to talk to her friends regularly. It makes people sociable Sherwin, not stalkers.

It is the convenience and accessibility of these media that has made it available for the masses and helped everyone socialize. These traits make us more social.

With the use of social media, forum threads and news threads have become more interactive. People can have their opinions heard and therefore it establishes an important tool that cannot be done so easily on such a large scale in real life. With these platform expressing opinions and views are a lot easier, it is an appropriate social tool.

As such, those are still forms of communication. It is a tool for companies to engage customers. It is a form of social media that is making it easier for companies to socialise with customers.

Please consider that the time spent on the mac(LEARNING DEVICE) is actually spent socialising on social media.

With the use of social media, you are already socialising with friends. Your arguement on it cutting down our time for socialising in real life. Even with family there is the use of social media to chat with family members overseas, I am sure you do that with your relatives considering your origin.

Supporting Farrell, I bring forward the statistics that China had 420 million internet users. This is a huge example of how vast social media is, and it is accessible to the masses. Social media has made it easier for everyone to communicate, making it a good social tool.

I have personal experiences chatting with my cousins from across the causeway. With Facebook I am talking much more to them these days then I have done before the appearance of such social networking sites.

Twitter has 65million tweets daily! This makes it evident that social media is a useful mass communication tool. With this there is a better platform of communication and people can become sociable.

This side believes that Social Media has made us more social~