The Negative Effects Of Face To Face Communication

Social media has gained astounding worldwide growth and popularity which has led to attracting attention from a variety of researchers around the world, wondering if face-to-face communication still exists. Face-to-face communication is a way of interacting with someone in person rather than behind a screen. In Hilary Stout’s article, “Antisocial Networking?” she mentions how youths are caring less about face-to-face interactions as social media increases more. Although social media may help young adults in their social skills, young adults should understand that communicating in person is a valuable source in their future, therefore making social media a negative impact in people 's lives, making them be anti-social to the world.
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People are exposing their feelings in social media rather than talking about their emotions in person. For instance, someone can express their feelings by putting smiling emoticons through the media but be depressed behind screens.In Sherry Turkle’s article, “The Flight From Conversation”, she asserts, “Researchers around the world are busy inventing sociable robots, designed to be companions to the elderly, to children, to all of us.” (Par. 17). People are starting to feel lonely to the point where robots are being their only hope of expressing their emotions; even though robots have no emotions as humans. Some people might think otherwise about the emotional effects that social media has on society. Some might say social networks offer the opportunity to express their feelings when not able to do so in person, but don 't realize that they can 't depend on people to comfort them or make them feel better. Expressing your feelings on social media doesn’t fulfil the intimacy one needs to fill when having a personal issue. For example, it could be one of the two friends mad for a period of time, but one was too afraid to say it in person so she did it through text. It made the other one think if she really did feel angry or sorry because she didn 't hear or see the emotion in person. In other words, using social media to communicate in …show more content…
People are spending more time on social media than what they do sleeping, which can cause addiction. People use up to 7 ½ hours of social media a day, in other words people use more social media than what they sleep. Each year the usage of social media has deeply increased, and people have gotten so addicted to social media to the point where they sleep and wake up using technology, not noticing how attached they are to social media. Researchers have proved that text messaging has doubled on a daily basis (Stout Par.4). As people stay attached to their phones, it potential leads for them to seek attention by posting unnecessary/harmful posts about others appearances or beliefs. Stouts interviews Jeffrey G. Parker, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Alabama; Parker informs the readers,” In general, the worries over cyberbullying and sexting have overshadowed a look into the really nuanced things about the way technology is affecting the closeness properties of friendship” (Par.7). Cyber-bullying has taken a great impact as social media increases. When using technology, it can have negative outcomes and be the cause of risks or even deaths such as someone exposing nudity about someone else later leading into depression being one of the leading cause of a death.Some people will say that when using social media, it makes them happy and relaxed, but not realize that it 's