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Social Media's Impact on Connection

Social media has grown rapidly with millions of people using it for communication and self-expression over the past few years. While it makes connecting over distances easier, many people are more disconnected from genuine personal relationships. Communicating through phones and texts lacks the sincerity of face-to-face interactions like hugs or handshakes. An overreliance on less personal forms of communication has reduced courtesy and increased public conflicts online rather than direct conversations. People are becoming detached even from loved ones as device-mediated communication replaces intimate conversations, even at family events.

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Social Media's Impact on Connection

Social media has grown rapidly with millions of people using it for communication and self-expression over the past few years. While it makes connecting over distances easier, many people are more disconnected from genuine personal relationships. Communicating through phones and texts lacks the sincerity of face-to-face interactions like hugs or handshakes. An overreliance on less personal forms of communication has reduced courtesy and increased public conflicts online rather than direct conversations. People are becoming detached even from loved ones as device-mediated communication replaces intimate conversations, even at family events.

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Nerison I. La luna 10 - SDDG

Social media has been fascinating to observed, through the years its own
development and participation of millions of people around the world over the past few
years. Social media is growing rapidly, many of teens, adults and children are part to the
percentage who lives with social media. It is truly making life easier through
communications and expressing oneself to others. Sometimes it is an essential tool that can
make changes to a person's life at the same time it can also cause conflict and
misunderstanding. But it truly depends on the person who is using social media.

Social media helped us in ways like talking to other people who are distant. It keeps
us update to one another and information around us. However, in all the ways that matter to
developing quality personal relationships, many of us are more disconnected than ever. We
communicate, but we are losing our sense of genuine connection with others.

It is important to recognize that phone texts with emoji symbols are poor substitutes
for a face to face conversation, a sincere hug, a firm handshake or even a showing a
genuine smile on our face. Moreover, our increasing reliance on texting and other less than
personal communication has resulted in less civility, courtesy, and consideration of others.
For example, too many people choose to publicly blast one another via Twitter or Facebook,
rather than speak with one another directly to personally iron out their differences. We are
becoming more detached even from our loved ones, as communication through gadgets
replaces more intimate, engaged, and personal conversation, even at family reunions,
vacations, the dinner table, even in front of those people who are close to you.

People rather shut their doors and chose to be someone else through their screen.
Some people become depressed and anxious about a lot of stuff. The lesser humans
engage to personal communication, the more they become anxious and stuck to their
selves. Social media and mobile communications are not going away, nor should they. But
we can be wiser in our use of them.

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