When Your Smartphone Is Too Smart For Your Own Good : How Social Media Alters Human Relationships

In the age of technology social media has become a very impactful thing in our society. It has evolved and brought our society the use of how we receive Information and communicate with one another. Some may say it enhances our interpersonal relation because of it easy access to many people globally. But on the other hand social media can be very detrimental to people's interpersonal relationships because its negative effects like people being more prone to isolation. Overall social media in my opinion does hinders interpersonal relationships because it causes the lack of ability to socialize effectively in real life, cause isolation between children and teens, and the danger that occurs online.

Social media has changed our culture in ways many, in years past, would have thought to be impossible. With the advent of social media, people are connected around the world. Using the internet we can have “face-to-face” conversations, write “letters”, play games, and much more with others instantly without the need of being in the same room as them. Even though we are all constantly connected, some feel our technological innovations are causing us to become lonelier. Many feel physical interactions are key to creating emotional bonds. Some even feel left out because they are not technologically incline. Those who believe technology is making us lonelier often note how some people say they have friends that they have never met in real life, or cite shows like “Catfish” where people fall in love with others over the internet, but the person they thought they were talking to is not actually who they were talking to. Though some may think technology is making us lonelier, in actuality it bring us closer together.

According to the article entitled “ The Good and Bad of Social Media” by Jason Howie, “ They have looked particularly at its effects on human emotion and relationship. Some studies show that using social media can cause depression.” The usage of the media doesn't just slow you down but can slowly shut your real life down. Therefore social media ends up hitting you from left to right or any possible way it has. The mindset of always wanting to be on it can destroy your life routines, makes you put up with things you shouldn’t put up with. Sometimes, people end up getting bullying and killed for some unnecessary things they do on the media. Furthermore, Howie writes “ We expect more from technology and less from one another. More and more, we desire technologies that provide a false idea of a relationship.” We depend on the media to give us the answers instead of asking our surroundings and communicating with them. We always believe what media tells us and whether it's false or not, we use it believing it's better than our own knowledge. Our privacy isn’t privacy because media after media we end up in a random page which can get our information in just one

While analyzing the effects of social media, the negatives may outweigh the positives. The reason for this can be found right in front of our faces. Today’s society lacks the basic human social skills, and is unable to carry on a conversation without looking at their phones. Insecurity, addiction, and social skills all play an important role in the effects of social media.

While many people put off and ignore the issue of social media and its downfalls, others say that people should think about how our lives are being affected by this advancement in technology, including, lack of human contact and precious time being lost due to consumption with social media. Social media is currently a highly controversial topic in which numerous people have mixed feelings. Society has typically viewed new advancements in technology as beneficial and a sign of success within their country. But, has it solely caused successful outcomes, or are there downfalls to these advancements?

Social media has become prominent parts of life for many young people today. Most people engage with social media without stopping to think what the effects are on our lives, whether positive or negative. Are we as a society becoming more concerned with Facebook "friends" than we are with the people we interact with face-to-face in our daily lives? What will the longterm effects of today 's social media use be? There are many positive aspects, but there are equally as many dangers that come with the use of sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google +, Tumblr, Instagram, gaming sites, and blogs. Social media has both negative and positive effects on society, it is up to the user to decide what impact they want to make. In order to make the right choices, we must dig in and research this topic thoroughly.

The rapid growth in our dependency on technology for communication has led to a large decline in our basic social and interaction skills. One of the basic tenets of social psychology is that humans are social animals, however, in the technological world of today we seem to be straying away from this facet of our nature. Ever since the rise of social media and convenience of communication, for example, via mobile devices, we have fallen out of touch with an important part of our human nature, our desire to interact and communicate with one another face-to-face, which has resulted in a large disconnect in our society. The negative social effects brought upon by our dependency on social media has made it harder for humans to function in society. It is becoming increasingly difficult for our youth to make friends, relationships have become harder to sustain, and the number of people feeling lonely as well as the prevalence of social disorders has increased.

A person’s identity through communication in the form of building relationships may also suffer because of their use of social media. Many users become so focused on communicating and connecting through the internet that they lose part of their real social life. Nicholas Kardaras (2016), a licensed psychotherapist, writes in his Scientific American Mind article that “when you laugh or cry with someone, when you go to a social event or have dinner together, when you experience life together, there is a deepening of the social bond that cannot be replicated by social media.” People that become engrossed in social media can lose hold of the true values of these face-to-face experiences and communication, something that holds high relevancy to our ability to

The topic of social media is a very interesting one because everyone has different opinions about it. Social media can be seen as an extremely positive thing if used in the correct way, but if not some believe it can negatively effect human beings communication skills. This topic is further discussed in the following sources: “Living Within Social Media” by Steven Krause, “What I Didn 't Write about when I Wrote About Quitting Facebook” by Michael Erard, “What It Means Today To Be ‘Connected’” by Lucy P. Marcus, “Facebook and Relationships: A Study of How Social Media Use is Affecting Long-Term Relationships” by Rianne C. Farrugia, “When Social Media isn’t Social: Friends’ Responsiveness to Narcissists on Facebook” by Mina Choi, “Facebook use, envy, and depression among college students: Is facebooking depressing?” by Edson Tandock Jr., and Qingya Wang, Chen Wei, and Liany Yu’s artcile “The Effects of Social Media on College Students”. Although they all talk about social media they go about it in very different ways and focus on different aspects of the topic. Krause’s writing focuses more on how people have stopped living their lives and think life can be found on a computer while Erard writes more on how if you are not on social media sites, specifically Facebook, then you are essentially out of the loop because people have lost the art of communication. Both Marcus and Farrugia really highlight on the fact that there are different levels of connectedness between humans

After reading the article, "Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?", many things were brought to my attention about social media. Marche wrote in Is Facebook Making Us Lonely, "In 1950, less than 10 percent of American households contained on one person. By 2010, nearly 27 percent of households had just one person." Although many use Facebook to stay connected with family and friends but, in reality it is causing people to be more reclusive. People are using Facebook, as well as other social media sites to socialize with friends and family instead fellowshipping with others in person like we use to. Facebook has caused people to lose many social skills. Some people can portray themselves as being extremely social, but when it comes to socializing in public it can be a completely different story. Being cordial,

Social media has been in existence for a short period of time, when new things are made there’s always controversy. The controversy about social media is whether it’s good or not. Social media is used for news and interacting with friends. Today we're gonna talk about how it affects relationships. Social media is good and has a positive effect on relationships. Social media has a positive effect on relationships because it helps with a better connection to self and friends, it helps relationships as far as finding new ones and helping your already made relationships, and finally it makes it possible for people who are going through tough times find support.

In recent years, social media has had a tremendous impact on the society as a whole. With just a few clicks, anyone can see what someone is doing, thinking, saying, eating, and even where they are at, almost at all times. Social media can bring friends and family that live far away from one another closer together. It can expand a person’s set of friends and their lifestyle. It can get them to experience new things, people, and cultures that they normally would not have known before. Indeed, social media can do great things for the planetary culture, but, could it be harming people at the same time?

Advancing technology has played a part in the new methods of communication and with being very social creatures, who experiment with new ways of socializing, have found a new way to connect. Social Networking websites have changed how the world connects with friends and family, changing from the traditional ways of connecting with others like face-to-face connections. Many concerned themselves that social networking friendships centered on expectations that sites such as Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, and more would be used primarily to build online friendships between physically separated individuals lacking face-to-face interactions. These sources are becoming what people rely on to meet and stay in touch with friends and family. Shannon Vallor in Social Networking and Ethics states that “Within five years of Facebook’s launch, . . . a significant majority of SNS users were relying on these sites primarily to maintain and enhance relationships . . . with whom they also had a strong offline connection…” (2015). Has social media become an alternative way people communicate instead of face-to-face interactions?

Social Media as well as texting plays an important role in our day to day life. Many say a negative impact on our life. Just about everywhere, there will be somebody on their mobile device either communicating with someone or playing Angry Birds. Most People in this day and age own a cell phone. For the people owning cellphones, they are more likely to be less social because they spend on average one hour and forty minutes on social media alone. Social media is decreasing the in skill communications we used to have before social media.

Having social ties involves strengthening the relationship amongst individuals through emotional or physical connections as individuals interact. As individuals have a face to face conversation, they have the capability of improving their social ties with the existence of both verbal and non-verbal cues (Mastrodicasa & Metellus, 2013). Social media, however, inhibits this form of