How has social media changed communication?
Social media has become a major part of communication in recent years, which has been both a negative and positive thing. Social media allows for people to let the entire world know exactly what they are doing at any given point in the day and view what others are doing too. This means that there is a greater amount of knowledge that is more readily available and accessible to us.
One of the things that social media has done for our world is allowed everyone to have a voice. If you have an opinion about any topic at all you can express that opinion on a variety of platforms and make it available to anyone. The good part of this is that people have been discovered and made very successful careers off of social media platforms. People have expressed that everyone speaking their opinion on social media platforms like Facebook can be rather frustrating. Arguments and debates start, people choose to post political rants, or call people out personally, which many people find inappropriate.
With the increase of social media we have also seen more and more people choosing to socialize over the internet instead of in person. This means that we are allowed to communicate with and meet more people, including people that we may not have met if we weren’t using the internet, but also affects people’s social skills. Many young adults are uncomfortable having a face to face, or even over the phone, conversations but have no qualms talking for hours over Facebook. Social media makes it easier for people to communicate and stay in touch, regardless of how far apart they may live. Thanks to services such as Skype, Facebook, or snapchat I can talk to my Aunt that lives in Hong Kong, free of charge and with relative ease. If I had to just rely on phone calls we wouldn’t be able to talk very often and it would be easy to not stay in touch with each other.
Social media has become such a huge part of our society that I really feel like it’s necessary at this point. While it does affect us negatively, I think that it has been a positive influence in our world.
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