Question

1)Hyper-Personal effect is good in social media? why?

2)Hyper-Personal effect is bad in social media? why?

Answer 1

ANSWER :

Hyperpersonal communication, according to Walther, is "more socially desirable than we tend to experience in parallel FtF interaction" (p. 17). The hyperpersonal effect suggests that multiple amalgamation of social medias, may incite the CMC [Computer-Mediated-Communication] to become highly personal and stimulate the higher level of self-disclosure.

1. HYPERPERSONAL IS GOOD IN SOCIAL MEDIA :

• The Computer-mediated-communication (CMC) has major effects on interpersonal behaviour and communications. It also enhances the personal relations and the results of CMC aree seen to stimulate the higher level of self revelation.
• Walther argues that the users of CMC do indulge in Hyperpersonal interaction. The people who are socially introvert can indulge in self revelation without a face-to-face interaction, which is more comfortable for them.
• The communicators have the oppurtunity to select, edit and construct the informations they want to be presented on the social media. The self-presentation can be strategized due to the timelap between the construction and dispachment of a message.
• This selective self presentation enhances and motivates the communicators to specify their positive qualities and omit the negative ones.
• The online interaction enhances the self esteem as it is not a compulsion for people to present their actual self on social media, rather they can carefully select the information and present an idealized self which may be more socially acceptable and liked.
• Hence, there are a number of advantages of Computer-mediated-communication over the traditional face-to-face communication.

2. HYPERPERSONAL IS BAD IN SOCIALMEDIA :

• The computer-mediated-communication has replaced the old face-to-face interaction which is also an important way of communicating. As, the communication in FTF invoves a better understanding of body language, expressions, tone etc, which goes missing in the CMC.
• As the communication becomes selective on social media, the idealized self of people is seen and not their actual self. People tend to provide only the information that seems positive but which may not be real about them.
• To facilitate the desired relationship and response, the self-presentation is exploited and the self is presented in a manner which is more socially acceptable but may not be actually true. Hence, people tend to hide their real qualities.
• Hyperpersonal relation is bad because we may attain a lot of information about each other but we may not even know each other in real lives.
• Sometimes, people are easily able to trust any stranger due to similiarity seen on social media. But the fact cannot be ignored that this similarity is based on a selected information by them.

Hence, the hyperpersonal effect on the platform of social media has both advantages and disadvantages.