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Effects of Social media on communcation skills
With the emergence in the field of technology and social media, the way people communicate with each other changed forever. A social network allows its users to share the events of their lives through posting photos and status updates, to monitor the lives of their friends, and to communicate directly via a built-in messenger. This has improved the communication by allowing millions of people all over the world to share all kinds of information about themselves. According to me, this should positively impact the communication skills of users, since it allows communication even for people far away from each other, or who are unable to communicate live. However, teh truth is different. The people who spend more time on soical media have distorted communication skills.
According to a surveys a large number of population feels coonecte dto their family with the help of social media apps like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. Also, communities existing on such platforms unite people sharing similar interests or concerns, and allow the representatives of various cultural backgrounds to reach each other with no constraints.
Probably the most alarming phenomenon connected to the extensive use of social media services is the decrease in quality of interpersonal communication. One of the big problems in modern interpersonal communication is the lack of interest people have for face-to-face communication.Also, the social media platforms let the people use impoverished language. Using messengers, people often use shorthand and shortened versions of words in order to type and deliver their messages as quickly as possible. However, such means of communication are much less effective than conventional ones.
Although social media may help people establish initial contact and aid people in uniting into groups under certain interests, they also cause a number of problems. In particular, nonverbal communication is gradually becoming one of the dominant forms of interpersonal interaction, negatively affecting people’s ability to deal with personal contact and meet the reactions and emotions of other people in real life.