The Impact of Social Media

The Impact of Social Media

With the growth of technology, people who use the modern information and communication technologies, are much more than previous and social media is one of the most popular way that people use in the internet. It allows people the use of instant chat, uploading of photos and videos, blogging and so on; thus, people will spend much time on the social media. However, the size of networks has grown and these relations are increasingly composed of similar others by people using these new technologies. For the change in the structure of affiliation, the debate has risen that social networks or any other network functions are leading people much more isolated than ever. You can tell that when you in a conference, people may only occupied in their cell phones, and nobody wanted to give attention to the speaker. Someone thinks that people today are too accustomed to sharing their status and feeling. In the other hand, even thought those people are intended to connect people, actually make those people being isolated. They are depended too much on their network society, and forgot the real world. This view may have too much negative mention on the disadvantages of the social media, but it is very close to our daily life.
In fact, the problem of the social media is what I have always thought about. Nowadays, no matter where we go or what the time, we all are engrossed in our little high-tech gadget, and try to contact the other, but leave people who are actually sitting next to us alone. It may make people lose the ability of making a conversation in the real world. For example, my little sister does not like to talk to me face to face. I have never heard she asked for a favor from her mouth, when she needs my help, she would only sent me a text message in Face book. Where has the courage of talking gone? That is what I have always wondered about. However, I think social media does not decline the social isolation obviously. Besides, these social media such as Twitter...

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