Social Networking and Social Skills

We are living in the Technological Era today, so websites such as Facebook and Myspace are highly successful and popular sites to visit and join

. Since the launch of Myspace in the past decade, a number of other social networking sites have sprung up and millions of people across the world have flocked to their computers to get in on the excitement. These social networking sites have linked the world together like never before. The amount of time people are spending on the web, surfing these sites, is unprecedented.

The goals of these social networking sites are not clearly written on their login pages, but it is safe to assume the main goal is, logically, to link people together across the world like never before. However, these social networking giants have set back social skills quite a bit, unknowingly of course. While the goal is to allow people to interact socially, these sites cause their members to become computer zombies, wasting away countless hours in front of the computer monitor. With people spending so much time socializing through cyberspace, their personal social skills suffer. It is far easier to talk to someone over messaging on their favorite social network site than in person, where you have very little time to take things in and react. People are relying too much on meeting people online these days than by doing so the old fashion ways, namely in person. It is far easier to get the confidence to speak to someone over cyberspace than to do so out in public.

Well why is this a bad thing if people are still interacting? Well, when one area of public communication suffers, all areas do so as well. Not only do you lose the skills to meet, interact, and maintain a conversation with someone in public, but your overall interaction and social skills suffer. So if you have a presentation to perform in class, you may not feel comfortable speaking in front of your peers because you are not used to speaking to people face to face. I do not blame social networking sites for this unfortunate set back in social interaction. In fact, I believe that social networking, with limited time spent online, is vital to social skills today. We need to learn to balance the time we spend online with the time we spend out in the world interacting, so we can maintain a balanced social life. We need to make sure we do not lose our humanity by becoming reliant on software to interact with each other. If we can learn to balance this, we will see a spark people's self confidence, because they will have the skills to walk up to someone and interact freely without awkwardness. This will, in turn, spark the dating lives and professional lives of many people who suffer from social anxiety. When people are confident and have a good public social network, we are a happier society as a whole.

Social Networking and Social Skills

By: Nate Lewis

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