The Effects of Social Media on Communication Skills

AbstractThis paper summarizes the effects of societal media on hindering chat skills and reducing social activity in the world. Each ground is supported by evidence by referring to quatern published books and some articles online. It foc commits mainly on social media via the Web, such as, Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace, to which m whatsoever a(prenominal) of the y unwraph argon exposed to nowadays, and this exposure has led to addiction. This paper informs flock ab step up the issue of social media affecting dialogue skills and calls for means to clear this problem.The Effects of fond Media on Communication SkillsRebecca Javeleau, a 15 year- archaic Facebook user, meant to gull her 15 closest friends to her birthday party, scarce ended up inviting oer 20,000 multitude, 8000 of which RSVPd for the event. The birthday girl went into hiding when more than 1500 guests showed up and nearly 100 police officers were needed to keep the crowd under control. Did these 21000 larg e number solidly know the girl? Are they touchablely considered as friends of hers? advance(a) society seems convinced that social media like Twitter and Facebook keep commonwealth tieed and grow their social skills with friends and peers.But what actually these social networking sites are doing to tidy sum is that theyre mutually isolating networks that part large number from significant interactions with one some former(a) and make them less(prenominal) human. Many scholars see new dialogue applied science as a threat to the discipline of inter psycheal communicating (Konijn et al. , 2008). Social media like Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, and other diligences are hampering our social skills. Social networking sites deteriorate communication skills because hatful for compact proper manners as they constantly use these sites.The more time these hatful spend on social sites, the less time they will realise to spend socializing in person. socialise via social sites lacks body signals and other nonverbal cues such as utterance quality, tone, facial expressions, and many others, therefore it isnt an adequate replacement for face-to-face communication since these large number wont be competent to communicate and socialize effectively in person with one a nonher. In the real world, the effective communication skills are key to success.A month ago, I received a friend call for from a Facebook user whom I didnt know. After some days of chatting and split up knowing each other, we decided to meet in person and nurse a real dialogue. When we met in a cafe at well-nigh noon, we greeted one another and sat in our places. It was very embarrassing when we spent half an hour staring at each other and not knowing what to talk about. That is when I realized that these social networking sites are rattling hindering our social interactions and the development of strong communication skills.According to Konijn et al.(2008),Researchers speculated that CMC w ould lead to the all overlap of impersonal messages due to the lack of facial and tonal cues (p. 15). Therefore we groundwork assign that social media causes effects on a persons ability to communicate in a proper manner, which includes body signals, voice, and other cues. As Dimbleby R. & Burton G. state it (1992), Body language tells us a bargain about peoples feelings, attitudes, and intentions (p. 37). Moreover, NVC such as body signals relates to our perception of others, and relates to the idea of feedback (Dimbleby R. & Burton G. , 1992, p. 40).Another reason why these social networking sites are reducing communication skills is because they lack form of active listening which is needed during conversations in the real world. Great communication skills take practice and that empennaget be through by academic term on a sofa and typing on your computer or cellphone, it butt be done by appearing in person and actively communication with one another. When the news sprea d all around that an application was available in the market, a free application through which anyone who shares contacts can chat with each other all day long without any payment.This application was called Whatsapp. My friends encouraged me to download and use this application. We spent hours and days sitting at home chatting with one another. It was time to go back to school. When the teacher actually asked us to have a dialogue in the class, I realized that it was easier for me to chat on my phone instead of speaking out loud in front of everyone, which was pretty difficult to handle.It wasnt only my case, as the whole class was addicted to these kinds of applications ormessengers or sites, that cause people to be like robots, typing all day long, go a phone call could make it easier for them to save time and save energy. I believe these applications or whatsoever destroyed our ability to communicate in face-to-face interactions. In a European psychoanalyse of 635 participants ages 16-55 years old who visited a website and completed an online questionnaire, 48. 9% reported preferring to use their cell phones for texting over voice calls and 26. 1% reported texting too much. This study also metric levels of loneliness, expressive control, interaction anxiousness, and conversational involvement.Two significant findings were that 61% of the participants stated they verbalize things in text that they would not feel comfortable saying face-to-face and 64% stated they feel they are able to express their adjust feelings best in text messages rather than in face-to-face interactions or voice calls (Reid & Reid, 2007). Social media hinders communication skills because it leads to isolation. Social media from Facebook to Twitter have do us more densely connected than ever, yet for all this connectivity, we have never been lonelier and this loneliness is making us physically and mentally ill.Some people choose to sit at home all day feign to be someone theyre not instead of going outside and having real conversations and interactions. Then, we can say that on social networks, everybody tries to come across at their very best often embellishing their profiles, making Facebook a reference chemical group against which one starts to compare ones own popularity and success, which may lead to cases of depression and isolation if one finds the other more successful than himself/herself.A recent observation done by myself on the issue of social media steer to isolation showed that people want to constantly be visible amongst their peers and be the best among all. Those who werent able to have more friends than their peers were actually depressed and felt left out of the group. A tragic story alarms people of the issue of social media leading to isolation and depression, when a 15 year-old girl hanged herself because her friends at school were boss around her and she felt lonely and her depression let her to commit suicide.Konijn et al (2008) study found the following Being ignored or ostracized has negative psychological consequences. For example, ostracism has been associated with depressed mood, anxiety, loneliness, helplessness, invisibility, and frustration. Being ostracized threatens the basic human needs for belonging, self-esteem, control, and meaningful existence. This can be anything like unanswered emails, or being consistently ignored in a chat room. (p. 203) There are critics that say social networking sites lead to larger non-diverse social networks, hence increasing communication skills.It is true that these networking sites make it easier for people to connect all around the world, but is that a cause to increase communication skills? Why, then, two people sitting in the same room chat on their IPhones together while they could have a real face-to-face communication? Why do these people feel dead on ones feet to actually walk 10 second to the hallway to talk with their friends and have a real conversati on? Even if these social networking sites lead to larger non-diverse social networks, are these relationships real?How can you prove if the one you are communicating with is a person you can trust? According to Mintz et al. , (2012), driven by younger, technologically moil students, Myspace and Facebook have grown exponentially into sites where people can and do make up to be who they arent. Another party criticizes the fact that these social networking sites are wrecking communication skills by saying people use this technology to get in touch with one another and plan for a meeting.In accession to that, they criticize by saying that internet users are more seeming to visit a cafe or coffee shop than people who dont use the internet. Well, dont these people who visit coffee shops hold their laptops in their workforce and sit browsing on the Internet while drinking a coffee or having a bite? If they really meant to plan a meeting and to interact with one another then why do th ese people leave their cellphones and laptops away from sight? How did technology make it easier for people to get in touch with one another?Did it make it easier by allowing anyone to see ones privacy and know every maven detail about that person? Doesnt this eventually lead to spam and identity theft? How can we protect ourselves from harmful remarks and actions when the identity of the culprit is unknown? As Konijn et al (2008) states, by focusing on emblematical shifts, time/space relationships, interactivity, sensory bias, and conditons of attendance, media ecology provides a framework for taste how interpersonal communication is shifted from face-to-face to mediated contexts (p.20).Social networking sites not only reducing the number of face-to-face interactions, but they greatly deplete the social skills that are important in any society. Facebook is a great tool to connect with one another but it is tech-deep and we need skin-deep, we need real actively involved connec tions and conversations. This trend causes human beings to become consumed by a practical(prenominal) world while theyre simultaneously pulled further away from reality.