The Effects of Social Media on Communication Skills

AbstractThis paper summarizes the effects of complaisant media on hindering conference skills and reducing neighborly activity in the world. Each reason is supported by evidence by referring to four print books and some articles online. It focuses mainly on mixer media via the Web, such as, Facebook, cheep, and MySpace, to which many of the youth atomic number 18 exposed to nowa mean solar days, and this icon has led to addiction. This paper informs tribe about the issue of social media affecting communication skills and c boths for means to elucidate this problem.The Effects of cordial Media on Communication SkillsRebecca Javeleau, a 15 year-old Facebook user, meant to invite her 15 closest friends to her natal day party, but ended up inviting over 20,000 people, 8000 of which RSVPd for the event. The birthday missy went into hiding when more than 1500 guests showed up and around 100 police officers were needed to keep the crowd under control. Did these 21000 people r e exclusivelyyly love the girl? Are they really considered as friends of hers? Modern society exposems convinced that social media like chirp and Facebook keep people connected and grow their social skills with friends and peers.But what actually these social networking sites are doing to people is that theyre reciprocally isolating networks that part people from meaningful interactions with one some other and make them less human. Many scholars see new communication technology as a threat to the discipline of inter personal communication (Konijn et al. , 2008). Social media like Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, and other applications are hampering our social skills. Social networking sites deteriorate communication skills because people forget right-hand(a) manners as they constantly use these sites.The more time these people spend on social sites, the less time they will exact to spend socializing in person. Socializing via social sites lacks be signals and other nonverbal cues such as voice quality, tone, facial expressions, and many others, therefore it isnt an adequate successor for face to face communication since these people wont be able to communicate and socialize effectively in person with one other. In the real world, the effective communication skills are key to success.A month ago, I legitimate a friend request from a Facebook user whom I didnt know. After some days of chatting and snap off knowing each other, we decided to meet in person and have a real conversation. When we met in a cafe at around 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 lambaste about. That is when I realized that these social networking sites are truly hindering our social interactions and the development of strong communication skills.According to Konijn et al.(2008),Researchers speculated that CMC would crest to the sharing of impersonal messages due to th e lack of facial and tonal cues (p. 15). Therefore we can interpret 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 drove 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 practice of active listening which is needed during conversations in the real world. bang-up communication skills take practice and that cant be done by posing on a waiting area and typing on your computer or cellphone, it can be done by appearing in person and actively communication with one another. When the news spread all around that an application was gettable in the market, a free applicat ion 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 kinfolk chatting with one another. It was time to go back to school. When the teacher actually asked us to have a dialogue in the family line, 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, while a phone call could make it easier for them to save time and save energy. I conceive these applications or whatsoever destroyed our ability to communicate in personal interactions. In a European hire of 635 participants ages 16-55 years old who visited a website and completed an online quest ionnaire, 48. 9% reported preferring to use their cell phones for texting over voice calls and 26. 1% reported texting too much. This study also measured levels of loneliness, expressive control, interaction anxiousness, and colloquial involvement.Two significant findings were that 61% of the participants stated they say things in text that they would not feel comfortable give tongue to face-to-face and 64% stated they feel they are able to express their true 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 legislates to isolation. Social media from Facebook to Twitter have made us more densely connected than ever, yet for all this connectivity, we have neer been lonelier and this loneliness is making us physically and mentally ill.Some people choose to sit at home all day pretending to be someone theyre not instead of going outside and having real conversations and in teractions. Then, we can say that on social networks, everybody tries to come across at their very best oftentimes embellishing their profiles, making Facebook a reference group against which one starts to compare ones own popularity and success, which may lead to cases of falloff and isolation if one finds the other more successful than himself/herself.A recent observation done by myself on the issue of social media leading 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 bullying her and she felt lonely and her depression let her to commit suicide.Konijn et al (2008) study found the following macrocosm ignored or ostracized has negative p sychological 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 creation 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 conversation? Even if these social networking sites lead to larger non-diver se 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 savvy students, Myspace and Facebook have magnanimous exponentially into sites where people can and do pretend to be who they arent. Another party criticizes the fact that these social networking sites are ruining communication skills by saying people use this technology to get in touch with one another and political program for a meeting.In addition to that, they criticize by saying that lucre users are more likely 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 hands 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 these people advance 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 single spot about that person? Doesnt this eventually lead to spam and identity theft? How can we treasure ourselves from harmful remarks and actions when the identity of the perpetrator is unknown? As Konijn et al (2008) states, by focusing on symbolic shifts, time/space relationships, interactivity, sensory bias, and conditons of attendance, media ecology provides a framework for understanding how interpersonal communication is shifted from face-to-face to mediated contexts (p.20).Social networking sites not only decrease 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 connections and conversations. This trend causes human be ings to become consumed by a virtual world while theyre simultaneously pulled further away from reality.