I have chosen to write about how social media has changed the way we interact with people now days as opposed to how we communicated with people ten or more years ago. Some may argue that social media is for the better while others say that it is in fact making us less social. So I tried to think of various people whom I could interview about the subject and who could give “expert” advice, but since Mark Zuckerberg (the founder of Facebook) wasn’t anywhere to be found, I thought who would be better to interview than those who use social media everyday. So I interviewed a few random people that I know about the way social media has affected their personal lives and today’s society in general and if it’s for the better or for the worse.
Most of the people that I interviewed tended to agree on nearly every question. I asked them a variety of questions including, “Has the word ‘social’ in itself changed over the past 5 years?” and “Are people more social or less social now than they were 10 or more years ago?” The general consensus was that yes, the word “social” has changed drastically and depending on which aspect you refer to in regards to being social, most people said we are less social. For instance, if we’re talking about people posting every little detail of their lives then yes, we’re more social, but if we’re talking about actually going to someone’s house and visiting then we are definitely less social.
Overall most people thought that Facebook and other social media networks can be used for a lot of good, but that it has drastically changed the way we interact with people and many are concerned that we will become an unsocial society thanks to social media. That is the stance that I plan to take on this paper is that while there is a lot of good from social media, it will eventually make us less and less social.
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